These days, I, or iterations of me, can be found in the following places online:
Joseph-O'Brien.com -- My professional site. Workblog, bio, contact info, art gallery, and information about various projects past, present and future
The Baron of Bad Ideas -- My writing and research blog. Right now mostly a save point for links to articles I find interesting. Going to have to start posting more writer's journal stuff soon.
LiveJournal -- My anything-goes blog. Mostly random musings about whatever's on my mind in a given moment, bits of nonsense, photos, recollections and the occasional redundant professional notice.
Vox -- My audio-visual blog. Vox plays really nicely with sounds and pictures, so I've mainly dedicated it to that purpose. Anything goes, as long as it's some kind of multimedia.
YouTube -- Videos. I upload my own, plus keep lists of favorites from others.
Flickr -- Photostream. All my photos go here, and selections of those find their way onto LJ and Vox.
MySpace -- Because eight million sexual predators can't be wrong. I still don't know what this is really for, but everyone else seems to have one, so now so do I. Most of the blog stuff is redundant to other sites. Amusing that you can friend people like William Shatner. Godawfully ugly in its layout and functionality.
ArtZone -- Sort of MySpace for the digital art community. Except people with both computers and design were involved in creating it, it doesn't look like hell and the navigation is clean. Art galleries, a blog that I have yet to post to (I'll start something art related shortly, I imagine), links to other artists. Could be useful.
The Engine --
Planetary/
Transmetropolitan/
Global Frequency/
Fell creator Warren Ellis' messageboard for comic creators and readers. Amazing discussion, comics news and daily inspiration. Best of all, there are two creator-only sections that anyone can read, but only published pros
can post to. Ellis' all-girl squad of ruthless enforcement moderators keep the signal-to-noise ratio uncommonly low. I often feel like the ugly girl at the dance when legends like
Watchmen artist Dave Gibbons just show up to chat, but I participate as much as my limited experience allows, and listen and learn as much as I can.
Rue Morgue Messageboard -- Exactly what it sounds like. I'm here less than I'd like to be, but as a regular contributor to the magazine it's a great place to get instantaneous feedback from the readers.
