The Ink Shot archive
From 7 May 2012 until 7 December 2021 The Ink Shot was the blog of Marcus Baumgart, an itinerant café writer, designer of buildings, animal-lover and day-by-day battling creative. This blog celebrates the practice of writing in cafés, writing fiction and non-fiction and being creative in general.
Marcus struggles to motivate without the happy white noise of lively conversation and hissing espresso machines.
Today is the end of something and the beginning of something else
Today I finish up at my soon-to-be-old workplace, Williams Boag Architects, having been made redundant by the powers that be, in response to the generally hideous state of the construction sector here in Victoria. I have worked at WBA for 12 of the last 15 years, so that's quite a chunk of time. Interestingly, after all that time, I don't have any pearls of wisdom to impart - so this is kind of a non-post, but I thought I should mark the occasion on my blog.
After all - I am a writer passionate, but only on the fringes of my career; the main game for me remains architecture. So here it is: one thing ends, and something new and exciting is beginning. Almost immediately, in fact. But more on that later.
So long WBA, and thanks for all the fish.