Last night was Oscar's night, so I thought I'd post some Oscars-related (and political-related) street art that I recently photographed in London. I have been rather busy over the past few weeks and have not dedicated a lot of time to my blog. My biggest news happened on the second week in January. I had an interview and job offer, so I was not out of work for long after my last role came to a close at the beginning of the year. You may have remember reading the update about the situation here, at the end of last year. The contracts took just over a week to get sorted, and I've been commuting approximately half an hour door-to-door. Not bad considering the long commutes I was doing before I moved. I'm really enjoying my new role as I'm able to use a range of my skills, which I've not been able to do in some past roles due to the way that the work was organised. I really hope to stay for awhile as it's perfect for me.
Angus - I got 99 problems but an O$car ain't one!
I've also set up a new blog to post my development-related posts to keep the blog themes separate. It's not quite ready to launch yet, though. When I originally started this blog, it was for development, visual design, my photography, art, and personal projects. It was a place where I would add inspiring work or interesting industry news. I would store ideas here that inspired me as many creatives do. (My instructors at university in the School of Visual Communications told us to always keep a copy of pieces that we discovered that inspired us, and I did that for many years.)
Code Street
In following with my love of art and its tie to visual design, I ended up posting a lot of street art as I was working in east London. (I also received minor degrees in fine art, creative writing/literature, and history. I don't have time now, but I used to paint/draw. At some point when life and the work on the house is settled, I hope to paint/draw again.) Since then, this blog transformed into a 'lifestyle blog' (for want of a better word).
Because I've established this blog over several years to the state it is now, I decided to separate out my development items from the blog. Some of these were published entries, and some of them were unpublished or still in a rough draft state. Some of these posts attracted a lot of attention, particularly in one development area early on as there was a lack of documentation at the time. I still want to grow that area of my blog for my benefit (sometimes a quick reference guide helps) and the benefit of others.
Political and Oscar street art by Angus
The direction for this blog will not change, and I will keep up with it as much as I can. However, I do want to make sure that I spend a little more time on the other blog and other areas of my website in general.
I also have plans to add my own design to the blog, which was always my goal and at one point around 2007-2010, I didn't update my blog much at all because I wanted to get the design perfect first. I realised that sometimes it does not matter if it's not perfect and that it was best to just write for it and evolve it when I had a spare moment. So, I've used the themes that came with my blogging software in the meantime. I'm actually not ready to take a break from work in order to do my personal projects, except from a few hours here and there to create posts. I'm not ready to invest a lot of time over several weeks to do an hour here and there of something that will take a lot more time and dedication.
If you have any ideas of items that you would like to see me cover more or cover less, then comment below to let me know.
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