Business Merchandising Requires Better Tools

March 18, 2010 at 5:35 pm · Filed under Creative Arts, Internet Marketing, Promoting Brands

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The Best Method for Holding Cards in London Town

March 8, 2010 at 5:51 am · Filed under Creative Arts, Internet Marketing, Promoting Brands

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1) These Oyster card holders are double-sided and prepared from functional PVC plastic. They will keep the card or picture from getting scraped or weakened. These items can also be up to rich coloring with a assortment of assorted colorings, designs and patterns.

2) Card holders can facilitate you save all of your important cards or travel passes together in one stable and spacious point. They are created from functional PVC plastic and accept charge card expansion slots and central note pocket. They look trendy and stunning and permit a outstanding opportunity to create an powerful impression. You can either present them to your clients, friends, deputes or staff, for appreciating them for their work. They will really make you stand out above the crowd and are perfect for your own individual purpose, too.

3) Card wallets come with plain internal pouches and room for plastics. They permit smooth access to plastics, and have a transparent travel card window. They are commonly used by scholarly people on the move. These Oyster card wallets will also assist you to mark your being anyplace, anytime.

4) Oyster card wallets are usually mass-produced in PVC and obtainable in green, brown, grey or red colourings. They have compartments to fit a oyster card and also two supplemental card expansion slots on the face. You can also use them for keeping charge plates and pictures. You can produce a large feeling by passing them to your extraordinary guests, colleges or acquaintances.

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Antique Mantel Clocks Are a Lot Better to Find and Find in Decent Condition than Other Clocks

February 19, 2010 at 12:13 pm · Filed under Creative Arts

For many, collectible antique clocks can mean serious cash for the self-driven businessman. They also are just actually cool to have in your home. Though there are museum curators who buy anything old that ticks, from antique granddad clocks to antique alarm clocks, the main kind of watch you will find is an antique mantel clock. These are sometimes known, unofficially, in the trade as “regular sized clocks”. Simpler to Find Antique mantel clocks are a lot better to find and find in decent condition because lots more of them were made than antique granddad clocks or wall clocks.

Before the times of radio, TV and iPods, the fireside was the giant magnet that attracted the family or guests. The mantelpiece then had the most adored of souvenirs as you were going to take a look at them for a very long time. Clocks frequently graced mantelpieces, and is the reason why they grew to be known as antique mantel clocks, although you can put them on a large amount of other places apart from a mantelpiece. There had been more of a requirement for these types of more cheap clocks than there had been for other kinds, even cuckoo clocks. This means your odds of finding antique mantel clocks are good. Better to Store Since they are definitely a lot smaller, antique mantel clocks are less difficult to store and display than granddad clocks or wall clocks.

You can only have so much wall space to fir clocks on and only a little room in your place or shop to paste a massive, ham-fisted antique granddad clock. And you’ll find a wide selection of antique mantel clocks, while granddad clocks have a tendency to all look moderately alike. Simpler to Sell though they are truly impressive, nobody outside the super rich or the antiques dealer wants to buy an antique granddad clock. You may never be in a position to sell it and get back any investment or repairs you put into it. And repairs for any antique clock can cost hundreds - if you are fortunate. It’s much more practical to sell and buy antique mantel clocks, as they’re not astronomically priced and can be put on most fat surfaces rather than just the floor.

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Cuban Art and the Artists Who Created the Movement

September 17, 2009 at 8:59 am · Filed under Creative Arts

Cuban art is a contrasting multiethnic combination of European, North American and African aesthetic design mirroring the various demographic of the island. Artists from Cuba espoused the European modernist movement and the early part of the 20th century saw an increase in Cuban modernist movements; these movements were characterized by a potpourri of modern artistic styles. Notable Cuban creatives tended to come from the early 1900s (for example Amelia Pelez).

It’s been argued that the most famous art (of sorts) to be produced in Cuba was THAT photo of Che Guevara (shot by Mr Alberto Korda) which actually became one of the most recognizable images of the 20th century. Today Cuban artwork is mounted on numerous canvas art prints.

The indigenous modern art movement gathered some pace following the opening of the the art academy (San Alejandro) back in 1818, which was designed to satisfy the European preference of the middle class population of Cuba. Towards the end of the 1800s, landscapes were very popular within Cuban art and classicism was still the preferred genre.

Nevertheless, the pioneering Cuban contemporary artists of the late 1920s had disapproved the theoretical conventions of Cuba’s national art academy. In their genesis, numerous artists had lived in Paris, where they studied and engaged in the founding rules of cubism, surrealism and modernist primitivism. Once back in Cuba, they became committed to innovative aesthetic styles and were motivated to merge this new aesthetic tendency with a Cuban twist. The vanguardia artists accomplished world acclaim in 2003 with the Modern Cuban Painting show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

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Dangerous Craft Supplies

July 23, 2009 at 3:40 am · Filed under Creative Arts, Fun Links, Kids

Some art and craft supplies contain toxic ingredients, creating a significant risk to the health and wellbeing of children. Art supplies containing toxic chemicals can also produce fumes that trigger asthma, allergies, headaches, and nausea. It is important to purchase and use supplies that have been certified as non-toxic. Schoolchildren and younger kids should be specially looked after when they use arts products.

Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has laid out certain arts and crafts materials to avoid which should be given careful consideration. Some products which are hazardous include clay in dry form, powdered paints, glazes, pigments, wheat paste. But there are always other supplies which are obtainable as alternatives; safer options include water-based glues, paints, and markers. Most alternative options for safe materials might not be as effective as their original substitutes but they might be necessary when ones health is at stake.

Almost all schools in the UK practice safety procedures when ensuring that the materials they use in art class meet with safety standards. However, precautions must still be taken to ensure that the children, the younger ones especially are still monitored when they use craft supplies.

Professionals like artists, artisans or party planners who frequently deal with craft supplies also need to be aware of safety when dealing with the materials used frequently in their work life.

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Eyes that See - Beyond

June 23, 2008 at 4:56 am · Filed under Creative Arts

Eyes That See - Beyond:

To capture the grandeur of Divine
With my puerile basic rhyme
A task I know I’ll not achieve
Though thought or soul I perceive
Lake Louise in translucent green and blue
The Mojave Desert after rain while flowers grew
The Canyons, cliffs and colors vibrant
The sounds of birds and water rushing discordant
When the dangers become apparent
To all that lives and is verdant
The Florida Keys, the Yucatan
I never got to see Japan.

Driving in the Rocky Mountain
Amazing changes of trees and rain
To the eyes that never knew
Grand nature I shared with you
Each new thing that we came upon
Your eyes lit up they truly shone
Real change came a year thereafter
As these horizons freed your rapture.

I remember when you saw Sedona
Coming through the forest past Oak Creek
And all the things you said ‘We’re gonna’
Each time a new vista you did peek
Was matched in all that you did seek
Touched me more than I’d ever known
Made me know how much I’ve grown
The open eyes of children see
Nature free as it should be
Imagine this - you did thank me?!

LEGENDS OF THE SOUL:

Legends of the ambergris
Elixirs, ambrosia do exist
Herbals and aphrodisiacs
Nothing but sex maniacs?
Why such nonsense does persist?
Pursuits of easy answers by any means?
While often their own life demeans
There are ways to get much power
But the real power requires you forego
Any need or personal quest borne of ego
Not just once but every hour
Gods be Greek or from Valhalla
Perhaps Arjuna from the Veda
Similar representations - the self same game
Call these concepts of energy by any name
You will not be given for what you came
Because these truths are first found ‘withi
This is more than irony or tragedy
The celestial constructs or a comedy
I often wonder with a grin!

Once you truly find yourself connected
Not long after you are infected
Then by means of inspection what is ‘without’
In years thereof you will remove all doubt
No longer needing gods for answers easy
No longer having a stomach queasy
With winged Hermes you’ll be traveling
Arjuna’s mysteries enjoined unraveling
Jesus studied long and hard
The answers of the Tarot card
Are not to be taken all alone
You must get down to the very bo
Immortal soul
Does have a goal!

Author of many books available at Lulu and World-Mysteries.com

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Floating laminate flooring

June 8, 2008 at 3:51 am · Filed under Creative Arts, Home Improvement Stuff, Layout + Design

Needless to say, laminate flooring can indeed give your home a new and awesome look, possibly like a sweet commercial place with a homely touch. This is just a mini guide as to how you should go about installing laminate flooring. The tools that you would need are tape, measure, miter saw with laminate blade, right-angle square brad gun or hammer and brad nails, compressor, hammer, small flat crowbar, chalk line, jigsaw, utility knife, rubber mallet and pencils!

Firstly the existing shoe molding must be removed without damaging either the floor or the roof. Then the room must be thoroughly vacuumed and cleaned. After that the foam is laid on the floor. The floating laminate flooring must be laid out only according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Finally rubber bases and carpets or hardwood floors would probably be needed to be installed as well. Important tips be would to buy more flooring that you think you would need and that laminate flooring can be installed over the existing flooring. This is basically the very basics involved in installing laminate flooring! For more details obviously you would need to buy a good book or look up the internet and off course, whatever you do, don’t forget to follow the manufacturer’s instructions!

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Rhymes of an Ordnance Man [Vietnam War: 1971]

April 13, 2008 at 9:51 pm · Filed under Creative Arts

Rhymes of an Ordnance Man
[Vietnam War: 1971]

An eleven part poem
By Dennis L. Siluk

I had went to Vietnam at the age of 23 [1971], and it was most interesting, there were 205,000 troops there when I arrived. I was asked recently at a lecture [question and answer] at a University in Peru, Huancayo, at the Los Andes, Language Center, how I liked it. Most of the students expected me to be down right rigid with my remarks, I think. But the first thing that came to mind was, ‘…war is a high,” and so I expressed that to the students, they were a ting surprised. And so in this poem I try to outline a few of the more normal occurrences, and include the highs one may find in everyday soldiering in a war area:

Part One

Vietnam: Guard Duty at Dusk

… I paced along the wired fence
Quietly all night;
There was no stars, no moon

Just timid darkness for my light…

I glanced from tree to tree
I glanced from bush to bush
I saw a shadow moving

That never said a word:

“Halt, who goes there?” I cried. But he
Never heard me, I wondered why (?)

Oh, I called him several times,
As I walked the path alone;
And I watched and watchedbut

Never saw the foliage move.

I ordered him against the fence
The sorry skies were dark like flint;
He heard the click from my rifle go

And cried like a morbid child.

O, I had no time to tarry.
So I said, once and for all:
“Clasp your hands against the fence,

Or they’ll find you dead tomorrow!”

I dreamed about that evil night
Now crowded with the dead;
War is not all love and laughter

he never clasped his hands!

#645 5/2005

Part Two

Vietnam: The Frightful Fool
(Dedicated to the Los Andes Students)

“This is not a game,” I said
And he quivered his looks away;
All the schooling he has in his head,
Will do for another day….
“Run and hide,” I cried;
The rockets whistle, isn’t for school.

D’ye think he’d listen? Na,
Not much:
So I screamed “Wakeup Fool!”
With a cup of grief his way…!
…for there’s no glory to die in
Vietnam; for a country that
Sweeps it soul away!…

And so the fearful fool awoke,
To live another day!…
In this game called face the foe
In the far-off jungles by
The South China Sea.

Part Three

Vietnam: Red Silence

I cannot silence, though I try
The sound of rockets in the sky;
Hurls at us in five-ton trucks:

The odyssey, of staying alive.

Yet, life is still a joyand all is well…
(As we make earth our little hell).

Lo!
We who hear war’s red silence
(And are still alive to tell)
Lift up your eyes, see heaven,
Get out of the mud, awhile.

In fact, I didn’t mind the horrors of war
For that is what we were there for;
Rather, I hated the mud, rain and grime;
And the shrapnel at times.

Part Four

Vietnam: Heroin-day

And I found in the open jungle

Golden light and golden peace

Dwelling!
A thousand birds were singing!

I forgot, I was here to fight

To fight like a devil if need be.
I was in a fogday-dreaming;
Kissing wenches amongst the

Glare and the grime, and trees.

I lay my rifle down to bit

To join the other dreamers yet
Dancing on top of a tin-roofed hut;

As if we were all crazy or nuts.

Fighting: was a far, far cry.

I never knew if the enemy was

Nearby!…

Note: #646 5/11/2005

Part Five

Vietnam: Going Home

I’m goin’ home in the

Mawin’ -
I’m glad to have the chance!

I’m done with fightin’,

‘ad had my fill of …nam!

I’m goin’, home in the

Mawin’ -

I’m glad to have the chance!

I’ve had my ‘eap of fun
But now it’s over;

And I wouldn’t trade it
To anyone!!

Note: #647

Part Six

Vietnam: Morning Rockets

All morning long, rockets shot by
I stood by sandbags, opened-eyed!

At night, at nightthe same
I, and my head dodging such things.

Little I thought, I’d die that morning,
For here I am, to write the story.

For out of the mysterious, Vietnam,
Came a blood-red sky for everyone.

Rockets whistled in the bloody sky,
They have tails like hawks, as they fly!

But the worst of all
…is when they land
A ghostly fate, in deadly sand…!

#648 [5/12/2005]

Part Seven

Vietnam: The Ballad of Lustful Luke

Ugh! What a shame;
Let me whisper Luke’s lustful game:

He’d make love several

Times a day….

As I swept the dusty steps,
Polished my dirty boots

And cleaned my oily gun
He’d be screwing everyone!!

And that is how we got to know
Each others name (that is so).

And he’d say:
“You want to play…?”

And I’d answer:
“Got things to do, not today Lue!”

Yes, even when in the mist

Of combat

He’d dip-down into
His little hut and screw
Screw his many sluts…!

“O flee, flee…” I told him many

Times
“Before disease

Warped his mind.

But he never zippered-up

Those olive-green pants,
And thus, his spinal-cord

Collapsed.

Unable to stand: he was
Flown to Tokyo, Japan.

Part Eight

Vietnam: The Barbwire

“Their all messed up in the barbwire
(he said); shoot them in the head…

let’s fire!”
Oh, what a time to die.

They never made a moan.
Caught in the barbwire fence:

Wet, with sweat to the bone!

Now here we stand, awaiting command

And the VC hasn’t a chance.
And here we swear, smoke and

Crack dirty jokes
As daylight grows awfully dim.

And here we play cards and laugh
While the cursed foe wiggles back,

Back through the barbwire fence;
As we wait for command, and wait

And wait…until they’re gone.

Part Nine

Vietnam: Mothers Voice

He went away, to war, that

Autumn day
I watched him out my

Window …

He sang a song, called

Vietnam
And I’m not sure if

He whistled.

Ah yes, my eyes had

Tears
But he couldn’t have guessed

That so…

For I held them deep inside

My chest
And the pain

He never knew.

My boy, my boy who sings

So sweet
And pitiful proud was

I…

But a mother has to let

Life flow, you know
Be it God’s will, her

Son should die!

For peace is bought with love

And tears
Cheers and

Broken hearts…

But death is always far

Too near
Far too near:

God, if it be Thy Will.

Part Ten

Vietnam: Carry-on Soldier!

I gave them my best
Out of the jungles of doubt;
To help the fella’s in America out!

(Where life is worth living,

no doubt!)

Believe in your mission
That is what I heard; then:

“Carry-on soldier; carry-on….!”

It’s easy to fight, if you think

It is right!
It’s a different song, if you think

It is wrong!

But all I heard was:

“Carry-on Soldier, carry-on!”

Part Eleven

Vietnam: the Cross [1975]

And so, the war is now over
Mothers are now with their sons;
And the grieving has ended for many,
And for some, it has just begun.

Smile and try to be happy
Even thought peace was not the prize
For in the valley of hope we have given
Our brave and lovely boys.

Note: these are poems #645 through #656/5/2005

Dennis Siluk http://dennissiluk.tripod.com

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Art Marketing Tips - Launch A Successful Business Selling Your Art Or Crafts

April 5, 2008 at 6:56 pm · Filed under Creative Arts

Define your goals and get organized - What are your goals as an artist? Do you hope and dream to one day have your artwork displayed in a museum or do you just want to sell enough of your art to make a good living? Defining your goals is an important first step toward your success as an artist. Realize your long-term goal and then set reasonable and attainable short-term goals.

Build your confidence - You need to believe in yourself and your artwork. If not, your marketing efforts will be less effective as the fear of rejection will hold you back. You have to learn to take risks. No one is going to come knocking at your studio door. Get out there and meet new people, network with other artists, open a booth at an art show, etc.

Get in a business mentality - If you want to be successful with your art business, then you will have to learn how to juggle more than one task. This means learning how to become successful as a businessperson. The artists that are most successful have learned how to enjoy both creating and marketing their art.

Art fairs - Art fairs open up great doors of opportunity for artists. They enable artists to market directly to the public without the need of an agent. The public loves art fairs. They usually come to these art fairs with the intention to purchase something, which creates more opportunity for an artist to make a sale and get recognized. You can find a wealth of information about art fairs online. One such place is http://www.sunshineartist.com/. Sunshine Artist is a great magazine that provides detailed information about art fairs and festivals. Check it out!

Follow up - You must get into the habit of following up with anyone who has shown interest or has appreciated your art. That person who saw your painting in the doctors office, or the person who took your business card at your last art show are leads who can possibly turn into paying customers. They may also be able to help you in other ways you never thought possible. It’s important therefore to keep in touch with everyone. Create a mailing list and ask your contacts if they would like to be added. You can send out mailers whenever you create a new piece, or to notify your contacts of upcoming exhibits or art fairs you will be attending.

Customer service - You must go above and beyond your customer’s expectations if you want to set yourself apart from the competition. Make sure you treat your customers and leads with the utmost professionalism. Answer all inquiries promptly. Send out thank you notes and instructions for preserving and caring for the art with all of your orders. Customer service is important to all businesses, and your art business should be no exception.

Artist agents - You are your own best agent. No one knows your art better then you, and no one can express yourself and your art better than you can. An agent generally deals with more than one artist at a time so their focus is not on you and your art alone. Agents usually charge a lot of money as well. By the time it’s all said and done, the artist doesn’t make very much on the sale. It’s better to learn the ropes yourself and learn how to reach your buyers directly.

Get your own unique website - The Internet has become a huge platform for selling goods and services. More and more people are going online then ever before and artists are taking advantage of this amazing opportunity. If you want to expand your business and reach more people on a worldwide scale, you should definitely consider getting your own website. You can market and sell your artwork directly online with your own website. Your website is also a great way to organize and showcase your art to interested galleries and the people you meet in public.

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