So in the grand scheme of anti-social networking, Twitter seems to be the least shit social network.
There’s obviously been a lot of focus on it lately with Godzillionaire Musk likely acquiring to become their new Supreme Overlord. We’re all for free speech too but that would only work in tandem with people being required to use their real names online. Because “PepeMAGANation’s” disgusting shit posting allowed under “free speech” is going to be much less extreme and say quite very different things than if they instead were only able to use the service under their real identity of “Bill Jones” who works in accounting.
In addition to increasing their character count from the original 140 characters from early days SMS messaging to now doubling that to a count of 280, in the last year or two Twitter has opened up a lot more options for photographers. Allowing photos to be posted without limiting characters and also enabling nice photo collages.
Thus we’ve recently zero’d out our Twitter and have decided to use it almost exclusively to post our photography. Which is perfect for the platform because we try with our still images, just like all of our works, to not only create something of high production value in terms of aesthetic, but also have the work have something to say. Thus years ago we started posting our photography, specifically our street photography, under the title of “Philosophical Photography'“ in which we also included a caption with each photo which highlighted some of the who, what, where, when, why reasons we captured the image in the first place. But we’ve only really ever kept that stuff on our website. Which suffice to say, does not lean that well to new discoverability.
There have been new updates in the platforms guidelines in which users can now have unauthorized photos of themselves deleted by others who post them more easily. Which can create problems for the medium of street photography, most of our style of which happens candidly and rarely without permission. However we figured we’d roll with it there anyway. Increasingly learning to keep the half of our work which talks more about ancient wisdom traditions and spiritual self development more for an inner courtyard, while the other half which focuses more on philosophies of life, personal development, and artistic creativity for more public consumption. Since photography is one of the top hobby’s in the world, us sharing that aspect of our work publicly while also encoding some tiny amount of that information through a photography medium is how we roll.
Our personal Twitter:
https://twitter.com/nilesheckman
Shamans of the Global Village Twitter (Run by this nice bloke Jarad Blowatt, who just wan’t to help the show)
https://twitter.com/ShamansGV