THREAD: My blog is being taken offline in a few weeks and replaced with a new streamlined model. I've enjoyed the rabbit hole/dumping ground nature of it and seeing how my interests and writing themes have developed since it started...1/

...From writing extensively about the changing face of Birmingham City Centre, to commissioned work for artists and arts organisations, exploration of derelict places (and spaces) and wanderings in suburbia...through to pieces on music, television and film...2/

...There's a lot there to dive into. Themes weave throughout and crash into each other splitting to two and four and eight, and appear over there and up here. A bit like the waves in the old brain...3/

So i'm going into it and backing everything up and slowly taking down. And it's September, which is always a good time for a back to school NEW START. I could go on about September, but it was a thrill to log into today and a post from 020915 was there...4/

Which consisted solely of the ballroom scene from Kubrick's The Shining. That's how the blog worked. I was happy to see posts that contain YouTube videos of television technical faults as part of the ongoing narrative, as I believe it gives the body of work more structure...5/

...Or should that be the brain of work. In the next year I am hoping to be able to focus on my arts practice as a writer, writing about nostalgia and place #hauntology #psychogeography and also my professional practice, as a writer who writes creatively about the arts...6/

And, fingers crossed, there will be easy to access places for my many side projects including #sundayxpress @Centrala_space, the work I do for Arts Forum Selly Oak, and anything else I want to realise, rather than let people do the digging themselves! 7/

My thanks to all who are helping me with this, including @BOMlab with Propeller, their professional development programme for adults with autism. I was diagnosed in 2017, and it's been fascinating going through my work and seeing the projects bounce off each other...8//

Much as like this thread here. So watch this space, and before it vanishes into the ether, take a look around http://www.jameskennedycentral.wordpress.com  and dive in to the unstructured zones. See you soon!