The Accidental Art Critics

Eighty obvious and not so obvious easy ways to save money.

admin — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:31:17 +0000

Introduction:

The information in this article has been put together based on my own experiences everyday observation and the research that I have done, in an attempt to try to ease the pressure on my families budget.

It is only a guide and should be treated as such. A certain degree of common sense on your part is required as what works for some may not for others. We are all different and we all live our lives accordingly. We have our own preferences and make our own choices.

It is not a DIY guide to insulating your loft, fitting Double Glazing, lagging your pipes or any other form of home improvement. Nor is it a guide to cheap airfares, theatre tickets or any other discounted products. It is purely based on a day to day family existence and living with what you already have.

I don’t have time in my daily routine to sit for hours wading through page after page of figures, blurb and statistics so there are no long drawn out detailed explanations.

Some things you may already know others you may not. Some are so obvious they probably go unnoticed everyday. A lot is just pure common sense but if you, like most of us, lead a busy hectic life then reading this article is just what you and your family might need.

How to make money online.

admin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:53:22 +0000

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If you like me spend hour after hour staring at the screen wondering just what you have to do to make money online, then you like me, have probably realised that there is no such thing as free money and to make money online takes more than just starting a web site filling it with content and sitting back to watch the money flood in. Its hard work that involves endless days of long hours with little or no reward, constant neglect of your loved ones and every day ending with a complete lack of self belief, low self esteem and a huge dent in your confidence. dress.

We all sit there racking our brains waiting for that eureka moment. You know, the one that never seems to come, forcing our brains to find the one thing that no one else has thought of as we remain constant slaves to our desire to succeed.

I have trawled the web and read most of the articles on how to make money online, including many of the six figure income sites that are out there offering guaranteed sure fire ways to make money. Some how to me though, they all seem too good to be true, I mean if it was that easy to make money online everybody would be doing it, wouldn’t they? I for one wouldn’t be sitting here writing this. I would have made my million and be sunning myself on a yacht somewhere, leaving its sumptuous luxury only to drive into town in my Aston Martin DB9 to check my bank account and treat my wife to a new pair of Stuart Weitzman shoes matching handbag and a Scott Henshall

I don’t know about you but I’ve been ripped off many a time by invisible people with designer websites making false claims that they can’t, or don’t deliver on, and lets be honest the bottom line is what their selling doesn’t work. Still they disappear into the ether with our hard earned money never to be seen again while we sit stunned and deflated wondering what we did wrong and whether it’s just us who are the stupid ones that will always be destined to never make money.

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Self Observation.

admin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:12:24 +0000

We are all in some way conscious of how we look, but have you ever stood in front of the mirror and really taken notice of yourself. I’m not talking about your everyday routine beauty check before you leave the house. Or the does my bum look big in this, as you glance over your shoulder. I’m talking about spending time to really look and pay attention to yourself. To look at every detail of what you see.

Ok you’ve got me. When do any of us get time to actually pay attention to ourselves let alone study ourselves. After all we spend most if not all of our time running around after everyone else, trying to please and delight those around us and meeting deadlines within our strict routines, it’s no surprise really that we overlook the most important thing of all. OURSELVES. Besides which, when, or if we do finally get time alone, we are too exhausted to take advantage of it anyway.

First rendezvous.

admin — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:55:01 +0000

I saw you looking.
Scrutinising me with every glance.
Staring with pearlescent eyes and holding my gaze.
What power do you possess that holds my attention and keeps me transfixed on you.
Studying every line and curve of you.
Building an indelible image in my mind so that I will never forget.
I try to portray you, but I am paralysed by you.
I can neither put to canvas nor imagine what I am trying to express.
My intention is there, but my mind cannot perceive the concept.
I will my body to execute, but I am frozen in the moment.
You sense my hesitation.
With subtle intention you adjust your position, changing the light, exposing more of you to me,
The presence you exude with your confident demeanour.
You are exposed and yet unafraid, unnerving my senses.
Quickly you sense the hold you have over me, as you dare my eyes to see you differently.
Teasing my thoughts.
Inviting my scrutiny and challenging me to find your inner soul.
How can I portray such perfection?
The subtleties of colour and line of your body as you sit motionless before me.
The tense heady atmosphere that transpires between us.
You will my hand toward canvas yet I cannot find composition.
Imagining in the moment how desperately I want it and how easily it could be lost.
To know that in a moment, I could capture it and it would always be there, never to be taken.
Held in immortal portrayal for all to see.
The tension is building with every second you are in the room.
Making me want, even more to capture it before you leave and it is gone forever.
We are lost in the moment.
Neither of us knowing the difference between reality and art.
I saw you looking.

Disfunctional?

admin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:06:25 +0000

If I get one more, single lined comment with a link to a pharmaceutical product I think I will permanently hit DELETE.

I mean, it’s not like we need to spend our every waking hour being bombarded by time wasters posting one liners with links to adverts that are designed to suggest to us that we are faced with an impending threat of being disfunctional, and that to be fully funtional we need to be permanently aroused. For starters where would any of us find the energy let alone the time for a life of permanent arousal, surely there are more important things to life than having to endure the discomfort of being permanently thrust against our under garments. I would never be able to queue again, for fear of impaling the person infront of me. Can you imagine it? “I’m ever so sorry sir/madam, I wasn’t being rude and I can assure you, really, I never meant anything by it, It’s just these pills you see, I’ve had them thrust (no pun intended) at me for so long now that I am totally convinced that I cannot be functional without them, and now I have no control over my functionality.” The last words, of which, are slipping off my lips as I am forcibly thrown into the back of a police car.

Besides, how I am I supposed to pee? Should I sign up on a gymnastics course so that I can perfect my hand stand technique, or do I have to look forward to a life of sitting on the toilet and being permanently jammed against the underside of the toilet seat. Not to mention the fact that I would probably need to start wearing wellie boots to keep my feet dry in case I didn’t quite make the bowl and hit the gap between the pan and the seat or just missed completely. Perhaps there is an upper and a downer for such occasions?? Blue for up. Pink for Down??

Come on, have we really evolved to the point where we are so gullable/desperate that time wasters think they can get away with it?

It seems essential to convince us that the only way to be functional is to be permanently aroused. Is that what I have to look forward to? A life spent pointing at the heavens from my trouser department, chafing against the fabric and being permanently aware that I have a visible bulge for all to see and that at any given moment I could explode from my trousers. Please god don’t let the zip be faulty. I’ll never be able to buy a cheap pair of jeans again.

Doesn’t anything else matter any more? Please tell me that there is more to life than whether I have functionality or not. Surely I can’t be condemmed to a life of permanent visits to my GP to sign up for my monthly supply of functionality.( Is functionality a word?) Oh and not forgetting of course all the other pills that I am told I might need along the way, you know, just incase. Plus, as well, I should imagine the risk of heart attack is greatly increased, after all somethings got to compensate for the increased blood flow to my nether regions and there’s always the case that when I did get to put my functionality to use, would, or could I stand the pace? Or is there a pill for that?

Where are the real people? I know you’re out there somewhere. The ones that are genuinely interested and have a voice and an opinion. Not the time wasters.

Your probably doing exactly the same as me right now. Having just read yet another flattering comment about how well you write. You check the URL and POW!! There it is again, DELETE, DELETE, DELETE. Will it ever stop?

So like me, you begin frantically typing away wondering if it’s all really worth it, hoping that the next time you get a response it will be relevant and will make it all worth while, the chance for a real relative constructive comment from someone who is actually interested in what you have to say and not what they have to sell. I hate time wasters

Before I finish, I must say without prejudice and with complete conviction that I am not being judgemental of anyone, and please don’t get me wrong or take offence,it’s each to their own, I respect that, and yes some peoples needs are greater than others. If we were all the same life would be really boring . It’s just that I have had enough now. GO AND WASTE SOMEONE ELSES TIME!

It’s only a tree??

admin — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:29:35 +0000

Is art really about the moment, an impulse, a sudden flash of inspiration, a eureka moment if you like.

Art on the emotions.

admin — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:55:06 +0000

A work of art can depict many things, document many historical events, tell many stories and in a lot of cases shed light or provide us with a fleeting glimpse into the lives of the artists themselves.

How much passion, guilt, or betrayal is there depicted through out history in the art world, for example many of the greats were known or believed to have used their lovers or mistress’s in their works.
It has often been suggested that Flora, one of Titians more poetic images of a provocative young women,was in fact his mistress Cecilia, whom he finally married in 1525.

Will the Recession effect the art world ?

admin — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:40:27 +0000

With falling property prices and people being terrified to sell or buy anything at the moment for fear of great financial loss it got me thinking as to the knock on effect the recession may or for that matter may not have on the art world.

Is the art world immune to recession?

Would a work of art lose or retain its value?
After all a work of art is just that.Can you afford to sit by and ride the market. With the great works of art from the masters the artist is already dead so its not like there will be any more of the item you require to choose from at a later date. Its a one of, there would never be another. There will always be others like it, but never the original. Once a work of art is sold to a gallery or collector the chances of it re-emerging on the one open market are minimal.

It could be argued that a work of art is only worth what a buyer/collector is willing to, or can afford to pay for it and so in an unstable market would it be unlikely for a piece to fetch less than its expected price?

The effect of recession on our Arts-Craft related web sites

admin — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:37:09 +0000

It has come to my attention of late that the traffic to my site has dramatically declined. Also alot of my link partners seem to have disappeared and a lot more of the others page ranks along with my own are falling at a scary rate. My only assumption can be that we are all victims of the recession and with this in mind I was thinking. What can we do to ensure our survival and make what we have had to struggled and strive for worth while? I,m not prepared to give up without a fight, are you?

The genuine masterpiece.

admin — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:48:57 +0000

I have looked at thousands of paintings, photos and other interpretations of art by various artists to seek out what to me is a genuine masterpiece, but it wasn’t until yesterday that it dawned on me. Are we not all a genuine master piece in our own right? Are we not unique, do we not all have the ability to be influential, are we not all priceless and irreplaceable. Every part of us is a genuine masterpiece in its own unique and to a certain extent flawed way.