I was going to call this post meta but realized id’s not really. Meta is more of having a post about a post, which despite the introductory paragraph, this is not.
This is about the theme of the website going forward. Not like purpose but appearance. I’m all about my controlled randomness. It’s was actually that about me that really made me start wondering about my own mental state. I would, especially during social circumstances, stop, think, and then do something really sideways. Given the choice I’ve time of waiting for a locksmith at my work place in the boonies of Carnation, I stopped. I thought. Lightly jumped into the back of my pickup truck. Good puddle they might want to back up, and kicked the back window out. Carefully. It wasn’t anger, it wasn’t particularly the best idea, I just had better things to do. And by better, I mean get gone. I was hanging out at the mall in the early morning with my friend who worked there. It was my birthday and I had nothing better to do. I realized I needed to vacate, so I did. There was a thought process, just nothing that makes sense in a Euclidean world. That’s enough extemporizing for now.
I want a website that’s changing, mutating. I want it to be consistent. I want it to be a them that’s usable by others. I want it to be unique to the individual.
In my youth, when I was a different me, wanted it to be an infinite gallery the viewer would go through like an old Scooby Doo background. The programming of this, without using flash our JavaScript seemed improbable. In my middling years I was imagining a coffee stained, blood and ink stained page from the journal of a Lovecraftian investigator. Almost impossible to look good without having defined length posts or hackery. Oh yeah, the entire them has to be non-destructive and on the fly. I want everything to keep appearance completely seperate from content.
I’m imaging a work table, texture selectable or replaceable. I’m the theme settings, have an upload option, where you upload individual pages to build a montage for the background. Each one is randomly scattered onto the table, as a mirror image, with a low contrast setting. Probably add a small drop shadow, and a tilt. Adding a page blank option would be dope as well. Obviously this would be a stretch goal. Create a page blank, ie thematically correct with the rest of your pages. It takes one of the posts you did, rasterizes it on top with a cliff diffusion mirrored and what not.
I can do this. I think.
Peter's stuff.