image courtesy Boy Obsolete Flickr.com is a huge online repository of images. It’s a massive site that gets hundreds of thousands of visitors. People use it to share images with friends & family, display their art work, and also to find art work to buy for personal collections and for publications. For an artist, those […]
Does Your Web Site Have Personality?
What is Your Web Site’s Personality? If it’s not engaging, it doesn’t matter. You are an artist. You are interesting, creative, and people find you fascinating. When they land on your Web site, they shouldn’t think, “Well this is kind of boring.” You want them to think “this is interesting, exciting, and the kind of […]
Your Art: An Opiate to the Masses
One of the mistakes that most artists make is trying to sell everything they do to all people. When you try to be all things to all people, you instead water down what you do so that it loses a lot of its impact. Your art becomes something for everyone, an opiate to the masses. […]
The Internet and the Arts: A Manifesto
How do you sell most of your art? Usually through galleries, right? Well, if you sell a lot, you probably do. You sit in your studio, perfect your craft, then you give it to someone else, and say “Hey, sell this for me and just give me half of whatever you sell it for.” Never […]
My Response to Dave Allen’s challenge to artists
Last Friday I had the great privilege of having drinks (as it were – I’m a Mormon and therefore don’t drink) with Dave Allen. Dave was a founding member of Gang of 4, and now writes a music blog called Pampelmoose. He also co-founded a digital strategy firm called Fight. During that conversation we covered […]
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