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Balloons Outside My Cubicle Window
[Originally Posted: 2019.11.12]
[Last Updated: 2022.02.21]
I made this super-inspiring video and just had to put it somewhere in the archives, and this is that somewhere.
The funny thing was that one day a whole bunch of balloons actually did float up outside my cubicle window in exactly this way. I didn’t get a video of them when it was real, so this was an animated re-creation of that moment.
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Luna and the Moon
[Originally Posted: 2019.11.12]
[Last Updated: 2022.02.21]
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Following Through
[Originally Posted: 2019.11.12]
[Last Updated: 2022.02.21]
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The New Taxonomy of the JdwhitingDotCom/Froz-T-Freez Internetical Multiverse Drive-In
[Originally Posted: 2019.11.10]
[Last Updated: 2022.07.16]
I’m retconning my website. I might as well be transparent about it. I feel like my lack of consistently sharing anything out from this site to the wider Internet*, along with the fact that it is my little corner of the Internet and I can do whatever I want with it (and that’s kind of the whole point) gives me the freedom to add, change, shuffle, and randomly publish new posts as though they were several months backdated, as well resurrect content from my old zombie websites, &c.
This site, https://jdwhiting.com, shall become the center of a new and expanded JdwhitingDotCom/Froz-T-Freez Drive-In Internetical** Multiverse. Will this center be a singularity? A black hole? I don’t know yet, it remains to be seen. It’s a bizarre exercise done in darkness, but nevertheless it is going to be an ongoing aspect of this project since I plan to use this site as my personal all-inclusive internet archive.
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Now (November 9, 2019)
[Originally Posted: 2019.11.09]
[Last Updated: 2019.11.09]
Here are some of the things I’m working on and thinking about now…
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DigiWriMo?
[Originally Posted: 2019.11.01]
[Last Updated: 2021.02.20]
So years ago I remember coming across a thing called Digital Writing Month from some educator-writer type people I followed on twitter, and when seeing the usual pre-November hype for NaNoWriMo (which I always like the idea of but don’t actually want to do) I suddenly remembered it and thought I might try it this year, because it kind of fits with the project of this site.
But I guess it’s not really a thing anymore.
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THE VVITCH
[Originally Posted: 2019.10.19]
[Last Updated: 2022.07.16]
It is currently 4 AM and I am awake for some reason, and I just heard a noise downstairs of unclear origin.
Maybe I shouldn’t have watched this with my 4 month old puppy around. Was that a mistake? Will she live deliciously now? Will she grow up and randomly kill us all one morning like that damn goat?
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Two Hands
[Originally Posted: 2019.10.14]
[Last Updated: 2022.07.16]
If I had a ‘Favorite Albums of 2019’ list I’d be adding Big Thief’s new album Two Hands to that list.
I can’t think of a band that seems more devoted to the work right now than Big Thief. This is their second release this year, and it seems they’ve been touring and recording almost nonstop for several years now.
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Demos, Drafts, Fragments, and Improvisations
[Originally Posted: 2019.10.13]
[Last Updated: 2022.07.16]
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I’ve decided that I’m just going to start sharing more of my demos, drafts, fragments, and improvisations, so they are out in the world before they become irrelevant, instead of languishing half-finished in my notebooks as I wait for some mythical moment when I will have endless time and energy to create the thorough, perfect thing.
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You Are Beautiful
[Originally Posted: 2019.10.12]
[Last Updated: 2021.02.20]
I wanted to write a full essay that thoroughly explores my thoughts about this album, Mesita’s Twitter song project, and how it all is actually impacting my views on life, art, &c., but since I already have notebooks and drives and clouds half-filled half-empty with so many other such good intentions that I never follow through on, I’m just going to post this now, and state that I think that Mesita’s You Are Beautiful is pretty much one of the most honest pieces of art I have ever encountered.