YouTube - Jason de Caires Taylor Underwater Sculptures
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Ok, I’ve set up the blog now for our group of Irish Artisans. I’ve also picked Cliodhna Quinlan for the free solo blog. Well done to her. For now, I’m going to soft launch the blog and wait until after Christmas before I do any serious work on it, as I believe most of the artists are too busy now with christmas fairs and so on. Thanks to everyone for their patience and for taking the time out to contribute to the blog.
I feel confident, we can make a successful blog out of this and I may add a few other artists after Christmas to it.
Do make sure to link to the blog from your website and let other people know about it.
On an aside, good luck to the Paddys Valley crew on their way to a tour of Silicon Valley. Well done especially to Damien Mulley, James Corbett and Conor O’Neill on all their efforts in making it happen.YouTube - Ben Folds - Myspace Gig - Such Great Heights
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Wonderful animation….best viewed full screen.
Entries Closed for Free Group Offer as of one hour ago. If your name is Leonardo Da Vinci, I might consider a late entry.
28 applicants in all. So looking forward to a new burst of creativity on the Irish Blogosphere. Thanks to all those who have applied.
There are so many reasons that I can think of why artists should have blogs rather than websites, that it baffles me that so few are blogging in this country. Some of the advantages of blogging are technical and perhaps may not be easily understood, so today I’m going to skip the technical bits and just concentrate on the more obvious aspects.
Blogs are cheap, in fact they are free in some cases. You can create a free blog with Blogger in 5 minutes. A number of very successful bloggers are using blogger.
Wordpress, however is my favourite blogging service. Hosting365 offer free hosting for wordpress blogs. Your only expense in this case will be to buy your own domain (i.e. your .com address), which costs about 10 EUR when last I looked. That’s your own website and .com name effectively for 10 EUR. Contrast this to the expense of buying a very basic brochure type website from a web developer (EUR500-1000?). This fact alone should be enough to convince artists to use blogs.We’ve seen already how easy blogs are to use. Everybody is familiar with Microsoft word. In a word document, you type your text, you insert your image and you click save. On a blog you type your text, you insert your image and you click publish. It’s really that easy!
Most artists, who are on a tight budget and uncomfortable with technology, will appreciate those 2 advantages of blogging. However, perhaps the most interesting aspect of blogging is the community element of blogging. Because you have comments on blogs, you will get feedback from readers and other bloggers. Other bloggers will write about you, if you have something interesting to say or present. In this way you can quickly gain exposure and audience, something not so easily done with websites. This aspect of blogging is perhaps not so clear to artists who are new to blogging. It’s only when you have been blogging for a while and have read and commented on other blogs that you learn to fully appreciate this community effect. Community implies a lot of things, friendship, cooperation, organisation, learning from one another, keeping abreast of news within the community and even the occasional infighting (hell, nothings perfect!).
This is my last post in this series on the advantages of blogging for artists. I’ll be sending out the press release for the group blog offer shortly. Back to normality from next week on, I promise.
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When you look at most art websites, you see a menu, some introductory mission statement perhaps, maybe an example of the artists work if you’re lucky. Home pages rarely change. There might be new works added to the gallery, but thats usually hidden behind a link. So the overall impression you get from the website is that nothing much is happening.
A blog on the other hand changes with each new post. You always see something new when you visit - whether it be a new work of art or a new chapter in an artists life, or some interesting bit of art news.
This dynamism makes for a more interesting experience for the visitor and encourages return visits.
The constantly changing nature of blogs has one other extremely beneficial effect. Google gives websites that are frequently updated a higher ranking on their search engine, which means you will receive greater traffic to your blog as a consequence.
Next post, I will be looking just how easy blogs are to update.video: 500 years of Female portraits in Western Art in elektrovision by Mario Amura. Song by Tujiko Noriko:Narita Made.
YouTube - women in art elektro
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YouTube - Amelie
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YouTube - Jean-Luc Godard / Bande à part (Band of Outsiders) / Trailer
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