It has been about a week and a half since I started my blog (first entry was on October 7th) and I've noticed a couple of things.
1. Uploading my work is like uploading photos to facebook.
I can't speak for everyone but I think most people upload pictures to facebook for reasons similar to mine. I upload them mostly because they are my favorites I want to share with other people and it is easily accessible to them if they want a copy. But I also do for egotistical reasons ("I look cute in this picture") and for self-validation ("I'm cool because this is a picture of me doing this"), which is heightened when people "like" your picture and leave you nice comments. My tumblr blog is very similar in that I post to share my work but also in hopes of receiving positive feedback. Both facebook and blogging allow me to present myself the way I want others to perceive me.
2. Allowing people to comment is a great form of online critique.
This is both the most exciting and scariest part about blogging. Exciting because I really want to know what others think about my work (and hope that it will mostly be positive) and scary because it leaves me vulnerable to criticism. Also, I have no way of knowing who all looked at my blog unless they leave me some kind of feedback - I can't help but think, "what if they think it's trite or contrived?" It's really neat that I'm getting feedback from you all on this blog as well as my tumblr. I also reap comments from facebook because each time I post on tumblr, it is posted to my facebook profile.
3. It drives me to produce more work.
Because I want to participate in the online social construct that is tumblr, my formerly low production rate has increased. If you browse the hundreds of tumblr users who are posting their work like me, there are many who post several times daily. I know I won't be able to produce enough work to post several times a day, much less everyday, but right now I want to at least post once a week (which is much more than I ever have.)
Just wanted to share.
That's great!
ReplyDeleteIf you really are wanting online critique from your blog viewers, maybe you should make that explicit. When I was viewing your blog, I didn't really feel comfortable questioning your art, and only did so on THIS blog (don't know if you noticed that).
Does that make sense?
I did post on the blog, but I would like to know if I am giving you feedback that is useful to your process. I posted the impressions I received so that you could compare what I was seeing/interpreting to what your own goals for what you wanted to communicate. So please let me know if that's what you have in mind.
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