A facebook friend and fellow metal artist recently asked me how I liked blogging and internet networking in general. I replied that I really do enjoy it, even though I haven't been blogging so much recently. I consistently use xanga, blogger, facebook, flickr, and twitter. It's not quite as much work as it sounds like.
I post all of my pics to my flickr pages. Think of flickr as a way to share and educate, not to market. Flickr is not intended for commercial use. However, as we all know, sharing and educating does expose a greater audience to our creative works. I also upload some of my pictures to my Xanga account and to facebook.
I blog first on xanga, then cut and paste my blog entry to blogger. I like Xanga's blog editor- super easy to use. I don't need to know html, but I can manipulate the html to suit my needs. I think blogger gives me better overall exposure on the internet and it gives me a much better looking blog in general, with an easy to adjust blogging template and fantastic widgets. Blogger is a part of google, so I can use it easily with google analytics, google reader, gmail and all of the other great google tools. In any case, having the same blog in two different places gives me that much more exposure.
After blogging, I put an update on twitter, which automatically updates on facebook. So really I blog once. The rest is cut and paste. The majority of the work goes into the photography and photo editing. If I spend too much time on the social networking, it is because I am admittedly goofing off and enjoying the social aspect more than the networking.
Now, when I'm not goofing off online.... I do work in the studio! I am still working on the railing that I don't want to work on- an old trade that needs to be out of my life. I would like to say that this struggle of a railing will lead to some sort of creative epiphany, but I'm not sure it will. The big revelation is that I do not intend to make railings anymore! I will create the sculptural nature elements that I love making, but someone else can cut, measure, fit, and weld it all together.
I motivated myself to work on it yesterday by focusing on...well.... ME. I took my new dslr camera, set it up on the tripod, and took pictures of ME, working. Camera clicking, plus my moody "be good tanyas" music station on Pandora, kept me going for a good four or five hours. Kids are home from school today, because of the extreme frigid temps, so I am busy with domestic life. When they get back to school, I will be using the same motivational strategy- more and more and more action shots of ME.
Click on the photo titles under the photo mosaic to go to each individual photo, larger size, in flickr.
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