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Off Topic / Non-stock illustrations and photos
« on: August 15, 2008, 10:09 »
All of us doing stock are artists and creative people (whether their day job is artistic or not).  Recently I was looking at some of my old non-stock art.  This is stuff I did ages ago (OK, mid 90's) when I was still a young man, recently out of college and not sure what to do.  I eventually ended up in a very non-artistic career.  Stock for me is a way of expressing my artistic side.  However,  stock, if you are serious about making money, requires very serious constraints on your artistic vision.  You can't create what you want to draw (in my case super armored beast warriors), but what you think will sell.

Just thought I'd share my very old online portfolio:
http://www.elfwood.com/art/t/o/toh/toh.html

Everything was uploaded sometime in the mid-90's.  For me it's a nostalgic look back. 

I invite everyone else to share their own artistic visions, or have-been artistic visions, outside of stock.

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Shutterstock.com / Interesting topic at SS forum
« on: January 29, 2008, 09:35 »
http://submit.shutterstock.com/forum/abt31147.html

Read it till the end. It gets very interesting.

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Crestock.com / Another reason not to go exclusive.
« on: January 29, 2008, 09:30 »
Well, here's another reason not to go exclusive
(not that anyone is seriously considering going exclusive with Crestock)
but I think it strongly demonstrates the danger of relying on any one agency.
Basically I have been unable to upload since December, and, despite numerous attempts through different channels, Crestock support apparently doesn't seem to care much.
Fortunately, Crestock represents a very small portion of my earnings, and I am definitely glad I don't depend on them for anything.

My post on this issue at the Crestock forums:

http://www.crestock.com/forum/Topic4636-3-1.aspx

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General Stock Discussion / Is this "Massive keyword spamming" ?
« on: January 25, 2008, 15:44 »
I just got a message from one of the reviewers at Stocxpert

8955002: Massive Keyword spamming. Please ensure that you are using right set of keywords to describe a main subject. Please remove all unwanted keywords and then let me know when you finnish.

This is the picture:



Basically for an icon set done in chinese calligraphy style I thought all the keywords were appropriate:

asian brush bun Calligraphic calligraphic ceramic china chinese chopsticks clay clip-art clipart cookie cuisine dishes dumpling eat fish food fortune hot hotpot icons illustration ink meals meat oriental painting pot rice soup spoon style tea teapot wok

I need your opinions on this. Is this really keyword spamming, and if it is, what should I remove?  It's not really a big deal (i've been in microstock for almost 3 years, so i'm quite thick skinned by now), but this is the first time i've been accused of keyword spamming, massive or otherwise, and I don't feel it's justified.

Link here: http://www.stockxpert.com/browse.phtml?f=view&id=8955002

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Istockphoto's forums are down, with the following announcement:

"Sorry! iStocks forums have been temporarily deactivated. What a great chance to get some work done. You do have work to do, right? Well have them back soon we promise."

This got me to thinking about the different ways different microstock companies make announcement. How would other microstock companies handle the same announcement?

Dreamstime (honest, stoic) : Our forums are down due to massive hardware failure. Our programmers are working hard to fix the problem soon. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Fotolia (lie like hell) : There's nothing wrong with our forums. These are not the droids you're looking for.

Lucky Oliver (borderline lunatic): Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe

 ;D

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