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Social Media Platfrom
Twitter is a social media platform that most people think is just for publicly saying nonsense like “I just took a shit!”, however my experience with twitter is much different. Twitter is a useful platform for engaging with specific groups of people. Much like other websites, you can post texts, photos, gifs and videos. Your profile consists of your name and username, profile picture and header, a bio with a limited number of characters, along with a separate place for your location, website and birthday. You can also tag other accounts in your bio, which is useful when you have both a personal and business account. You can also have a “pinned tweet” at the top of your profile, which is useful if there’s a post that you want people to see once they click on your profile. This is a helpful way to promote your work and other information that can get you hired. Twitter has a direct messenger which is all in the twitter app. You can have the option to have only people you’re following to be able to message you, or you can leave your DMs open so that anyone can reach out. There is a feature called “Lists” which is a great tool for staying in the loop with specific people. You can have different lists for various reasons, such as “NYC Photographers”, if you’re looking for other artists who may be showing at galleries that you would want to know about. You choose who you want to be in each different list. This makes it easier to like and retweet from certain people rather than having tweets from everyone you follow on one timeline. You can also “bookmark” tweets that you want to go back and engage with or just to save it for reference. Twitter also has a search option, so if you’re looking for a specific tweet, you can type in the persons username and the word that you’re looking for (from: @ and phrase). If you’re looking for a broader tweet such as “assistant needed” from photographers you’re following, you can type this in the search bar and narrow it down from everyone to people you follow. You can even narrow it down more by changing the location from anywhere to near you. While Twitter may be know as the site that people goof off on, I find that these features are helpful to artists who are looking to network with like-minded people.
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Black Mirror-Nosedive
This show has an interesting take on how large of a role social media plays in our daily lives.In this episode, the people go by rating every interaction they have with another person, the ratings are displayed by the person. People post pictures to their feed and receive ratings on there as well. It goes as far as the people having a contact lens in their eye to let the constantly have access to everybody’s online profile. People are even considered “influencers” if they have a rating over 4.5 and get perks like discounts for this. People with low ratings are typically avoided by those with higher ratings. There are even counselors to show people where they should improve socially to increase their ratings.
Laci is someone who becomes obsessed with rankings. Even embarrassed with the rating of her own brother. She puts on a fake front to try to get an influencer status to get a high class apartment. In this process, she begins trying to hard to impress her childhood best friend. This causes the beginning of her rating downfall. Laci has several obstacles getting to the wedding and in an effort to get the votes of other people, brings her ratings further down. She gets caught up in this, and ultimately destroys the person she tried so hard to build. Her obsession with this form of social media leads her to a prison cell. The only positive effect this rating system has is on the people who already have high ratings.
I am curious if people have a choice to participate in this rating system or not. We all have access to social media, but some of us choose not to us it. There are many toxic aspects to social media that people stay away from, and this episode shows one of those. People let numbers and like get to their head and control who they are and what matters to them. I am also curious if all people start off with a ranking of 0 and increase from there, or start at a 5 and go down.
I do feel this episode shows somewhat realistic effects of social media. People do get perks for how they are viewed on social media. People who are viewed as influencers in real life do gain bonuses, like sponsorships. People who are freelancers have a better chance at getting hired when their engagement is better, as more people will see their work and know who they are. When meeting someone new, myself and many others check their feeds to see what their interests are and to get a general sense of who they are. These aspects of the show make it realistic to a degree. I feel that we are far from a world where social media controls us this much. People today heavily rely on social media for various reasons, but I can’t see a future where we become what we post.
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Sam Cannon Interview
Just focus on the thing that you really like doing and put all of your time and effort into it.
Did you always know that you wanted to be an artist?
I knew that I was always going to do things that were a way of working through my creative needs and desires, even when I was in school studying photography I didn’t think that I would be able to make a living through it and was kind of more trying to find the tools and learn the things that I could so that I could make the things that I wanted to make, but fully expected to graduate and get a job working at another studio, assisting, or some form of managerial role or maybe working at a gallery. So, the desire to make wasn’t going to go anywhere but it was really surprising to me that the jobs lined up.
How did you find your first job after graduation?
I was working a lot before I graduated so the first job that I got that was in the field that I was going to end up making money in (animation world) I was making gifs and posting them to tumblr and there was this other artist who was working with gifs, their name was Mr.Gif, they are a duo and they were a couple years older than me and making the same type of work that I was making, except they were getting paid for it and I had never seen that before and they were clearly getting commercial jobs to make gifs which I had never seen before. It was the thing that I was doing for fun. So, when I saw that I was like wait nobody told me that you could do this! So, I just emailed them and sent them my stuff offering to be an assistant or second shooter and that I would love to shadow them and they were kind enough to let me do that. I ended up going with them to this shoot for St Ives in Hawaii. They helped me out a lot just to understand that if you were serious about it, people would find you for it.
What is your favorite part about your job?
I think my favorite part aside from the satisfaction of knowing even when I’m working a project that is really frustrating, Im doing the thing that I wanted to do and that feels really good, but more than anything its just really cool to be a young women and walk onto a set and have other young women not realize that you are going to be the director/photographer and when they realize that they are very pleasantly surprised that feels really good
Favorite networking tips?
I go to events and try to meet people, I don’t have any business cards or anything like that, one thing that I do is just give them my Instagram, which at first is kind of funny and awkward and if they’re older they might like roll their eyes, but if they do it, it forces them to see my work.
What inspires you?
I get inspired by paintings, I think painting in sculpture is such an additive process where there’s noting and they make it into something. And my friends who are here in they city making really dope stuff, going out and seeing them and supporting them is always really helpful and, motivating. And I love watching movies with really dumb, cheesy effects. And also, I don’t have time to read so I listen to a lot of audio books while I edit and I feel like that helps keep me in a mindset to prevent me from getting visually burnt out so I think finding other forms of media/entertainment that you can get from outside a screen is really helpful.
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Untitled by elsa bleda Via Flickr: Johannesburg
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Japan - literally a vending machine on every corner
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