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New Art - New Feature
We felt that new art that was being posted wasn't getting enough initial exposure, so we added a new section called "Upcoming" available here http://www.artflock.com/upcoming/. This page shows the latest artwork to be added to ArtFlock.com and gives visitors the chance …
Total value of artwork available for sale
The total value of artwork for sale on ArtFlock.com has just passed the
Interview: Pete Nawara
In the first of our artist interviews, we spoke to Pete Nawara about life and work. Pete, 28, was raised in the west suburbs of Chicago, although he spent a good deal of his summers traveling the globe with his family. His first 11 years were spent in Naperville before …
Most popular searches
In the first month ArtFlock.com has had over 20,000 searches by people looking for artwork. We thought we'd share the top three in a few of the categories with you:
Search by keywords / tags:
1. Abstract
2. Photography
3. Landscape
Search by medium:
1. Painting
2. …
Unusual studio environment
I've heard of weddings underwater, golf underwater - even the Australian Olympic athletes practice track running underwater - but painting?
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An interview with Gyuri Lohmuller
Born in 1962, Gyuri Lohmuller is a Romanian artist from the town of Gataia. He's been painting full time since 1992, although painting has always been in his blood. Even from a young age, Gyuri took to the canvas with water colours, which his mother has kept to this …
Photographing your artwork
One of the most important elements of selling art online is how well the piece is photographed.
Artists should think about how much care and attention they place on setting up an exhibition in a gallery or art fair. A great article demonstrating this has just been
Quick Shout Out
I had the pleasure of meeting Mary last week at an event called Seedcamp (more on this soon) from Art House Party. It's a London based group that "looks for ways to be less clever about art" - it has a really nice community feel about is so visit the site and attend an …
Selling prints of your work? We like Imagekind.com
Artflock.com would like to introduce our newest friend in the art business world, Imagekind. We think that they are a wonderful resource for all working artists and we endorse them to the Artflock.com community of buyers and sellers.
Imagekind.com is a print on demand …
Recycle Your Used Gadgets For Cash at SecondRotation
How many old phones, digital cameras, and MP3 players do you have that still work but are sitting useless in a drawer? A site called SecondRotation is like the company BuyMyBrokeniPod that Mike wrote about a few days ago, except you can sell more than just iPods. …
TringMe: Phone Free Click To Call
http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/tringme_logo.png''class=shot" alt="alt">Nearly every VOIP related startup has their own click-to-call widget, Jajah, Jangl, Jaxtr, and even GrandCentral. These widgets let you easily and sometimes anonymously set up a call with friends over the web. They're very useful and come packed with features like …
Recycle Your Used Gadgets For Cash at SecondRotation
How many old phones, digital cameras, and MP3 players do you have that still work but are sitting useless in a drawer? A site called SecondRotation is like the company BuyMyBrokeniPod that Mike wrote about a few days ago, except you can sell more than just iPods. …
Google To $2000/Share? Somebody Muzzle Blodget
http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/applestocken.png'class=shot" alt="alt">Henry Blodget made his name by predicting outlandish price increases for Internet stocks in the late nineties. A lot of people lost a lot of money (or, all their money) by listening to his recommendations. The government charged him with securities fraud in 2003 and he …
TringMe: Phone Free Click To Call
http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/tringme_logo.png''class=shot" alt="alt">Nearly every VOIP related startup has their own click-to-call widget, Jajah, Jangl, Jaxtr, and even GrandCentral. These widgets let you easily and sometimes anonymously set up a call with friends over the web. They're very useful and come packed with features like …
Google To $2000/Share? Somebody Muzzle Blodget
http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/applestocken.png'class=shot" alt="alt">Henry Blodget made his name by predicting outlandish price increases for Internet stocks in the late nineties. A lot of people lost a lot of money (or, all their money) by listening to his recommendations. The government charged him with securities fraud in 2003 and he …
Fadnation: Why Steve Ballmer Could Be Right
The hot topic on Techmeme today is a story quoting Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer claiming that the rush into sites like Facebook could be a fad. Naturally, there has been a slew of people claiming that this could be nothing further from the truth; Robert …
Yahoo May Sell Kelkoo
Yahoo is considering "strategic options" for comparative shopping site Kelkoo, including a possible sale, according to a report at FT.com
Yahoo acquired Kelkoo in 2004 for EUR475 million ($670 million). Paris based Kelkoo has continued to offer a standalone comparative …
Justin.TV Teams Up With On2 And Opens Network
We've been following the evolving live streaming space for some time now. The success of recorded social video on the net (read YouTube acquisition) spurred on many more video startups, including a host of video sites hoping to find an equally large demand for live …
Yahoo May Sell Kelkoo
Yahoo is considering "strategic options" for comparative shopping site Kelkoo, including a possible sale, according to a report at FT.com
Yahoo acquired Kelkoo in 2004 for EUR475 million ($670 million). Paris based Kelkoo has continued to offer a standalone comparative …