Tag Archives: instagram

Presenting PiercingMetal’s “Best 9” Instagrams For 2015

January 3, 2016 Ken Pierce Leave a comment

I’ve been enjoying using the Official Instagram for PiercingMetal.com since I first created it back in 2012 when Nightwish was performing for the very first time at The Beacon Theatre. If memory serves me correctly, I actually did it right on the spot as I walked into that show since I wanted to do something different on the social networking side for my outlet. According to its overall tally, at the time of this narrative I’ve posted 1868 photos over those few years and I think the largest amount was this past 2015 where I posted 812 images of 100% original content all care of one of our real cameras or mobile devices. Thanks to the fun website link which you will find at the end of this narrative, I was able to learn what my “9” most popular posted images were in 2015 and I wanted to share that with you below. Here is the graphic of those nine images.

I chuckled at the winning selections since I remember each and every instance that they came from as they reminded me of some thrilling concerts such as Slipknot and Vamps along with the bunch of them being from NY Comic Con with some incredible Cosplayers that I met around the event. Thanks to those parties for being a part of this little toast. If you click this image above you will be brought to our official account and I hope you choose to give it a follow and start perusing the images that have come before. Your click will help decide the ones that win this sort of thing when we get to the end of this year in another 362 days. We always appreciate the support, now back to the regularly scheduled music and comic posts.

Get Your Best Nine HERE.

You can see PiercingKen’s “Best 9” Instagrams via THIS LINK.

Click the website below to be brought to our site Instagram and come follow us. I’ll keep striving to make as much interesting and original contest as possible for you. Feel free to “like bomb” the entries as well. We don’t mind.

Official Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/piercingmetalnyc

Features, PiercingMetal Says

New York Comic Con 2012 Takes Over The PiercingMetal Instagram

October 11, 2012 Ken Pierce Leave a comment

Though I’ve already mentioned this in other posts and on my other Social Media Platforms along with discussions with those I see in public, I’m happy to remind the audience that the PiercingMetal website aka Me, Ken Pierce, will be returning to the rapidly growing New York Comic Con for our third straight year as a member of the Press. The event is their seventh and as a longtime fan of all things comic books and Science Fiction I am really excited to be exploring it once again. The reason for this post is to announce that I will also be planning on using this Instagram network as much as possible to hopefully help raise more website interest and overall awareness. I’ve only had the account for I think about a month so there aren’t a whole lot of photographs to check out just yet but going forward let’s see how much more special I can make PiercingMetal by using it. Believe it or not, I could NOT secure the actual brand identity and am using PiercingMetalNYC instead which will have to do. One of my first photos for the NYCC 2012 adventuring is the cool press badge which is themed from the hit show “The Walking Dead”. I guess the other badges have some of the cast characters but as you can see here, the media have a ravenous looking zombie. I guess that applies for some of us out there in the scene. Are you going to the New York Comic Con?

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by PiercingMetal (@piercingmetalnyc)

Continue reading New York Comic Con 2012 Takes Over The PiercingMetal Instagram →

Features, PiercingMetal Says

PiercingMetal Announces Official Instagram Profile

September 16, 2012 Ken Pierce Leave a comment

At this point in time the Instagram photo-sharing social network isn’t anything new at all and it seems as though everyone is using it and having a good time. I talked about this network months ago in one of my PiercingMetal social media posts and at the time the website didn’t even have an account because you couldn’t use this with Android devices. It was only for the iPhone but they fortunately gave in to our enduser demands and gave us a version. When this was able to be done, I created a profile but did it for my other website “The Chronicles of Piercing Ken” since I wasn’t sure just how I wanted to approach this particular network. I posted about it over there and you can check that out by clicking HERE. After some months of using it I realized how I could use it to help the cause of the PiercingMetal website and can happily announce that we are now using Instagram for this website as well. My first photo comes from last night’s Nightwish show at the Beacon Theatre and its very simply a shot of the marquee that announces their performance with the band Kamelot as support. To say this show was excellent is an understatement but more on that is for a different post.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by PiercingMetal (@piercingmetalnyc)

Continue reading PiercingMetal Announces Official Instagram Profile →

Features, PiercingMetal Says

PiercingMetal & Social Networking: Instagram

February 1, 2012 Ken Pierce Leave a comment

If you have an iPhone you have no doubt already heard about and have been using the application known as “Instagram”. If I had to venture a guess, I would say that almost everyone I know must have an iPhone because I am constantly seeing their captured visuals on their Facebook pages and Twitter posts. So what is Instagram and why am I adding it to this little series of narratives you might ask? Well, let’s get down to it shall we.

Launched to the public as a free application in October 2010, Instagram is a photographic application that makes use of your Smartphones camera and let’s you change images around a little bit in terms of their design and shading to make them even more appealing or interesting. You can even add captions to them that your friends/followers can read or comment back on. Similar to the Facebook Liking system, there is a little heart that you can click to approve an image. Sadly, at this point in time when I post this for you, its only something that the iPhone users seem to have to their advantage in their application arsenal. Mind you I can take photos with my Droid Incredible device and then share with my Twitter and Facebook as well, but the tinkering that people can do in Instagram adds a new level of coolness to doing this kind of thing and that is what is driving more and more people to download it. Those who want to play around can get it via the iTunes Store.

Now to the reason I added this to my little Social Networking narratives. The answer to that is very simple. With so many people networking and sharing information via the two giant Facebook and Twitter mediums, the use of Instagram has created a sort of photo social networking. I’ve not been able to really experiment by being a Droid user, but I have looked at friends phones and their accounts with them to see how they are chiming in on celebrity account photos or following people of note or friends that they find more interesting than some others. The following and commenting on and sharing of these images makes it a bit of a Social Network of its own to me but on a slightly different level. It’s pretty cool as long as people keep using this for good and not to do anyone harm. I will add that I do not know offhand if Instagram will work on the new iPad’s that are coming out in March so if any readers get one and can play around perhaps let us know in the comments section of this posting.

UPDATE 4/3/2012: I am happy to be able to share this news with you readers and Android device users because today anyone with a Droid phone will be able to download and use Instagram. For me this is a kind of technological birthday present for the website because tomorrow is the anniversary of PiercingMetal’s launch. I downloaded it and can be found under the user name of “PiercingKen”. I might create a more music scene focused ID like PiercingMetal and this way can share exclusive finds that relate to my journalism and photo adventures. For now though I will use this ID and dabble about to see what I can learn. Follow me if you want.

PiercingKen on Instagram = HERE

UPDATE 4/12/2012: Wow, Facebook has purchased Instagram. Will this be good or bad? You decide. I am on the fence about it.

UPDATE 9/15/2012: I’m heading out to see Nightwish and Kamelot in New York City this evening and since its a big event for Metal I decided that I would act upon my months ago comment about potentially creating an Instagram account purely for PiercingMetal.com adventures in music and media. My readers already know that I take a lot of photos so this makes sense and lets me instantly get some more cool ideas out before I sit down and write the articles and blogs up. I think that it will be a lot of fun so please come and follow that account via the link below.

PiercingMetal on Instagram = HERE

Official Website: http://www.instagram.com
Official Wikipedia Entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instagram

Where Heavy Music & Pop Culture Collide