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I’ve heard so much about Periscope over the last few months that over time it seeped into my consciousness as this vaguely threatening, building-size, mildly horny beast looming in the shadows of the things I knew I should really check out.
Why threatening? Mostly because I didn’t really know anything about it other than what people raved about.
Also, because I can be cranky, and I don’t think I’d found the right people to follow. The few ‘scopes* I tried watching seemed, frankly, rambling or dull, or, let’s be honest, Gary Vaynerchuck way too early in the morning.
But deep down, I knew Periscope would probably rock my world. I do, after all, love video, and I’ve experienced through the classes I teach how fabulous a medium it is for makers of any kind. I just needed to poke around it on my own, and figure out for myself what I want to do with it.
Then my friend Meighan O’Toole posted a link to this Academy of Handmade post about Periscope, and I didn’t read it. But I did decide that it was time. I just had to dive in. Dive in blind and see what I turned up.
And so I got all set to do my morning workout yesterday, then realized that while I usually put that off as long as possible, on that day I was using it as an excuse to put Periscope off as long as possible. So I switched around my plan, and in my hideous workout shirt, I just ripped the bandage off and fired up Periscope.
That’s a copy of my first scope, above. I was not kidding when I said my workout shirt is awful. (You can follow me on Periscope right here.)
(Meighan wrote a post about her first Periscope broadcast, too, but I haven’t read it because I want to write mine first, without unintentionally nicking any of her ideas or notes. You should read hers. She’s way less rambly than I am.)
I’m going to try to make Periscope a regular part of my week. Maybe even more than once a week. And I have a harebrained idea about a series of scopes I’d like to do. It’s an idea I need your help with.
Do you know the YouTube phenom called unboxing? It’s when someone films their opening of of a product for the first time. Often it’s electronics (oh, the unboxing frenzy when a new iPhone is released), sometimes it’s of any other kind of product. Anyway.
I want to do a series of scopes where I try a new art or craft technique for the very first time. Which is not at all like unboxing, except where it’s like unboxing trying something new. I’ll call it… #firsttimemake, or something like that (suggestions welcome!).
I recognize that this may result in major failures and/or actual bodily harm, on live video. I’m cool with that.
And I need your help compiling a list of things to try for the first time. When I attempt to make such a list on my own, I come up with zilch. Which is dumb, because there are so many things I’ve never tried before.
Please comment or shoot me a note and rattle off a bunch of things you’d like to see me attempt to make for the first time in a live broadcast!
I will, obviously, discard suggestions that might burn my house down, and I’m going to prioritize projects that won’t require me to purchase anything new (but if something excites me, I’ll totally purchase something new to make it).
These can be things you think I’ll be interested in or have fun with, or things you’re interested in, or things you think will simply be fun to watch me bumble through. Whatever.
I admit I feel some concern that no one else will think this idea is brilliant. If you think it’d be even remotely cool to watch, please shoot me an idea. Even a dumb one. Even one you haven’t thought through. If even one person responds with an idea, I will consider my assessment of brilliance to be totally bang-on, and I will prepare to make that thing for the first time in a live broadcast for you to enjoy (or mock; whatever).
Let’s see where this goes, eh?
* People call broadcasts scopes. I’m confident they don’t use an apostrophe at the beginning to mark the chopped-off syllable, but since I’m writing and not talking and I’m cranky, I’m using it here, at least for this very first post about Periscope.
Just recently started following people on Periscope, and it really is fun to watch the live-action – I can definitely see the appeal vs all of the work that goes into traditional videos. And loved watching yours here on your blog (I never catch live videos, just don’t have the time!). Thanks for sharing.
Sorry, no suggestions for future projects at the moment.
Oooh, I can give you a list of ideas (it’s a special skill of mine). This is a fantastic idea! Reverse applique, hand worked buttonhole, hand pricked zipper, bias tape applique, some level of crazy quilting (the patchwork or the embroidery embellishments), rope coil bowl, dancing marionette (however you want!), cardboard house (like those Christmas house people make for their mantles?), burlap wreath (not my style, but popular on pinterest), bottlecap craft, origami shape you’ve never made, t-shirt yarn (and crochet with it!), crepe paper flowers, stitched bookbinding, pinhole art, glass etching.
I love watching periscopes, but when people watch them over my shoulder they always comment about the rambling unfinished nature. I also don’t like it when people take a lot of time at the beginning saying hi to everyone who’s joining, mostly because I’m usually watching later and it’s not easy to skip around or tell how long the video is going to be.