Weblog of A Designer

My Visual Art Blogalleria is one of my favorite personal Blog projects that I have initiated in the beginning of 2006, the time when I started thinking about various possibilities of a Blog and looking for different ways to use blogging as an effective tool to build a credible web presence. I coined the word ‘Blogalleria’ joining ‘Blog’ and ‘Galleria’ together, to establish this blog’s identity as ‘an on-line art gallery created using a blog’ and also, ‘a blog in form of an art gallery’. For last two years, I have been posting my personal as well as non-commercial graphics, photographs, photographics, illustrations, paintings and sketches on this Visual Art Blogalleria and it has become a public archive of my personal as well as other non-commercial artworks.

Recently, I have overhauled this Blogalleria, changed its look and feel and the sidebar content, added lots of new exhibits and items and tried to establish better interactions with my other web-based public initiatives. I am quite excited about it to see how this change affects the visitors of the site.

There was another parallel thought process brewing in my mind, when I was revamping this Blogalleria. Being a designer, I usually believe in eternal design truths, like “a dark text on light background is easier to read”. But, since I stumbled upon two interesting posts on green computing and black google by Mark Ontkush on ecoiron.blogspot.com, almost a year back, I have started thinking about Mark’s argument and since then, I have been following his blog and hist posts regularly. His argument is based on the fact that, “a given monitor (CRT) requires more power to display a white (or light) screen than a black (or dark) screen” and derives a conclusion that says, websites with black background save a minuscule amount of energy, each time opened in a CRT Monitor.

Inspired by Mark’s idea, this time I have decided to change the background color to Black and to use Black as much as possible instead of any other lighter color on flat areas of the site. This effectively means that whenever someone will open any page of this Blogalleria in a CRT monitor, he/she will save a little amount of energy. A small step towards saving energy, saving earth.

Boipara.com - The Online Archive of Bengali Literature, E-books and Little Magazines, is proud to release their title song - The Song Of Boipara (Boiparar Gaan) 
Download The song of Boipapra (Boiparar Gaan) here

The song is written, composed and sung by young and talented Bengali lyricist, singer and poet - Anupam Roy. This song talks about the poet’s feelings about Boipara.com.

Listen to Anupam’s Bengali Songs here
http://www.myspace.com/anupamroy

Listen to SONG OF BOIPARA (Boiparar Gaan) here

• Add Boipara.com at Orkut.com
• Add Boipara.com at eSnips
• Visit Boipara.com
• Visit Boiparar Blogpara

WE PROTEST AGAINST VIOLENCE

FEW LINKS TO VARIOUS RESOURCES THAT CARRY VALUABLE AND REVEALING INFORMATION ABOUT THE RECENT DEATHS, MASS-MURDERS, RAPES, VIOLENCE AND ABDUCTIONS, AT NANDIGRAM, WEST BENGAL, INDIA!

• Nandigram Chronology
• Nandigram Genocide - A revealing video
• Nandigram 14.3 - Development-Dialogues
• Nandigram on Development-Dialogues
• Medical Report on Nandigram
• Nandigram Archive on SacredMediaCow
• Nandigram on singur-singur.blogspot
• Protest in Bangalore
• Photos of protest at Bangalore
• Report and photos on BlrMirror
• Report in Hindu on Bangalore protest
• Left is equal to Right in West Bengal
• Nandigram - Citizens’ Report
• Citizens’ Statement on Nandigram
• Nandigram on Sanhati.com
• Nandigram on Youtube.com
• Nandigram on Flickr.com
• Nandigram on Vinnomot.com
• Abhijit Mitra’s Bengali Poetry on Nandigram
• Download protest banners »

[If you know other resources/information/report on protest against Nandigram, please post a comment with the link. I will try to update the list.]

Boipara.com - Online Archive of Bangla Literature has launched a blog as an extension of their effort to archive non-mainstream Bangla literature and little magazines on Internet and make these rare and marginalized literary works accessible to everyone. This extended archive is called Boiparar Blogpara - A Bengali Literature Archive Blog and can be accessed at following location:

http://boipara.blogspot.com

Few important archived materials on this Bangla Literature Archive Blog:

• Bangla Poems of Falguni Roy
• Short Story of Amiyabhushan Majumdar
• Biography of Sandipan Chattopadhyay (part)
• Writings and Portraits: Works of Hiran Mitra

Boipara, being the first and probably the most viewed online Bengali Literature Archive, focusing on Bengali Little Magazines and marginalized literature, is constantly putting their effort to add more and more content to the archive. This Bangla Literature Archive Blog [http://boipara.blogspot.com] is a new initiative taken by Boipara.com as a part of their endless effort to make alternative Bengali Literature and Little Magazines available and accessible to everyone and anyone.

It’s a good news for all aquascape artists and planted tank enthusiasts, who cannot read Chinese! Creative Aquascapes Union has launched the English Version of their amazing website and online gallery - www.cau-aqua.net. Thanks to these great aquascape artists for sharing their works and experiences with hundreds of planted tank enthusiasts of the world, who have been inspired by the works from CAU.

On 1st May, 2007, members of CAU have announced the launch of the English version of Creative Aquascape Union’s website, celebrating their first anniversary, on various major Aquarium forums, like, www.plantedtank.net, www.aquaticplantcentral.com and other related sites.

Justin Law of CAU said,

“..1st May 2006, A Chinese version of CAU launched, we hear a lot of voice request us to translate this site into an English version. We also aware that this international language could help more aquascape lovers around the world to know us. However, from our limited resources and English is not our first language, the progress is very slow, first we have to solve the system issue, then translation, reformat….”

Thanks, Justin! You guys have done a great job! Congratulations!

Yes. I have started another Wordpress blog. Surely, I am getting infected by the infamous “MBS” or “Multi Blog Syndrome”! My earlier Wordpress blog - SamitOnline.net will be there and I am making it an Unicode Bengali Blog! also, I am planning to move all English articles from SamitOnline.net to this blog - Samitroy.org. This blog at Samitroy.org is going to be my main English blog, as well as my personal resource portal, while SamitOnline.net will be my Unicode Bengali Blog.

I will be working on this Blog for next few days, trying to customize this template, define the content outline and Information Architecture, change the graphics and personalize the color scheme. I will be transfering posts from SamitOnline.net to this one, too.