cowandsun

What's up?

Cow and Sun is changing. In fact, change - sporadic and chaotic - will be a defining feature of the site along with a varied collection of articles and links among which there will likely be no osmosis. (Lautréamont's "chance meeting on a dissecting-table of a sewing-machine and an umbrella" comes to mind.)

Why?

I put a lot into the last avatar of cowandsun.com. It was a decent piece of work but i wasn't satisfied with it: it wasn't friendly to mobile devices, technically a lot was going on that didn't need to be and above all i had allowed conventions to make it a tediously predictable thing.

The only attitude worthy of a superior man is to persist in an activity he recognizes is useless, to observe a discipline he knows is sterile, and to apply certain norms of philosophical and metaphysical thought that he considers utterly inconsequential.

89, Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

So . . .

I'm hoping to meet these challenges with the new site:

• A Simple Site: That scales to the viewport of whatever device it's viewed on, that loads quickly, that's typographically driven, that doesn't rely on a lot of folderol.
• A Site Unencumbered by Purpose: Without direction i think the site can really get somewhere. Content won't need to cohere, there won't be a theme that unites it. The search engine bots will have to go elsewhere for relevant content.
• A Design That Can Contain the Chaos: At present i haven't the slightest idea how to do that, but there isn't enough here for it to be a worry right now. It's a bridge i'll burn when i get to it.