Business of Art

Cheap Art Manifesto

Oct 17th, 2009 | By Aisling | Category: Business of Art

Many years ago during the hippie era, we dreamed of a free society where everyone had access to what’s important in life… including art.
The following flyer, distributed by the Bread & Puppet Theater, is a classic example of our dreams. The date on this flyer is (ironically?) 1984 — when the hippie movement was reacting [...]



Plugins to save inspiring images

Jun 15th, 2009 | By Aisling | Category: Business of Art

Andy Beard’s list, Best of Breed SEO Blogger Firefox Plugins, was written for people who are aggressive about promoting their websites.
(SEO = Search Engine Optimization… that is, making sure that your webpages rank well at Google, Yahoo, etc.)
But, as an artist, two of the listed plugins interested me for very non-SEO reasons.
I often print out [...]



You’ve never seen art like this

Apr 11th, 2009 | By Aisling | Category: Business of Art

Years ago, when I worked in fashion in Los Angeles, a co-worker at the May Company told a great story about a desperate ad campaign.
He’d had just a few hours to write a newspaper ad for the ugliest argyle socks ever made.
He wrote this headline: “You’ve never seen socks like these!”
The socks sold out the [...]



Planning for your future

Dec 26th, 2008 | By Aisling | Category: Business of Art

This morning, I read Seth Godin’s blog in which he posted a joke set of predictions for 2008.  (He claimed to have written them in 2002.  Obviously, he’d written them this week.)
But, as he concluded his post, he stated his point very well:
“…just think about how impossible it is for your to predict what your [...]



Yahoo Groups – changing moderators

Nov 10th, 2008 | By Aisling | Category: Other topics

Do you need to change a Yahoo Group moderator or owner? Here are step-by-step instructions.
I’ve started around 20 (or more?) Yahoo Groups, including AJmarketing, wildartdolls, and ArtistsJournals2 (AJ2, now WAJ2).  When they become too popular for me to manage, I generally turn them over to new owners and moderators.
So, when people need to change Yahoo [...]