Well, I finally did it...

[miriam_e]

I moved my site to a nice big server where there is plenty of room to stretch my legs, so I've started overhauling my pages. It's about time! I've been on the net for more than a decade. A lot of my content has barely changed during that time. My pages will continue to be easy to access -- no big graphics on the main pages and plain vanilla html so it should work in almost any web browser.

This is leading up to me starting my own business. Yippee! More about that very soon.

http://miriam-english.org

Comments

[seaofserpent.livejournal.com]

I love the pencil (charcoal?) drawing of the rocky surface, the small woman crouched down under the spiral galaxy. It's pretty incredible. Congrats about your site, and your plans for the business :)

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

:) Thank you.

You've made me realise I haven't mentioned what I've used for the drawings anywhere on the page. I'll rectify that later today. That picture uses ordinary, cheap pencil on cheap typing paper.

When I was in school an art teacher said one day that we should spend as much as we can on art supplies, because the better your tools, the better the end result. That didn't seem right to me, so then and there I resolved to use the cheapest tools I could get my hands on: ordinary paper, cheap pencils and pens. Back then, if my favorite film, Little Man Tate, had been made, I would have loved the scene where Tate illustrates tensegrity by making an object out of rubber bands and pencils sharpened at both ends.

I must have been a difficult kid for teachers. I never played up in school, but I questioned everything told to me, and I never felt that anybody was better than me. I never felt that anybody was intrinsically better than anybody else.