Social Meteor Tentacles

 

This is the second of three custom headers I've worked up for Troy Janisch's blog, Social Meteor. They are sized at 940 x 150 pixels for the Genesis WordPress theme.

 

Social Meteor Monster

This is the first of three custom headers I've worked up for Troy Janisch's blog, Social Meteor. They are sized at 940 x 150 pixels for the Genesis WordPress theme.

Mandatory Renaissance Mondays

For those of you in Pittsburgh and Green Bay enjoying your “wear your jersey to work” day, remember that management is setting a precident. One that can (and probably will) go horribly, horribly wrong.

Vlad was not one of the sexy vampires

 

 

Write drunk, edit sober

While not the best advice to give an alcoholic, the spirit of the phrase is a great way to defeat writer's block. 

Not all of your prose will magically flow onto the page in perfect order. So just write something, the crappier and more senseless the better. You'll find it self-correcting, starting to flow. Go with it until it seems like you're forcing things. Then stop.

You can always cut and paste later, move it around. Read it out loud and say to yourself, "wow, what was I drinking?" 

Just show up at the page.

Cletus?

I found this one in my scan archives. Mysterious markings date it on March 1st of an unspecified year and apparently adjacent to a meeting Shoutlet. 

Evil Priest

This guy ended up looking a lot like Billy Corgan on the Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness tour. Suffice it to say, I recommend that you thoroughly investigate the individual in which you trust your eternal salvation. 

You should make sure they actually have your best interest in mind, are in no way evil and, most of all, you should make sure they're not a diminutive leader of an indy band that got blown off the stage by Pearl Jam at the Madison Civic Center on Halloween night back in the early 90's.

Cthulu sketch

Just for fun, a quick scan from one of my sketchbook. Probably from around a year ago when I was reading a lot of H. P. Lovecraft.

Fhtagn.

Don’t be a social automaton

I doodled this for a post by Troy Janisch for SmartBrief

Jargon and biznospeak has no place in social media. Social media was designed for human interactions. You know, stuff like LOLCats and pictures of that omelette you’re about to eat. Here’s a link to the post, Social Pro Files: Considering the human costs of social currency and here’s a shameless link to my Zazzle store where you can buy a t-shirt of the angry rampaging robot.

There’s nothing social about mass media

“Relationship-building is NOT accomplished through billboard-type advertising, Conversation is not media. It’s not measured in terms of pageviews. As Publishers, we can “say” that it is measured that way, so that we can walk around the roomful of conversations and sell ad space on our sandwich boards, but in and of itself, ENGAGEMENT and INTELLIGENCE are the opportunities in Social, NOT media. These conversations are happening right now, 24 hours a day. As brands, we can choose to Engage, we can choose to Listen; or we can choose to Opt-Out of the conversations entirely and just go buy a sandwich board to announce that our brand is in the room.”

via As an industry, if we’re still looking at the Social opportunity in terms of “Media” and “Pageviews”, we need a new lens or a new pair of glasses..