Dylan Haigh ist Autor von OK Great. Vor ein paar Wochen hat er mit Hard Feelings sein eigenes Kunst- und Fotoblog gestartet. Zudem betreibt er zusammen mit seiner Frau noch das Nothing Nice Blog.

Please describe your blog in one sentence:
Art is hard.

Why are you blogging?
I started this site as a means to expose some of the seriously talented people out there that won’t get picked up by a big magazine or client because they’re too young or too weird or from an underexposed city/country. I’ve been obsessed with art + music + even advertising since I was a little, little kid but I was never great at drawing or playing music, so I didn’t study art in school or start pursuing it as a profession until a few years ago when I started working at a record label. I guess it never occurred to me to be professionally involved + not be the one making the art. That’s my cliche answer – I love art + I want to be a part of it, in every capacity possible.

How is your daily routine?
I wake up around 7:30 to send my fiance off to her job as an ad exec, eat some fruit + drink some coffee. Spend about 2 or 3 hours going through my reader, reading the local paper + responding to emails. The next 5 or 6 hours are a flurry of brainstorming, research, loud music + drafting posts. Sprinkle a little design work in there + that’s my 9-5. After five, I’m taking pictures, eating at one of the 260 restaurants in my little city, at the bar or buying records at my favorite record shop.

Your future plans?
Get married in the fall, grow the blog to a level that allows me to continue meeting great people + working with artists that are infinitely more talented than I am while actually supporting myself. In a few years, i’d like to open my own little shop. That could mean a lot of different shit. We’ll see what happens.

Your top 5 blogs:
1. Hilobrow
2. Them Thangs
3. The Selvedge Yard
4. Growing Up
5. The Silver Lining

www.hardfeelingsblog.com

Aaron Feaver aus Los Angeles ist Fotograf und betreibt nebenher das Feaverish Photography Blog. Seit April 2009 featured er fast täglich größtenteils noch unbekannte Talente auf seiner Seite. Meine unangefochtene Nummer 1, wenn es um inspitierende Fotografien geht:

Please describe your blog in one sentence:
Photos by photographers I like, with some interviews and some of my photos thrown in.

Why are you blogging?
Mostly as a way of keeping track of photographers I like.

How is your daily routine?
Get up, make coffee and check email before heading off to work at the web designer factory.

Your future plans?
Keep finding new photographers and keep taking pictures.

Your top 5 blogs:
1. A Continuous Lean
2. Fashion Gone Rogue
3. The Selby
4. BOOOOOOOM!
5. Paranaiv

www.feaverishphotography.com/blog

Beautiful/Decay ist ursprünglich ein Magazin, das seit 1996 dreimal im Jahr erscheint. Erst später kam das Blog, welches mit seinem Artwork und Inhalt auf ganzer Linie überzeugen kann hinzu:

Please describe your blog in one sentence:
Independent emerging art + design.

Why are you blogging?
Our blog is an extension of our print publication, Beautiful/Decay. We first started with the publication and when the internet started to get popular it occured to us that we could post works and artists on our website that we either couldn’t feature in the magazine or made work that wouldn’t look good in print. It’s also given a way for us to have a more intimate dialogue with our fans/followers. Now we have all sorts of interesting discussions on our comments. It’s nice to hear what our readers think about the work we post.

How is your daily routine?
We don’t really have a routine as the blog is only one small aspect of what we do. We get into the office around 10am and then everyone posts a couple of things on the blog. we do 6 blog posts a day during the week and one or two on the weekends.

Your future plans?
We want to get the blog up to 10 posts a day. We’ve been doing a lot of studio visit posts as of late so it might be cool to do more of those. Our readers seem to really enjoy those.

Your top 5 blogs:
1. www.facebook.com – i know it’s not a blog but more and more this is where i seem to get all my information from.
2. www.vvork.com – extremly interesting new media art from around the world.
3. www.iheartmyart.com – i constantly find interesting work on this site.
4. www.todayandtomorrow.net
5. www.dropular.net

www.beautifuldecay.com

Kurze Einleitung zu dem kurzen Behind the Blog Interview mit Angelo Bramanti. Er schreibt für Acidolatte, das zu meinen Top 3 Kunst Blogs des letzten Jahres gehört:

Please describe your blog in one sentence:
A creative blog.

Why are you blogging?
For inspire myself and others.

How is your daily routine?
Coffee in the morning, apples in the afternoon, resourches in the evening, and dreams in the night.

Your future plans?
”No Future”, Sex Pistols, 1977.

Your top 5 blogs:
1. Fabrik Project
2. Yatzer
3. Today and Tomorrow
4. OutRepart
5. PupaRock

acidolatte.blogspot.com

Erste “Behind the Blog” Ausgabe im neuen Jahr. 2009 durftet ihr bereits bei 11 Blogs hinter die Kulissen blicken. Ich hoffe, dass es in den folgenden 354 Tagen deutlich mehr werden:

Please describe your blog in one sentence:
Frequently updated blog dedicated to loving the world of art, architecture, photography, technology, design and more.

Why are you blogging?
Truthfully, it was such an unplanned venture for me. Finding all these interesting works on the web keeps me nourished with inspiration. I’m also highly interested in connecting and communicating with people and companies in my niche. I have to tell you, its been really fun so far.

How is your daily routine?
Wake up early from a good nightmare, drink coffee, check emails, shower, drive to work, get things done, get nothing done, drive home, blog, read, sleep, repeat. Okay fine, I eat somewhere in-between all that.

Your future plans?
Help end world hunger and poverty and may be even save the planet..

Your top 5 blogs:
1. Designboom
2. Daily Serving
3. Fabrik Project
4. Art Daily
5. The Dieline

www.sweet-station.com

Kai schreibt in seinem Blog “Stilsucht” hauptsächlich über Designartikel. Seit ich vor ca. einem halben Jahr zufällig auf die Seite gestoßen bin komme ich einfach nicht mehr davon weg.

Beschreibe “Stilsucht” in einem Satz:
Stilsucht ist ganz einfach meine private Styleneurose. ;)

Warum bloggst du?
Ich bin schon bei einem früheren Internet-Projekt regelmäßig über all die tollen, abgefahrenen, wunderschönen und erstrebenswerten Sachen gestolpert, die ich in meinem Blog zeige. Mit Stilsucht möchte ich das alles mit noch mehr Leuten teilen und zeigen, wieviele kreative Menschen da draußen unterwegs sind und dass es auch großartige Produkte von kleinen Labels gibt.

Wie sieht dein täglicher Tagesablauf aus?
Ich stehe gegen halb 8 auf und bin 45 Minuten später auf dem Weg ins Büro. Ich arbeite als Creative Director bei green your life. Abends genieße ich die großartigen Kochkünste meiner Frau und kümmere mich um Stilsucht. Danach geht es meistens nochmal mit dem Hund vor die Tür. Zwischendurch und immer wird dabei das Social Web konsumiert. Ziemlich unspektakulär also.

Zukunftspläne?
Kurzfristig: Espresso trinken
Mittelfristig: Ein neues Fahrrad kaufen
Langfristig: Stilsucht mit noch mehr Leuten teilen

Top 5 Blogs:
Mein Feedreader quilt jeden Tag über und ich bin da schon sehr selektiv. Wie gesagt, da draußen gibt es echt viele wahnsinnig kreative Menschen und meine Interessen sind nicht nur auf tolles Design beschränkt. Ein empfehlenswerter Bruchteil aus meinen Feed-Abos in absolut keiner bestimmten Reihenfolge:
1. materialicious
2. For Print Only
3. Super2CV
4. Dailytonic
5. Swiss Miss

www.stilsucht.de

Eigentlich sollte diese Ausgabe von “Behind the Blog” bereits am Freitag zu “Ein Herz für Blogs 2” online gehen. Hat leider etwas Verspätung aber lohnt sich trotzdem!

Beschreib “rebelart” in einem Satz:
REBEL:ART ist das internationale Medium und Netzwerk für Culture Jammer & Adbuster, Hacktivisten & Net Aktivisten, Street Artists & Street Vandalen, Post-Dadaisten & Retro-Neoisten, notorische Nervensägen & subversive Störenfriede.

Warum bloggst du?
Aus Leidenschaft, Revolutions- und Mitteilungsbedürfnis und Sucht. Außerdem ist das ein idealer Zettelkasten für mich und meine Projekte – und ein perfekter Kommunikationskanal.

Wie sieht dein täglicher Tagesablauf aus?
Aufstehen: 8 Uhr; Arbeitsbeginn: 9 Uhr; Feierabend: ca. 19 Uhr. Ich arbeite ja als festangesteller Redakteur für das Kunstmagazin ART – deshalb gibt es bei mir schon einen ganz normalen, routinierten Arbeitsablauf (Mails und Post checken, Meldungen und Artikel schreiben, Praktikanten anlernen, Texte redigieren und korrigieren, Korrespondenten briefen, in Meetings sitzen, brainstormen, neue Themen recherchieren, PR-Leute am Telefon abwimmeln). Aber während meiner Arbeit und bei Recherchen entdecke ich natürlich schon viele spannende, neue Projekte – aber darüber bloggen kann ich erst gg. 22 Uhr bzw. vor 8 Uhr – und am Wochenende.

Zukunftspläne?
Ende des Jahres wird es einen Relaunch geben: meine Grafik- und Webdesignhomies Gebrauchsgrafikundso basteln da gerade an einem radikalen Relaunch – mit allen 2.0-Schnickschnack und neuen Autoren, neuen Rubriken und Kolumnen.

Top 5 Blogs:
Schwere Frage. So wie die Frage nach dem “Lieblingsbuch” oder der “Lieblingsband”. Es gibt einfach viel zu viele geniale Blogger da draußen – und viele sind meine Freunde und Weggefährten geworden. Deshalb, um in kein Fettnäpfchen zu treten, hier meine Top-5-Blogs International:

1. C-Monster
2. We Make Money Not Art
3. Trendbeheer
4. Pop-Up City
5. Wooster Collective

www.rebelart.net

Wesley Yendrys ist 17 Jahre alt und studiert in Montreal Digital Design und Fotografie. Die Auswahl seiner Posts sind in der Regel genau nach meinem Geschmack. Leider sind aufgrund seines Studiums die Anzahl der Posts in letzter Zeit etwas zurückgegangen. Trotz alledem verbringe ich täglich ca. 1-5 Minuten auf seinem Blog:

Please describe your blog in one sentence:
An online storage bin of all the wonderfully diverse and inspirational work I happen to stumble upon throughout my week.

Why are you blogging?
I think it’s a great way for me to expand my palette of art and photography and all that good stuff. Because I generally add my own snippet of insight, it forces me to give a more critical analysis and grasp a better understanding of what I’m looking at, as oppose to just saying ‘oh, that picture is mega dope’ – in a way, it’s for my own benefit. I also like the fact that I have my own space online with the freedom to do what I want. Most importantly, I do it for the readers. I love getting e-mails from people who send me their work or who have nothing but kind words to express – I have yet to receive a negative message from anyone – and I love the community I’ve been able create and get to know over these past few months. Blogging is really a great thing whose power is often underestimated.

How is your daily routine?
After hitting the snooze button about 6 or 7 times, I get up and ready for school – where I attempt to get an education in art and communications. I’ll often write my posts in between classes in the library or in our Media Lab. Once home – whenever that may be – I often nap or eat or check Facebook. After the sun begins to set, I start browsing through the 150 or so RSS feeds to sift and pull anything that has touched, inspired or impacted me in any way – I ALWAYS do this part with a cup of tea by my side. From there, I prep my posts so I can write the textual aspect the following day. I generally end the day at around 2:00am-3:00am with some homework or some videos – Youtube, TV shows, etc. Rinse and repeat.

Your future plans?
I’m definitely considering a domain change because of the focus I’ve been going towards this past year. I’d also like to maybe turn the site into a co-op of some kind so that there’s more of a diversity in terms of work posted and so that there can be more of a regularity when it comes to posts – that’s what I struggle with the most. But who knows? Maybe a quarterly publication highlighting the most popular and interesting posts on the site could be a future project. For now, I’m just trying to focus on sharing a regular flow of good, well written content.

Your top 5 blogs:
Do I really have to make a choice? I love everything in the ‘Sites I Like’ selection on my site, but here’s a small selection from there.

1. Hypebeast
2. ilovethatphoto
3. PICDIT
4. Selectism
5. swissmiss

www.wyendrys.com

Liss aus Melbourne ist 26 Jahre alt und startete ihren Blog Daydream Lily 2007 als “Daily Inpiration Blog”. Was daraus geworden ist und was für die Zukunft noch geplant ist könnt ihr hier bei der 8. Ausgabe von “Behind the Blog nachlesen:

Please describe your blog in one sentence:
A photography, art & design blog best described as dreamy & romantic with a touch of nostalgia.

Why are you blogging?
I started blogging as a way to be creative again. Years of hitting the books and studying at uni had meant I had little time to be creative. So once I started working I decided to do something about it and started the blog. Its now become a daily journal where I can share artists, photographers and other bits of creativity that are inspiring me, and hopefully inspiring others too.

How is your daily routine?
Get up early, make coffee and read emails. Then I work on a blog post. Then go to work at my day job. I spend a bit of time each day just going through image sharing websites and bookmarking favourites. Evenings,have a nap, read a book or watch some TV, then get on the computer again before going to bed late.

Your future plans?
Grow the blog more and perhaps a fresh new layout. Id love to start a second blog dedicated to photography and showcasing the work of up and coming photographers.

Your top 5 blogs:
I read SO MANY blogs, but 5 of my favourites are:
1. The English Muse
2. The Selby
3. yay!everyday
4. Here Comes The Sun
5. all the mountains

www.daydreamlily.com

PICDIT ist momentan mein absoluter favourite Blog und ich bin froh in hier und jetzt bei “Behind the Blog” präsentieren zu dürfen:

Please describe your blog in one sentence:
A daily blog with some of the best art / photography / illustrations on the entire net!

Why are you blogging?
To help individuals get creative and inspire them to make something amazing – and also to expose new and emerging artists.

How is your daily routine?
Wake up at about 7:30, shower, have a bowl of cereal, answer emails and publish posts I drafted up the night before. I then head out to school, which takes up the majority of my day. And then from about 8:00-10:30 I browse my RSS reader for fresh content + draft up posts that will go up on the site in the morning.

Your future plans?
Hmm, there are a lot. I’d like to get a real domain, start a magazine, add a lot more functionality to the site, add a forum, and maybe make some new stickers.

Your top 5 blogs:
1. Okay Great
2. Wesley Yendrys
3. 22 Blog
4. Super Duper
5. Mossless

www.picdit.wordpress.com

In den letzten Tagen habe ich so viele E-Mails wegen “Behind the Blog” bekommen, dass es wohl mal wieder an der Zeit ist für eine neue Ausgabe. Heute bekommt ihr einen kleinen Einblick in einen meiner bevorzugten Fotografie Blogs:

Please describe your blog in one sentence:
My blog is a humble online picture storage in a constant search for beautiful and inspiring images on the internet.

Why are you blogging?
Audrey Hepburn Complex started off as being a personal image website where I would upload any lovely picture I found online. Despite it’s surprising (and a bit overwhelming) popularity, I try to maintain its modest spirit for it to continue to be a daily inspiration, only now it’s not limited for me but for every follower who appreciates beautiful photography.

How is your daily routine?
I wake up at around 7 a.m, shower and quickly skim over my e-mail, tumblr, flickr, and the nytimes.com during breakfast. I generally go to school in New York until 4 p.m and if I happen to have a gap between classes, I’ll go online and answer e-mails or post on the other blog I work in, noquedanblogs.com. When I get home, I usually dedicate some hours to studying and when I’m done with that, I immerse myself into the internet in search of pretty pictures. The ones that make it are queued to be shown the next day and the rest I post during the same evening. At around 12, I have to unglue myself from my laptop and read something before I go to sleep. If I don’t oblige myself to do this, who knows at what time I’d end up going to bed!

Your future plans?
For the next two years I will be dedicated to finishing my degrees in Political Science and Art History while continuing my work with Audrey Hepburn Complex and Noquedanblogs. However, once i’m done with school, I would like to be work more fully on the internet, creating different types of blogs that suit my interests and that hopefully complement my academic degrees.

Your top 5 blogs:
Although there are a lot that are on my daily list, I never miss out on:
1. Recordis Photography
2. The Cherry Blossom Girl
3. Lolitas.se
4. Garance Doré
5. Daydream Lily

www.audreyhepburncomplex.tumblr.com

Einen deutschen Blog gab es bei “Behind the Blog” bisher noch nicht – wird aber mit dem heutigen Tag nachgeholt. Zu meiner Schande muss ich gestehen, dass ich Seiten, die in meiner Muttersprache verfasst sind nur sehr selten lese. The Junction gehört zu der handvoll Blogs aus Deutschland die ich sehr schätze und täglich konsumiere. Bitte sehr:

Beschreibt “The Junction” in einem Satz:
Kunst, Fotografie, Musik, Design, Mode, Nichts, Alles, Wir.

Warum bloggt ihr?
Das Internet entwickelt sich mehr und mehr zu einer immer stärker werdenden Datenbank und Community voll gepackt mit visuellen und redaktionellen Schätzen. Das Blog ist ein Teil dieser riesigen Inszenierung und längst kein kleines Medium mehr. Daher nutzen wir diese neue Art der Kommunikation um unsere Ansichten, ob redaktionell oder nur auf kommentierenden Inhalten basierend, mit andern zu teilen.

Wie sieht euer täglicher Tagesablauf aus?
Kaffee, Computer an, Skype an, Emails checken, Reader auf, Kaffee, rauchen, suchen, suchen, suchen, schreiben, Kaffee, bloggen, posten, twittern, facebooken, bookmarken, rauchen, schreiben, Pause, suchen, suchen, suchen, schreiben, rauchen, Kaffee. Und dann; Freizeit.

Zukunftspläne?
Derzeit ist unsere Arbeit noch aktiv an einen Standort gebunden. Für die Zukunft wünschen wir uns mehr Flexibilität, mehr Zeit für Berichterstattung vor Ort und mehr Gelassenheit für genau jene Dinge, die sonst außer Acht gelassen werden. Das ist unser Antrieb in einer immer schneller werdenden Kultur des Internets, nämlich von dem zu leben was wir lieben und nicht anders herum.

Top 5 Blogs:
Isabelle:
1. Booooooooom!
2. Hope/Glory
3. Preik
4. The Daily What
5. The New Shelton Wet/Dry

Norman:
1. Boston’s The Big Picture
2. VVORK
3. Hipster Runoff
4. Ektopia
5. We make money not art

www.thejunction.de

Behind the Blog Nummero 4 steht an. Colectiva ist ein Produktions Unternehmen aus Guatemala. Ihr Blog beschäftigt sich (wie soll es auch anders sein) hauptsächlich mit Kunst, Fotografie und Design:

Please describe your blog in one sentence:
Things we like.

Why are you blogging?
To liberate the inner geek trapped inside of us. And to get laid of course.

How is your daily routine?
Stefan:
Wake up. Eat. Work. Play. Eat. Work. Research. Research. Eat. Blog. Beer. Women. Play. Sleep… Start over.

Eduardo:
I usually feed the chickens in the morning and pick out a couple to behead and skin for lunch. I’ll then write a couple of posts for the blog and then do some work. At night I’ll check on my women.

Your future plans?
This and training our dog to do This!!!

Your top 5 blogs:
Stefan:
1. today and tomorrow
2. VVORK
3. rebel:art
4. but does it float
5. ambush studio

Eduardo:
1. videos.antville
2. ALT1040
3. Promo News
4. Delicious Ghost

www.colectiva.tv

Diese Woche lernt ihr bei “Behind the Blog” die Seite noquedanblogs etwas näher kennen. Die Mischung aus Kunst, Fotografie und Design ist genau nach meinem Geschmack.

Auch wenn nicht immer alle Texte auf Englisch übersetzt werden und ich somit vom geschriebenen Teil nicht allzuviel verstehen kann, steht der Blog bei meinen Bookmarks ganz oben!

Please describe your blog in one sentence:
A selection of today’s most creative solutions, design and everything that inspire me somehow.

Why are you blogging?
The thing I like the most is to spread the word on things I know and see, internet is the easiest way for me. And I love it.

How is your daily routine?
Wake up at 6-7am, check my email, wordpress dashboard(x2), twitter, tumblr, flickr, a local newspaper and the weather. Then I go to school (I’m in law school and journalism school at the same time) and as soon as I get home I start blogging until 1am.

Your future plans?
Keep blogging and finish school so I can create a few more blogs and work on them all day everyday.

Your top 5 blogs:
That’s tough…
1. FFFFound!
2. Swiss-miss.com
3. Notcot
4. Feaverishphotography.com/blog
5. Audrey Hepburn Complex

www.noquedanblogs.com

Die zweite Ausgabe von “Behind the Blog” befasst sich mit dem Kunst und Kultur Webzine The World’s Best Ever von Texas Reason und The Enablist. Mit nahezu 20 Updates am Tag ist die Seite mindestens einmal pro Tag ein Klick wert:

Please describe your blog in one sentence:
If Boing Boing had a younger, cooler brother who all the chicks wanted to be around.

Why are you blogging?
A Blog is virtually free of compromise, and you are able to share with and entertain anybody in the world that has an internet connection.

How is your daily routine?
Enablist: I wake up between 6 and 7. Then I Drink coffee, space out and work from 715 – 830. I go to my day job from 10 – 6, leave, walk downtown, maybe get a drink and then get on the train to Brooklyn. I get home and normally work and research from about 9 to 1am, then check out for the night.

Texas Reason: Since we are working a day ahead, my day begins around 10pm the night before, This is where I work on the next days content as well as code enhancements to the site. Sleep around 2. A little work 7am to 8:30. I go to my day job from 930-6, home, dinner drinks, network, and start over.

Your future plans?
We hope to bring the World’s Best Ever to a point where we can quit the day job, set up shop and expand our coverage by hiring photographers and writers. We want to develop even richer content, and more original features while always keeping the original identity intact. Then expand the brand a little bit laterally.

Your top 5 blogs:
Enablist:
1. Ignored Prayers
2. Notcot
3. 12ozProphet
4. Egotastic
5. Material Interest

Texas Reason:
1. Uncrate
2. MacRumors
3. Design is Kinky
4. Who killed Bambi?
5. Boston.com: The Big Picture

www.theworldsbestever.com