Turning the Page

Soon the blogging service Typepad will shut down, taking with it my blog Stingy Kids (unless I recover my log-in information before this happens).  Stingy Kids was most active between 2003 and 2010, but I kept it online as an archive of blogging culture and my participation in it. The things I wrote about then I'm still interested in now: poetry, but also Shakira, 1960s French music, perfume and baseball.  For this week's prompt, image+constraint, I reimagine Stingy Kids as a digital zine. This isn't an act of preservation--rather, through the making of this fragmented version of my old blog, I had a chance to reflect on the half-life of a fixation, what gets saved and what decays (and how).  

Instructions:

Swipe left, and only left, to read the zine. I disabled swiping right because of issues with the clipping plane in the asset I was using (issues that were only present because the prompt explicitly prohibited button clicks).  In the end, it suits this project that you can't go back. Like the days of our lives. 

Thanks to--

Adrian Becerra for code help and troubleshooting

Sarah Lariviere for creating the marionette banner that greeted readers to Stingy Kids for many years

Abdullah Aldandarawy for the free Unity asset Book-Page Curl