6000

This is the 6000th post to the tech-no-mad/neoscenes travelog/blog construct which is reaching for it’s twentieth anniversary in a few months. With entries that span several layers of time, and a variety of media, going back to the 1950s (and earlier) with material from the family archive, the scope is currently expanding at the rate of several hundreds a year. This year I was only seriously on the road for two months, plus-or-minus, so contemporary material is a bit thin. It is always a question of whether to focus on the past, the present, or the future. Be here now dictates that the present be the focus despite the impossibility of documenting now as the now is then by the time it appears here. Instead, some time is spent being concerned about and maintaining a viable range of future employment options. The past beckons on the strength of some quite nice photographic material. On that basis alone, in a world that is uploading X-billion images a second to FazeBuch, there is a sense of futility that settles over any online posting at all.