Comments on: Blogging Footsteps

By: amypalko

amypalko — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:03:07 +0000

Thank you so much, Toni! I’m glad you liked it

By: toni

toni — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:06:07 +0000

Oh wow, Amy! This is absolutely spot on! I do see how blogging can be a bridge, but the imagery of footprints you presented also works. Nice perspective!

By: amypalko

amypalko — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:57:47 +0000

What a wonderful comment, Nouveau Fauves. I think you are absolutely right that a bridge is not a bridge unless it takes you to the other side. I suppose with bloggers, like with all writers, artists, performers, the other side is the reader, the viewer, the audience. The only type of art that doesn’t conform to this is outsider art, where the art is not intended for public view. I suppose the equivalent would be a private blog not open to anyone but its blogger. I wonder what the ideal geographical metaphor for that would be? An island disconnected and isolated from the mainland, perhaps?

By: nouveaufauves

nouveaufauves — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:25:12 +0000

The photo is compelling. There is something about a bridge, I guess. It certainly lends itself to many emblems and analogies. So do footsteps. I can see, clearly, your likening footsteps to a blog. In my mind, the thoughts and expressions of people make the blog……not the technology. The American politicians love the catchphrase “bridge to nowhere” to represent “pork barrel spending” in Washington. Every time I hear that, however, I envision a bridge arching off into nothingness and I, then, realize there has to be something at the other end of the bridge to define it as a bridge. (I think this proposed bridge was to link an island off Alaska to the mainland) If the bridge stops mid-span it isn’t a bridge. I can think of worse things to spend my tax money on than a bridge. I could think of the bridge as a work of art….. and I really like art. Our blogs can be bridges too but they have to reach someone. I hope they all do.

By: amypalko

amypalko — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:18:19 +0000

No, Slutty, it's actually along the Water of Leith. I posted a slideshow of photos that I took while walking along the tow-path if you fancy a look.

By: Slutty McWhore

Slutty McWhore — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:04:29 +0000

Is that bridge down by the river Kelvin in Glasgow? Looks like it.

By: amypalko

amypalko — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:55:20 +0000

There are aren’t there, Penelope Anne. In fact, the more I think about it the more complicated it becomes!

By: Penelope Anne

Penelope Anne — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:40:18 +0000

Ah, but is not blogging a bridge that connects us to make those footsteps?
So many ways to view the statement.