It sure is – but it can also be diffucult to use. What is the correct amount, where should I put it, how will it create the right amount of contrast? During my last projects (no, you havn’t seen them), I have been contemplating a lot about my use of black. I have noticed that I often start out by creating a very bright design, and then afterwards add black, to create a more rich accent – which often results in acceptable solutions – but wouldn’t it be interessting to turn the process upside down?

These days you’ll see more and more beautiful black websites, escpecially if you follow sites as cssremix, cssmania, lightondark etc. Naturally these trends come and go, and today most people get either the grungy, splashy design, the exclusive, minimalistic white-on-black design, or the vectorish non-web2.0-bevel-look (aka digital papercuts). A couple of years back it wasn’t so, and it won’t be either a couple of years from now. But where has all the black websites been for the decade?

This is a theory – and please correct me – but as far as what I remember, the origin of the internet was either black or white. We had all the “the internet is strictly a source of information, and should be kept to black times on white bodies“-guys, and we had the the “I’m a cool fella, because not only have I a cool dial-up modem, I also have a neon-green-comic-sans-on-black-body-homepage“-guys. So even though, in a fashion sense, black is always the new black, it’s probably been a taboo for some years, and these days it’s time to dig it up again. Everytime I see a black website that doesn’t have just a slight touch of modernism, I always consider the possbility that it just might be 10 years old. But that’s probably just me.

Having said all that, I am working on a design for this very website. I have decided to fight my fears and keep it black, and then we’ll just have to see how it goes.

Oh yeah, I got my first website in 2001. It was black, which neon hightlights. I was rocking the internets, back then!

I woke up late this morning, feeling like the only way to start my day off right, was by drinking whisky and listening to Pink Floyd records. So I did that. Before breakfast, if there even is such a thing anymore. I’ve never been a big fan of eating in the morning anyways, so the sollution didn’t seem bad at all. And as I sat there I came to realise that I havn’t been doing that exact same thing for a very long time, just meditating over what’s actually going on. I’ve had major problems channelling my ways lately. when I was younger, and up until a certain point not so long ago, a had no problems connecting the two ends; inspiration and creation, but it just seems more diffucult with all the stuff to do, and all the worries to care about.

Fortunatly a little light went off about a week ago. I’ve been bothered by the thought that I couldn’t get stuff done because of pure laziness for a long time, but the world pushing me to the edge made me realise that my laziness isn’t nescessarily a bad thing, and that I might actually benefit from kicking the fuck back. Instead of spending so much time trying to schematising my work and time and life, I should concentrate my laziness into some R’n'R, and reflect on what’s really happening – and then I would probably be able to connect my head and my hands and get some actual work done. And not just the boring corporate business stuff – the real deal. The sketching. I never realised it was so important to me before, but it is.

I love the beat of the last groove in a record, it always seems to set the perfect mood for the transition between an end and a beginning.