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Heavy­bub­ble is smart, easy, do-it-yourself, and good­look­ing. The blog for Heavy­bub­ble, a ser­vice designed for career artists to pub­lish a do-it-yourself web­site and mar­ket their work. We also main­tain a gallery in hip­storic™ Old City, Philadel­phia.
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ART GALLERY TIP #2

Say hello to who­ever is gallery sit­ting. Acknowl­edg­ing them means they won’t inter­fere with your visit you unless you have a ques­tion. Say­ing thank-you when you leave is also good form. The whole expe­ri­ence is just so much bet­ter that way.

ART GALLERY TIP #1

Sign the guest­book at gal­leries. It shows your inter­est in the work and is grat­i­fi­ca­tion for every­one who has worked so hard to make an exhi­bi­tion pos­si­ble. It shows you’re thoughtful.

artist quote : susan sontag

One can be seri­ous about the friv­o­lous, friv­o­lous about the seri­ous. — Susan Sontag

CYANOTYPE WORKSHOP — August 7, 2010

CYANOTYPE WORKSHOP — August 7, 2010 Pho­tog­ra­phy and Print­mak­ing Stu­dio Cen­ter Sand­wich, New Hamp­shire, USA Course fee $120 Mate­ri­als $30 Class lim­ited to 5. Sat­ur­day 10:00am – 4:00pm Learn the art of cyan­otype pho­tog­ra­phy, a 19th-century alter­na­tive print­ing medium with lus­cious blue tones on hand-coated paper. We will begin with mak­ing full-size dig­i­tal neg­a­tives from your dig­i­tal files, pho­tographs,...

Talk­ing about art : Louis Kahn

The cre­ation of art is not the ful­fill­ment of a need but the cre­ation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven’s Fifth Sym­phony until he cre­ated it. Now we could not live with­out it. – Louis Kahn

cri­tique phrase of the week

With regard to the issue of con­tent, the metaphor­i­cal res­o­nance of the sex­ual sig­ni­fier verges on cod­i­fy­ing the remark­able han­dling of light.

Thor­ton Willis : its the same painting

stills: Col­or­field paint­ings have always been a favorite. This is a won­der­ful con­ver­sa­tion with Thor­ton Willis. His paint­ings as fresh today as when he began. from the artist: To describe 21st Cen­tury spa­tial con­cepts (in paint­ing) is to try and depict the basic inter­con­nect­ed­ness of mat­ter in which form only appears sep­a­rate. In fact, all form...

Maryann Devine says “Artists get a website!”

Is this cool or what? Maryann Devine is a con­sul­tant who spe­cial­izes in arts mar­ket­ing and the use of social media. We met at the Philadel­phia Cul­tural Alliance a few months back. We were were watch­ing her tweets and were sur­prised to see a tweet about heavy­bub­ble! We fol­lowed her tweet link to her blog....

copy­right issues : How cre­ativ­ity is being stran­gled by the law.

Heavy­bub­ble sup­ports Cre­ative Com­mons licences. Heavy­bub­ble believes that shar­ing your images with attri­bu­tions allows your works to be seen, shared, and expe­ri­enced, freely and fairly. Larry Lessig: How cre­ativ­ity is being stran­gled by the law. about Larry Lessig http://www.lessig.org cre­ative com­mons http://www.creativecommons.com