Well, hey there. Thank you for coming to The Farm. This is my personal project, and has been for over six months. This, so far, is the extent of HTML experience I have, and I want to do so much more.
I could have easily just chosen another account name for this site and let it be nothing more than simple "artistic self-promotion", but I felt it wasn't fair that I should blow my own horn when there are a lot of my personal friends who could write well. I wanted to help them, give them a place to call home and show their stuff too. And thus The Farm was born.
Over the months, The Farm has undergone complete changes for the better, and I feel personally that this is the finest betterment by far. The three months of late nights and fully-taken freetime put in on this remodeling have all but made me better at something I would love to do for a living. Just as I said in my column on the front page, in these three months, I've learned a year's worth of stuff.
What prompted the change was a simple concert. Lilith Fair came around, and I *had* to go. The environment, the people, the crowds, the energy, the love for art and music all but moved me from my stasis. My traveling partner to the fest was well-chosen, and we had a great time. After we got home, I was still high from the energy of the show, and I commenced to drawing in my art pad. A few designs, based on Sarah McLachlan's artwork, emerged, but the seed that grew into this remodel was the new logo for The Farm. I had stumbled onto something that has possibly changed my life.
Over the next weeks, I began sketching out page designs, creating artwork, tweaking this image and that, working on the logo to make it old, cracked and faded, and transcribing all of the old pages into the new design. Success after success; I was elated.
But, like all things, there were also snags after snags. These did little to encourage me to continue, so after a little breather, I tackled all the problems I could. One day, it was imagemap problems, another, Javascript. Yet another day, it was simply problems with the HTML itself, and all the tables and such. But I did it, and it's done.
Of late, I've gained a fascination for old things, old art, stuff pre-Rennaisance, Celtic art; things of that nature. I've started collecting gargoyles, and have a large tapestry from India hanging in my bedroom. Vines, candles, orbs, designs and emblems reminiscent of the ancient medieval Alchemists, astronomers, and astrologers decorate my home and my art. Art has been around; longer than the gift of writing. But these things also stand testament to the durability of art and literature. These things have become the theme here.
These are my fascination.
So, then, I hope for more good stuff to happen. I hope for a change in career to the better.

Here's to the possibilities!

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