>From my blog Absent Without Leave
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The Long Tail of Art Webring
January 19, 2005 The Long Tail of Art
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This Long Tail of Art thing has three parts:
1. Serious artists who are making some form of relatively inexpensive
work available over the Web
2. A loose network of these artists
3. A casual agreement to cross promote the network, and a desire to
create a value-space so that others can point people to the loose network.
The idea is that we will build up our sMedia Capital over the long term
and we will end up with a rollling income from selling work. sMedia
Capital is the traffic that accrues over time to an interesting site -
it takes a while for promotional work to embed itself within the
networks of interest, but once that promotion is embedded, it tends to
have a slow decay time.
The loose network is a casual arrangement to create valuable
destination(s) that are worth other building links to. So, anyone within
this loose network must offer something above and beyond the sale of
art. For this initial (experimental) project, I am creating a Web Ring
that I will control access to.
The Web Ring is called the Long Tail Web Ring (LTWR). It has some simple
rules that are in flux, i.e. they will evolve by discussion:
1. Members of the LTWR are active art producers who are selling some
form of work via the Web
2. Member sites of the LTWR offer some online value beyond the selling
of work, e.g. an art blog, personal art site, archive etc, whatever
3. Members of the LTWR agree to cross promote the LTWR to others. This
is informal, i.e. mention it, link to it, point to it, put it in your
email sig
4. Members agree to place the LTWR webring buttons ABOVE THE FOLD on the
front page of their web site. This means it is visible on when someone
arrives at the site. Members are encouraged to put the links on every
page, but hey, no pressure.
That's it for now. The LTWR is an experiment. I'm interested in what
sort of work people will offer within LTWR. I don't expect it to be huge
oil paintings, but I've got no real view of what will work and what
won't. I'm doing digital prints and signing them, but anything from
drawings to sound files to conceptual work should be fine. Try me.
As my contribution to my research into the Long Tail of Art (here,
passim), I decided to sell prints from my work at a flat rate $50 per
print (plus postage). I didn't want to do anything complicated, but I
thought I had an obligation to start my ball rolling. I'm using
Flickr.com to show all my images and I've made a group called $50
<http://flickr.com/photos/ivan/sets/87912/> prints where I'm putting all
the available work More about how this will work soon.
I'm going to put up a page about the LTWR and make some link buttons
etc. As soon as I've got two more members I'll open up the ring and we
can take it from there.
http://blog.ivanpope.com/awol/2005/01/the_50_print.html
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Ivan Pope
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