A little travelogue and collection thingy, not much really. I like to collect things. I collect impressions of the places I’m in, the people I meet and the things I do. I also collect images and there’s a collection of links to interesting things I’ve found around the internets.
I was recently asked if this site could appear in an art show and I said yes of course, but I was somewhat surprised to learn that the show was entitled “Travel and Melancholy.” I’ve never really thought of luxagraf as melancholy, but I guess some people do.
When I’m not collecting digital things I like to collect real things like postcards, rocks, artwork from friends, music, books, masks, knives and other stuff. (The knife collection isn’t scary or anything, so far there’s only two and both are pretty dull). I try not to get too attached to the things I collect, periodically I purge the collections just to be on the safe side.
My favorite thing to collect, which works well with the desire to travel light, is memories. It sound cheesy I know, but they really are my favorite things. I can spend days entertaining myself with memories, which is in a way, what I’m doing here. Feel free to partake.
Luxagraf is run by a bunch of custom apps written in python using the Django framework. It’s not a cut-and-paste sort of site that can be easily reused, but if you happen to be a Django programmer and you’d like to have the code feel free to email me.
The design is part of long evolution of cluelessness that has currently coalesced around the idea that I really don’t understand color and ought not to use it.
The image of the dragonfly comes from a book of Japanese postcards, the rest of the images are of my own creation. The main font is called Butterbrotpapier (tip of the hat to Corrinne).
Everything on luxagraf is licensed under a Creative Commons Non-commercial Attribute Share-alike license which means you can do whatever you like with it so long as the results are not for commercial profit, you attribute what you use and you share your work under a similar license.
I store my bookmarks on ma.gnolia and del.icio.us, my photos on Flickr and the book reviews come from Goodreads. Occasionally I use last.fm, but more often Pandora. I even have a LinkedIn account I logged into once.
Then there's the social networks, which all just grab data off of this site. Luxagraf is my hub, but I also have a Facebook account I rarely use. Someday I might though, you can add me as a friend if you like. Same goes for Yahoo's new Mash network and twitter. And of course I gots me a profile on Ze Frank's the ORG.
I write for Wired News (because my dream job is currently occupied by Anthony Bourdain).
