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Greeting Cards now Available!
Specially priced Art Greeting Cards can now be purchased through bebirianart.com with any one of my images available at that location - stop by and take a look and purchase your greeting cards for those special people in your life!
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
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Saturday, February 9, 2008
Viewing my work on Imagekind and my main web site 575488trillion.com
It might take many months to look carefully and in depth at the art that is currently on display in the Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art or the Museum of Modern Art and the same for many of the Galleries that have various rooms and shows on display at once but it would take entire lifetimes to really become familiar with everything in their complete collections on display and in storage both for the Museums and the Galleries especially since they continuously making new acquisitions all the time.
We as the viewing public are always subject to the curators' images of choice that they have deemed worthy of showing to the public at any particular moment in whateverever combinations to illustrate or demonstrate periods of work or different artists work or various artists' work and how they are related to each other.
In the case of my work in my Galleries here on Imagekind, you are simply looking at basically that which I have created in the last year (at this point in time) and my main website has mostly images from only over the past 7 years prior to last year and a great deal of my images from over the previous 42 years that have never been seen by anyone. So considering that there is now over 50 years of my work in existence I would expect that no one could simply sit down and in one visit to Imagekind and even begin to see a large part of a small fraction of my work which is presented here.
A simpler way of viewing might be to go to the blog indicated in my signature line here and look at the page with the latest posts and consider that a current exhibit, and while getting a closer look at those images you will also get a glimpse or a taste of some of the other images in other galleries in my Imagekind Collection because of the programing set-up that the Imagekind system has created for us and at that point you could very well avail yourself of a peak at any one of those other galleries by the means provided the system at that point as well.
I suppose there are an infinite number of ways to view my images by I hardly find it a valid complaint for someone to enter the Metropolitan Museum of Art and proclaim that there was too much there for them to view and that they did not have a chance to see everything when they have alloted only even one whole day to the Adventure - I have been traveling through that Museums Galleries for years and I am sure I have not even touched the surface when it comes to viewing and really studying the vast number of works that makes up that entire Museum's accumulated body of work!
We as the viewing public are always subject to the curators' images of choice that they have deemed worthy of showing to the public at any particular moment in whateverever combinations to illustrate or demonstrate periods of work or different artists work or various artists' work and how they are related to each other.
In the case of my work in my Galleries here on Imagekind, you are simply looking at basically that which I have created in the last year (at this point in time) and my main website has mostly images from only over the past 7 years prior to last year and a great deal of my images from over the previous 42 years that have never been seen by anyone. So considering that there is now over 50 years of my work in existence I would expect that no one could simply sit down and in one visit to Imagekind and even begin to see a large part of a small fraction of my work which is presented here.
A simpler way of viewing might be to go to the blog indicated in my signature line here and look at the page with the latest posts and consider that a current exhibit, and while getting a closer look at those images you will also get a glimpse or a taste of some of the other images in other galleries in my Imagekind Collection because of the programing set-up that the Imagekind system has created for us and at that point you could very well avail yourself of a peak at any one of those other galleries by the means provided the system at that point as well.
I suppose there are an infinite number of ways to view my images by I hardly find it a valid complaint for someone to enter the Metropolitan Museum of Art and proclaim that there was too much there for them to view and that they did not have a chance to see everything when they have alloted only even one whole day to the Adventure - I have been traveling through that Museums Galleries for years and I am sure I have not even touched the surface when it comes to viewing and really studying the vast number of works that makes up that entire Museum's accumulated body of work!
Friday, February 8, 2008
ART: The Unsettling and Exciting thing about the position we are in!
What I believe is or can be an extremely unsettling point about the position that I am in now (and I believe that this can also be the case for many others with images on imagekind) is also what is the most exciting part about this project. We are (most of us) presenting images to a public which is now able to, for the first time in history, interact with our work on a level which is unprecedented in history where the potential purchaser who is not in the role of patron beginning before the images have been created, has some say in the creation of the actual print and the final presentation even before making a purchase. This can be an often unsettling thought from a certain perspective which can perhaps cause anxiety and even great doubts as to "what am I doing this for?" type of feeling since for the artist who in most instances previously may have extended control over that which he is creating unless (as is the case with the artist patron relationship) the artist had agreed to give up some of his or her control in exchange for the finances with which to live on (sometimes or often something that in the past was almost not even considered at all) - instead there is an abandonment of the image to this new system which allows an extreme amount of input and interactivity between the viewer and the artist's image and in most cases keeps the viewers comments or feedback relatively distant from even coming close to the artist and their personal feelings. Instead, as I have seen in my case, there has been little or no feedback from purchasers, no feedback from those viewing the images but who have not purchased yet and only a rare occasional comment from a fellow artist and member of imagekind. This can lead me to feel both slightly unsettled and at the same time excited since the lack of comments can sometimes conjure up thoughts of questions as to whether I am pursuing a what I might consider "reasonable" course of action by being in this arena and at the same time great thoughts of excitement in that this does allow for a great deal of flexibility both on my part not to get too involved with such items after I have placed any of my images in this arena (therefore to go on and to continue creating at an unprecedented pace) and great anticipation as to what might occur when the viewers and potential customers actually begin to interact with the images once they are finally made aware or become aware of this system through their own explorations. So now that I have some 16,624 images in some 5,005 public galleries, but only a small number of images views (just over 156,215 image views by the time I post this) and a mere 38 comments altogether I thought that it might be time to focus on ways to perhaps both increase the awareness of the viewing public to my entire collection of images as it grows, since it is quite obvious to me that from a certain point of calculation there might have been up until this point simply ten visitors who viewed each image that I have in my collection at this point in time only once. While this of course may not be as much a part of reality as one person viewing all 16,624 image more than once(ten time maybe?), there is an indication from my perspective that with almost 300,000 people in the United State and over 6.5 billion people in the world, that there is a long way to go before even a small fraction of the world's population has seen enough of my work to make any type of dent in the number that constitutes what I might call a substantial viewing. The choice now in the forefront of my mind is the question as to whether to pursue such an endeavor of a marketing nature so as to attempt to cause such a viewing to take place (not a normal recommended course of action with today's understanding of permission marketing and the challenges that that brings to the arena as opposed to the previously popular methods of mass marketing) or to allow for the system as it stands throughout the imagekind program and system as well as throughout my web sites and the Internet itself to take on the dissemination of the viewing of my images and such exposure of these images that will occur in their own good time so to speak.
Thursday, February 7, 2008
1485AB
My plan for my art - concepts and ideas that mesh with the new rules for the new economy =
I know, for example, that the new economy think is that the price of anything goes down the more copies of that particular thing goes up and the value goes up as well - and to a certain degree I see that happening as far as the number of images I have up in imagekind and how many people can view them anywhere in the world - the cost is practically nil to have them up on the web site (based on the number of images that I have there) and coverage or viewing throughout the world will not necessarily cost me any more or less if one person looks or a few billion people look - that is the extent of what I see as the higher number of copies and lowering the cost per view let's say - but I don't see the same relationship happening where the prints are concerned - of course a person can go and look at the images in my galleries a million times and this is good because it reinforces their interest every time they do without them having to travel to a museum - Even having a membership in a museum and going to see what is there requires a trip for me in some way and then to physically make the time to enter and go to a specific gallery where anyone can simply click on a link here or there or anywhere that I provide it on my web site or blog or in an e-mail newsletter or an ad somewhere or on a post in this forum or a social network or any of the many other means that people may somehow find a link to my imagekind galleries - but with all this reduction of costs - I find it contradictory to a certain point to take what is a virtual monopoly and give prints away as well - giving the prints with or without frames at a very low price *(which may have been the imagekind business plan originally or not I am not quite sure) is counterproductive to a certain degree - now imagekind making 5% instead of a large percent that a gallery or agent or whoever might want to deal for you as an artist between you and the other middle person like a interior decorator or whatever is very very reasonable and fits in with the substantially lower costs associated with out new economy and the internet and marketing here - but - as a percentage basis above 100% markup it also in no way discourages me from (and I don't think it should) marking my work up to the point where I think that what the customer is being charged for is what the value in the way of art that they are getting -
So to give you some more Walter speak - the value of our images are increasing as and while our images are becoming more well known throughout the world utilizing the technology that is here on the Internet where people can go to your gallery while sitting at home or on the beach or wherever they are and not have the added expense of money time and wear and whatever that goes into making a trip to one city or the other to view something in a gallery and museum and which may as well be very often a disappointment - but while this is happening - the price that they are willing to pay for such an image to be created to their very own specifications on what paper and what matt and frame and everything else they are able to adjust or manipulate in their own way and based on their own choice with an image that they (the individual customer) are so enamored with that they wish to take it out of the Internet world and to then place it on a wall somewhere in their environment wherever that be - then well by all means that right to do what they want with one of my images which I own the total rights to is in no way diminished because I have made it available in this new fantastic wonderful arena - but - on the other hand it becomes even more valuable or meaningful to that other individual whether they live across the street or on the other side of the world - and I know that if someone from some of the most impoverished countries is able to access viewing the images here on imagekind or even view anything on the internet - then more often than not they are no - definitely not as impoverished as one might otherwise imagine!!!!
and if they are - they are most certainly welcome and I encourage them to keep on viewing whatever of my images encourages them or inspires them to do even better than they have up until the point where they have first been introduced to my images ----all for free either here or wherever my fine images can be found ---until they have raised their financial situation to the point where they are able to make their long dreamt about purchase to place such an image on their wall!
thank you!
Walter
I know, for example, that the new economy think is that the price of anything goes down the more copies of that particular thing goes up and the value goes up as well - and to a certain degree I see that happening as far as the number of images I have up in imagekind and how many people can view them anywhere in the world - the cost is practically nil to have them up on the web site (based on the number of images that I have there) and coverage or viewing throughout the world will not necessarily cost me any more or less if one person looks or a few billion people look - that is the extent of what I see as the higher number of copies and lowering the cost per view let's say - but I don't see the same relationship happening where the prints are concerned - of course a person can go and look at the images in my galleries a million times and this is good because it reinforces their interest every time they do without them having to travel to a museum - Even having a membership in a museum and going to see what is there requires a trip for me in some way and then to physically make the time to enter and go to a specific gallery where anyone can simply click on a link here or there or anywhere that I provide it on my web site or blog or in an e-mail newsletter or an ad somewhere or on a post in this forum or a social network or any of the many other means that people may somehow find a link to my imagekind galleries - but with all this reduction of costs - I find it contradictory to a certain point to take what is a virtual monopoly and give prints away as well - giving the prints with or without frames at a very low price *(which may have been the imagekind business plan originally or not I am not quite sure) is counterproductive to a certain degree - now imagekind making 5% instead of a large percent that a gallery or agent or whoever might want to deal for you as an artist between you and the other middle person like a interior decorator or whatever is very very reasonable and fits in with the substantially lower costs associated with out new economy and the internet and marketing here - but - as a percentage basis above 100% markup it also in no way discourages me from (and I don't think it should) marking my work up to the point where I think that what the customer is being charged for is what the value in the way of art that they are getting -
So to give you some more Walter speak - the value of our images are increasing as and while our images are becoming more well known throughout the world utilizing the technology that is here on the Internet where people can go to your gallery while sitting at home or on the beach or wherever they are and not have the added expense of money time and wear and whatever that goes into making a trip to one city or the other to view something in a gallery and museum and which may as well be very often a disappointment - but while this is happening - the price that they are willing to pay for such an image to be created to their very own specifications on what paper and what matt and frame and everything else they are able to adjust or manipulate in their own way and based on their own choice with an image that they (the individual customer) are so enamored with that they wish to take it out of the Internet world and to then place it on a wall somewhere in their environment wherever that be - then well by all means that right to do what they want with one of my images which I own the total rights to is in no way diminished because I have made it available in this new fantastic wonderful arena - but - on the other hand it becomes even more valuable or meaningful to that other individual whether they live across the street or on the other side of the world - and I know that if someone from some of the most impoverished countries is able to access viewing the images here on imagekind or even view anything on the internet - then more often than not they are no - definitely not as impoverished as one might otherwise imagine!!!!
and if they are - they are most certainly welcome and I encourage them to keep on viewing whatever of my images encourages them or inspires them to do even better than they have up until the point where they have first been introduced to my images ----all for free either here or wherever my fine images can be found ---until they have raised their financial situation to the point where they are able to make their long dreamt about purchase to place such an image on their wall!
thank you!
Walter
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