I wish more people were doing stuff like this:
Guest post on Jason Santa Maria’s blog.
Post on Dustin Curtis’s blog.
Article in The Bold Italic.
One of the great things about magazines is that all the articles don’t look alike. They’re free to expand, subtract, multiply, divide, paint, rotate, spin, glare, surprise and amuse, not only in content but also in form. This is lost on almost all blogs, because every post is forced into the same template. I mean, look at this! Posts about steam engines fucking, T-rex coins, photographs of bizarre medical equipment and existential despair all look the same! Everything’s sterile. There’s no variety. Hopefully the content isn’t boring, but the presentation sure is. And even the most beautiful template is, finally, only a template. You tire of it when you’ve seen it a hundred times. This is why stuff like Jason Santa Maria’s and Dustin Curtis’s sites is so great. There’s effort behind the presentation of each piece, and it looks great. That’s one thing you could say about GeoCities: subpages usually didn’t look like carbon copies of each other. These blogs are that, only with taste and skill and a sense of aesthetics. That’s great.
