Hello!
This is my first post on this blog. Yay!
I’m a 25 year old mechanical engineer, artist, musician, science and cat enthusiast living in Detroit. I’ve always enjoyed the act of writing, and feel I do a good job at it, but haven’t had many opportunities to write about things I enjoy. These days I mostly write reports about the results of tests and experiments I conduct at work. It is somewhat interesting and I like creating well written concise reports, but nobody actually reads them. I’m not sure anybody will read this either but hey at least what i write will be out there.
I was apprehensive about getting a blog because I feel blogging, twitter, and facebook are deluding people into thinking they are the star of their own online reality show. The result is a continuous flood of information on the dull minutiae of everyone’s daily lives. The internet at its best connects people with similar interests and makes it easier to find information that would otherwise be hard to come by. Everyone has some subject that they are an expert in, and blogs help people share their knowledge and experience with an audience who will be helped or inspired by that information. I’m not going to make posts about the great sandwich I ate for lunch (besides this one) or whatever. I’m going to post things that I know a lot about, and hopefully help or inspire people (and vice versa) along the way.
What is coming down the pipeline are posts about art, artists, making art, graphic design, music, creating music, interesting science or engineering things, environmental engineering, cars, the auto industry, etc. I’m a huge musical omnivore and do a lot of research into various genres, bands, and their influences; so expect to see some reviews on CDs that I find important. I’m also writing a series of articles called “The Guitar Hero, Not Dead but Underground” about modern day musicians that belong in the pantheon of guitar gods like Page, or Hendrix but are unknown by pretty much everyone.
So, I got the stereotypically self conscious first blog post out of the way. I hope you enjoy what I have to write. And a big thanks to my Uncle Timm who put this whole thing together. He has a lot of interesting blogs on everything from technology and web development to the beautiful nature preserves he owns, so check them out on the side bar.
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