mosaic + squidoo

02 Jul, 2008

Giant Squid Race

Posted by: mosaic In: Uncategorized

The giant squid race isn’t really a race with losers. Either you win or you’re getting close to winning. I’ve been following Poddys for the last couple of days. He’s been very diligently at work and finally got Giant Squid status! Congratulations! Of course, I also aspire to be a Giant but, as you can tell, not at the same pace. I tend to do work in spurts and unlike a lot of great lensmasters, my ideas are not endless. I run out of ideas and then spend the next couple of days tweaking older lenses. After that, I still may not have found a new idea! It’s okay. I’ll need an extra month. My current number of lenses? 45 but 10 WIP. There’s a lot of original content to be written!

In other Giant unrelated news, I am hoping for my first payday! I started in early May, but I wasn’t a member for the complete month. I didn’t bother saving my dashboard on the last day or anything, but I did have two lenses above 2000 for a good time during May. We’ll see!

2 Responses to "Giant Squid Race"

1 | clouda9

July 3rd, 2008 at 1:21 am

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Best on your journey to join the Giants! Let me know if I can help in anyway.

2 | poddys

July 3rd, 2008 at 9:02 am

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Thanks for the lovely comments, I really appreciate them.

I know that if I limited myself to what I consider to be “Masterpiece Lenses” - those that take tons of research and a week or more to build, that I would still be there with 20 lenses. I started work on the SOng Lyrics lenses, and although several other people are also doing the same thing (I felt guilty because it’s not an original idea), I thought that I could do a decent job of this, and my music tastes are not the same as everybody elses. I think I did a decent job of these, and the nice thing is that the research doesn’t take too long, well not on some artists, the format of each lens is the same, so I can create it, add all the modules in the order that I want them, then set to work locating videos etc.

You have some great lenses, and I know you will be there for the next Giant Squid graduation. Not far to go and 3 months to get there. Hey - why not set yourself a goal of 100 lenses total for 3 months time? You just need to find a niche so that you can create a lot of simpler lenses, and then also some spectacular ones as well.

I will drop in and look at all your lenses again this weekend, well I hope to… You are on my list…

Have a wonderful holiday weekend.
Tony

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