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Wednesday, February 1, 2012

What is this much text doing on an art blog?

No pretty images today. I thought I'd do something a little different.

I've got a confession to make: truth is, I've been cheating on someone.

I don't know what happened. We've been going strong for two years now, but it's been dwindling for the past little while. Sometimes, a spark would ignite here and there, but that only lasts so long. Then someone better kind of showed up.

And that person's name is Tumblr.

Though I guess calling a blogging platform a person doesn't hold any correlation, I digress. Anyways, cheating-context aside, I've been using Tumblr for a long while now, and due to not knowing what this primary blog business was all about, I've had an empty blog I couldn't get rid of hanging on my account and making reblogging a pain. Upon coming across a nifty web app that allows you to import your Blogger to Tumblr, I thought it was time to bring that Tumblr back to life.

There are certainly things about Tumblr's focus on microblogging that is alluring for me. As more dedicated readers may have noticed, as time wore on, my words got shorter and shorter. Even though I made this blog with the focus of just displaying art, I've always felt like that I still had some obligation to include a reasonable amount of reading material along with it. And that includes having a title, and I know that that is one thing I wouldn't miss. The option's still there, but now I don't feel like I'm pressured to have one.
Moving to Tumblr would effect the type of content available too. I'll probably make use of the ability to reblog to post things like tutorials or art tips or anything of the likes (nothing too self indulgent though, that's what I have my reblogging Tumblr for). I don't know how I feel about Tumblr being a social platform, as I was never one who found online socializing to be an enjoyable experience.

I guess I'll keep doing this two-timing act for a while, trying to run both blogs simultaneously, and see how it goes. After two years, I still have some sentimental attachment to Blogger so I can't just leave it in the dust.

So for those of you on Tumblr, rejoice! Now keeping up with updates will be much easier.

The link's porincinque.tumblr.com. It'll be on the sidebar for future references too.

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