Dead blogs society

When I started this blog, the idea was to have something that’ll help me manage and catalog my collection, as it was getting to be of a size that was difficult for me to remember what I do and do not own.
Like a sleepy dragon, on top of it’s overflowing treasure, I had my Alice books sitting on a pretty shelf, and seldomly revisit them. I would visit my collection upon adding a new edition, or in the case of trying to impress a lady, in which case, I would pull out a few copies (can you guess who’s?), and walk them through the wonders of collecting the Alice books.
As I progressed with this blog I came across other, similar blogs. I would note how they gradually reduced the frequency of the blog posts, from the early, excited stage, of posting thrice a month, to the slow screech of once a month, to once a quarter, to a grinding halt.

Let’s all take a moment in forgetfulness for all lost blogs about the Alice books.

My collection evolves around the different illustrators of Alice in Wonderland. As opposed, for example, for an Alice in Wonderland book collector that collects books by languages, or concentrates on antique vs modern editions, and so on. Many angles to go by, and only one angle that’s really respectful and fun. My way. With the collecting by different illustrators. It’s the way to go. Other ways aren’t as good. A few years ago, in Sinai, I came across a “the little prince” book collector, i will not trash that overestimated, pompous, book, but i will trash the way it was collected. By languages. The proud owners presented me with a not too impressive shelf, housing
tens of different ‘the little prince’, all the absolute same, but in different translations. Here’s one in Danish, and here’s one in French. Who cares? no one. Who cares? absolutely no one.

Anyway, One thing that I noticed is that no one posts the entire illustrations from any particular edition. I thought this is something i’ll do, as I wanted to ultimately showcase the magic that is seeing the same scene, as its imagined by scores of artists.
You can see it in this section: how different illustrators approached same scenes in Alice in Wonderland.
In doing this, I believe I gave something new to the world of Carroll’s enthusiasts. Now, instead of seeing only one of two examples of a scarce Alice in Wonderland book, you can see all of the presented illustrators work. Up till now, I only featured illustrators that are long gone, so I would not find myself infringing a living artist copyrighted materials.
This method, however, was a bit tedious. As it had me picture all the pages with illustrations, resize all of them in photoshop, upload and post. This would take hours per post.
At one point I thought ill take a short break from posting about the books, and ill write about the film and tv adaptations of Alice, i did this mainly to voice how much i disliked Tim Burton’s vile creation.
I wrote the piece about the “top 10 Alice in wonderland movies” . That blog post got more traffic than all other combined. While I liked people googling ‘best alice in wonderland movie’, only to get to my bitter rant, it was also clear that there are few out there that collect the Alice books, and seek out information about the different illustrators, and the vast majority just wants to watch the best Alice movie, although none of them are any good 🙂
This blog also got me to instagram, where fellow weirdos collect the Alice books. They vary in size, but all are mad.
Posting here and there, at one point felt more like work, than something fun, so i found myself drifting away in the last few months. Did me, being in Bali for a few months, have some contribution in this sea change? Yes, probably.
I’m not saying im burying this blog, giving it away to the Gods of time, to collect digital dust, and have the odd user stumble upon it. There are more editions to cover, more topics to discuss.
I’ll be back at some point. For now, this is me saying thank you so very much for visiting this place, for reading my words. Every comment, and connection with people made here, was meaningful. For now, I wish you all, happy summer days.