Desiring Machine

Have been exploring the guts of wordpress lately. So I decided to build my own theme from the ground up rather than simply bolt onto someone else’s theme. I have borrowed some layout ideas from other themes, but for the most part this theme is a substantial rewrite particularly in the CSS department. I am feeling in a Red mood, so I went with a Wharhol inpsired Mao header. Of course this is not to say I am a card carrying member of the Chairman’s movement. To me this is more an attempt at subversion in a post-ironic age. Besides, China has enough human rights problems that followers of Mao would do good to remedy. For example what they have been doing to the Falun Gong is not good.

Anyway, the header image in this blog comes from an original photograph I took last year at the Andy Wharhol museum in Pittsburgh. I will be working on this theme in incremental stages with additional improvements so stay tuned.