https://coni.gs/categories/making/ Recent content in Making on Hi, I’m Paul Hugo -- 0.147.6 en-us Paul Conigliaro Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://coni.gs/posts/whats-on-my-wall-2025/ Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://coni.gs/posts/whats-on-my-wall-2025/ <p>Like many designers, I collect art and design pieces! Also like many designers, that collection sat in cardboard tubes, reinforced envelopes, and cardboard boxes… tucked away until one day (some day, any day now) they would be framed on a wall.</p> <p><figure> <img srcset='https://coni.gs/posts/whats-on-my-wall-2025/wall-full-wide_hu_cc7d56c17a458c4f.jpg 360w,https://coni.gs/posts/whats-on-my-wall-2025/wall-full-wide_hu_d9b7d978bf9897be.jpg 480w,https://coni.gs/posts/whats-on-my-wall-2025/wall-full-wide_hu_20591425937d6462.jpg 720w,https://coni.gs/posts/whats-on-my-wall-2025/wall-full-wide_hu_9911bd5047227952.jpg 1080w,https://coni.gs/posts/whats-on-my-wall-2025/wall-full-wide_hu_c17a5a948300ee9b.jpg 1500w,https://coni.gs/posts/whats-on-my-wall-2025/wall-full-wide.jpg 3797w' alt="Artwork up in my wall in various frames" loading="lazy" src="https://coni.gs/posts/whats-on-my-wall-2025/wall-full-wide.jpg" title="Well look what day it is…"><figcaption>Well look what day it is…</figcaption></figure></p> <h3 id="whats-on-the-wall">What’s on the wall…</h3> <p><figure> <img srcset='https://coni.gs/posts/whats-on-my-wall-2025/wall-01_hu_c20b1e8097b7ff11.jpg 360w,https://coni.gs/posts/whats-on-my-wall-2025/wall-01_hu_fd63fa58ec483a00.jpg 480w,https://coni.gs/posts/whats-on-my-wall-2025/wall-01_hu_69d7c90884f028f2.jpg 720w,https://coni.gs/posts/whats-on-my-wall-2025/wall-01_hu_65037760c84408ab.jpg 1080w,https://coni.gs/posts/whats-on-my-wall-2025/wall-01_hu_cb3d8e36b266a85f.jpg 1500w,https://coni.gs/posts/whats-on-my-wall-2025/wall-01.jpg 4032w' alt="Corner wall with framed pressed flower, signed note from David Fincher, and framed program and ticket stub from The Animation Show" loading="lazy" src="https://coni.gs/posts/whats-on-my-wall-2025/wall-01.jpg" title="The film corner."><figcaption>The film corner.</figcaption></figure></p> https://coni.gs/posts/a-blog-in-2025/ Sat, 05 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://coni.gs/posts/a-blog-in-2025/ <h2 id="seriously-what-am-i-thinking">Seriously, what am I thinking?</h2> <p>I just wanted a nerdy project to dork around with one day…</p> <p>…something separate from <a href="https://conigs.com" target="_blank">my portfolio site</a> where I didn’t feel the need to be professional.</p> <p>…something “simple” to write out some thoughts occasionally.</p> <p>…a platform I felt like I owned and controlled.</p> <h3 id="but-why">But why…?</h3> <p>Because I miss the Internet before social media! We used to have stupid blogs and forums. People connected sites through web rings. When you found sites you liked, you would save them to your feed reader (RIP <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Reader" target="_blank">Google Reader</a>) to see what was new.</p>