I think this is the first time that I mentioned it to anyone online so far. I remember telling a friend about it, but he really wasn’t too interested in seeing it… oh well. So I’ll do the next best thing and share it with the thousa…, uh, hundre…well maybe dozens… okay, let’s just say that I’m going to share it with the bots that come to this site. :) It’s becoming kind of fun to make jokes about how desolate my sites and videos are. I think that if I keep laughing at it, it doesn’t really bother me that much.

So, yeah. I’m building or should I say, I’m redesigning my old Kennethcurtis.com site. After it was hacked for the third time I have kind of shelved it and just basically did a redirect to the kencurtis.in site. That worked for a while, but in the back of my mind I’ve always consider myself to be a web designer and for my personal site just sitting there kind of bothered me. Especially since I’ve been applying for jobs and need as many portfolio pieces as I can get.

I’m kind of taking the site in a new direction since I have the kencurtis.in site as a personal site, I figured that it would be a waste to just do a new personal site. If I’m being honest, that’s been the problem all along, I could never really figure out what to do with it. So I decided to use the site as a more ‘professional’ site. Initially what I was going to do was just post my images, portfolios, and related information. As I was building it though, I realized that I could use the opportunity to do something that I’ve wanted to do for some time. I’m guessing maybe ten years ago I got the urge to start writing about graphic design, web design, and technology in general. I have literally spent most of my life using and studying computers and the applications for web, video, and graphic design. Not only that I’ve got three related degrees in the arts, two in computer arts, and one in graphic design. I think I’m in the position to try to write about it.

So that’s the new site I’m building, Kennethcurtis.com. The site will be based on the idea of exploring arts and the technology that is used to create it. For now it’s going slow and I’m not really proud of where the site is now. I see some potential there and I’m hoping that as I move along, I’ll be inspired to create something really great.

As for the structure, it will be very similar to kencurtis.in. I’m using static pages for the main pages and blog for articles about different subjects. I thought that this would be the best way for me to write without worrying too much about the design. It also allows me the very intriguing idea of inviting people to write for the site. This would be the best outcome to create a site that has regular and freelance writers that post consistently. I get chills just imagining having a team of writers, maybe a team of people monitoring the site too, all while I’m away hob-nobbing with all the other tech entrepreneurs.

The last thing is something that I want to do, but I’m having problems convincing myself to actually do it. That is be real. Let me explain. A friend told me that I needed to not worry about what others thought and just be myself. It makes sense and I know that I hold myself back all the time in whatever I’m doing, video, design, or writing. The problem is, is that I don’t like the idea of offending anyone. So, although I can’t predict the outcome, I’m going to try hard to say what I actually want to say. In the last article I wrote I used, “ass” and “turd.” I’m such a rebel! :)