John Baker’s Blog

1. Why do you blog?
I started writing for the internet in 1997, I guess it was pretty much blogging even back then. Initially I put together a website as part of project for an IT post-grad, which I then looked into setting up properly after the project was done.
The reasons for keeping going are mixed. [...]

1. Why do you blog?
I blog to be read and to connect. I started my blog as a substitute of my old website, but it has become something more dynamic. I do not post every day, but try to update it regularly with new poetic posts, Art or links to other blogs.
It’s through BlogLand that [...]

1. Why do you blog?
Because I want to be immortal. Maybe in the waning years of my life I would want to indulge in my thoughts and preoccupations over those hidden periods in my life. It’s like a diary, but a diary that I can open any time, anywhere and read.
2. Which author and/or book [...]

Modernism was, of course, concerned with the modern world. But it made a necessary distinction between the modern and the Modernist. The modern was a matter of period and historical phase; the Modernist a matter of art and technique, a peculiar twist of vision.
Modernism brought together, married, dallied with, rejected and played out the interconnections [...]