You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™
Reviewing something you gave birth to for the 2nd time like it was the 1st time.
I have created almost a 1,000 pieces of Life’s Crazy art.
It began out of a need to put something at the top of each blog story.
I write so much, that I also cranked out a lot of art.
I made so much art, I was the I love Lucy episode where the conveyor belt of chocolates is rolling by so fast, all Lucy can do is pour the chocolates down her shirt to keep from crashing.
I was on such a frenzied pace, that sometimes I made it, posted it, and never looked at it again.
Not looking at something you create? That’s like having a baby, and not looking at his face for two years.
“I’m sorry little baby. I’m sure you are beautiful, but I am busy fathering another baby. Sit in your crib, burp yourself, I will be back in an even numbered year to see you.”
Well recently, I have begun to re-familiarize myself with my art.
It’s like looking at that baby, realizing he looks like you, is part of you.
“Hello little art toddler. Coochie Coochie Coo. How ya been? damn you are a cute kid.”
Well I am the Wilt Chamberlain of art. I have nearly a 1000 two-year olds sitting on the shelf.
And now I’m looking at my 2 year olds and I’m wondering why I spent so much time disregarding them.
I am an absentee artist and should be fined by the art police.
As most of you know, I have spent the last month uploading Life’s Crazy art to a new web site that I really like called http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/andy-cordan.html
The back story of how I affiliated with this art site is simple.
I met with a billionaire who admonished me for having a bright and brilliant web site and no way to buy anything.
Yeah whatever. What does he know. He’s just a billionaire.
As if!
Then I met with a multi-millionaire. He took two of my life’s crazy stickers, told me my site was cool, then stood up and said “my one problem with your site. I can’t buy anything. You don’t have a buy button anywhere.”
Yeah, whatever. You’re just a guy worth 68 million, what do you know.
And then I talked on the phone with a millionaire who has his own social media company. He echoed this point of view. “You need to increase your social media presence and you need to allow people to buy something if they want to.”
My brain was flying a kite when he said this.
Finally, like Ben Franklin in an electrical storm, my editor, who worked on the book that none of you have purchased told me point-blank.
“I’m not going to work on your next book, Life at the Speed of News” till you get your web site up and running properly.”
I was astonished. “Huh. I’m willing to pay you to edit my book and you are refusing?”
“Yes,” she said with conviction. “I love your art. It makes me happy. It should be hanging in Children’s hospitals and hotels. You need to turn life’s crazy into an e-commerce site.”
Like the cartoon rabbit who sits on the stick of dynamite and blows his little cotton tail off, I finally took action.
PUT A BUY BUTTON ON LIFE’S CRAZY!!!!!
The problem is, it’s not as easy as just putting a buy button on a web site.
I googled this topic for a week. I floundered with web pages across the HTML spectrum.
Somehow I always ended back on the Asian Porn sites.
Go figure?
I stumbled across the art site I chose by accident. I was listening to a pod cast for artists looking to sell their art.
I don’t remember everything they said except most artists aren’t good business people and there is a lot of us producing art around the world.
Getting someone to actually open their wallet and buy art is not easy. Purchasers buy on impulse.
Like most pod casts, this one was meandering as hell, but the artist said “I know this very good site.”
I clicked on it, and was impressed.
Immediacy. That’s what I like. Upload. Sell. It’s that simple.
Wow.
Suddenly the world-wide web was my Easter Egg Hunt.
And then a funny thing happened on the way to the art store.
The site asked me to properly size the art. The site asked me to title the art. The site asked me to tell a brief story about the art.
Bingo!
That’s just what I had been wanting to do, needing to do.
And as a special bonus, when you upload new art, the site projects it on Facebook and twitter and other social media.
So if you are wondering what’s happening on my Facebook and twitter pages, this is your answer.
At the end of the day; I am re-connecting to art I created and have long ago forgotten.
I can’t lie to you. It’s been exhilarating. I am fascinated by my own art. I am drawn to my own design, the use of color, the line I chose.
What was my mood? Why did I make it warm and inviting or dark and foreboding?
I have spent the last 3 weeks going through hundreds and hundreds of pieces of digital art, some I haven’t seen in years.
“hello little baby art.”
Some of it I really like. Some of it I don’t like.
The hard part is deciding what to post.
I have learned that I can’t decide what people are going to like.
I dislike some of my art and then showed it to friends who say “Wow. That’s my favorite.”
Art is subjective. So in this case, more is more and I am going to continue uploading it.
Watch out Facebook Friends. De-Friend me now.
RE-visiting the art has been fun, like going to a high school reunion.
Hey weren’t you the prom queen? Now you look like a big pumpkin headed fat girl. What happened?
So bare with me life’s crazy fans, I only have 800 more pieces to re-acquaint myself with.
Because you are my fan base, I should let you know, there are more changes coming.
I’m going to take the billionaire’s advice and put some horns on this pastel colored animal.
I am going to put a buy button on the site and sell the art. I am going to find other e-commerce platforms that allow you to upload the art and put it on other items like skateboards and coffee mugs and hats.
I am going to build a video player and give Whiney Bones a place to rant and run amok in a you tube kind of way.
So stay tuned Life’s Crazy fans.
As they say on those Asian porn sites – you ain’t seen nothing yet.
Life’s Crazy™