This post is a little behind time, but halcyonrealms.com is now a year old, ever since we moved from Blogger.com to WordPress in early June last year. Just in case you are wondering how the name Halcyon Realms came about, its taken from one of my favourite pieces of electronica music, a track titled “Halcyon On and On” by Orbital. The track was also used in the opening sequence of Hackers (poster above), a film that had quite an impact on my life.
I wanted to take this opportunity to thank all the folks out there who have been visiting this blog. Halcyon Realms’s readership has been growing steadily every month for the past year, (and still is, from what sitemeter’s stats say ), but paradoxically less and less readers post comments these days, as compared to say half a year ago. Maybe I’ve been doing too little to engage my readers, for which I apologize.
My Feedburner stats for this blog registers at least 200 subscribers, so there must be some returning readers, I think. Perhaps if you are one of them (and have never posted a comment) you can do a short self introduction by writing a comment for this post, and you will have my thanks. I’ll love to know who some of my readers are.
If not, well I thank you folks anyway, and please do come again. :]
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July 5th, 2008 at 2:50 am
happy 1st anniversary.
i saw the movie before. starring a very young angelina jolie. ^^;
July 5th, 2008 at 5:45 am
Happy 1 year anniversary! I admit I haven’t been online in a while, hence the lack of comments. I’m back now and commenting. 😀 I’ve watched Hackers in high school. I can’t remember which class it was for.. psychology, I think. I forget the reason why though. 😀
July 5th, 2008 at 7:20 am
Hello !.
I am from El Salvador, Central America. My first visit to your site was 2 weeks ago. I have started reading your posts frequently since then. I have found interesting information….
Congratulations for this first year and keep on doing it !.
Best regards,
Eliseo
July 5th, 2008 at 7:42 am
So has this blog been going for a year in total, or just since you re-hosted it on wordpress? How long have you been blogging for in total anyway?
Best of luck with the blog in the future anyway. Its one of my favourite japan blogs, and its great to hear stuff from a fellow artist!
July 5th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
happy anniversary! 😀 keep up the pace @ your work
July 5th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
happy 1 year anniversary!
i found your blog from your comments on PingMag :D. since then i’ve subscribed to your feed. i enjoy your post especially your works. keep it up 😀
July 6th, 2008 at 2:23 am
from SG.
havent been leaving comments even though i’ve been reading this since the previous address.
i dont “come” here much actually.
bloglines works nicely.
July 6th, 2008 at 4:15 am
So, Happy Birthday!
Sincerely I don’t even remember how I found your blog, anyway I was intrigued by your capacity to develop a productive lifestyle inside the most stressing but amazing graphic-image-motion scene around the world.
Hope to see how your effort give retribution on time to enjoy those great pieces of art you are involved.
I’m heading to Japan this August and probably I will face some amazing graphic-image-motion shock again.
July 6th, 2008 at 5:38 am
Congratulations with the one year anniversary 🙂
Although I visit the site a couple times a week, I really should post more comments. The site is a great source of information and inspiration, and I hope it’s going to be this way many, many years.
Cheers,
Harry.
July 6th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Congrats for a year of blogging. Times does fly, doesn’t it?
Anyway, I’ll look forward to further entries regarding your work and life in Japan ^^
July 8th, 2008 at 1:33 am
Thanks everyone for the well wishes ! Work is murder, but I’ll try to post as regularly as possible. :]
July 8th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Congratulations on a year of blogging, may more insights from you come.
July 10th, 2008 at 3:49 am
Hey I just found your blog through Enrico Casarosa. It’s great! I just ordered the Hiroaki Samura art book from your link, which I also have been waiting half my life for.
July 10th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Me loyal fan
July 11th, 2008 at 12:28 am
Sylon – Thank you !
Joseph – Thank you so much for visiting. I’m sure you will enjoy the book when you get it.
one – Definitely. Thank uou !
July 19th, 2008 at 7:00 am
Been reading your blog for a while now…vicariously experiencing Japan through your posts.
Very good book and film recommendations.
July 20th, 2008 at 4:17 am
OneEyedJackal – Thank you for visiting. :] Love your nickname !