in the woods

I'm impressed with twitter today.

I've previously failed to understand the whole hashtag - @ thing, the impersonality of it, the point if no one really wants to listen to what you're saying (pretty much my case at the moment... a measly 32 followers). The fact that the majority of my friends do not have twitter, and if they do most of them don't know what to do with it.

My internship at a newspaper has dragged my twitter account out of stagnation - the instancy of it means that you either have to be on the computer all day (as I am) or have a smartphone (I unfortunately do not).
So after a failed fox-related vox pop attempt I'd been chatting to one of my only friendlings who has a mass of followers and followees, a wicked blog and a sense of technology and media.

I lamented in twitter-speak that not many people are interested in what I have to say and she retweeted my vox pop to some hundred of her followers after telling me to just follow anything of interest. I got an instant reply and struck up a mico-convo with this complete stranger.

I checked his blog out too and he looks like such an interesting person - if I understand correctly he directed, or helped to direct, this:






Its strikingly beautiful. I like it because its completely lovely and innocent - of only real life was like this...! (including having a guy who can do capoiera)...

His website is amazing too, check out all sorts of mini films at http://www.milkyfilms.com
The song, incidentally, is 'In The Woods' by Ed Hope & Friends. Love it!

And I got this from a complete chance meeting online, someone whom I'll never meet or even speak to in person - and this is where twitter differs from facebook. twitter is impersonal flashes of information, just superficial levels of information which lead to deeper discoveries. facebook is a personality splash-out, which is often not that great (how I loathe those people who update their statuses about their feelings every half hour...ug).