Category: Announcements/Events

Dear Readers,

This particular website will be officially closing any day now. I loved hosting Animated Spirit here, and have been here for 10+ years. But the costs and time needed to keep it going are no longer reasonable. And as noted before, I have moved to Substack, where I will continue to keep the content going, even improved. It is a great platform and is not, at least for now, distracting like other social media. Furthermore, the Archives of hundreds of articles/interviews/features have already been transferred over to the new site. You don’t have to subscribe or even sign up to Substack if i’m correct, just go to the webpage i’m listing here below. But of course, i’d love to see the many old subscribers/readers here to head on over and subscribe there – it will help me and this site to grow again, it’s easy, and still advertisement free. I’m sorry for the inconvenience and thank for continuing to come here all this time. Let’s see you over at Substack! thank you! (note this is likely the last email you’ll get from this site)

Sincerely,

James

NOTE: please go here to continue to read my work and access the archive of over 280 plus articles: LINK

https://animatedspiritblog.substack.com

The Animated Spirit is moving to Substack! After writing and posting here for over 15 years — completely non-monetized — I’m now moving to a new platform with the hope of greater and easier readership. Since independently hosted webpages — like this one — are no longer economically or practically viable, I felt it was time for a change. Although I’ve contemplated closing this blog completely, I felt there’s still more to say as an artist speaking to, and in promotion of, art and artists in what is now a rapidly changing technological environment.

And don’t worry; the new site will continue to be free and feature, for the first time, an opportunity to engage and leave comments (an option I’m willingly experimenting with unless bots/trolls begin to ruin the atmosphere). Furthermore, all of the original essays, demos and articles I’ve made here over the years — over 260 of them — are being exported over to the new platform, even as this website will continue to exist for the time being.

I hope that you will migrate over and subscribe over there. Again, it is free and easy — even easier for me, so I hope to post far more regularly. I thank all of you who have come here to visit in the past and hope you’ll continue to frequent it at the new location.

See you there! link: https://animatedspiritblog.substack.com/