If you'd honestly ask me if I like blogging, the internet, or anything digital, I'd gear more towards a 'no'. There's just something about things digital that make me somehow believe that if all electrical power and energy were to die out, these things would terribly cease to exist and function. Also, things digital don't do well in the environmentally-friendly category (mmhmm, I'm a bit of a closeted Greenpeace lover & supporter, in the mental sense).
The very thought of blogging really gives me the shivers... not exactly in a bad way. I'm just not used to it, nor am I used to journal writing. I was just told it wasn't good habit to write to yourself/a book.
And so... I have devised a plan to feed that hand-made, natural, analogue lover in me.
I am going to publish a book.
ya.
a BOOK.
I'm that ambitious.
alright, why.
To start things off, I believe the internet world is such a distraction to a lot of things in the real world. It is helpful at times, but when something like homework, research and things-to-do-on-the-computer happen, it's proven not very helpful at all. Especially to students.
I believe that the internet has made us loose our focus on a lot of things because of its variety of information sourcing from different areas. It's not to say that that is a bad thing, but when you're on the net and want to search for a specific thing (say for example a pecan pie recipe), you end up with a heap load of info, consisting mostly of that which you don't need.
Within the internet arise the unwanted babies of the digital realm - advertisements everywhere, sound (sometimes), viruses lurking around, hackers of personal info, etc.
There are a lot of unnecessary things that dwell within the internet which I don't agree with.
Thus I have come up with the dream of having a book as part of this investigative project of im.perceptible.
The book lover in me has sparked back up. This book is going to be published in 2 weeks.
Because this im.perceptible project is about engaging people with myself and one another, I've decided that the digital outlet would be this blog and the analogue would be a hand-held item, something that is portable yet of a precious nature and value : a book.
To me, books are precious. They embody time and space in a way that a digital form wouldn't.
The very act of manually turning pages and feeling the texture of the book already brings memories, hopes, emotions and a hint of joy to a viewer. Because a book is so enclosed in itself, I believe that it focuses the viewer's attention even more intensely, engaging the viewer in a very personal way, in their space & time, mentally & physically. A book is greatly free from distractions within it, and hey it lets your eyes rest more from that glowing computer screen you've been working away on all week long.
Nowadays, I'd consider a book as a vacation. It's like a little get-away into the author's world, into a world fictional or not, but becomes the reality when one reads into it.
So
I am pretty stoked for this book. Lets just say it's going to have probably around 30 pages, and with lots of everything engaging.
WATCH OUT for it! soon.
