ArtLung

since 1999 this has been the personal website, blog, archive, message in a bottle, calling card, digital garden, rough draft, and curriculum vitae of me, joe crawford. hi.

Checkpoint: June Gloom

It’s June! And it’s gloom.

I am well.

To the extent that the world is, besides me being fine, not fine.

The world is not okay but the world soldiers on.

But my spirits are good. But then, when I, as a wee lad, lived in the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos I was also relatively happy.

I didn’t like the way authoritarianism warped how people talked back in 1978 among my expatriate (immigrant? temporary immigrant? student visa-holders?) community at the time. And I don’t like it now.

So let’s talk about some stuff I made.

I’m rather proud of the post: “📣 YOUTUBE REMOVED YOUR CONTENT” (A GOOGLE MYSTERY)

And so I will keep making things and trying to write things.

My CSS Battles Page has code to watch the videos on the page (the videos remain on YouTube and I’m to quite ready (if I ever will be) to self-host them). I also updated the page with my bodysurfing videos on it with some popover work. Those videos are short short short. I am getting better at it. I keep being compelled by video since it seems it’s the main we communicate effectively.

Though I still can’t stand Tik Tok. But sometimes one goes where the audience is.

I remain convinced that controlling the means of production of our own words and photos on our own websites is IMPORTANT.

So let’s keep doing that.

And let’s work against authoritarianism, too.

Also I might try Yoga. I keep pushing at the limits of what my body–overweight as it is–can do. And maybe I need to learn to stretch.

Thanks for reading.

Courage, people.


Also! I made some headers:

In May:

ARTLUNG. photo of Joe at the beach, plus inset picture of Woody Guthrie's hands on his guitar with a signing reading THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS. Plus watercolor flags of Ukraine and Palestine.

In June:

ArtLung

since 1999 this has been the personal website, blog, archive, message in a bottle, calling card, digital garden, rough draft, and curriculum vitae of me, joe crawford. hi.


Oh, and I’ll be hosting the HWC for Europe/London on Wednesday this week. If websites interest you feel free to join the Zoom.


Maybe I’ll add to this post again? Or perhaps not.

Onward.

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