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Absolutely Not Your Monkey

Apr 22 2011

TEN YEARS!

Ten years ago today, I sat down in front of my computer in my little room on Xinsheng South Road overlooking the park and wrote the first entry in this blog. I was working at Ogilvy & Mather then, which was still on Minsheng East Road at the time. A visit to San Francisco to see my friend Mindcrime a few months prior had convinced me to start my own blog, which was incidental to my photography website back then.

Ten years!

I won’t say it’s hard to believe, as it definitely seems like an eon ago. I’ve moved several time, had several jobs, and visited many other countries over the last decade. Wrote a book, made some films, bought a place, sold my bike. It’s been an interesting ride. Alas, I’ve been remiss in updating things here, simply because the day-to-day details are so much easier to recount in places like Facebook and Twitter than compiled here.

I will continue to write here, but I need to find a way to update the site. I have too many blogs now, and the design is outdated. It needs simplification, and the latest version of WordPress, which I can’t install because mySQL is too old or something. I have no idea. I’m hesitant to lose the gray-on-black format, as black backgrounds are so much easier on my eyes than white ones, which are like staring full-on at a light all day. I might even implement some kind of photo-of-the-day site here, but to be honest, all of that is way beyond me.

Anyway, more things are afoot. I now have an agent in New York for the army book, I’m looking into publishing a photobook, and who knows, the long-delayed movie might even see some progress for all I know.

In any case, here’s to the next ten years!

posted by Poagao at 4:32 pm  

4 Comments »

  1. a decade of doing. huzzah to you sir

    Comment by Z. — April 22, 2011 @ 10:18 pm

  2. Congratulations! Cheers to the next 10 years!

    Comment by Taiwan Summer Programs — April 23, 2011 @ 8:01 am

  3. Prosperous ten years you had, look forward to a peak in the next decade to come.

    Comment by Hanjié — April 25, 2011 @ 10:10 am

  4. Belated congratulations. Glad I found you along the way

    Comment by Karen — May 9, 2011 @ 12:24 pm

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