Art Show Fundraiser Women for Women International Congo

We invite you to join us in celebrating LOVE through ART and being one more voice that says NO to the violence against women and YES to a future world where women and children are honored and respected.

Our goal is to raise funds to help educate and train women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We hope to raise much more than money through this artistic collaboration, we hope to raise their spirits. We have a wide spectrum of artists with different styles and from different backgrounds but they all have one thing in common...a belief that through their art they can reach out and touch the lives of those thousands of miles away. They believe in the resilience and strength of their sisters in the Congo.

Featuring: Poetry, Musical and Dance performances, including Hip Hop, Harp, acoustic guitar, Aztec Dances, Contemporary Dance and Tahitian Drumming. Paintings, photography, video and visual arts by local artistsMartial Arts and Eskrima Demonstrations100% of the ticket sales will be donated to Women for Women International for the benefit of the Women of the Congo.

Visual Arts Displays start at 1PMPerforming Arts starts at 2PMCheck out our website for the performing arts line up.

Admission: $10.00 per adult$5.00 per person under 16 years of age

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Update on new art listings...part one

Well, it's been tons of work & I'm about half way there. I don't see much of an improvement in hits to my website, or sales on eBay, yet. My auction pages do load fast & look very clean, so that's good.

But I'm not convinced it will make a big difference yet. Maybe after search engines index a few times they will pick up more images. A Google or Yahoo search of images, using the keywords - modern original abstract art- is starting to look pretty good. Especially on Yahoo, where my Flicker images dominate. But, I want images from my website & from my auction listings to show up more.

So, time will tell. It's kind of hard to judge right now because sales seem down everywhere. You would think that my stuff would sell rather steady with the average cost under 30 bucks each. But such is the nature of selling original art. It's not a product most people actively search out.

I have a bunch of new stuff listed. I'll post pics in my next blog.

Changes to my listings on ebay. M..u..s..t ...a.d..a..p...t

I have revised all of my images and listings and am slowly filling up my store. It has been, and continues to be a ton of work re-naming & optimizing my pics, loading them on daviniart.com, and then creating brand new auctions with a new, simpler template.

If anyone had trouble with slow loading pages that should be resolved. I dumped Auctiva so the scrolling gallery is gone, and the images have been optimized for fastest loading.
I also realized that while I was searching for something to purchase I would skip the sellers who didn't offer free shipping. Well then, what was I thinking charging for shipping? So, now shipping is free again & will stay that way.

As some of you know this is not my main source of income. I enjoy it (possibly addicted to it?) and love creating stuff. I'm not here to make a ton of money [although that would be nice] so I am not really going to pad the price to cover listing costs. I'm eating approx 7 to 15 bucks on each shipment. If I feel the painting deserves it, I will try to cover those costs in the sales price, but for the most part I'll keep the prices low & still ship for free.

Thanks, Danny

So, check out the new listings & art now at

http://stores.ebay.com/Modern-Original-Abstract-art-Gems

2 new videos featuring my 2009 art gems

I have finally gotten around to making videos of this years series of art gems. I am ahead of schedual because I am already up to number 60 & 10 or more drying. With the goal of 100 a year, I either need to slow down or adjust my goal.:>






More videos coming soon! Thanks

SEO, keywords, facebook, twitter, blogs, tags, titles AND selling art.

We all know the importance of all this stuff to get placement & good rankings from the almighty search engines. I have to say it is driving me crazy. I have known something for a while but have never felt the need to change it until now.

IMAGES ON MOST HOSTING SITES GET RENAMED.

Yes, my image titled davini-art-original-abstract-gem-0955 for example is named farm4.static.flickr.com/3560/3383931182_eb15 on flickr.

or it is named...

img.auctiva.com/imgdata/3/4/3/5/8/0/webimg/245527683_o.jpg on Auctiva

gone is the davini, art, original, abstract from the title of my image. Sure, the tags & titles & descriptions you give your images helps search engines to find them, but the image title itself is pretty important.

Why do you think Flickr, Auctiva & other hosting sites change them? BECAUSE IT DRAWS PEOPLE TO THEIR SITE!!!

Enough I say!!!

It's going to take hours and hours of tedious work, but I'm going to host everything on my website. It's not the easiest way & the image uploader stinks, but at least my images will have the info that will hopefully draw people to my auctions, website, and various other places.

To me, the fastest way to search for art on the major search engines is to search "images". But I have never had an image in an auction show up.

I am not very educated on all this stuff, so I'm not sure how much this will help. I'll post the results when I start to link the images from my site. If I am thinking correctly, a search of images should pick up those in my auctions, therefore increasing hits.

Now all I need is for people to actually search for "original abstract art". Maybe after the spiders gobble up my new image info things will pick up...(but who knows when I will even have time to start this task?)

Great, something else to obsess over.

"Fusion Fix" 16x20 inch original abstract painting. WILD!!

I will ocasionally do larger pieces using the same materials and techniques as my art gems. I really like this one.

Listed on ebay. I featured this one. OUCH!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=370176960346

The connection / connected age is here. How facebook, twitter & a few other sites will rule the web. Part 1

Forget about the information age, we are entering one of the most transformational periods in the history of the world Wide Web. The connected, or connection age.

Sure, there have always been connections, ever since the first email was sent. But the boon in social networking, or social connecting, is taking on a whole new look.

Let's take two of the latest crazes. Facebook & Twitter.

Facebook has been around for a while but I think it's popularity is gaining & will soon to rule the world. Here is just a small sample why:

1. It's connected! I mean seriously connected. When I list on ebay it shows up on my facebook wall with a link right to the auction.

2. When I post a blog. same thing

3. When I upload to flickr it also automatically shows up on my facebook wall with links to the pics.

4. When I update my youtube channel, favorite a video, there it is, right on my facebook page.

5. And you can set up the latest rage, twitter, to also feed stories to facebook.

There are a bunch of other sites that you can import stories from like yelp, googlereader, pandora and more! And a ton of apps you can also link to your facebook.

I have the Los Angeles Angels Network app on my page. I can see scores, stories & schedules right there on my page. Amazing. There are tons of apps and they are are integrated. Myspace has nothing like this and seems to be shrinking in popularity as Facebook is becoming the thinking mans networking tool.

AND, on top of all that, the facebook wall is a storyline that can be read by friends, and friends friends. Information & connection instantly.

I love it & am only scratching the surface as I am pretty much a noob to facebook & twitter. But I know where I will be focusing my marketing strategies...On the sites that are at the forefront of this exploding age of connection.