I’ve been thinking.

This website is my biggest project to date. It has about 13 years of my efforts invested in it if one enfolds the previous incarnations, theflawedmind.com and theinkshot.com. This is my digital home, my personal channel and creative vehicle, and my most direct medium of communication and thinking.

Such a thing requires constant tuning, and I have been doing some thinking about the structure of my web presence here.

This blog site, marcusbaumgart.com, is currently comprised of two blogs: the personal blog, and the so-called ‘New Project’ blog, also known as the Book of Uncertainty, found in the menu link above. I am rethinking this split.

The original intention was to keep the Book of Uncertainty as a thing - a separate feed, a quasi-literary undertaking or composition, separated from my random personal musings. The model and inspiration for this is an actual work of literature, the Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, as I have cited on the secondary blog’s front page.

While I am inspired by Pessoa, and unashamedly seek to emulate his work in some way, things have moved on since the early 20th Century. Perhaps Pessoa would have had a blog, rather than scribbling fragments and leaving them in a trunk to be discovered after his death? Who knows.

So I am questioning this choice, to divide the feed into two blogs.. I no longer think this is the right approach. I think it might be unnecessarily artificial, not to mention diluting, to separate so-called personal writing from what is really equally personal but annoyingly aspirational semi-literary writing in this way. So expect a restructure in the coming days.

ONE BLOG.

Not two, but one. A singular repository and vehicle for whole-of-creative-life musings, thoughts, propositions and observations. Visual and textual records. Images, photographs, scans, writing, sketching, drawings and text.

Let’s see how that goes.

The least we can do is literally deface this butcher. Or perhaps I mean re-face. A bit of eyeshadow, lippy, so much the better.

Unfortunately for most of us, we think that this is the most that we can do. So: rather than feeling powerless and defeated by these terrible events, donate to the Red Cross.

I know it’s not the only charity helping people in Ukraine, but in the current crisis it is really hard to separate the good operators from the conspiracy theorists, alt-right profiteers, freelance nazi battalions and outright scammers.

Maybe stick with the Red Cross (make up your own mind though). And, if you will forgive the language, Fuck You, Putin.

AND while we are on world events, let’s not forget the US track record with violently overthrowing democratically elected governments for ideological reasons. Argentina 1975: one of many. Look it up. Start here but go elsewhere.

The Creative Trust podcast episode should be up soon, welcome to those who sought me out after listening in! Lots to discover here, take your time, this website holds the detritus and accumulation of twelve years of updates. Lots of Random Shit, if I may be impolite in my language, as they say. A bit like my rambling conversation with the delightful Amanda Henderson. Enjoy your stay.