
This is story about the beautiful stuff that Social Media can do. Two days ago while I again stayed up waaay past midnight (twittering the night away) an incredible thing happened. I somehow found a writer
Warren Ellis from (bloody) England, who described himself on Twitter as
"English Writer. Not Australian Musician. Hasn't slept since 1985." and I thought: that is a genius! I went checked his site
warrenellis.com, and after a five minutes I felt really satisfied that I again found someone really interesting to follow.
YES!
Warren Ellis is
the award-winning creator of graphic novels such as FELL, MINISTRY OF SPACE, PLANETARY, and TRANSMETROPOLITAN, and the author of “underground classic” CROOKED LITTLE VEIN. Naturally I clicked "follow". After this I'd usually just click myself off, but since his last tweet was actually a simple question about what people do in their lives (he has over 21.000 followers!) I was like, well, I'll answer this one ...
@WarrenEllis So what do you people (the ones I don't already know) do for a living?@MartaLamovsek basically I make icons out of people I like."Basically I make icons out of people I like." (Yes, originally mine, and you can quote me forever!:) Surely that kinda tweet reply could sound
dodgy but I basically wrote how
I would really want to describe it. And apparently - being true to yourself hasn't lost its appeal, also on Twitter... because it turned out that only a few hours later
sleepless writer Warren Ellis was posting
my photographs on his blog. When I saw this today I said to myself: now THAT was a bloody good Twittering a night away ...
Basically I want to read
all of his books - and then I'd made him a cover for his next one! :)
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