Thanks for this one, Dan! It’s good to hear that there are other creatives out there who refuse to publish only one niche of their work just to hit insane like counts and to please the algorithms. I work the same and you are a good example to look up to and remind me to stick to my ideas!
Awesome Dan! It’s been fun to watch the evolution from the Smogranch days. Good luck with the new site! Your video makes me think of a podcast I heard a little while ago discussing this idea of celebrating/embracing being a “multi-passionate creative,” as opposed to “niching down.” It’s kind of anti-thesis to what we here a lot of individuals tell us to do, but a fascinating argument for sure. Keep up the good work! I always enjoy your videos and listening to your perspective. 👍
Wow, the Smogranch days.......that's what started it all. And yes, the balance between being GREAT at one thing, which is key, but not allowing that ONE thing to be everything.
Funny how we watch video and listen to audio only to remember a "line" or a "sound-bite," which is to your (well-said) point about still and copy. Just stopped mid-sentence to look at your "new" site. Very first thing...It feels good. I like the layout and navigation. Congrats! And hey, kinda like the "Sunday Morning with Milnor" (if that becomes a segment...Your welcome).
Yes, people don’t like multiple interests. I do two completely different kinds of music, plus photography. The thing I am least interested in is the thing most people follow me for - bane of my life. A ‘hipster dude’ told me I wasn’t successful (their judgement, not mine) was because I wasn’t relentlessly promoting my electronic music - and confusing people by posting general photographs and making the odd social/political comment. In the end I don’t care. I appreciate your videos.
A lot of these folks grew up with the con being part and parcel of life. Fake it till you make it mentality, so whatever is required to build the largest following possible is what will drive them. Just take one look at photography on YT.
OMG! Just clicking through your blog and hit upon this picture from Oct. 9, 2014. Is there a way to do an On Photography request and is this print for sale? Don't know why, just love this photo.
@@DANIELMILNOR505 It looks like a dune buggy race taken at night with a slow shutter speed. Steaks of light everywhere. It's a still image that just keeps racing along. Oh, The Leica File 9. Page 864 of 882.
Very good! I'm a big fan of image and audio. I'm weening myself off social media with only IG left to go. Which leaves my website as the only outlet for showing work. How to get eyeballs/interest is the big question.
I share in your rejection of the idea (and the bad advice) to contour and curtail oneself to conform to the operation of an algorithm. I think that's the kind of thinking that needs a good kick in the nuts. Real people will not find other interesting real people to interact with by imitating a machine mind. What was it that Number Six said? ... "I am not a number, I am a free man!"
Onwards and upwards… and I’ll be tagging along and trying to keep up…. A thought on the text + images concept: I wonder how many of us have lost (or at least had weakened) our ability to focus long enough to read anything beyond a single paragraph or two of text in one sitting. I know I struggle to put down my iPad and stop reading news-feed snippets or watching CZcams videos and pick up a novel or other printed source. Even with longer essays online, I find it a challenge to stay focused. Now I AM getting long in the tooth (I can remember Elvis’ TV debut on the Ed Sullivan Show), so maybe there’s an organic reason for this. Guess I’m saying, don’t make the texts too long 🥴 Cheers.
The physicality of your brain has changed. Literally. Read "The Shallows." First an essay in the Atlantic, followed by the book. About what the internet and social in particular have done to our brains. Reading this was one of the reasons I killed FB and IG and Pinterest and a range of others.
Dan, is your intro intentionally 4x louder than the audio of the video? Or, am I the only one who experiences a very noticeable difference between the shift intro and then the audio of Dan talking? For me, it’s easily 3-4x louder than him talking.
Great to hear. Not interested in the short play, yep long play's the way to go. Well my philosophy anyways. Not sure I'm any good at building community and all but time will tell. Kudo's to you for sticking to your guns.
I've always liked the idea of journaling photography.
The best.
Joined and joined.
Gracias!
Thanks for this one, Dan! It’s good to hear that there are other creatives out there who refuse to publish only one niche of their work just to hit insane like counts and to please the algorithms. I work the same and you are a good example to look up to and remind me to stick to my ideas!
Yes, we are the minority but we are growing. At least I think so.
Looking forward to the “new” site!!
Awesome Dan! It’s been fun to watch the evolution from the Smogranch days. Good luck with the new site!
Your video makes me think of a podcast I heard a little while ago discussing this idea of celebrating/embracing being a “multi-passionate creative,” as opposed to “niching down.” It’s kind of anti-thesis to what we here a lot of individuals tell us to do, but a fascinating argument for sure.
Keep up the good work! I always enjoy your videos and listening to your perspective. 👍
Wow, the Smogranch days.......that's what started it all. And yes, the balance between being GREAT at one thing, which is key, but not allowing that ONE thing to be everything.
Always excited about what you produce , looking forward to seeing the new site
Have the same problem. I can’t focus on just one thing. I’m looking forward to the various choices on the new site. I appreciate you doing this.
one thing would kill me too.
Very cool. Now I need to learn about Discord....
You and me both.
Funny how we watch video and listen to audio only to remember a "line" or a "sound-bite," which is to your (well-said) point about still and copy. Just stopped mid-sentence to look at your "new" site. Very first thing...It feels good. I like the layout and navigation. Congrats! And hey, kinda like the "Sunday Morning with Milnor" (if that becomes a segment...Your welcome).
I like the new feel too, and thank you. Feels cool and calm. Sunday mornings..with me, never know what you will get.
I’m excited for you! Good luck with it!
Yes, people don’t like multiple interests. I do two completely different kinds of music, plus photography. The thing I am least interested in is the thing most people follow me for - bane of my life. A ‘hipster dude’ told me I wasn’t successful (their judgement, not mine) was because I wasn’t relentlessly promoting my electronic music - and confusing people by posting general photographs and making the odd social/political comment.
In the end I don’t care. I appreciate your videos.
A lot of these folks grew up with the con being part and parcel of life. Fake it till you make it mentality, so whatever is required to build the largest following possible is what will drive them. Just take one look at photography on YT.
OMG! Just clicking through your blog and hit upon this picture from Oct. 9, 2014. Is there a way to do an On Photography request and is this print for sale? Don't know why, just love this photo.
My internet is too slow for me to hunt this. Can you describe the image?
@@DANIELMILNOR505 It looks like a dune buggy race taken at night with a slow shutter speed. Steaks of light everywhere. It's a still image that just keeps racing along. Oh, The Leica File 9. Page 864 of 882.
I am leaving Insta. Thanks "uncle" Dan!😉
Give it two weeks. You might physically detox, don't feel bad. But after two weeks, if you can cut it completely, you just might feel like a new man.
Very good! I'm a big fan of image and audio. I'm weening myself off social media with only IG left to go. Which leaves my website as the only outlet for showing work. How to get eyeballs/interest is the big question.
Make great work. Share it slowly and when you have something good and just keep plugging. Ten real people is better than 1000 bots and strangers.
Odotan innolla, as we Finns say.
Gotta get to Finland. I think a workshop would be fun. Then some slow travel.
I share in your rejection of the idea (and the bad advice) to contour and curtail oneself to conform to the operation of an algorithm. I think that's the kind of thinking that needs a good kick in the nuts. Real people will not find other interesting real people to interact with by imitating a machine mind.
What was it that Number Six said? ... "I am not a number, I am a free man!"
Onwards and upwards… and I’ll be tagging along and trying to keep up….
A thought on the text + images concept: I wonder how many of us have lost (or at least had weakened) our ability to focus long enough to read anything beyond a single paragraph or two of text in one sitting. I know I struggle to put down my iPad and stop reading news-feed snippets or watching CZcams videos and pick up a novel or other printed source. Even with longer essays online, I find it a challenge to stay focused. Now I AM getting long in the tooth (I can remember Elvis’ TV debut on the Ed Sullivan Show), so maybe there’s an organic reason for this. Guess I’m saying, don’t make the texts too long 🥴 Cheers.
The physicality of your brain has changed. Literally. Read "The Shallows." First an essay in the Atlantic, followed by the book. About what the internet and social in particular have done to our brains. Reading this was one of the reasons I killed FB and IG and Pinterest and a range of others.
Dan, is your intro intentionally 4x louder than the audio of the video? Or, am I the only one who experiences a very noticeable difference between the shift intro and then the audio of Dan talking? For me, it’s easily 3-4x louder than him talking.
Maybe. Or it could be an accident. My goal is to shock you into watching....
Great to hear. Not interested in the short play, yep long play's the way to go. Well my philosophy anyways. Not sure I'm any good at building community and all but time will tell. Kudo's to you for sticking to your guns.
Living a long play life is such a wonderful thing. Makes me feel like I have a secret.
The still images coming out of Ukraine are significantly more powerful than the videos.
Stills get seared to our brains.