Stop thinking and start doing

One can read and think about swimming all day, but only by jumping in the water will one learn how to swim. I’ve been reading and tinkering for months on where I want to go with this site and my online presence in general, but the time is now to stop thinking and start doing. In that process I ditched the fear of failure and started enjoying the journey it brings along.

My online branding will consist of 2 personal websites: vknt.be and valentijnkint.com supported by various social network sites.

vknt.be is a content-focused website. It is the place to drop my thoughts, free stuff, tutorials and more. It has a very basic portfolio section with a selection of work, but mostly leading the way to my dedicated portfolio website (=valentijnkint.com). If I come to the point where I want to start selling digital assets (e.g. equirectangular skies), this will be the place to promote and/or sell it.

valentijnkint.com consists only of work I made and info that describes me as a designer, developer and person. On this domain I want to show my work and skills through a full-flash website. I’m still working on it, but it’s coming soon.

By putting my work on various other sites, I aim for more exposure and a convenient way for people to share.

vimeo.com/vknt is for motion. Vimeo is has an enormous amount of quality-content in a beautifully designed environment. What more can I wish for? I created 2 albums: portfolio and experiments. The ones in experiment will only exist on vimeo, the others will also be available (read downloadable) on valentijnkint.com in high-quality H.264 encoded .mov files. I know registered vimeo users can do that on vimeo as well, but for most people that’s not convenient.

flickr.com/photos/vknt is for pictures. The pictures are organized in 3 sets: photography, graphic and motion (a free account doesn’t allow more). Using tags I can also send people a selection e.g. all my work involving panoramas.

twitter.com/vknt is for microblogging. The latest tweets will be displayed on the homepage of vknt.be. We’ll see where this goes. For now I like expressing a short thought or observation without creating a blog post for it.

linkedin.com is for business networking. It’s not very active at this moment, but it’s there when I’ll need it.

facebook is for my friends.