{"id":469,"date":"2011-09-25T08:46:29","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T15:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/?p=469"},"modified":"2011-09-25T08:46:29","modified_gmt":"2011-09-25T15:46:29","slug":"social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>an interesting look at social media from an artists point of view <a href=\"http:\/\/paulindigo.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/real-value-of-social-media-to.html?spref=fb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I agree with the premise. The internet has brought the possibility of huge exposure for artists, but there is a disconnect from the financial side. How can you make money, as a visual artist, on the internet?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>You can try to sell prints, but there is strong pressure to bring the price down. I am also unsure that visual art can be represented well{{1}}. I think most, if not all, successful on-line visual art sales are the result of trusting the artist as much as loving the artwork.<\/li>\n<li>For some mediums, you can sell services. for example I am putting together a <a title=\"Information on\u0085\" href=\"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/inside-the-ordinary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Photography workshop<\/a>, but again, consumers want a little more trust in, or at least knowledge of the artist.<\/li>\n<li>Other? This one I haven&#8217;t found yet&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>It all comes down to marketing and building a name for yourself. Of course most artists are very poor marketers&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>[[1]]Since your monitor uses transmitted light and prints use reflected light, it is very hard to match the two. Also, different monitors, graphic cards, and even viewing conditions (monitor near a window etc) can affect the on screen colour. See all the articles on monitor calibration. Google &#8220;monitor calibration&#8221; gave me over 18 MILLION hits. Wikipedia article <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Color_calibration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>[[1]]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>an interesting look at social media from an artists point of view here. I agree with the premise. The internet has brought the possibility of huge exposure for artists, but there is a disconnect from the financial side. How can you make money, as a visual artist, on the internet? You can try to sell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}