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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,...

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