An Artist's Life - Twitchin' for Attention

These days it's easier now than ever for everyone (I mean, EVERYONE) to get their fifteen minutes of fame (which was famously quoted by the legendary Andy Warhol) via such apps as Youtube and Twitch. The latter is primarily for live streaming video games though other activities such as cooking and art are also featured regularly. I could not help but give into the temptation of putting my big pretty face in front of a webcam and show myself playing video games as of late, back when the lockdown was still in effect due to the COVID-19 panic, and there was only so much of my energy I could really pour into just drawing and painting (or simply put, when I run into that dreaded "block"). There were couple other reasons too, actually. One was to overcome the "stage fright" I always get when I get myself in front of an audience of any size, big and small. Secondly being an artist these days means I need to really put my @$$ out there in the open and promote away so people can at least see that I the artist actually exist. Now streaming myself playing video games terribly (yes, I play terribly) may not seem like anything-considering this is a very dense field and millions of people go online doing the same thing daily so it takes tremendous effort to stand out of the crop- and has no way to do with my art. But I came to believe there is no right or wrong way to promote myself. Anything I can do to attract some fish to my bait line I must be willing to walk over my limits. And besides I like video games, I always have since the 8-bit Nintendo days, so it's a win-win.

My Twitch channel, should you choose to be interested, can be found on the sidebar of my blog page, or on the Twitch site where I operate under the moniker atAaLLGIRL. To date I have maintained an average a paltry 0 viewers. I'm a humorless stiff but I've tried to change that. Initially it felt weird talking out loud to myself (especially when I read out the subtitles from the games) but on the bright side I get a good tongue exercise out of it. And even if nobody wants to watch me babble on and play a really bad round of Mortal Kombat 11 or get stuck on a particular level in a platformer, at least they can browse my channel page and hopefully click on one of the links that goes to my website or other social media channels and find out about my art. Anything to get attention, you know.

Thank you for reading!