Balzer Designs: #100daysofArtTweets: Days 1-7

April 11, 2018

#100daysofArtTweets: Days 1-7

As I mentioned last week, I'm doing The 100 Day Project. The conceit behind the project is simple: one action every day for 100 days. My action is #100daysofArtTweets. I'm posting original art content to twitter every day for 100 days. Here are days 1-7:

To watch the video (what you see above is just a screenshot) you have to click here.

Observations:

I've followed the same formula every single day: share a photo or video and say something about it.
Because I'm involved in creative activity most days, this was not an effortful endeavor -- with the exception of day 7. I spent most of that day engaged in social activities and then computer work. So, I ran up to my studio at 11pm and snapped a quick pic of what was sitting on my desk (the paint) and captioned it. Some effort, but pretty minimal.
So how is this different from instagram or facebook which both are essentially the same formula of photo and video?
- Ah, now this is the essential issue I'm trying to sort out for myself.
- For me (and I do think it's different for everyone):
  - Twitter = cocktail party: It's quick conversational bites with links to anything deeper. A bit of flashy something to grab your attention.
  - Instagram = mini blog posts: Beautiful images and content rich. Lots of writing and sharing (in process videos and text). Highly curated with less curated content being placed in the Instagram Stories.
  - Facebook = a bulletin board: notices about classes, events, new videos, and so on.
Has there been any change in my use of twitter since starting this project?
- Yes, I have spent more time in the app reading tweets.
- Yes, I have found and followed new people.
- Yes, I have had more interactions with other twitter users (tweeting back and forth at each other).
- Yes, I have posted more often to twitter -- even beyond my one Art Tweet every day -- than usual.
I haven't applied a single photo filter to any of the photos I snapped to share. In contrast, I rarely share a photo to instagram that hasn't been mucked around with.
I think this formula is completely doable but I find it a bit boring -- i.e. it's super similar to what I do on other platforms. To keep it more interesting for myself, I'm thinking I need to change it up. Some ideas so far:
- Since you can easily include links in tweets, make my tweets more useful with links to articles, items to buy, interesting people, etc.
- I haven't seen them yet, but I'll bet you could do some kind of crafty tutorial within twitter's 1 photo and 280 character limit. Going to have to try and see.
- Pick a topic and go after it for 5-10 days in a row so that the tweets all together equal more than any one tweet alone.
I'm curious to discover whether this 100 day project of mine is an art exploration project or a social media exploration project? I originally conceived of it as an art exploration project with a social media aspect that would keep me honest about doing it. However, reading through these observations, it definitely feels like I'm going more in a social media exploration direction.

Are you doing the 100 day project? How is it going for you?

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To watch the video (what you see above is just a screenshot) you have to click here.

Observations:

I've followed the same formula every single day: share a photo or video and say something about it.
Because I'm involved in creative activity most days, this was not an effortful endeavor -- with the exception of day 7. I spent most of that day engaged in social activities and then computer work. So, I ran up to my studio at 11pm and snapped a quick pic of what was sitting on my desk (the paint) and captioned it. Some effort, but pretty minimal.
So how is this different from instagram or facebook which both are essentially the same formula of photo and video?
- Ah, now this is the essential issue I'm trying to sort out for myself.
- For me (and I do think it's different for everyone):
  - Twitter = cocktail party: It's quick conversational bites with links to anything deeper. A bit of flashy something to grab your attention.
  - Instagram = mini blog posts: Beautiful images and content rich. Lots of writing and sharing (in process videos and text). Highly curated with less curated content being placed in the Instagram Stories.
  - Facebook = a bulletin board: notices about classes, events, new videos, and so on.
Has there been any change in my use of twitter since starting this project?
- Yes, I have spent more time in the app reading tweets.
- Yes, I have found and followed new people.
- Yes, I have had more interactions with other twitter users (tweeting back and forth at each other).
- Yes, I have posted more often to twitter -- even beyond my one Art Tweet every day -- than usual.
I haven't applied a single photo filter to any of the photos I snapped to share. In contrast, I rarely share a photo to instagram that hasn't been mucked around with.
I think this formula is completely doable but I find it a bit boring -- i.e. it's super similar to what I do on other platforms. To keep it more interesting for myself, I'm thinking I need to change it up. Some ideas so far:
- Since you can easily include links in tweets, make my tweets more useful with links to articles, items to buy, interesting people, etc.
- I haven't seen them yet, but I'll bet you could do some kind of crafty tutorial within twitter's 1 photo and 280 character limit. Going to have to try and see.
- Pick a topic and go after it for 5-10 days in a row so that the tweets all together equal more than any one tweet alone.
I'm curious to discover whether this 100 day project of mine is an art exploration project or a social media exploration project? I originally conceived of it as an art exploration project with a social media aspect that would keep me honest about doing it. However, reading through these observations, it definitely feels like I'm going more in a social media exploration direction.