Flaneurbanite's Urban Legends

The Flaneurbanite is Here! Please Update Your Bookmarks and Feeds!

~ Posted by Shilpa Bhatnagar at 7:00 AM ~

Tada!

I present to you the new improved and much larger version of Urban Legends:

The Flaneurbanite at http://shilpabhatnagar.com.

The new site is much more than just a blog.
Not only does it have all the content (and all your comments) from the last three years on this blog, but also other stuff that I get up to.

Which includes Urbanism, which is what I do to earn my living;
Design, which I have a keen interest in;
Writing, which as some of you already know I do quite a bit of;
and of course my original love - flanerie and photography, which is just a continuation of this blog.

This is what it looks like:

The Four Blogs:

Urbanism:

Design:

PhotoStories (The Original Urban Legends and more):

And "Everything Else" - a place for my writing on quite literally, everything else!

But this is not all. I'm also going to be hosting my ongoing Writing and Photography portfolios on the new site - so if you're interested, you might want to click through to that section and see what I've been up to.

And do please update your bookmarks and feed readers with the new url.

But before you do that, please click through to the site, check out my new content and please, please do let me know what you think.

This new website has been a project close to my heart and it's taken me a long time and lots of hard work to make it happen (especially as I am no whiz at technology - it takes me ages to do what it might take a tech literate person five minutes to do!).

I would love to get your feedback and comments over there - and I can't wait to get going!

Click here to join me at the The Flaneurbanite.

And Do Say Hello :)

PS: I won't be closing this blog for the foreseeable future, but I might add a redirect link to the new website in a few weeks.

Urban Legends Is Changing!

~ Posted by Shilpa Bhatnagar at 3:19 PM ~

Just in case you were wondering, I haven't abandoned this blog! I know I haven't posted anything worthwhile here lately, but it's all for good reason.

Around the middle of last year, I started feeling that this little Blogger blog isn't allowing me to do many things that I originally intended to do here. It did great for a while, and then it started to stagnate. I needed more space and better space to do what I really wanted to do.

So, after months and months of deliberation, procrastination and self-doubt caused by a humbling lack of technical expertise, I have kicked all of it aside, and have plunged headlong into the world of self-hosted Wordpress.

Which does mean what you think it means!

Yup, I will have a new website in place of this little blog very soon!

It should be up in a matter of a few days from now, in fact - if all goes well and if I can manage not to crash it for the third time. (Having a partner who deals with technology in his professional life is a very blessed thing in such circumstances).

The new website will not only have all of this blog's existing content, but a whole lot more of what I do - professionally, personally (and passionately).

Thank you for being with me on the three year long journey that was this blog.

It continues, albeit elsewhere.

Stay tuned...

Work In Progress

~ Posted by Shilpa Bhatnagar at 9:33 PM ~

Just in case you were wondering, I'm still alive. So is this blog. I'm just working to create something that will (hopefully) be a bit bigger and a lot better than this little blog that I created nearly three years back - wow, time flies!

Meanwhile, I hope you're getting ready for winter - here's some warmth from my Diwali celebration at home in London to keep you warm, while I return with what I'm working on.

Thank you for your patience!

Love and Light.

~ Flaneurbanite.

Postcards from Italy...3

~ Posted by Shilpa Bhatnagar at 10:14 PM ~

continued from here

I know this blog channels the spirit of flanerie, and that, by common understanding, is more about cities than lakes and pristine countryside. But then again, this blog is also about photography, about the beauty of the moment, and I strongly believe that beauty must be shared. Even if it makes me look much more like a hopeless tourist than a flaneur.

For this week therefore, a few more postcards from Italy.