@ Arin Crumley: “How Do You Integrate Your Audience Into Your Lifestyle?”
“There’s just a volume that we all have - a particular wavelength that’s affecting others (- which is why I don’t think privacy really exists). It’s also why I don’t think you can put a shield up to protect people from understanding you. People are inherently going to understand you for who you are so you might as well help them in that process. Be open and honest.”
- Part of Arin’s answer to my second question: ‘How do you integrate your audience into your lifestyle?’.
In his full answer, Arin explores what it means to share yourself and your life online. He sees ‘audience’ as really a network of peers - and the term ‘audience’ itself as just another word for human interaction.
This kind of perspective informs how Arin relates to and with his audience and how he approaches the internet as really just an extension of the physical world.
What I find most interesting about that concept, if you take it on board, is the way it at once makes life both a constant performance and a never-performance. - It seems in that sense that a film is just a moment - and that ones web presence for the film is it’s natural tendency to have an existence beyond it’s otherwise highly constructed borders.
I can see how the ideas Arin expresses here inform the process of a person whose work is very much about his life - and whose audience relationship is built upon that foundation. I think Arin’s a good case study in terms of audience intimacy.
I once heard an excellent tip that I’m reminded of here: - that your online audience will usually respond to you in the same manner that you communicate with them. It seems there are many ways to relate with your audience and that it’s usually good to be conscious of where you’re positioning yourself in relation to them - and how that actually defines the kind of relationship you’re going to have.
Listen HERE to Arin’s full answer to question 2…… >>>
Arin is currently working on As The Dust Settles. Click here for his bio on the Power to the Pixel website.
