Creative Cogitation

As I pre­vi­ously stated while I was work­ing on Bird on a Wire a whole series of paint­ings came to me.  This series is a result of my recent immer­sion into social media.  I am a noob (a neo­phyte) to things like Face­Book and Twit­ter, but I hope to get bet­ter.  I even took a class for Face­Book, just before they com­pletely redid the lay­out.  ARGH!

I am still look­ing for Face­Book fan page tips.  My RSS feed is dou­ble post­ing and since they redid the lay­out I can’t find where the RSS Feed link is at on the fan page anymore.

Any­way, when I posted Tweet­Deck, one of my com­men­ta­tors said that Retweet came to mind.  Of course I was already work­ing on it as it was such an obvi­ous follow-on.  And now it is done-enjoy.

Retweet by Jake Beck­man. An orange canary sings to four other yel­low ones who seem to be lis­ten­ing. The binary in the back­ground reads “Retweet.”

Its a lit­tle abstract in con­cept, but also kind of lit­eral too.  The ASCII binary reads “Retweet” from Left to Right, and Top to bot­tom.  In this ver­sion I explic­itly included a spi­ral as a place for my canaries to perch.  I opted to fill the entire back­ground with binary so the upper most bird would have some­thing to stand on, oth­er­wise it would have been hang­ing upside down like an orang­utan.   What do you think?

Update: Details about Retweet, size etc., can be found on its art page at AKAJake.com

Jake

Artist, AKAJake.com Come Expe­ri­ence the Art!

The art work in this blog is fed­er­ally copy­righted. All repro­duc­tion and pub­lish­ing copy­rights are retained by the artist. Images are not to be copied, re-distributed, imi­tated, derived OR oth­er­wise used in any form with­out the explicit writ­ten per­mis­sion of the artist.

Work­ing on the Social Media thing.  Started a Face­Book fan page, AKA­Jake if you are inter­ested.  Become a fan!

I have no idea what to do with this fan page yet.  Tomor­row evening I am sup­posed to have an “Intro to Face­Book” class — I am hop­ing to walk out of there a bit more clued in.

For exam­ple I really would like to have a snip­pet of my blogs appear in other places with a link, but I have no idea how to set that up.  I did find my RSS feed address so at least I can link that.

Of course I have my “real job” to do and I am find­ing it had to make a bal­ance and still move for­ward with inten­tion.  Still I must endeavor.  2010 will be the “Year of Mar­ket­ing” for me because I have put it off too long and really need to fig­ure it all out. Art is a real job too.

Any­way, I have about a mil­lion projects.  OK it is actu­ally less than that, but I stoop to hyper­bole because some­times it feels like that.  Def­i­nitely got a few gators nib­bling on my butt and the bosses just called down that the swamp drain­ing project is on hold.    One of those alli­ga­tors is “the estab­lish a dis­tinc­tive style and / or the­matic ref­er­ence to make myself rec­og­niz­able as an artist”-gator. Once I have this con­sis­tent style I will build a body of work based on that… and mar­ket it of course.

That is the bat­tle plan.What is it they say about bat­tle plans? Oh yeah, the don’t tend to sur­vive first con­tact with the enemy.

Toward that end I painted some­thing last Fri­day; I already have a bunch of vari­a­tions on the theme in my head.  I like it of course, but then again I tend to like all of my art more or less, but some­body else liked it too.  It has already flown away to live in Wisconsin.

Bird on a Wire, rep­re­sen­ta­tional abstract by Jake

The ASCII Binary reads Twitter.com tweet. You can tell where my head is at. What do you think?

Alter­na­tively, got any Face­Book Fan page or other social media tips? Love to hear from you.

Jake

Artist, AKAJake.com Come Expe­ri­ence the Art!

The art work in this blog is fed­er­ally copy­righted. All repro­duc­tion and pub­lish­ing copy­rights are retained by the artist. Images are not to be copied, re-distributed, imi­tated, derived OR oth­er­wise used in any form with­out the explicit writ­ten per­mis­sion of the artist.

Sorry to have fallen of the Blog planet for so long.  Hol­i­days.  Was busy liv­ing instead of writ­ing blogs.  I hope you all were enjoy­ing the hol­i­days as well.

It’s the Happy New Year now and I am back. At the moment I am con­sid­er­ing how to use Social Net­works as a mar­ket­ing tool.  Quite frankly I know very lit­tle about it.

Sure I have a MySpace account, a Linked-In account, a Face­Book account, a Twit­ter account, a Manta account, my web­sites ArtandBusinessConsulting.com & AKAJake.com and blogs ArtandBusinessConsulting.com/blog/ & AKAJake.com/blog/ but how does one use them to mar­ket your business?

So this will likely be the topic of sev­eral of my next blogs as I see how these accounts can be used to mar­ket one’s business.

In the mean­time if you have any insights to offer please feel free to post them.  I would love to hear from you.

Today, I updated my Linked-In account, attempted to update Manta which hung up for some unknown rea­son, posted my first Tweet in a long time, and posted a new blog entry on MySpace and now here.  It seems that Linked-In  will fol­low my Tweets and my blog on ArtandBusinessConsulting.com and Manta will also fol­low my Tweets so I guess I should use Twit­ter more often.

Yours in art,

Jake

Artist, AKAJake.com Come Expe­ri­ence the Art!

PS. I am still look­ing for Spon­sors & Con­tribut­ing Patrons to help me pay the $7651.31 I charged to attend this event; this amount is the sum all the receipts I can find relat­ing to the trip-about $4,000 is the Bien­nale artist’s share, then hotel & air­fare, plus pack­ag­ing for my art, taxis, meals in Italy, postage and other inci­den­tal expenses. I have raised about $2079 in dona­tions–many thanks to those who have con­tributed to this event.  But I need more assis­tance and every lit­tle bit helps.

The art work in this blog is fed­er­ally copy­righted. All repro­duc­tion and pub­lish­ing copy­rights are retained by the artist. Images are not to be copied, re-distributed, imi­tated, derived OR oth­er­wise used in any form with­out the explicit writ­ten per­mis­sion of the artist.