As there is now a walking Adelaide website with its own blog this old, low-key blog became superfluous. It served its purpose in kickstarting the website into existence, and as a result, it hasn't been updated in 2 years. Originally this low-fi blog was envisioned as a way to start making a photobook of urban photography of Adelaide. I had in mind that the images and text would be the raw material for the photo book. However, as I left living in Adelaide for the coast and the money ran out for a book, I decided to build the website. The next step in the project is a photobook.
My reason for reviving the old blog is that I've returned to the city in the sense of I've started regularly walking the city again. I have also linked up to, and joined, the Australian Walking Artists group, since urban photography has been historically based on the medium of walking the city. Adelaide 's CBD has changed a lot in the last 8 years.
This revived blog will include the odd photo that doesn't make it to the official website. Toss away photos, odd balls, rejects, poor mages. fragments or scraps, if you like. Ones that stand outside the website and are an accessory (the parergon) to the main work (the ergon). This blog would then exist on the margins of the website.
The photos and text, which are degraded supplements to the original image that lies buried in the darkness of the archive on a computer's hard drive, are deemed to have little value in the neo-liberal image economy. They are toss-a-ways, as is this blog, since blogs have been shunted aside in the culture of social media.