by William J. Gibson

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bluetyger is an online magazine with articles on literature, writing, work, art, travel, technology, photography, and a host of other topics. This is a work in progress. This being both explanation and excuse. Mostly I like to write. I also like to take photographs. Interesting things to me, I want to share. So I have this general notion and direction and I am going to move forward with it.

Just where am I coming from? For a time I administered a photographic community on Excite that dealt with travel photography and photography of historic sites. I put a fair amount of time into it and Excite shone a spotlight on it by highlighting it on their communities main directory page. Consequently, it got a lot of traffic. The main site got over 25,000 hits, the annex which I started when the first one filled up, got just over 50,000 hits. Unfortunately, Excite closed down their communities. I may get around to writing something about that time, it was a curious variety pack view of human nature. But I am getting off track.

In 1994, along with Denis Stokes, I began a small literary press named Alburnum Press, which specializes in small run poetry chapbooks. More about that next issue. I am not entirely sure how Ablurnum and bluetyger will work together, but they will.

bluetyger magazine is going to hold whatever interests me. It has to doesn't it until I hear what you might like to read about. I hope some if not all of it interests you. Let me know.

I have begun inviting other writers and photographers to participate. I hope to include their work in the next issue.

Why "bluetyger"? Blue is my favourite colour. "Tyger" is my favourite animal and Mr. William Blake spelled it that way some years back.

About Blue

If you are interested in the meanings of the word and there are a ton, check out an unusal little book called On Being Blue by William Gass.