Developing an online presence is one of the most important things you can do straight away sometimes even before you've created your first piece of art.

You must spend time building your authority and your brand. When people consume art or literature the credentials of the author or artist is probably the defining factor when a choice exists. Contributing in art communities and writing articles for other websites or publications are great ways to get your name out and associated with your nich...
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The other night I had a phone call from a very good friend of mine. He called me, and was really excited about a book he had been reading. He continued to tell me about it at length as we discussed the book I was reminded that during the week I had actually thought of him. I had been very busy trying to get together my thoughts and brainstorming things which I’d like to do and how I can synergise them with what I have to do.

I have known him since high school and all through high school h...

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Ok in an attempt to make this site more useful and user friednly I'll be introducing a Glossary of Digital art terms shortly. This will serve to disambiguate some of the terminology as well as free me to not need to include definitions in the body of txt. This will not be exhaustive at first as I will build the word list as I becomes neccessary when I post.

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I have added a gallery this site as well as improved the RSS feeds. My gallery is a collection of some of the art, mostly photomanipulations I've done thus far. These are a works from my recent past and will hopefully inspire me to get back on the old horse, and begin painting and creating art again.

In the Gallery you'll find some of my more popular art works as well as my favourites, see My 5 Favourite manipulations. In addition to this I've switched to Feedburner for my rss. I'll be doig...

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This is just a brief welcome into the world for my new site Monetize. I'll continue to include my content around art, art communities and all things creative on this site for the forseeable futre however I had a need to include some more finance related posts and the tone wasn't really working alongside my artsy ravings.

On the site you'll find me discussing some of my ideas on personal finance and levaraging your free time as well as harnessing the wealth of data available to make meaningful ...

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A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Thomas Mann(1875 - 1955)

This blogging game is such a thoroughly demanding one. I spent some time yesterday and I’m the proud owner of a shiny writing schedulue today though as I settled down to my first scheduled post my first obstacle sporting tissues and high heels arrived at my desk during blog writing time.

I am currently without an internet connection at home and have to pick my nephew up i...