Thinking about this site

Another alternative would be to place your blog on official hiatus. Post a “will return on this date” message and resume on that date. I don’t know about most readers of your blog, but I subscribe to the RSS feed. I will be notified when there’s a new post, even if it’s months from now.

—-> Scott

I would love to contribute. Let’s set up a schedule. I love All the strange hours. We all have times in life when it seems like you won’t have time for anything else. But in time, you will. This site is your “child”, so don’t abandon it.

Hi. I’ve googled-in looking for a “gesso making” site. I’m a second year student of art from Ireland and just started to “play” with solid surfaces. Our great teacher (Simon English of England) explained the thing wonderfully, but for me (having habits from the Continent) the proportions like “one ounce of glue to 15 ounces of liquid, which means three quarters of pint- and I don’t know what the equivalent for Europe is” just don’t sound friendly. Never mind, I tuned-into your blog and just have had a good feeling about it. You seem to be professionally passionate or passionately professional, and you sharing your experience in such a straightforward and thoughtful way. It’s just a little bit sad that I’ ve joined when something is about to end and you planning to tranform your site. I would like to contribute, obviously, just I don’t want to make any cheap promises at the moment. I think that this www-space has got a great potential to become a sort of a forum-blog for anyone willig to share his/her artistic experience (“all the strange hours” of becoming an artist, whatever that means). Wish you all the best. Katarzyna

Scott, Angel, Katarzyna,

Thanks for the thoughtful comments. I should be clear that I have no intention of abandoning this site or no longer posting here. I’ll probably post at the rate of once every week or two for the foreseeable future. The question I’m asking myself and my readers is whether other people also contributing would be a good idea. I’m still thinking about that and would be happy to get any other opinions on the matter.

Hi. It’s me again. I think I got your point better this time. It’s a big difference between having guests (commentators) on your site and actually letting others to contribute in a more “serious” (sorry, I cannot find a better word) manner - and in consequence - letting them to modify, change and/or use your site as a private space. Is it why you asking yourself and your readers “whether other people contributing would be a good idea”? Or, is it just a wild fantasy of mine. I suppose, being in your shoes I would have similar worry and it’s quite natural that you, as a creator and only main author of this space are still thinking about “whether” to allow this to happen. Personally, I believe that any serious change/transformation, although sometimes risky or/and difficult is just an unavoidable part of evolution and self-improvement. What you may need David is a plan, a strategy combined with re-thinking (I know, again) the whole philosophy behind your site, then-setting the rules and… enjoying the change! Hope, it helps. Katarzyna

Katarzyna,

Thanks for the thoughtful comment. I did not respond immediately because my filters filter placed in the “possibly spam” list and therefore did not allow it to be published until I noticed and approved it. That’s going to happen sometimes, although the alternative is to allow hundreds of comment spams per month to be posted to this site.

I’ll be addressing this issue in a post shortly.