Sri Lankan blog post quality declining ?

With the war over, there’s nothing to yell and shout about anymore. The result is an overall drop in blog post quality in the Sri Lankan blog post quality on kottu.org (essentially the Sri Lankan blogosphere however you want to argue it). Or so “they” say…

Since my posts never did have anything to do with “quality” content you wouldn’t notice much of change beyond the usual pace of decline.

Naturally I could be horribly horribly wrong. Prove that I am wrong by suggesting a few posts from the Top 100 Sri Lankan blog posts book project. You now you should know the drill The main rule is that you can’t nominate posts you wrote.

Fantasy bus

Western fantasy theme vehicle graphics are rare in Sri Lanka. The image below shows the only one I have ever seen.

It would seem that Anura Advertising (the most frequent credit seen on bus art work in Sri Lanka) is diversifying its themes. The composition in this example seems to be more unified than the all over Photoshop montage style that dominate Sri Lankan bus graphics. The composition swirls around the centre dominated by a seemingly serene mountain.  The eye is trapped in the midded of hemmed in by the shape of the bow and arrow clutching figrue on the right and the abstract bird wing forms on the left. There is a fusion of multi-cultural graphical elements (marked out on the photo’s flicker page). The most prominent — the large eyed bow and arrow welding character on the right clearly showing a Manga/Tolkienesque influences. The white swirly forms on the right have echoes of decorative floral forms from traditional Kandian art.

I could try to go on and on but the shallowness of my knowledge and restriction on my time forces me to keep it short. There’s plenty I could have missed so please feel free to chip in.

Happy birthday 2 T (belated)

T, the ex New York blogger behind Dance In A Triangle has written the most interesting Michael Jackson+birthday post that I’ve read – despite trying to avoid reading any sentence with the words “Michael Jackson”. Arty types may find that the post’s mix of death and birth not what they might have been expecting. As with most things Sri Lankan there’s a LTTE suicide bomb 3 years ago and relatives in the mix. All of which makes for a unusual birth day.

But it is a birthday (26th of June) so hope over the triangle and comment in you belated wishes.