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The OC Soundrack Album Cover

In music industry, album covers are not only the envelopes of the sound, they represent the uniqueness of the product to be sold and, for collectors and fans, are a pure piece of art equal to the music they are going to buy. This is the reason why both fans and music producers pay a lot of attention to the outlook of the albums since that represents what is the actual quality of the production.

One of the most impressive More

Art Commision Pitfalls

Art commissions are one way of getting a guaranteed income for your art creations. However it is important to not get too exited when you land a commission, it may very well turn out to be the worst commission ever.

The best way to avoid a commission disaster is to follow some basic guidelines. One of the main things to look out for is to know who will approve the finished product. Will it be the person that just agreed More

The Creature From The Black Lagoon: a good example of how it should still be.

Sometimes, the most interesting thing can happen when you least expect it, like, say, when you venture in to someone’s bathroom and discover that your friend has a secret fascination that you were never aware of…

The bathroom in question belonged to a good friend of mine and had recently been re-done. I was expecting the usual nice new things, maybe photos of the family skiing in italy, that sort of thing. What I was not expecting was a More

How to design a CD cover

Some may say we have no need for the movie poster of album covers any longer with all this digital technology. Today a simple image introducing you favourite image can be produced quickly utilizing such digital tools as photoshop. In no time at all you can have in front of you a lovely image that make you want to purchase your latest itunes selection or movie download.

DVD covers are not gone entirely even though today you can purchase music More

The Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition:

The Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition one of London’s longest ever running art shows, now in its 242^nd year. The Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition is the largest art show in the world, with over 10,000 pieces of art submitted every year, with some available for sale. Art lovers and budding artists worldwide come together to this truly magnificent exhibition. The exhibition will take place at the Royal Academy of Arts, the oldest art institution in Great More

Two ways to quickly get on the web:

It can be hard, and costly to make your own website, you may have to buy your own software, sometimes MS Office just isn’t enough, and then you have to go about buying some webspace to host your own website, complicated and will cost a lot monthly, if your website isn’t a professional one.

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If you urgently need some free space, or aren’t prepared to pay for it, webs.com gives you websites for free and are even ready made. Choose from over 300 templates, customize them, add your personal features like logos, add blogs, forums, photo galleries, you could even turn your website into a fully-fledged business with the help of Google Checkout and PayPal. Webs.com boasts of many features, and all for free. With a free webs.com account you get up to 40mb of web storage, and up to 30 minutes of video storage. They also have great premium services, for as little as $4 a month, you get 400mb of online storage, 150 minutes of video storage, and even a $50 Google advertising voucher, so you can even get some advertising from Google to drive some traffic to your new site.

Creating a website is easy, you don’t have to be an IT Consultant to have your own web presence, webs.com and "Open Source Web Design"make it easier to create your own website with no hassle.

Box of Tricks - Miroslaw Balka’s ‘How It Is’ at the Tate Modern

The Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall has housed many of the UK’s most widely-publicised art installations, including the giant playground of Carsten Holler’s Test Site and the still visible crack (Doris Salcedo’s Shibboleth) along the hallway floor. In October, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei will take over the space; how he chooses to use it will offer the western world an intriguing glimpse into modern Chinese art and culture.

Amid the clamour for a new installation, the current Turbine Hall exhibition, Miroslaw More

Drawing Thoughts

Drawing is complicated, right? Well, it doesn’t need to be, it’s just that sometimes the subject in question appears to be far too complex: the more you look at it the worse it gets, until eventually you become convinced that it simply doesn’t want you to draw it. This is rubbish, of course. You can draw anything, providing you look at it in the correct way and approach it with the right knowledge. Drawing, as a famous artist once said, More

Just Kids

I wasn’t a huge Patti Smith fan, so I’m not sure why I was so excited about receiving a copy of her autobiography Just Kids. Yes I knew she was important and that she had a following of people who revered her and yes I liked Horses but that was about as far as it went for me. However, as soon as I opened the front page of the book I was immediately hooked and suddenly I understood what More

Using Dreamweaver to Set Up Your Website

There are many designing and website management tools available today and Dreamweaver is one of those. Dreamweaver not only lets you design your webpage but also track all the links and ensure that you are uploading your files to the correct location on the server. To help Dreamweaver to perform its job efficiently, you have to tell about each site and the location of the site on the server. With every web hosting you are provided cpanel to manage your More