Thursday, February 23, 2006
The other night I was trying to think of something to write on Siteway and that's when I realised something wasn't right. Usually, I think about what I'm going to write about in the same way that I treat oxygen. If I can't breathe this second, I'll breathe in the next. Ideas were everywhere. But the other night it dawned on me that my Siteway voice was drying up. Prognosis uncertain. Tonight I read about Jason Kottke's decision to stop his micropayment experiment. For those of you not familiar with Kottke's earlier decision, in a nutshell he decided to quit his regular job to take blogging seriously enough to devote his entire labour towards it. He decided to do this via a public support initiative in a very similar way that a public broadcaster might. I was a supporter, it should be noted. I'm not entirely sure what to think. I'm deeply saddened by this news*. When I first read his post, I instinctively thought of writing to him directly, if only to find some answers. Please pardon the hyperbole, I know it's hard to read, but you have to understand that it was his blog which inspired this one. I'm sure we haven't seen the end of Kottke, but a part of me brushed up against that eventual inevitability tonight. *I should note that I'm not saddened by the decision per se, but that it wasn't a smashing success that included things like growth for Jason. I thought it would be. ¶ The voice is drying but not dry. There's more where this came from.
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Antony Hare is a freelance illustrator whose work has appeared in publications including Esquire UK, Maisonneuve, Forbes, Annabelle Mann, The Improper Bostonian, Bon Appétit, the Globe and Mail, and National Post (for which he won a Silver Medal from the Society of News Design). His work is at the meeting point between portraiture and caricature. Antony is a member of the Society of Illustrators and works from his office in downtown Toronto. ¶ Learn more about Antony.
Siteway was launched in 1996. It is Antony Hare's personal web site and is affiliated only with him. It contains his gallery of illustrations and blog since 2000. His illustrations are available for sale and for licensing in film and advertising. Siteway World is Siteway, Phelts, Tonicville, and Coastalmatic. Siteway is updated every week, usually Tuesday, with a new feature illustration.
