I kind of feel like I might have an explanation for missing the deadline for the artist profile post on this blog.. For my profile paper, I am chosing critically acclaimed political cartoonist David Rees, mostly known through his "Get Your War On"-cartoons that he published during the presidency of George W. Bush. He has a Wikipedia entry, that mainly focuses on his past achievements as a cartoonist. Currently, he centers on - manual pencil sharpening. I had to contact a friend of my parents' in San Diego, who is an artist herself (www.muellerswanson.com), and who paints and draws a lot, to find out about his name again and his website, but I couldn't get a hold of her until now.
At any rate, David Rees has his own homepage (www.artisanalpencilsharpening.com) that is all about him sharpening state-of-the-art pencils by hand in New York's Hudson River Valley. You can buy them at his homepage for 15$ a piece. Plus, blogs like thisburgess.blogspot.com, as well as traditional media like the LA Times ans The Guardian wrote about him. He has a business model and a good sense of humor ("...every pencil David Rees sharpens is shipped with a signed and dated certificate authenticating that it is now a dangerous object."). But first and foremost, he might be as nichy as it gets...
Ok, but what is the content that he is distributing? The cartoons that he used to draw were mainstream media. Certainly pencil sharpening is niche - but does he use Twitter? Facebook? YouTube? I wasn't seeing that there was really anything on his website that you could analyze. I think you need to revisit whether this will be appropriate.
ReplyDeleteYes, this sounds right. But actually he puts a lot of stuff out there on Twitter (http://twitter.com/#!/letsgetshort), plus he blogs on his own homepage (http://www.mnftiu.cc/) and on the blog good.is. He also promotes comedy shows on his homepage, and he is on Facebook (not a fan's page)...
ReplyDeleteOk, the new links make it much clearer what he is doing. So he is pretty much self-publishing and doing everything online, now, right? Then he will be ok. Approved.
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