I was about to move to London, and enlisted my longtime
mate Mitch Goldstein in setting up a website for me that had a blog component.
The website had a great homepage, but little usability other than the blog and
an email account. My old website was www.christopherpizzi.com, which I have
since abandoned. The blog could have helped me keep in touch with family and
friends, but it didn't. It was really a travel journal loosely linked to my
frequent weekend travels and related Ofoto postings - which were where the real
updates surfaced, via brief narrative introductions to the photo albums.
That old blog was lost, along with its contents, due to
my digital ambivalence and Mitch's metamorphosis from closeted visual savant to
design world wunderkind. And all the Ofoto postings were eventually deleted by Kodak.
Though maybe it all lives on in one of Google's server farms in exurban Oregon.
I wanted to call this blog TravelSketch - connecting
traveling with sketching as a way to enhance and retain memory - but that was
already taken. I settled on using my name as the blog address, for directness
and clarity, while inserting TravelSketch after my name in the title.
I was in London for over two years. I worked at a small
but renowned architecture firm in Bloomsbury, travelled frequently, took
thousands of pictures, and designed often. But I did very little proper
sketching, like this composition of sketches from a sunny Saturday afternoon at
Pitzhanger Manor, the weekend home of architect Sir John Soane.
For many years I've been looking, albeit casually, for
the right online place to share thoughts - writings, drawings, pictures. I think
this may be the right place.
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