30 August 2009
This is my LAST blog here as The Blacklight Studio
www.jvlivs.blogspot.com is where you can connect with me. No more blacklight studio (other than flickr) www.flickr.com/photos/theblacklightstudio
01 August 2009
Why I left myspace...
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NOTE: This will more than likely be my last blog here @ The Blacklight Studio on Blogger. Anything after this, check out my new blog.
Ever since I've incorporated Blacklight Studios/313ARTS (now JVLIVS Photography and design) online nearly five years ago, I've had my share of ups and downs. I have entertained such domains i.e. MSN, Yahoo, myspace, flickr, blogger, even blackplanet.
For a time myspace has been the dominant force until I came across flickr, and the rest is history. Before I've joined myspace, I have heard some bad things about it, about some individuals molesting teenagers, on event that still shocks me today was that an underaged girl was chatting with whom she thought was a potential boyfriend who was later revealed to be some wacko nutjob woman posing to be as such. The "boyfriend" dumped the girl and as distraught as she was, the young girl had taken her own life. Sad as it is, that's no reason for me to dump my page which I've operated from late 2006 until today-August 1, 2009. I had a Yahoo group prior to creating a myspace website-both of which under the same namesake-and it was a huge step-up from the Yahoo group that I've had for over a year at that time. While my new domain was taking off to new heights, my old one was too much to maintain, so I canceled it mid 2007. I do regret not keeping the links open, though. I had some real good sites there. And that would've been what was left of the blacklight studio on yahoo to this day had I kept that section open today.
I've learned something about having your own website where folks post comments on, you have to be on the lookout constantly for spammers, as well as pornographers. The stories I could tell about that. Now I'm down to just a few webbies that now obtain my new namesake-save one-and I'm trying to simplify as much as possible. Why am I leaving myspace after a good three years of online bliss? Well, I wasn't feeling it anymore with myspace. I felt that I was in a position of compromise as far as my morality is concerned. Don't get me wrong, I do see a lot of good in myspace, esp. seeing that you can make some money with it as well.
But the "friends" that I had led lifestyles that I'd rather not keep company with, to say the least. And personally, I let that page get out of control unlike my flickr page, which I run a very tight ship on. That's my lifeline there. And being a Christian, I'm trying to get back on the straight and narrow pathway after falling off. And there's no worse thing in the world than falling down and NOT getting up! So despite the urging from those who begged me not to cancel my myspace page, I have to do what is right for me! And I feel that this is it for right now.
I would do myspace again, but like flickr, I'd have to run a very tight ship on it. I want to choose my associates prudently on myspace (which I should've done, maybe it'll still be open) as I do on flickr. The way I see it, myspace is no different from flickr, facebook, twitter, or even youtube for that matter. It's just another website! And one thing that I liked about myspace even to this day, they do NOT allow you to post any porn on myspace. Doing so will result in immediate cancellation of your account.
I am glad that I didn't fall into that category.
Perhaps when I'm older, I'll give myspace another go. But being [almost] halfway in my 30s, I'll leave this one to the teenagers and twentysomethings (you know who you are).
I will say this as well. I've been privileged to have met some people (via myspace) in real life, as well as take pictures of them and communicate with them to this day on a continuous basis. For that I remain grateful!
30 June 2009
Detroit Riverwalk, Part II (another old myspace blog)
August 2, 2007 - Thursday
 | Current mood:  restlessCategory: Art and Photography Some more pix of the Detroit Riverwalk and a few other monuments (due to limited time I have I can only do a brief description of every other picture). Here goes! I strolled through downtown and took some pictures of the area before walking on the new walkway.    The Renaissance Center, est. 1977. Originally owned by Ford Motor Co., now the Global HQ of General Motors. They definitely stepped it up!  Ford Field. Home of the Detroit Lions.  Courtyard of the Gem Theater.  The historic Elwood Bar & Grille.  Comerica Park. Home of the Detroit Tigers.  Compuware HQ. Located in Campus Martius.  Grand Circus Park.  Broadway St.     Hart Plaza. I have a camera phone pic of this same location that I snapped @ night. I've gotten alot of comments on that picture. Hope y'all like the day shot as well.  The Windsor Casino. Windsor, Ontario, Canada.  Now we're at the juicy part(s)!   The Ambassador Bridge. Connects between Detroit (U.S.) and Windsor (Dominion of Canada).  I took a brief break 2 take several pix of this vette. I have some on flickr.   Back 2 the River walk. In the 2nd pic, you can see the Asian Village in the background.     More models from GM for the '08 model year, and the Asian Village banner as well.  St. Antoine St.. I shot this from the Asian Village entrance.       The bottom pic is the courtyard to the River Lofts. The majority of the pictures that you're gonna see next are of the riverwalk that is near completion and alot of the buildings there are bldgs. that consisted of Parke-Davis Pharmacuetical HQ. Like I mentioned in Part 1, if you were around in the early 80s, Parke-Davis was still around. they advertised Robitussin, Benadryl, and if I'm not mistaken, Alka-Seltzer. And at the beginning of these commercials, you'd always see a caption that read (c) Parke-Davis & Co.. Again, this was in the early 1980s.       GM's UAW HQ. I believe this was built in recent years. If so, it complements what's left of the Parke-Davis bldgs..  The Omni Hotel. Originally located downtown, now takes the place of an old Parke-Davis edifice.       When the river walkway is completed THOROUGHLY, I'll post more pix. I still have some leftover that I've yet to post.
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