work is good right now :) I'm in a very nice sweet spot where the semester is ending, I'm not leaving for fieldwork till the end of June, and I have until August to finish my proposal, so I've been luxuriating in some theory and taking my time allowing myself to feel the bubbly excitement of a new project, and a project I've been waiting to start for 4 years.
I have some pretty specific goals for digitally categorizing my research. I work on the production and dissemination of images, primarily on pottery, so for my diss I want to, over the course of my research, build searchable cachets of images that I'm working on, and just that I've seen in general/have registered an impact with me. I've been pondering this for ages, and this goes along with the fandom/professional digital differentiation we talked about initially, plus I've really been trying to figure out what to do about my frustration with Tumblr.
I think I've come to some conclusions tho. It's almost 5am and I'm feeling chatty so imma just delve in, haha. My Tumblr is pretty consistently tagged so visually it's an incredible resource for me of what I've been looking at for the past 8 years and I don't want to lose that. However as I've realized that my research is starting to enter digital realms, in terms of analysis, I have wanted to kind of but not entirely separate my personal/fandom internet life from the artistic and academic work, which through college and grad school have been completely entangled by existing primarily on just the 1 Tumblr page.
I've decided that I just needed to pony up for a domain and used UC's squarespace 50% off discount to start building myself a website that can be a visual portfolio but also contain text based stuff. people weren't really interacting with my work a ton on Tumblr anyway, so I will probs feel better about it once it lives somewhere else, and I can continue to post pictures of nudity in greek art on my Tumblr and appeal all of the flags, which is petty but feels noble in a silly way.
I'm going to a program in July that will hopefully teach me image meta data stuff and other digital tools idk much about rn, so I'm excited for that knowledge to help me with this!
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I have some pretty specific goals for digitally categorizing my research. I work on the production and dissemination of images, primarily on pottery, so for my diss I want to, over the course of my research, build searchable cachets of images that I'm working on, and just that I've seen in general/have registered an impact with me. I've been pondering this for ages, and this goes along with the fandom/professional digital differentiation we talked about initially, plus I've really been trying to figure out what to do about my frustration with Tumblr.
I think I've come to some conclusions tho. It's almost 5am and I'm feeling chatty so imma just delve in, haha. My Tumblr is pretty consistently tagged so visually it's an incredible resource for me of what I've been looking at for the past 8 years and I don't want to lose that. However as I've realized that my research is starting to enter digital realms, in terms of analysis, I have wanted to kind of but not entirely separate my personal/fandom internet life from the artistic and academic work, which through college and grad school have been completely entangled by existing primarily on just the 1 Tumblr page.
I've decided that I just needed to pony up for a domain and used UC's squarespace 50% off discount to start building myself a website that can be a visual portfolio but also contain text based stuff. people weren't really interacting with my work a ton on Tumblr anyway, so I will probs feel better about it once it lives somewhere else, and I can continue to post pictures of nudity in greek art on my Tumblr and appeal all of the flags, which is petty but feels noble in a silly way.
I'm going to a program in July that will hopefully teach me image meta data stuff and other digital tools idk much about rn, so I'm excited for that knowledge to help me with this!