Nosideup: Internet

11.11.10 2

Pinterest

Ok. I don't know if you remember, but I had a slight "Oh dear, tumblring is the new blogging" which almost immediately turned into "Posterous is the new tumblr". None of those two went too far (including a late attempt to write fiction in tumbr).
Well. This is the new thing: Pinterest is the new tumblr. As in, Pinterest is rather amazing, clearly visual, with tons of interesting but selected people and very, very intuitive. To me, it's a much better Tumblr.
It's as easy as you just pin an image on your wall. It's one of those rituals translated from real life to virtual life that really, really works.
So, I'm really pleased to say I'm in.

11.8.10 0

Playing writer

You might have noticed I do not tend to write much here. You might also know I do have a text and theory section in my site for non-fiction writings. Well, now I am letting you know I am going to give creative writing a try. When I draw a hair portrait, I always write a little something for it. And long, long time ago I used to write more than draw. So here it is, Knowing she would.

This is a bit of my first story, Rice Milk.

"I woke up at night because I heard rattling noises in the kitchen. As soon as I heard them, I realized how pointlessly scared I had been the other times some random noise had woken me up. This wasn’t a poster falling off the wall, or the neighbour’s dog going for a midnight snack. There was someone in the kitchen and that was it..."

Read the rest here.

And please let me know what you think :)

13.7.10 0

Small

Dear everyone, as you know I've been moving to Madrid (I've learnt that one is moving in continuous tense rather than just moves, in a finished tone). As usual, what is meant to be a quick easy peasy box-it-all, load-it-all, unload-it-all, unbox-it-all is taking a bit more. Specially the internet. I do not know why but Spanish internet providers like to take weeks and weeks to sort the littlest thing out. So please, please, please, bear with me.

I've moved to a small but incredibly luminous and airy apartment in the Latina district of Madrid. That means I am at a ten minutes walk from anywhere. We are totally delighted. We've been thinking really hard how to make the space work for us and I have to say we've managed beautifully. I'll hopefully have pics, at some time.

When Ms. Internet comes back I'll reopen the shop and it will be exciting. There'll be stuff you haven't seen. Stay posted!

I leave you with two lovely apartments that are small but so lovingly designed . If anyone has any more tinyspirations (how do you like that?) please let me know!

Have a refreshing week,

M.

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3.1.10 0

The dilema

I've been struggling to get a portfolio platform for my work and in my search I stumbled into tumbler (and posterous, the even more flexible system, which can adopt tumblr themes).

Whilst it did not have the perfect features, it was VERY close to doing so.

And I might not use it for my porfolio, but I'm seriously tempted to use it, somehow. I like the thousands of designs and how neat they all are.

I've toyed with the idea of moving the A to Z from blogspot to here (or equivalent in tumblr) , but I'm not sure (I'm missing the little profile notes for some reason).

Do you use it? Do you like it?

5.11.09 0