Recycling and rejiggering an old post from a few years back, to note that the Keirtography site is slimming down for the new year. My portfolio and blog are shedding some entries here and there for the sake of currency, clarity and economy, so it’s gonna look like this:
Portfolio vs Passion Projects
My map designs are taking priority here, as they should on a site ostensibly dedicated to them. Maybe obvious, but there’s a distinction: my main portfolio houses Keirtography’s bread and butter of vector maps for location and publication. It’ll be the same stuff I shuffle in and out of the PDF portfolios I send to clients on request.
Everything else—fantasy worldbuilding, map artwork, and non-map stuff that I’m still really proud of like music, audio, and album art—is now filed under “Passion Projects,” since of course I’m not really paid for any of that and don’t ever expect to be. Anyway, it’s an older idea that I used when partnering up in Tight Ship in the previous decade, to show off both the work that pays the bills as well as the creativity that keeps me sane.
Blogs: Keirtography vs Dubious Ventures
The Keirtography blog is sitll plodding along, but now without posts like “hey here’s a quick thing to note that I finished a project, which you can see in the portfolio.”
Finished projects are always gonna be on the homepage and portfolio (not to mention this landing page that sill brings in traffic), but the blog will still stick to professional stuff that may or may not fit in the portfolio, mappy or otherwise. It’s kind of mirroring my Instagram feed, but since I won’t use that hateful app much anymore (let alone LinkedIn, which I also hate), the KT blog will take precedence.
Conversely, the venerable Dubious Ventures blog is gonna stick with everything else—mostly personal stuff, with the idea that I’ll do that instead of microblogging in places like Twitter or Threads or Bluesky which just depress me with their toxic mixes of abject despair, sneering contempt, and irony-poisoned inhumanity.
I feel like social media is the bane of everything in 2025, even though most of the eyeballs are there, so keeping ye olde DV blog alive feels more than essential anymore. Just about the only thing it won’t have are the Baldur’s Gate 3 screenshots clogging up my Mac’s disk space, because that sort of escapism is what Tumblr is for, right?
