Oddly enough, nearly three years after I launched it, the Buggyland project I created on a whim and a lark has come back to visit. (And by visit I simply mean that someone found it and contacted me for clarification on something I wrote — even though it was satirical.) For those who’s never been brave enough to step into the cobwebbed corners of my creative mind, check out the link and take a stroll through that particular bit of wacky history.

The Past

Wandering Vancouver (and then Edmonton) camera in hand I had the weird little idea of photographing and (later) anthropomorphizing various shopping carts strewn about the dense urban populations of those cities. It made for a bit of a laugh, and I took it a little further with a fake webpage (www.buggyland.org) built around the concept. You can read it for yourself.

The Present

We now live in a quiet suburban neighborhood with no plans of moving any time soon. Yes, I find myself out and about in the city. But rare are the occasions when I am prepared for the opportunity to photography a new specimen for the gallery. That, by the way, is not a request for photos. It’s just that people don’t leave piles of shopping carts in front of — or anywhere near, for that matter — my house. And you’d think that’s a good thing. But under the circumstances, it kinda sucks.

The Future

For a meager few bucks a year you can hardly blame me for hanging onto this strange little domain name and letting the site linger until I figure out something even stranger to do with it. If anyone has any ideas — preferably involving photos of shopping carts in the wild — leave a comment and let me know. If anyone wants to, say, go on a hunting expedition to photograph some new carts — and knows where some are hiding — now would be the time to comment, also. I’m just saying…