@hg47's Blog: The Tweet & The TakeAway - Posts Tagged "twin-towers"

Artists only get paid if they go viral.

Sometimes not even then.

My personal take on great artists and writers is that they do it WRONG over and over until their personal Wrongness gets noticed, and proclaimed a New Form of Right. That's just my personal take.

I have no clue how to turn your personal Wrongness into a new form of Right; but I did go viral once.

1306 days ago, I tweeted a Twitter Art sequence of #140art tweets of an airplane crashing into the Twin Towers. The next day I tweeted the same sequence without the hashtag.

Within a 24-hour period I was retweeted more than 10,000 times. One of the tweets got more than 4,500 retweets.

That was my moment of viral infamy.

For me, my Art and Music and Writing has been more about patience than skill. Endurance is possibly more important than both of them together.

@hg47