The other day, talflanchraych asked me why I didn’t have a newsletter. I told her that I had found the exercise to have been more time consuming than valuable.
It’s actually a bit more complicated.
I started my newsletter in Spring of 2008. I had a couple hundred people on my email…
Archives for 2014
approach
- follow the instructions. make sure it works the way the author intended first. arrive at a working state. this is usually not trivial.
- study its structure. change something small that is a step towards making the thing you are after.
- test to see if it still works.
- if it does, keep your change. if it does not, undo it to return to a working state.
- repeat from step 2 until you either give up or arrive at the thing you were after.
When you aren’t sure and want to step back, go HAM.
https://blog.rememberlenny.com/2014/08/20/when-you-arent-sure-and-want-to-step-back-go/
Recent projects
I have built a lot of 1 week graffiti experiments during the past few weeks
The last email was filled with graffiti pictures. It takes a while to put together, so I haven’t been driven to make a second one…yet. Ive made 13 different projects over the last few weeks.
Recently, I have built:
- web crawler,
- a machine learning graffiti detection tool,
- a portfolio tool for graffiti artists
, - a graffiti themed twitter bot
, - a aspiring weekly email newsletter
, - posters for self promotion
, - a small graffiti picture game
, - various website landing pages
, - a showcase of high profile graffiti in the news
, - a data visualization of a popular graffiti artist
, - many reddit experiments
, - multiple iterations of a landing page
, and - plenty of meetings/emails/blog posts.
Next four weeks: Community engagement
The next four weeks, I am going to focus on talking to people. I have 800 real people who followed my Twitter bot. I have 50 real people who signed up to my email news letter. I have hundreds of unique people who have come to my website and looked at stuff.
Im starting out by reaching out to the twitter people. I want to get 10 people who will champion all the work I do. I want to find 2 really well known (70k+ social media followers) graffiti/street artists who will experiment using my service.
In the next four weeks, I will do the following:
- Develop my personal brand
- Codify my technique for reaching out to and acquiring artists champions
- Establish a strong and growing list of art curators who will champion my work
- Launch
Created map example using JR
