tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9319479.post4944246306396589984..comments2024-03-07T15:32:53.014+02:00Comments on Yehuda: Are Blogs Art?Yehuda Berlingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16038826060312027387noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9319479.post-61994900711862146152010-04-23T10:22:20.817+03:002010-04-23T10:22:20.817+03:00If I may take this opportunity for shameless self-...If I may take this opportunity for shameless self-promotion, <a href="http://www.thebuckmans.com/Mory" rel="nofollow">my personal blog</a> is most certainly art.<br /><br />"Art must be made, not found": Even though it is an honest representation of my life, the way I built up the themes and structure were very deliberate. If you look at some specific posts I wrote three years ago, and then some of the posts I wrote a few months ago, you can see that I've been building up a story very consciously for the entire time.<br /><br />"Art must be original": Some of the things I've done on my blog, I've never seen on a blog before. I have interactive blog posts and fictional characters arguing with me and many original ideas about structure and I've got a lot more such ideas in mind to introduce over the course of the next year. But even if my blog were a lot more standard, it would still be original by virtue of being a representation of my strange personality. No one else is going to write a blog which is quite like mine.<br /><br />"Art must tackle one of the 'deep' issues": Anyone who's really serious about writing a personal blog is going to ask himself tough questions on a regular basis. For my part, I've built up the idea that accomplishing things is not a way to achieve happiness, and I've been continually asking whether, in that light, happiness should even matter. I don't know if anyone would agree with what I'm saying there, but I think it's pretty "deep", whatever that means.<br /><br />So by your definition, it's unambiguous that my blog is art. As it exists now it's all one massive interconnected work, though that was not my intention when I started. Someone said to me once that "it's not a blog, it's a novel". But the truth is, what I've done with my blog couldn't have worked in any other medium.<br /><br />The interesting thing about a blog is that by virtue of being open-ended, it really sucks your life into it. Any time I experience anything in my life, my first thought is "How can I fit this into the blog?". Which kind of reverses the whole life/art dynamic, because I've made some major changes to my life just to give the blog a more satisfying story.Moryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00811255096467614445noreply@blogger.com