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Allo again and happy Friday all. I've gotten my ass wrapped up in all sorts of extreme busy-ness right now, so please pardon this log's recent inconsistency.

And I usually hate it when people blog about their blogs, but I feel compelled to announce that by February (hopefully hopefully), this here page will be a part of the forthcoming Betacorpo.net. If you are currently linked to me (which... I very... much... appreciate), you may want to update the URL from the blogspot address to http://home.earthlink.net/~jeremywells/blog.html

[Update 19.01.03 - Sorry sorry sorry - I left out my middle initial in the URL - the correct URL for the new location of La beta corpo is http://home.earthlink.net/~jeremyswells/blog.html]

at your earliest convenience. the URL's a little unwieldy, sorry, but it'll eventually hook up to all the other good stuff, I promise.

And in the meantime, stay tuned for Betacorpo.net which will mostly become a photography portfolio, but also essays (mostly saved from college, and mostly on contemporary art, urbanism, tourism, and media studies) and regular first-person postings from Brazil (after March 10... so excited!!) as well as the continuation of this here weblog with more fine links on documentary (and other) photography, brave new sounds, transmissions from infinte global nodes, and other fancy digital perusals.

I also have two other ideas for web-based projects that I want to begin later this year, once I've settled with the move. One is a weblog-ish page of music reviews from just regular record collectors like myself. I'm sure many many other things like this already exist, but I'd like to start one on a small scale, mediated, and hopefully kept on a level of friends recommending to friends some out-of-the-way but relevant finds without drenching the content with overly obscure namedrops as a way to prove one's posture within a particular scene (which most fully public listservs and bulletin boards usually seem to do). Basically I'm trying to figure out a way to learn about other genres that I don't pay close attention to, and to recommend titles from my own current interests - just enthusiasts chatting away about good music.

My second idea is a site similar to Urbanphoto.org (one of my favourite recent finds), but about travel photography. I'd like to host interesting "middlebrow" sections of photographs from various world cities, with each section introduced by a short essay - but I'm very much open to other creative possibilities. Soon, I'm going to make a first chapter out of my Vancouver photos, and I've a friend in Chicago who's going to do the same about his recent trip to Havana. I'd like for it to shape up as an expanding site on photography and place, and different strategies for transmitting, viewing, and understanding the visual particularities of places foreign to all of us. I also want the photographs to lie outside of overly stylised National Geographic photography - snapshots would do just fine - but also images that have more resonance than just banal tourist conventions - no group portraits in front of the Arc de Triomphe.

If anyone out in blogland would like to collaborate on either of these ideas (I'm really not far past the previous sentences) let's start correspnding - Jeremy@betacorpo.net

And finally, I've gotten very very advanced word on how the Lord of the Rings trilogy turns out - it's a bit of a departure from the Tolkien story and it's not at all a happy ending.

Ciao, friends. Have a full weekend

posted by jeremy @ 3:38 PM