Thamara Kandabada
Thamara Kandabada
I’m Thamara, furniture-peddler by day and wearer-of-many-hats by night. I like to watch films, enjoy live music, tinker with this website, play guitar, and run in my free time. I'm currently based in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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Looking back through life with objects as anchors for memoryI remember the bookshelves we had growing up. They were six-feet-tall and quite wide. The top halves had shelves in them, and I always picture them full of books. The bottom half had drawers, full of more books. They were finished in a dark wood veneer that...
The Pink Cloud, c. 1896. Henri-Edmond Cross (French, 1856–1910). Oil on canvas. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift, 2020.106 A brilliant explosion of colour on canvasJames and I are doing an art exchange, where we each give the other a painting to write about. You can find...
Making hyperlinks pop againIf you're reading this on your RSS reader, you may want to leave the relative calm of it and step into the chaos that is my website for this one. I had a basic underline effect for hyperlinks on this website. That changed this morning. I changed the colour of linked text from the accent...
On slow and incremental progressIf you've ever visited my changelog, you'd know that this website gets built almost every day; several times a day on most days. It's not just because I've been blogging regularly this month. Things get changed around a lot. Fixes, tweaks, overhauls. It's never ending. I have a Trello...
Some thoughts from internet friendsIn my post Thinking language, I wrote about my curiosity on the subject of inner monologues, especially those of bilingual and multi-lingual people. This led me to ask a question in the Web Writers' Forum, which I knew is full of excellent writers from around the world, many of...
...is like dancing about architectureI have written so many music-related posts over the years. They range from music recommendations, to gear reviews (these aren't directly music-related, but tangential), thoughts on music-adjacent films, gig recaps, and instrument talk. My knowledge may be limited, but that hasn't...
A (very) short history of trying things on for size and giving them upMore times than I'd care to count, I've tried to start a journaling habit. I've tried different methods to make it stick. It never did. I've bought various notebooks over the years and tried taking notes at work and in general in life. I would...
Thoughts on audiences, motivations, and finding a voiceTwo discussions I saw today in online communities I’m part of got me thinking: who is the audience for my blog? why do I write? What is the essence of my writing voice? The first question is perhaps the easiest to answer. I don’t assume anyone reads my blog. I...
Some minor website updates, and plans for a lot moreBetween my regular day-to-day routine and obligations, and writing a post a day for the last few weeks, I haven't had much time to tinker with the website. But I did manage to make some minor stylistic and content updates. Live now New pages I now have two pages...
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