Archives: Take a Trip Back to Yesteryear.
Kick-it Old-skool with Classic sixfoot6! I've somehow managed to preserve over two years of friggity-fresh Sixfoot6 postings and stylings! Damn hell! I've kept a 'weblog' in some format since the spring of 1999, when I first set up my domain and manually posted to a simple news page. Now that it's all organized, I really appreciate having the last three years of my lifeI've gone so far as to get clever with php just to purge all the old index pages from my root directory, 'cause things were getting messy in there. But it all should work, so enjoy.Recent bricolage weblog/story/photo entries:
Fall.01 - bricolage 2001 longerform entries:
12.14.01 - The Crappy Birthday.Spring.01 - The much abused Big Nostril layout.
This text-only weblog took advantage of PHP and eventually included comment functionality. I was always rather proud of the graphical elements of the design. The whole thing was launched at six a.m. on February 1st, only minutes before I had to leave and catch a plane to Houston. I had stayed up all night, and ended up sick all week. For several months it chronicled travels and a busy spring of outdoor work. It all fell apart over the summer, though, as I shied away from the internet, letting the infamous funny, offensive and annoying summer-long 349 comment thread take over the entertaining.Xmas.00 - Escalator.
Kept during a busy period of lounging, socializing, brainstorming, this casual little scratchpad gave me a place to stick my thoughts. At some point I'll take the time to reconstruct the dramatic-announcement airplane design from which this narrow-column weblog launched in a pop-up window.April.00 - The Blue Boy.
Those were the glory days, fuller with energy and youth. Well, it wasn't that long ago. This design was inspired by a new and exciting foray into the world of CSS, a desire to incorporate daily photographs with my entries, and a color photograph of me dressed in a sailor suit at age 3. I'm very fond of this design, and of the way the tabled posts look. I was even more obsessed with writing for the web back then, so there's a good variety to the entries, with a healthy dose of meta-meta. For a goodly-long while there I was actually making something of myself on the internet, before I actually got a job and the grey blah of old age set in.Mid-January.00 - Union Square Navy.
I was pleased with this navy blue design when I got it right because I felt like it was compact and open all at the same time. The posts were text only, but I included a photo of the day on the sidebar, along with links to other weblogs and new additions to the site. At some point in mid-February I began using Blogger to publish this one, and I certainly packed those days with plenty of writing.January.00 - Phoenix Yellowback.
After a long and hilarious drive across the country, I lived with my good friend Joshua in Phoenix for two months. I dove into the web hardcore and wanted to build a super-duper news/journal page where I could log the things I was doing and clicking. Later it turned out there was a name and subculture for this type of thing. So this was my first-ever weblog design.Fall.99 - Carlisle, PA.
I went out to Pennsylvania to live with my friend Jonas for a couple of months, and it was a truly wonderful experience. I really started writing and expanding my web presence during this period. My index page went throguh several incarnations during this period. Note my first use of sixfoot6 blue in the low, mid, and high bandwith versions of my hand-drawn-rollover menu page. Later I set up the Arrows index, and the deluxe Union Square Arrows with the same color, and linked to those other pages. I posted site progress updates and other junk into the casually designed fall '99 news page. I worked on The Saga, and started up a separate Journal during that wonderful sojourn in Carlisle.Spring.99 - The B.U. Graduate.
I had done a litte design during my senior year, but it wasn't really until I graduated from college that I needed to dive into the internet to fill the learning curve void. I set up the classic future-retro MouseOver, Martini and Monkey design while I was working on the Project Omni site. I posted occassional progress updates and silly crap on this spring '99 news page.