Skinner & T'witch and Google+

I mentioned in an earlier post that I went to see some music last Thursday, and I talked about how I got talking to the featured act of the night: Skinner & T'witch. I shared the blog post I wrote with them on their Facebook page, and since then they've got back to me expressing their appreciation. They've also shared the YouTube video I made of us lot singing along to their first performance of their 'Googling song'. What I've learned through this whole experience is that:

If you make that effort and go that extra little bit further, then good things will start to happen. There's really no harm in being proactive about your creative lifestyle.

There's a chance I've made a connection in those two, whether it's for graphic design reasons, or even if it's just that I'm now in the loop of their musical circle and stay up to date on their social on-goings.

On another note, I've started to appreciate the untapped potential that there is in Google+, the way I see it at the moment is at a kind of mid-point between Facebook and LinkedIn in terms of it's social stance that's centred around professionalism and has quite a fun edge to it. I'm currently trying to promote myself through it, because like I said, it is a small online community so far compared to Facebook, Twitter etc. yet there are still those how assign themselves to groups, graphic design within Google+ is therefore a very niche area, and if I approach it correctly, I could maximise this potential to make a name for myself. Here's a quick snippet of a blog post I shared on Google+ (see below). Also, really weird, but apparently I've already had 45,000 profile page views? If that's the case then it's even more beneficial for me to be utilising this online stage.

I thought using this image would be a good idea, even though it was taken a couple of years ago, it's still my work and captures that sense of mystery. Plus it's cool as f**k.