What is he building in there? November 9, 2008
Posted by Anthony Closkey in Boxes.Tags: art, Big Big Design, blogging, Cindy, Facebook, jumping in, Plurk, Twitter
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I work for Big Big Design. We, my sister Cindy and I, are a two people firm providing web stuff. Recently I’ve made the jump to get more involved so as to be a better resource to clients.
So far this includes Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Plurk. Each has it’s use, and I’m not convinced I’ll use any applications to automatically cross-post to them. Facebook is for friends and family, and sharing things I don’t necessarily want to share professionally. LinkedIn is a more professioanal profile and network. Twitter is a conversation to keep an ear to lastest happenings and tools in both arenas. And finally Plurk is a lounge with for a very small circle of friends. (Growing that circle will be too much chatter for me to follow.) So far so good.
But I want a more public home base for “Anthony Closkey, the dude from Big Big Design.” The me you meet at happy hour where I tell you about new ways to more substantially connect with customers and peers, and about the really cool things I heard in a podcast on the walk over. Here I’m publicly branding myself as a product offered by Big Big Design.
And so here we are, a web presence complete with a blog where I’ll post some ideas born of friends and findings and some other stuff I like.
This brings us to Bricks & Boxes, the domain I bought a little while back. (I reserve the right to suddenly change to Brick Sandboxes.) At the time I was looking to build digital gizmos to post. Collage and html gadgets, all really silly and trivial but hopefully cool. Little web sketches, if you will, in the spirit of Joseph Cornell. I still hope to do these, but we won’t post them exclusively.
Soap Bubble Set - from WebMuseum
Into great whatever-you-make-it November 9, 2008
Posted by Anthony Closkey in Boxes.Tags: jumping in, microblogging, movies, Plurk, tools, Twitter
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I’ve now jumped into Twitter (@anthonycloskey) and Plurk. So far it’s a lot to follow, but to me it is important to keep an ear to what’s happening. I follow sites in my feed reader and that in itself is overwhelming. In just a few days on Twitter I’ve found brilliant articles and another handful of sites I want to follow. More overwhelming? Yes. But I wasn’t finding this important stuff without it, right?
Don’t blame the messenger. It’s my job to navigate the massive cloud of feed. There are tools to help with the tools. Check out Twitip for an ongoing examination.
With the gentlest irony I share Into Great Silence.
This is a fine synopsis. It’s a documentary about the Grande Chartreuse monastary in the French Alps. These silent monks, it’s a lot of movie without talk, are inspiring. It is a simply magical display of discepline, ritual, and the power of prayer. It is also visually stunning.
