Facebook Like Button on Blogger

We're all looking for simple ways to keep our blog original, promote our content, and increase interaction. Leaving comments is ideal, but without something to add many don't bother. It's exactly why the Facebook 'like' button is the perfect solution - and becoming so popular so quickly.

You've seen it everywhere and now for the first time it's on every Editing Luke post. If you're currently on the main page you won't see them, but if you've clicked any specific post title then right at the top you'll see the button. This is perfect for any one clicking a searched link, those who are followers to this blog, or who click through to a post from the LinkWithin or nRelate widget.

It's a simple and quick way to show your appreciation to help increase the popularity of a single post - and no worries about filling your like box on your Facebook profile, these 'likes' are specific to this blog. You'll just see an update in your news feed, but not in your actual 'like' box. So go ahead and thumbs up!

See the link for instructions on how to add this feature to your blog below. And don't forget to click the LIKE button for Editing Luke & Jeeves in the sidebar!

To add this feature to your own blog, click here for instructions.
 

Joshua Tree Photo Collage

The desert allows your mind to wander. Expansive and unmistakably harsh you're left to question what could possibly survive in such an aggressive landscape. Yet the textures of the cracked ground and jagged foliage lend themselves to an expressive organic canvas. You suddenly realize that this isn't a barren wasteland; you're surrounded by thriving examples of life that have prospered against seemingly death defying odds. Alone with your thoughts in the heat of a glaring sun, you think to yourself what a truly amazing world we live in.

Split Wash 2: Jaguar XJ8

Nostalgia seems to be a great motivator. When going to clean my car a couple weeks ago I decided to bring along my camera simply for the sake of capturing something similar to what I had with my 1989 Buick. From that footage I created Split Wash, a short experimental video using a split screen to divide the recording in to two separate points and layer them together.

What I've done here is of exactly the same principal, except this time the image has been roughed up a bit more and repetition has been applied to the bottom layer. While the validity of these types of video as art can be debated, I've always had a fascination with the subtleties of editing and how it can force us to look at things in ways out of the ordinary. I often attribute this to painting. Like how an artist will create something that is as much about recognizing the paint on the canvas as it is about the art itself.

My goal isn't really to make this seem like more than it is, but in washing my Jaguar (just like I did with my Buick) I've captured a moment and presented it somewhat out of context to make the video and edit the subject. I find something visceral and tangible about working this way. In a little over two years the first version of Split Wash is now a little piece of my history; not quite a homevideo, not quite a complete project.