One of the many columns that I originally planned on writing was called "What You Might Have Missed" and would have collected all the important stories that people might have missed over the week and put them in one place. It was cut because it was little more than a collection of links and would have offered little value to my readers.

 

The image was meant to highlight how oblivious we can be to important and spectacular things going on around us. An early piece of art done by myself, it reveals a number of problems that I've since learned to avoid. 

The most important part of being an "Intellectual" is spending time imagining the impossible (if for no other reason than because it is possible). This piece of art was going to be used in a column called "Head in the Clouds" which would have looked at big ideas and asked, "How do we solve this?" or "How do we get here?" It was scrapped because the ideas it would have discussed can easily fit in other columns and would have relied too much on conjecture and not enough on fact.

One of the first columns I wrote for lazyintellectual.com was a news column that collected stories from across the internet and explained why they're important and what their importance to you is. It has been scrapped and in it's place I've created a column that examines the mixture of truth and bias that are present in each news story.

 

This piece of art was meant to evoke the seriousness and professionalism of traditional news agencies. Sadly that sense of professionalism did not extend to my ability to draw hands.

The original name for "The Archives" was "Backstage" and this was going to be the image that would sit at the top of the page. The idea of the "Backstage" area was that it would give readers the opportunity to see how the writing process worked and how I came up with and developed my ideas. It was scrapped in favour of the "Archives" which fit better with the overall site design.