Woah, so last night I was doing my usual round of (soulless) self promotion. Sending out a couple messages on facebook, twitter, and a quick Reddit post. When I notice that I'm getting a strange preponderance of messages and people asking for sculptures... all in a very short period of time. I thought maybe my Reddit post had taken off, as occasionally one is wont to do, but I noticed it had garnered like 1 comment and maybe 100 views (which seemed decent to me), not enough to cause a stir. Anyway a little while later I get a message from a friend on facebook, that I was on the front page of Reddit (a big deal). Turned out that he had compiled a bunch of the photos from the blogposts and thrown them up in the Imgur image hosting website and linked to it [ here ], with a much more adroit title, and it had already been receiving a ton of attention. So I spent most of last night trying to prove that I actually was the guy who made all those sculptures that the people were talking about, which felt a little like I was running around in my own art show yelling out "I'm the guy!" to a bunch of people who are like "who is this crazy person?"... which was an interesting dilemma, for the first couple hours. But eventually word spread that I was really me, and I was graced with a lot of new orders for sculptures, and it even caused me to rally my web-editing energy and build a new page on my website which gives simple instructions on how to purchase a sculpture [ here ].
I was notified today that some of the pictures in the album created by my friend received as many as 240,000 views... woah. That's pretty sweet! So I just wanted to shoot a big Thank You to my friend who posted my work on Reddit and to the whole Reddit community. That was really cool!
And here is a photo of a little monster I made 3 or 4 years ago, a sort of ancestor of the whole Kickstarter Project. Photo Courtesy of Alex Ogle
his name is Mojo.
8 comments:
Awesome man! So cool you got more orders, and even prompted you to steamline the ordering process on the website!
Funnily enough re: reddit, I just remembered now that for the reddit gifts christmas thing a few years ago I actually printed and framed one of the photos I took of your sculptures, this one > http://bit.ly/rbURJp
And also this has now prompted me to save up a bit to get a little sculpture for myself! I'll get back to you in a few months about it.
Thanks again man, I was being discreet, about your actual name in reference to the post, not sure of the reddiquette on that issue, so I didn't want to be to blatant about that... but I guess you don't seem to mind, so good looks! You seem to have the touch.
Funny thing though, I post a couple links to this blog as a follow up and still receive only a single down vote total. What's the secret to good reddit posting?
Way to go Zac! You're becoming a serious business man. Now raise your prices!!! You're giving theses things away for free. When you have too much work, your prices are too low.
I hear ya Bro, prices are going up... but I'm doin it incrementally.
Don't know too much secret to good reddit posting apart from everyone likes imgur, trust it more in the url than a blogspot address, I guess? and also think it works a lot more when it's 'hey check this out I know such and such does this cool thing,' like I did with your sculptures. I knew you had cool work, so posted em and people liked them, as opposed to 'I did this, check out my blog' - the content is the same but perhaps people may be more likely to give it a shot on imgur.
Yeah, I hear ya, I certainly feel shallow when I post things like that.
Damn Alex, you are right about the trusted quality of imgur. I need to work on my post titles now, appealing to Karma seems to be in the poorest of taste.
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