Archive for the 'art' Category

Best of the Carnival of Entrepreneurs

Wednesday 3 January 2007 @ 10:13 am

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. There have a been a couple Carnival of Entrepreneurs in the last 2 years, but Ben from Startup Spark has taken up the project and he’s doing it right this time.
I submitted my Internet marketing cautionary tale, Pipeline Profits: Tempted? [...]

Ze Gets Rich

Wednesday 18 October 2006 @ 12:39 pm

Duckie is Rich

Regular readers will know about my hero worship for New York video artist Ze Frank. It is the highlight of my day [crappy life maybe] to watch his daily “The Show” episode.
Well exciting news and since this story is about art and money, it may be the first ever post on Art [...]

Improve This Blog’s Design

Wednesday 11 October 2006 @ 11:28 pm

The Art of Design … Warhol’s Marilyns
This is the first section of my contest [see rules and guidelines here] to help me improve my site and make it an A-List quality blog.
Today’s topic is Design
What are the elements of a site’s design and how do they stack up on this site?
1. Logo
The logo sucks. I [...]

How To Not Be A Starving Artist

Thursday 20 July 2006 @ 07:07 am

I came very close to titling this post “Money of Art” but since every post that makes it on to the top of a social bookmarking site starts with “how to” I just couldn’t do it.
In my last post I mentioned that I used to own a woodworking business. I made hand crafted photo frames, [...]

Be Positive?

Friday 10 March 2006 @ 04:00 am

Image by creativity+.
“To be positive: To be mistaken at the top of one’s voice.”  Ambrose Bierce
Funny how much effort is wasted trying to be positive. Why not just be real.

Our Nothingness

Thursday 9 March 2006 @ 03:40 am

“The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.” Andre Malraux
In last week’s episode of the Apprentice I was surprise to hear The Donald say that [...]

A Billion Here, A Billion There

Wednesday 8 March 2006 @ 04:21 am

Image by Lastexit.”A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.” Senator Everett Dirksen
Only a politician could afford to be so out of touch with reality.

Hamburgers By The Bagfull

Tuesday 7 March 2006 @ 04:01 am

Flickr image by Patrick Q.
“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”  Bill Cosby
I’m wonderting if they could get anymore mixed messages on that sign? That Panda doesn’t really seem to be enjoying the idea of eating that burger much either. Maybe he’s hoping the chicken [...]

Ask Questions

Monday 6 March 2006 @ 04:00 am

Flickr image by schaaflicht.
“You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.” John J. Plomp
The ability to ask questions that have no answers is essential to being a great entrepreneur.

Image of The Day

Thursday 2 March 2006 @ 07:06 pm

by Robin Thom.
from my home town of Vancouver