points of view......

"THERE IS NO RIGHT POINT OF VIEW

There is a conventional

or popular point of view.

There is a personal

point of view.

There is a small point

of view which just a 

few share.

But there is no right

point of view.

You are always right.

You are always wrong.

It just depends from

which pole you are

looked at.

Advances in any field

are built upon people

with the small or

personal point of view."

people like lists...

...so share things with others using a list format...

Here's a list of some of my recently saved favourite tweets from my other twitter account:

1. 

@therealbanksy

2.

cheeming boey @iamboey

3. 

Jennifer Davis @JDavisArt

4. David Hume Kennerly - a Pulitzer-Prize winning photographer uses an iPhone, Hipstamatic & other apps to create pictures :

@jessweiss1

and finishing this list with a list....

5. 8 Ways to Improve Your Online Portfolio @Needimages 

"Is your website really showing your art to its best advantage?"

Vase (detail) by artist Charan Sachar

reading your twitter feed (pt2)...

...can reveal information about others' blog credentials.

If you're the curator/editor/researcher/photographer of an important art institution's blog feed, it's a BIG deal.

Jacob Horn - Editorial Assistant at New York's Whitney Museum is taking over the museum's Instagram account.....

He specialises in:

"Writing and editing, research experience, technical literacy, communication, social media, museums and cultural institutions" 
- from LinkedIn

Whitney Museum on Instagram

Instagram

Instagram

Instagram

see also: part 1 of read your twitter feed

read your twitter feed (pt1)...

...because it can contain useful snippets of information.

Using my phone's Twitter app I checked my account - the one linked to this blog. 

I limited my reading to the last 24hrs of its timeline feed.

I either 'retweeted', or 'favourite-d' things I wanted to follow up using the symbols on the lower edge of my timeline of tweets

 ....i.e. things tweeted by those I've chosen to follow

This screen grab of a tweet from @DazedMagazine is particularly pertinent to those using Flickr as their photo blog....

notice the orange star is highlighted - because I saved the tweet to my favourites

It links to an article about Flickr - a popular photo blog for artists, that is about to make money from the images you may have there.

"Are you one of the millions of people signed up to Flickr? It's time to switch your license settings. The Yahoo-owned photo-sharing site has just announced that it will start selling prints of some 50 million Creative Commons-licensed images, but the photographers involved won't see any of the profits. Nope. Not a single penny." 

Read more of the article at Dazed magazine's digital publication site

If you use Flickr and wish to change your Flickr license settings consider the pros and cons of doing so.

The Creative Commons site lists the various licences available to you.


reading your twitter feed part 2

Expose yourself!

Use your blog to show others how you make your work. 
Expose its process of manufacture - what inspired it, what you're thinking of now, and perhaps, what you're considering doing next. 

Sharing your preliminary drawings, photographs, thoughts and ruminations will highlight your creative process to others. 

Magda Bolinska on flickr

t.radclyffe's sketchbook, and completed illustration

Nicholas Stevenson's: website and blogs....

Nicholas Stevenson's Tumblr blog

....and on Soundcloud

fame....and fortune

Blogging for money? There's a thought.

Zoe Griffin - the Sunday Mirror's former showbiz gossip columnist, and now 'lifestyle blogger', emphasises the money making potential of blogging in her book 'Get Rich Blogging'.

Its fame, fortune plus fashion and lifestyle content is something you may wish to sidestep. Its practical tips however are invaluable.

An example:

'Searching for free images....every blogger should bookmark ....Creative Commons....here you can find free images to illustrate virtually any subject'.

cc search

long time no blog?

If you don't have time to blog, don't beat yourself up about it....and don't apologise for it.

What have you been doing in between times? If it's relevant...blog about it.

I've been reading....

my copy purchased here

Austin Kleon's books are full of relevant stuff delivered in a meaningful and yet light way.

I'm looking at number 3 on the list.....

....and reviewing my methods....