My First Art Set

When I was a kid my parents got me an art set to, inevitably, get me drawing instead of playing with the endless amounts of G.I. Joes and Ninja Turtle action figures that had previously occupied my time. They realized the interest that I had in cartoons and comics, which I loved reading and redrawing.

The set included assorted drawing pencils crayons, water colors, charcoal, pastels and an array color pencils. Of course the trick my parents played on me worked. I experimented with each of the new tools I had at my disposal. I was able to do whatever my heart desired with each of the mediums and had a lot of fun doing it. Luckily, I was still naive with art so I didn’t have any preconceived idea of what these tools could do.

The New Art Set

This site is meant to act just as that art set did when I was a kid. Instead of pencils and pastels I have CSS and HTML will be my drawing pad. I’m to play with these tools just like the tool I had found in my drawing set. I have free reign over this whole site and i am leaving anything up for grabs. I tried to build the site as flexible as possible so I can bend it easily, which I’ll post about later.

Breakin’ all the rules

Unlike the art set the web has standards and rules and unfortunately for this me I know and follow them. For now though I’m going to try to ignore, bend, and push the rules and standards of the web. This might mean at times that my code will not be the cleanest, the usability might not be the best and each experiment might not work how I wanted it too. FAIL! That is really the idea though, to learn and grow from the from designing and developing each experiment. See what new things can work on the web and what cant, besides I have all the control.

What about the actual writing?

So at the base this is still a blog and I still will have to post on it if I want to do this experimentation. The original idea behind my first blog was to get better at writing, which I’m pretty awful at. Unfortunately since I’m not good at writing, I don’t like it and since I don’t like it, I never wrote anything. The idea this time is that I get to do something fun, design, with everything unfun, writing, which will make me write more.

My plan is to post an “Article” a month and “Follies” whenever the mood strikes. Each “Article” will get a unique design reflecting the content and adding value to my story. This design will carry through to other parts of the site for that month then change over. The follies section will be short ideas I have that don’t warrant the depth that an article would. You will see things like links quotes and short ramblings. Mostly glorified tweets.

Hopefully now I can come up with some compelling content.

Posted on June 1st, 2009 By Kyle Fiedler

2 awesome responses

  1. Jeremy Girard

    19Nov09
    9:10am

    I like the idea behind the Follies section as a complementary aspect to the more long form, individually design Articles. That short form, ‘glorified tweets’ (as you put it) outlet is something I didn’t account for when I built my own site to conduct a similar art direction around content experiment. Very cool idea…I may have to think of how I can do something like that on my own platform.

    Thanks for the good idea.

  2. Aman L. Anderson

    22Jan10
    4:06pm

    Man this is awesome! Im so glad I found your blog!

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