Showing posts with label Twitter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Twitter. Show all posts

Sunday, 31 July 2011

100th Twitter Follower and Dead Light Receptor City


Social networking sites can be harnessed into some sort massive marketing tool by self centered attention seeking creatives, like myself.  But as a scissors and glue technological and social insect with little understanding of marketing or the interconnectedness of all things I only have a vague understanding and therefore not much inbuilt respect for such things as Twitter.... however I have developed very slowly an interest in all things Twitter - Margaret Atwood being my follower has been a significant ego boost.  I'm sorry I don't always get the chance to read everything that everyone else tweets about as I always feel that I'm going to miss out on something amazing or something important (but not that amazing).

I decided that I would send my 100th follower a picture in the post - just a little one.  I copied the idea off Islington Mill who gave their one billionth follower free tickets to some gig.  I'm not really that bothered about how many followers I acquire - it's not like some sort of numbers game - I just like trimming off my thoughts, fears and other feelings into a concise 160 character sized space.

So just to the right you'll see the picture I sent to Richard Crossan - I'm glad it's gone to someone because if it stayed with me it would have existed in a small and insignificant cupboard with tonnes of other forgotten experiments whilst in the home of a near stranger it's able to acquire it's own uniqueness and be a one of a kind tiny little curiosity made of photocopies biro and whiteboard marker pens in a 50p cream and gold frame from a charity shop.
It's called "Death Fissure" because it looks like pressed in and nullified tearing of dead light receptors (and I should know - my house is like Dead Light Receptor City)

Monday, 9 May 2011

Twitter, marketing, advertising and what am I doing?

Recently started using my twitter properly - I've not got a great many followers yet but I've decided not to play it as some sort of numbers game, I'm only going to follow people I'm interested in and who I think are going to be interested in me.  Otherwise what's the point?  I'm at @garth_simmons if you are interested and interesting (and if your interested in me I'm sure you're very much interesting).

I have to work hard on twitter for the next month or so as it's part of my marketing campaign for my exhibition on 2nd July - I've also started a Facebook Event for it (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=214540905242158).

It's also listed on this website I've never even heard of: http://www.kulone.com/GB/Event/2216870-DISTORTED-INTERIOR-BARRIERS-Exhibition

So this isn't a very creative update at all - it's just going on about how I've momentarily become some sort of cut throat marketeer.  Which is a little out of character really - I feel like my life has a new script editor.  Not to worry though - I've started doing some paintings/collages that I'll update you on when I finish them - I'm taking the compositions from stills of animations I made a two/three years ago.

Just so this new blog entry has at least one picture in it - here's one of the images I'm basing a composition on: