Thursday, December 21, 2006

michaelrhoades.net/v4

Winter has pushed autumn almost entirely out of the room, although it looks like there still may be an occasional nice day or two for a motorcycle ride or whatever one does outside when the cold isn’t yet so bad that it rips itself right into yr bones and the snow turns the roads into a dirty, wet bob-sled run... Been listening to a lot of Melvins, Big Business, and Dead Moon records in the past months, and saw the Ex play a couple of great shows w/ in the last two weeks... Am still living in NYC, though lately the dog and I have been spending a good deal of time in Chicago while redesigning this site... Working on getting a book published of the Chinatown work, and hopefully that should happen in France in the coming year... More news soon...

Version 4... has taken some time, a few back-to-square-ones mid-build, a frantic re-size or two in the last days, and now hopefully the site’s working well and the slideshow controls are visible for all (or most) screen resolutions... Always takes me some time to redo the website, b/c I only do it every few years, and consequently must relearn the little bits of the necessary apps each time... I think this new site looks a fair deal better than my previous ones, the only drawback is that it’s now flash-dependent, though that has made the whole process much easier and will make additions and later edits much less laborious... There’re only two new image galleries, China and Bangkok, though the Chinatown section had about one-third of the old photographs cut and about twice that many have been added so that there are now 69 images in that gallery... I’ve cut the Japan and India galleries entirely, and most other galleries lost a few or as many as two-thirds of their images to make for tighter edits... Here and there a few new images have been added throughout... Will be adding some video to the quicktime page next, and, of course, if you’ve the time, check back periodically for new photographs...

NB: The url has changed, and is now a bit less cryptic, www.michaelrhoades.net... though 33RaM.org will still remain valid since that's the address most of the search engines have...