Let me tell you the story about three little blogging platforms, Twitter, Tumblr and Plurk. It all started with a girl who liked to explore the minutiae of people’s lives…
I tried to get into this style of blogging early last year, starting with Pownce. Random people started offering me files like they were big boxes of chocolates, and it all got a bit scary to be truthful. Then, people told me “If you don’t Twitter, you’re not cool!” So I got an account to test the waters and pretty much left it there. I wasn’t interested in receiving sms updates, and having to return to the actual site to read updates was wearying.
Then, riding on a white horse from the horizon came Twirl, and it totally rejigged how I used Twitter. Basically, I can tweet from my desktop and get real time tweets from the people I follow – all packaged in a lovely little interface that isn’t too annoying.
I had eyed Tumblr from across the room, and even rubbed elbows with eatsleepdraw a few times until it clicked that this was Twitter but with images. Finally, something I could get REALLY jazzed about. I use it to post work in progress, finished pieces and inspirational images, as well as random quotes and conversation snippets.
One drawback is that in its natural state, comments aren’t available. However, using Disqus you can plug comments in as a kind of elegant work around. I’ve noticed that Tumblr isn’t very active or community driven, which is weirding me out because usually when you join sites you get a few people meeting and greeting and handing out the complimentary champagne and stuff, but I haven’t had one smidgen of human interaction there yet – maybe it has something to do with the comments being an optional extra? I do love Tumblr, but I want to talk to people!
Suddenly, Plurk comes creeping around the corner in an onomatopoeic fashion. You can post what you’re doing; how you’re feeling; what you’re wanting; images, videos and links. BUT! IN GANT CHART FORM. I think one of my friends joined up just based on this alone!
So, you and your friends’ plurks are arranged in a gant chart – or a timeline – but what sets it apart from Twitter is there’s some kind of mysterious karma system that seems to encourage community driven activity. The whole concept is intriguing, but without a desktop client or sms functionality, it might be something that loses its sheen really quickly. Pity it didn’t come in a box that I could play with when I tire of it!
I just got an email about the Adobe Online Creative Festival, which is taking place on Tuesday 1 July between 11-4pm. The best thing is, it costs approximately nothing for 5 hours of networking, master classes, tips and tricks and live guest speakers. All you have to do is register!
You will definitely (definatalie!) see me there!
Yves Saint-Laurent passed away yesterday at the age of 71. I will always remember my mother’s lessons in how to speak “French” as I flipped through her Vogues, traced the words on perfume bottles with my little fingers and mouthed his name with my broad Australian tongue.
“I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence”
Judit García-Talavera – you ought to go see more here
Jhinuk Sarkar
Chloe Bonfield
Emma Seaman
Fumi Nakamura
Karo Knitter
Kime Buzzelli
Omgosh, free vector shapes are back from the dead! I’ve created some sunburst/ star shapes for you guys to mix ‘n match, layer, texturise, etc etc etc. Go crazy! And when you’re done, show me :D
Download CS3 .ai file – Vector Starbursts
Download .svg file – Vector Starbursts
Prints available from RedBubble.
I have been quiet lately I know, but I’ve been feeling a bit off. I decided to take a bit of time away from work to draw some girls!
In the next couple of months I’ll be working on a blog redesign with my husband. Yay! I’m really not a coding person, so I’ve struggled to work with various aspects of the template I currently use. Luckily, Nick is way into coding and is looking for new projects so I have given him my mock up and told him to go nuts!
Thumbs Down and Belted Cloud.
Don’t forget, Drawing Day is 7 days away! RedBubble bloggers Paul and Natalie on RedBubble Tees will also be blogging DD08. Join us!
Like a lot of my work I post here, you can buy a print of this on RedBubble.
I joined Creative Stem last week, it’s another art community/ portfolio site. I am on quite a few portfolio sites, but I’m kind of enjoying Creative Stem a lot more than others. The other members seem to actively seek out new work and are friendly and supportive. The cool thing about this site is that you can add a “Sketchbook” section to your portfolio, where you can upload documentation, ideas, sketch battles and detailed images of your work.
Arisu, who created the above piece spiral mirror, has the most fascinating progression through the steps of post production on one of her pieces.
I have five invites to Creative Stem, if you’re interested in joining this portfolio community.
And these are some pieces I’ve uploaded this weekend. You can view my profile on Creative Stem here, and buy prints on RedBubble.
You guys… that’s Joy Nash wearing my illustration on her chest.
By Chris Piascik [via Meet Me at Mikes].
I am in the middle of trying to get back in to drawing. My arm has been incredibly painful in recent months so I’ve tried to lay off the intensive drawing sessions. I need to organise a proper drawing space with a tilted surface but I just haven’t gotten around to it yet.
This is part of the new series… “fancy hair” is my work in progress title. I need to buy some more 0.1 black pens because mine ran out!
I got myself a tumblr account so I can post strictly images I like and bits of my work. Follow me if you want to!
Don’t forget, Drawing Day 08 is coming up on June 7. I’m hoping to get a whole heap of RedBubblers involved and I’ll post my favourite DD08 drawings here. If you’re joining in on DD08, or if you just want to participate by blogging it, let me know because I’ll add links to other DD08 posts in my entries!
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