Okay, I've been rather reclusive of late. I tweet here and there and been hanging out at Art Bistro of late. But my blog, poor blog. Big idea was to expand it into a website. Got bogged down and still haven't finished but figured why let that stop me from posting.
Illustration Friday's topic is "Idle". Funny because I've been thinking a lot about being idle of late, even reading "The Freedom Manifesto" by Tom Hodgkinson publisher of the magazine The Idler. Loafing is nothing new to me, comes naturally. I idled through high school then went through a workaholic phase in the 80's and early 90's. Once a chronic illness caught up with me and landed me in the hospital I thought, "To hell with this working my ass off in jobs I hate". I couldn't keep up anymore, still I tried - out of guilt, out of the work ethic that my parents dedicated their lives to, out of fear of living on the streets, etc.
This past year been trying to be a social networking butterfly. I'm an introvert, I don't socialize well. I go through phases when I'm chatty and active, then pass into a period of enjoying silence and aloneness - lost in my thoughts, dreaming, lounging, napping, all that I consider to be part of the creative process: recharging my batteries.
Everything I've read about marketing insisted that the way to go was social networking. And doing so constantly. Keep producing content, keep producing content, on and on. In my attempt to network for business purposes and to meet other artists, I signed-up with all the cool new toys. Been so busy juggling and researching and figuring out all these new networking sites that I didn't have time to do what I really loved and what I was originally networking for. I think I'm just going to unhook myself from most of them - continue blogging, Twittering, and maybe a couple more. But, for the most part, bye bye social sites.
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