Consolidated Gallery RSS feed
Did you know about this RSS feed? If you go to http://sasun.info and click your browser's RSS button, you can subscribe to something very cool. I have created a single, consolidated RSS feed for all of...
View ArticleAccusations of Starax forgery
Recently some accusations of Starax sculpture forgeries surfaced surrounding the AngelGate show. I heard these third hand so, take it with a grain of salt. I don't know who, but either way it was a...
View ArticleRSS feed fixed
Thanks to Mar Dwi for pointing out that his blog feed was missing from the Art Gallery Consolidated Feed. I tracked it down to some overly-strict XML validation that was silently failing a ton of...
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Some People... part II
She's at it again. She's not selling her stolen images, but simply displaying them is copyright theft nonetheless, since Second Life is a commercial application that benefits from the display of art in...
View ArticleBanned from 170 sims
Today's drama - I was banned from 170 sims. Yep, little 'ol me.On 9/15 I received unsolicited advertising notecard spam sent directly to me from one angel4sky Shepherd. As it says in my profile, I...
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Art Theft in SL, again
Someone tipped me off to another person supposedly selling tons of stolen art in SL, Dwayanu Weyland. He's got a gallery selling hundreds and hundreds of pieces of art, the majority of which is...
View ArticleStep Up! Campaign
I received a note from Tricia Aferdita about some awareness raising going on around art theft. She's helping out with the Step Up! Campaign and helping organize the artists who want to help raise...
View ArticlemetaLIFE Partnership Going Strong!
Dear Art Gallery Owners and Artists:With the recent announcement by Linden Labs about XstreetSL freebies, I wanted to remind you about our ongoing partnership with metaLIFE and the Art Gallery Owner's...
View ArticleArt Gallery Owners of SL Kiosk system discussion and feedback session
Saturday, 11/28 1pm PSTThe Art Gallery Owners of SL Kiosk system was designed to connect art lovers to all the fantastic art galleries in SL. The goal is to make it easy and fun for people to locate...
View ArticleGalleries of SL Kiosk Session at the SLACC
The following is a chat log from a recent session all about the Galleries of SL Kiosk system designed by yours truly. Enjoy and leave comments below please!I have made some edits to the log below....
View ArticleGallery Tour HUD updated!
I have added a neat feature to the Gallery Tour HUD. There is a new button named "Events" on the HUD menu that gives you two choices: Current event info in progress, or upcoming events on the current...
View ArticleHow to Build and Manage an Art Gallery in Second Life
The following is a transcript of a discussion led by myself and Tommy Parrott on "How to Build and Manage an Art Gallery in Second Life". I had a great time and thanks to Glasz DeCuir for the...
View ArticleGroup Gallery Tour next Tuesday, Dec 15th noon
This should be fun. Some gallery owner friends approached me after hearing me talk about the tour HUD, and my desire to organize some group tours, which the tour HUD supports already. They said we...
View ArticleWeb Kiosks
Wow it's been a while. I've been neglecting this blog completely for the past two months. Time to get back into the groove!The new "Rev 2" Galleries of SL kiosks are out and I couldn't be happier. Part...
View ArticleLinden Endowment for the Arts selections begin!
I received some wonderful news today, I've been selected for the Linden Endowment for the Arts committee! I'm beyond thrilled at this opportunity to help with this project, which is very much in...
View ArticleNew quotes this week
A few articles have come out recently with some quotes and interviews of yours truly....
View ArticleArt Gallery Owners 6-18-2010
The following is a chat log from the 6-18-2010 meeting of the Art Gallery Owners group about the Linden Endowment for the Arts (LEA) project. It may look like I'm a bit slow replying and missed a lot...
View ArticleTalk at Palais "Marketing Art and Photography" Symposium
Earlier this week I did a talk on Running a Successful Art Gallery. I stole a few tidbits from previous talks on the same topic, best practices and such. Hopefully you'll find something useful here!Big...
View ArticleGallery Rating System revamp
I have been doing some thinking on the current gallery rating "5 star" system and I am seriously thinking of doing a complete overhaul some time soon.I would like to dispense with the star ratings and...
View ArticleArt Galleries of SL facelift
I have finally done a full on redesign of the Galleries of SL list. The more you learn the more you realize how much better you could have done something you made in the past so... time for a...
View ArticleHot This Month
One thing I have added to the list just recently is a "Hot This Month" checkbox that shows galleries that are getting a lot of ratings in the past 30 days. It's a nice snapshot of which galleries are...
View ArticleLinden Labs Shuts Me Down
Four days ago for reasons unknown, all communication between any scripted object anywhere on the grid and the IP address of my web application (that runs the Galleries of SL kiosks) at...
View ArticleLL Punts Me to JIRA
Got a reply back from LL support today. They said that I am not the only site affected by this problem, but gave me no details on that (which would have been extremely helpful) and that the solution is...
View ArticleKiosks Back to Normal - Soon
Good news - I've successfully tested a new web host with the kiosk system and it seems to be working fine. I have not had time to do extensive testing, but the system is on the way to working again. It...
View ArticlePalais Talk
madison Arnahan:hi all .. what a great turnout ... and I think it underscores the relevance of the topic .. and what our speaker tonight can lend to that topicmadison Arnahan:Sasun has been in the eye...
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