Reconciling this cherishment of / desire for, “material manifestations” of a primarily digital hobby (e.g. web-weaving), digital culture (e.g. personal web).
Discussion and/or brainstorming of potential ideas, approaches and strategies, for the creation, and development, of analogue, slow web artifacts.
Quick Caveat: That ActivityPub book I linked doesn’t currently have a physical release (sorry!). But if, like me, you’d appreciate one… The author, Evan Prodromou, made a post for the express purpose of gauging interest:
Additionally, later this year (in September?), Tim Berners-Lee is set to release:
Which I’m curious to read how “on the money” or “out-of-touch” (or both!) Mr. ‘Inventor of the World Wide Web’ will be. At the very least, the title gives off my kind of Personal Web-vibes.
I contribute to a (digital) zine, and turned my gamedev blog into a couple of e-books. It’s not like the original posts are going anywhere. This way the best of them have yet another way to survive, and maybe reach new audiences too.
More recently, I picked up a fountain pen for the first time in decades, and started a paper journal in addition to my digital one. Still trying to figure out what writing should go where. But it’s part of the fun!
I kind of like the idea of turning some of my eventual website pages into zines. But I feel like that mostly works for finished things; pages that are edited over time don’t lend themselves as well to a physical version, imo. Unless the changeability is what you’re looking for!
this is SO SICK i love it, omg!! it reminds me of the printout books I would make all the time as a kid. I should absolutely do something like this sometime… it could be a lot of fun, reformatting some of my pages for print, or even just getting snippets of pages I love and printing them out :)
Much like @Jay, this also reminds me of the printouts I would put into folders for the games I was playing. I grew up with an N64 and a gameshark, and I had a big purple folder filled with cheats and gameshark codes for my favorite games. Probably the most used one was the extra characters unlock code for Goldeneye Multiplayer!
Dunno if this is a bit off topic, but most of my blog posts now start their lives on my typewriter or from pen & ink. Kinda the opposite of printing in a way. I find that first phase of tactility just fits very well into my brain.
Totally on topic, yo! I think someone talking about or showing off their analogue writing process + maybe how they personally go about transforming / digitizing it as well, would be super cool!
