Competency # 2 Another Blog - Artful Blogging

Web Sights: the art of blogging

My search for blogs about image collections continually led me to image collections suitable for addition to a blog! I searched via Google for image collections and found artcyclopedia. Then I went in search of blogs about it. A long way down the road I found "theblogart&architecture" site. Just what I was looking for! I hope Ms. Honigman stays connected to fun collections like this one, created by Anahata Katkin, which is a blog and also an image collection. It is fun and silly and creative and that's why I liked it.

The following excerpt was taken from the post discussing "Artful Blogging", located at theblogart&architechure, using this url:
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2007/09/web_sights_the_art_of_blogging.html
The selected post is titled, "Web Sights: the art of Blogging." The author is Ana Finel Honigman

It should be no surprise that artists are among the bloggers with the most the decorative and dynamic personal websites. The surprise is that it has taken this long for blogging to be seen as a craft that is creative enough for its own specialized print publication.
The first issue of Artful Blogging consists of 144 pages pulling together profiles of more than 35 regular bloggers and their sites. The publisher's goal is to give dedicated bloggers their own beautifully designed, glossy 3D showcase for art that could otherwise be lost on the world wide web.
Artful Blogging has a dainty sounding title and focuses largely on the work of women whose websites have a crafty appearance (curly cursive font, floral patterns and personal confessions are all over the selected sites) but are often surprisingly sassy and fun to read. The bloggers post about their reading lists, interests and activities as artists, but often also as mothers, art teachers and diarists. Far from Wonkette, Washingtonienne, Opinionistas and other stiletto sharp Sex in the City-like urban bitch blogs, the blogs featured on Artful Blogger have a softer outlook and hippier sensibility, but often also a Steel Magnolia core. The American blogger Anahata Katkin posts collage-like images of Hindu Goddesses and writes about making a shell-mobile with her son, but then jokes about being too pale to drive her 4-wheel around Costa Rica without feeling like a "Gringa on the loose."


Ana Finel Honigman