I am flabbergasted.

[Hypno-Toad]

I put a whole stinkload of pictures of my painted miniatures in photobucket and now people actually look at them! I understand that people go to the pics that I link to, like dopefests and images linked to in emails and such. But there have been over 18,000 views. Holy crap.

Has anyone else posted something online and had it just take off unexpectedly?

[Gagundathar]

This sounds pretty terrific Hypno-Toad, but it would be even cooler if you had a link to these pictures.

[Hypno-Toad]

Sure, if y'all want to see them:

Reaper (http://s19.photobucket.com/albums/b197/Paintergeist/Reaper%20Miniatures/)

Grenadier (http://s19.photobucket.com/albums/b197/Paintergeist/Grenadier%20Miniatures/)

Mithril (http://s19.photobucket.com/albums/b197/Paintergeist/Mithril%20Minis/)

Games Workshop (http://s19.photobucket.com/albums/b197/Paintergeist/Games%20Workshop%20Minis/)

Ral Partha (http://s19.photobucket.com/albums/b197/Paintergeist/Ral%20Partha%20Minis/)

Various Samurai (http://s19.photobucket.com/albums/b197/Paintergeist/Mini%20Samurai/)

Other (http://s19.photobucket.com/albums/b197/Paintergeist/Other%20Miniatures/)

[Gagundathar]

Those are beautiful!
Amazing detail.
Thanks for sharing.

[LSLGuy]

Even better if you could charge admission to see them. Even at a nickel apeice 18000 views is worth something.

[Hypno-Toad]

That'd be nice but unlikely to happen. Plenty of better painted minis already on the web to view free. I took the pics for two reasons. First, I just wanted to catalog them in case any were sold, given away, or lost later. Second, if I ever put any up on ebay, I'll need pics.

[Skammer]

Holy crap, those are good HT.

[Antigen]

Those are great! How long have you been doing those?

To answer the OP, no, nothing I've posted online has really taken off. I have a personal blog but it's about my life, universe, and everything, so it's not exactly scintillating reading for most folks. Which is too bad because I am awesome.

[Dogzilla]

Has anyone else posted something online and had it just take off unexpectedly?

Yes.

[Hypno-Toad]

My question was somewhat vague. Let me amend it:

Please share your stories of successful things you've done on the internet.

[Dogzilla]

I hereby rescind my previous post. I misread it. I thought you wrote "Has anyone else posted something and had to take it off unexpectedly?"

I have not posted anything of so much consequence that it took off unexpectedly. I have posted stuff that I later took down because of unexpected reactions that I decided were not worth the exposure.

[corkboard]

I can't contribute anything to the OP, but chimed in to note that Taryn has nice boobies.

[Hypno-Toad]

Those are great! How long have you been doing those?

If you include the figures that come with scale model kits, over 30 years.

[Chefguy]

Has anyone else posted something online and had it just take off unexpectedly?

Well, there was that plane on a treadmill. . .

::d&r::

[Hypno-Toad]

But did it really take off?

[Autolycus]

Of course not. It was a miniature treadmill.

[Súil Dubh]

Nice work. I really like your Forge World stuff.

I paint miniatures, too. I'm going to do some painting this weekend in fact.

[brujaja]

I wrote an op-ed piece once that got linked to by a larger political site... I wound up with like 5,000 page views in a short period of time. I even got a fan letter.

For awhile, my blog on MySpace got a hundred-some page views a week. That was back before Facebook, of course.

But, 18,000? Dang! That's impressive!



must.. resist... dubious linkage of enthusiastic miniature-viewing to why cancellation of SGU was a mistake...

[Hypno-Toad]

A fan letter? that must be a pretty cool feeling.

[brujaja]

It was. She was a nice and very earnest young woman, we ended up meeting for coffee. I'm afraid I'm much more erudite in writing; in person, awkwardness generally prevails. But I guess my article struck a chord with a lot of people. One of those things where you just happen to align with the zeitgeist.

[GuanoLad]

I've written a couple of blog posts that have received a lot of comments, and I've done a couple of creative things that got some recognition, one a comic strip, another was a short film (of sorts).

Mostly not, though. I am adrift in a sea, so am easily overlooked.