#igdevelopment

I am starting to find iG quite restrictive because the work I post has to be visually consistent or at least visually evolving over the page...there are side projects I’m working on that I would like to have a place to share and talk about in a lot more detail.

I looked at when my website was renewing and it is scheduled for the 1st of may - I have made the decision to cancel my cargo collective subscription and begin one with squarespace - squarespace has an offer with kingston uni so I can get it half price and it allows an integrated blog / easy sales integration. 

iG Has proved useful the past few weeks in connecting me with artists and collectives.

My friend Lucas has begun a group called ‘distance collective’, everyweek a new word is published, last week “reflections” and you have a week to respond to the word in whatever way you can. 

I am receiving an online portfolio review from a  member of Revolv Collective.

I have been trying to use the platform in a more generic way this week. Posting work in progress and pictures of myself so that visitors can see I am a real human being making real things. 

I have not been so wholeheartedly using hashtags this week - If I’m honest I keep forgetting once I have posted. 

Over the last week I have made 6 new posts to iG. One of which is a iGTV video of  my enter the simulation project from 2017. Any video over 60 seconds gets added as a iGTV vid -- once iG vids are uploaded you can add a swipe up to stories that will link the viewer directly to the video. 

In the last week I have posted twice to iG. One image is of a 3d scan of one of my masks - a work in progress and the second is of some sketchbook work demonstrating my mood boards. 

I have gained 30 odd followers in the last week but have also followed around 100 new accounts.