This is just going to be a post recapping my experiences with this blog over the past few months. This blog was originally created as part of college assignment to create a blog and cover something relevant to me. I took this as an opportunity to inject some of my opinion on a lot of the style, fashion and art that I around the city. I had originally intended to cover just local Boston streetwear, but I soon learned that there just wasn’t enough going on all the time to write about. Don’t get me wrong, there are some nice boutiques and shop create some nice products, but Boston isn’t New York and just doesn’t have the same kind of volume of creation that goes on there. That lead up to me covering related topics like urban art and related local events such as various shoe releases or art exhibitions. I like the freedom of being my own editor, even though I did have to censor my self a little bit due to the nature of the assignment.
I’m still undecided when it comes to the topic of keeping up this blog, but I will be starting up another blog focusing on music, which may devolve into a combination of music and clothing. As someone who has written websites from scratch back before they had easy to use templates and programs like Dreamweaver, I was somewhat surprised at the simplicity involved with the upkeep of blogs today, just from a technical standpoint. This is especially important because this tendency has sometimes caused my to shy away from certain web development opportunities due to some experiences and frustrations that had become outdated.
I did have a couple experiences where friends were excited about something I had posted, grateful for some info on something they would have ordinarily missed, and at the same time it was nice to have some outside input on some topics, especially since I have an admitted bias towards certain brands and styles. I actually had more fun that I thought making my podcast, and while it may not be a regular thing, I have been considering doing another episode as a way of redemption as I am somewhat embarrassed about the overall poor quality of the first episode.
Blogs are definitely a useful tool just for expanding a media base insight onto some lesser known subjects, and provide a good way to inject some personality into current events, something that larger media sources just can’t do, possibly to their own detriment. Like I said I haven’t made up my mind as to what I’m going to do with this blog, but feel free to comment on anything I’ve done so far or even what you might like to see in the future.
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