About

My name is Katy, and I started The OnGoing Effort more than ten years ago — before the word “blog” existed to describe it — as a way of keeping my family up-to-date on my adven­tures as I went off to college and moved away from my home­town. It has since turned into so many things: a journal, a photo gallery, a test bed for new ideas and new tech­nical skills, and a place for me to look back at where life has taken me in this last decade.

There have been periods of dormancy (for which I heartily apol­o­gize) tempered with periods of prolific writing and image-making, and through it all I have had the love and support of cher­ished friends and family who provide much of the inspi­ra­tion for the work that I do here. Thanks guys!

The site

I did not design this site. A very talented guy named Allan Cole did, and I am using one of his excel­lent WordPress themes. Why, you ask? Because designing for other people is infi­nitely easier than designing for myself! And I wanted to get back to blog­ging some­time in this decade. :)

If you’d like to see sites I have contributed to/designed/built, check out:

  • Fathom
    Where I spend my days working with and learning from a kick ass group of folks.
  • Everywhere at Once
    The site docu­menting my thesis work as an MFA candi­date at the Rhode Island School of design.
  • The Box Project
    A collab­o­ra­tive project with my mum.
  • Sassy Radish
    A good friend, writer, photog­ra­pher, and cook.

Contact

You can find me at katy­beck at katy­beck dot com.