God the Creator - Spirit - is an Artist

do you believe that God or Spirit or The Creator is an Artist for as we get closer and closer to seeing the shapes and designs in the heavens that are there for us to discover this is becoming more and more clear

An Art Gallery in Each Person's Home!!!

The galleries that you are in today are not only your website - take this a step further - your gallery is in each and everyone's home who is able to see your work on their own personal or business computer - once your work - any image is showing up on a person's screen - that is the display - they are viewing your art right there in their own comfortable space at their convenience and at hours that suit them - the next step is to order - well the site that my art is on - Imagekind offers a 30 day money back guarantee - so a person can simply click and choose which paper type or canvas and size that they would like pay and have the print shipped to them - view it in their home and well if it meets their expectations the sale is made - I have seen the same type of offer made by galleries now - only this can be done with a print made especially for the client to their own specifications and they become part of the creation of the print that they then own - The Bebirian Art Collection _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The Volord Kingdom Art Collection ……………………………………………………

My Low Cost Continuously Available Personalized Art Exhibit For You!!!

my art collection is accessible from any smart phone or smart tablet ……………………………………………………………………………………………………

My Response to and Article: Advice on Getting Advice Part 3

This is my response to this article: Advice on Getting Advice Part 3 written for artists to encourage then to work on marketing their art: first of all - what came to mind when I read of the horse and it's actions was a beginning passage in the book - "Emotional Intelligence" where a man is described as having a pick accidentally go through is brain and other than his personality change where he not longer could control his emotions - (read temper) there no other signs indicating that his accident had changed him in any other way - *(read - he was still alive and pretty much normal besides his emotional change) - this is my guess as to what happened with that horse - in which case unless the lady trying to find a cure was aware of this type of effect of the brain damage done at birth to this animal - I could completely understand her attempts at trying to get the horse to change it's behavior - . As far as marketing is concerned - I have been in the business world for a looooong time - and understand that the best course to take with any business venture is to delegate the tasks that can be delegated to others - and as far as I can tell it is the artists joy - pleasure - responsibility and challenge to focus only on creating art - especially in today's environment with the many new tools to do so being available and to do a minimum of planning the website - blog - newsletter and other inclusions of work in the various online environments and allow the art to a certain extent sell itself as well as delegate any greater efforts beyond the basic setups that I mentioned above to people individuals or companies that are focused on those types of activities and efforts - that is my thinking - and what I can tell you is that to date - I have well over 7,338,459 images views of the images in The Bebirian Art Collection and will gradually and continuously do my part in encourage and enlisting other people to focus on marketing my art images while I focus constantly and consistently on creating more and more images and placing them in the collection galleries - While this may seem contrary to what the article has explained and encouraged I can assure you that I have placed a great deal of effort and continue to do so in the direction of marketing by continuing on with my "Doubling Project": The Doubling Project my blogs: List of my blogs with links and my marketing tools: Marketing Tools Page on my Main Website while also constantly utilizing the tools presented with these business opportunities: Business Opportunities Page on my Main Website my term delegation refers to my use if the services of people like Peter Olsen here: Watch out for Peter Olsen as well as the writing of various articles such as these: The Richest Man in the World Ever! The Ultimate Source of Renewable Energy! The Most Powerful Idea on the Planet! I guess it would be alright to add the Facebook Fan Page for The Bebirian Art Collection to this list as well One thing is interesting - and that is that unless I continue to find even more outlets and ways of sharing my art and introducing it to the populations (read both present and futures) of the world I will not have felt that I have even begun to touch the surface as to the great potential of marketing possibilities open to us as artists today - thank you! Walter ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What to do About Money?

The funny thing about money is that it seems like there is always a question -- no matter who I hear talk about it and no matter how carefully and with how much intensity and concentration I think about it there never seems to be a clear cut answer as to how to use it - or what to do with it - There are the many choices for anyone to consider at any moment in time - To earn it - To save it To hold it To collect it To Spend it To Invest it and I believe there are various other ways to utilize it as well - Does this one rather limited but diverse tool really come with no instruction book --- and it does in some way demand quite a bit of attention so that anything or most anything happening with it in the general sense is rather a distraction of sorts because it somehow takes our focus off of other uses for it as well as all of the other things going on in life when we seem to find it a challenge what to do as far as money is concerned in any of the categories listed above - For me - I see it as a constant thinking process that I am involved in - as to just how to allocate my energies and I am certainly interested in whether or not this type of thinking is what goes on in other people's lives - ………………………………………………………

For a Blissful Life!

It is always very nice and comforting and reassuring and well just plain wonderful when someone writes about something that takes the pressure off of how one must do this or that and just gives you the permission to do things the way that you want to - In fact all of life would be best enjoyed just as Joseph Campbell's title of his series - follow your bliss - implies - just follow your bliss and of course your life will be blissful - :-) ……………………………………………………………………. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Traffic - Websites - Conventional Stores and Different Ideas!

Ever since the beginning of Individuals and Businesses building websites on the World Wide Web or Internet *(I am not exactly sure if these two are one in the same but that may be irrelevant at this moment for this thought) there have been a great number of other people and businesses have been focused on and attempting to cash in on getting the Individuals and Businesses first mentioned to secure - increase and focus on getting traffic (read hits or viewers or whatever else one wishes to refer visitors to any website) but it is my feeling that the traffic to any website obtain with whatever trickery or attraction that a website owner may utilize or anyone hired by a website owner may use is definitely not as important as how relevant the website is to potential customer's or client's or visitor's interests or what they are desiring to find at any moment in time - Since everyone or most everyone who owns or runs or has a website representing the offerings that they have for their business whether it is a tiny one person company or a giant conglomerate representing the efforts of thousands or hundreds of thousands of individual employees working for the company or conglomerate - is irrelevant - what is important to the viewer or visitor of any website is that the customer or client finds and is able to purchase with great ease what it is that they desire to find - Now, for a brief moment I would like to shift my thoughts to the extremely high trafficked location in New York City's Manhattan - Fifth Avenue where any number of different stores can be found with differing price ranges and differing number of visitors each and every day - and what I notice is that to the stores with a high price on their products and who are serving a very specific clientele who are looking for a specific exclusive style of clothing or jewelry or other items of that nature - there is no reason for them to want to gain as much traffic as any of the stores that are selling the much lower priced item - and in fact their sales methods and the attention that they give to catering to the needs of each and every person that walks in their doors would not be possible if they had the great masses of people who are lined up outside some of the stores that have items selling at a much lower prices range - So, it makes sense (to me at least at this point in time), whoever you are and whatever you have to offer the buying public - that you carefully determine the price range of your products along with the quality and service that you wish to offer each person visiting your website and then proceed to service these people and then look to draw others to your site with the recommendation from the people you have served sharing their thoughts and ideas about your products and services with others - ………………………………………………….. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Challenges!!!

challenges are definitely what make much of life interesting - the real challenge though is not to get overwhelmed by any great number of challenges coming at me all at once - in this instance it is imperative to do my best to work on each individual challenge one at a time - even if there are only moments between the focus on one challenge and then onto the next challenge - and then if timing requires it a switch back to one or more of the others until the task or decision has been made in a timely manner - splitting things up so that the focus is only on one at time is - for me at least - the way to achieve the best results - ……………………………………………………………………………….. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Let Me Pause For a Second and Think!

When all or most of the many things that I used to know in my environment are gone - changed or just totally transformed - where is it that I can go to for comfort - to orient myself or to just plain get my bearings to go on? The tree that I used to sit under - the store that I used to frequent - the friends that I used to laugh with or the cafe - the club or the restaurant that I spent so many hours dining and enjoying the company of friends at so many many many years ago - The world - although changing so rapidly towards what many an entrepreneur or business owner hopes is a more pleasurable experience - a more enjoyable time or a more connected space - is in fact an extremely disorienting set of disjointed memories along with new and unfamiliar locations set in between many new and unfriendly strangers each with their own problems and misconceptions of what they are being confronted with - Is there any reason to think that I am not able to make new friends - perhaps get in touch with a few old ones and to regrow the friendly environment that once used to be such a joy to live within? Perhaps I can - if not only for a brief moment - and live on I must infinitely because of the great drive I have within me to see and experience the oh so many new and wonderful things that are yet to be invented and engulfed in our new way of life each and every moment in the future!!!! …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Widening Both of the Offerings of Art and the Appreciation of Art!

I believe that along with all of the different types of art being produced and available for purchase for the public to access - many people will continually discover new and very diverse forms of art that they will appreciate - things are expanding both as to what is available and as to what people will respond to - ……………………………………………………… _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What Type of Art Do I Think Will Have the Most Influence on the Future?

the real question in relation to influence is will the art viewing public understand that it is now able to view from a much larger base of art - and to purchase from a much larger base of art than ever before - any individual - whether they are a well honed collector or a beginning collector is able now to adventure out into the world and purchase from all different artists directly - without censorship and judgement that individuals have been used to being subjected to for so many years - Think of it this way - the viewing public of Television is no longer subject to the large networks but can now access how many cable stations or merely circumvent the cable stations and rent or purchase videos of the genres that appeal to them - I think that one or two television programs a week is all that my wife and I watch while at the same time she chooses to rent and purchase many different movies that are the type never shown on any of our local television stations - it is a much richer experience than anything that I have had before this system of video rental was devised but it must be studied and careful selections must be made in order to have an enjoyable experience in viewing rather than simply watching what the latest or popular viewership is onto - Likewise - yes there are a lot of works of art that patrons of different restaurants and such are being exposed to but there are even more artists from all over the world who are now displaying their work *(as am I) only on the Internet and to get a full view of what is available and what would be of most interest to one's personal taste a person would have to search quite a bit of art being created today and not limit themselves to what a handful of galleries and dealers have chosen to hold up to you as - important - the best - the most collectable - the most valuable or any other such judgement that someone else might make for you rather than you make for yourself - Also, in the whole picture of things in relationship to the current dynamics of the new economy - there seems to be a lag time between what is going on in the world as a whole and the understanding of the New Rules of the New Economy as far as art and its creation and collecting of it - perhaps a reading of this might spark an idea in someone's head reading this: The New Rules For The New Economy If the last 10 or 15 years of my creating is contemporary - as Anthony Smith puts it - what would categorize my over 40 years that I have been creating prior to these last 10 or 15 years - I am extremely thankful that it is my feeling that I have simply just touched the surface so far up until this point in time and have an extremely large body of work yet to create and will indeed be looking forward to an endless life here on planet earth - excited to see what comes around the corner next - especially in the way of people's changes in the way that they perceive things such as is being discussed here as well as in the technology fields also - in every other walk of life or field of endeavor!!!! ……………………………………………………………………………………………………______________________________________________________________________________________

Thoughts on Collecting Art

One thing that escapes me is that there is an opportunity today to go way beyond any time in the past since for so many years before now art presented to the general public has been filtered and shaped and censored by a limited few while the collector - beginning or otherwise has the opportunity to submerge themselves into a much larger pool of art sources than ever before without the censorship of the galleries - dealers and museums - Think of it this way - if you were searching for something unique - would you limit your search to that which everyone else is looking at or would you search in places that no one else had gone before - even into regions of the world where art has never been produced before - I would look at every thing - from everywhere to find what it is that touched me in whatever way that I wanted to be touched - the same way as I explore the world in order to create whatever it is that touches me to create it - …………………………………………………………………………………………….._________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

About Networking Especially Networking on Social Media Sites

Look at it this way - so many people say to me that they don't like Facebook - are not interested or have not got into it yet - but where else can you just go and find out what is the latest happenings with any of friends without interrupting them - or if you do want to send them a message - do it so that they are free to answer *(or not) whenever they are ready to do so - it does make an absolutely perfect *(so far) tool to keep in touch with others - wherever they happen to be at any moment in time - anywhere in the world - what is also very important and essential to keep in mind is that networking and especially networking on social media is not about selling anything directly to your friend or contact that you have made but more about these friends and contacts simply knowing about what it is that you do and then if they happen to know someone else that might need or want what it is that you have - well then the connection for the sale will be made for you - ………………………………………. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

my Letter to Gary of GaryColes.Net

I was just this morning sent a request for information on how I market self and this is my complete and honest answer that I responded with - I am posting it here in the hopes that it might be of some help to others who may wish to gain some knowledge from my knowledge and experience as well as from my approach to these matters in a long term scheme of things: Hi Gary - I hope that you did not ask me this question before and not get an answer - but here goes - my main business so far has been photographing - I have been photographing for over 55 years now - I have been in the photographic assignment business since 1976 In 1992 I finally came up with my "Doubling Project" and have been working with this system of marketing first my photographic assignment business - and now my art business utilizing this program mainly: The Doubling Project: http://575488trillion.com/files/38880100.pdf and a video of me talking about the "Doubling Project" at a main location where I hand out my cards: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMqlMQZldxo and this is one of my posts on my latest revelation as to how the two business will be working hand in hand to enhance each other: http://bebirianartthoughts.blogspot.com/2013/02/is-this-word-of-mouth.html but basically I must admit that any other marketing that I have been doing on the Internet as well as my cards for my art which I am utilizing for the "Doubling Project" right now - which is more or less in the experimental stage - are all in the infant stages and not yet with any proven record as is the main "Doubling Project" for which I gave out so far over 3.2 million business cards with this image on it: http://575488trillion.com/image/38904859.jpg In fact with all of the comments that people have given me so far I almost tempted to go back to outing that image and abandon this image that I am using at the present time: http://walterpaulbebirian.imagekind.com/store/ but I have definitely not given it enough time and effort yet to honestly say if ti works or not besides the first image is a tough call since it makes people believe that I am only a photographer and does not offer them the possibility of both photographer and artist - and so I have a future card which I have given out several thousand of so far and which is currently on exhibit on screens throughout the city of New York: http://575488trillion.com/image/41089766_scaled_182x220.jpg this is a current list of screens that the image is on display at throughout Manhattan: https://www.facebook.com/notes/walter-paul-bebirian/current-exhibits-showing-in-manhattan-starting-9152011/10150291636742555 I hope this helps - please let me know if you have any questions - the screens are still in a trial stage as well - Walter ……………………………………………………………………..
9-27-2012GABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRTU by Walter Paul Bebirian

Working with Pure Energy - the newest and most advanced medium!

I never think about whether I am compromising on anything - I just do with what I am able to and with what is at hand and with what I am physically able to work with and move on from there - things have worked out nicely with the creation of the digital media and the possibilities that it brings when working with pure energy and from a certain perspective I am extremely happy that things have developed now so that I am able to work at creating just about anything with pure energy!!! …………………………………………………….
11-21-2012CAB by Walter Paul Bebirian

Is this Word of Mouth?

well - it has been said that the most powerful tool that you can ever use is word of mouth - basically other people talking about you and your efforts and sharing about your service and products with their friends and colleagues - and when I hear that I think - gee - I cannot make anyone do anything - so how would I ever have a word of mouth business created? what could I possibly do - but something wonderful - a miracle has happened over the years *(I have been in business since 1976) - when a customer comes to me to either have themselves photographed or to have one of their products photographed I spend as much time with them as is needed for them to get exactly the image that they are looking for and that will best suite them for their needs - it does not matter to me in the least as to how long is necessary or how many tries or alternatives or changes that they wish to see - just as long as they are happy with what they leave with - and all at the same very low price that I quoted them - and sometimes it is their wish to give me something extra for the time and the great results - but what I find many of the people who have come here is that they are extremely appreciative of the fact that I did not rush them at all - but gave them as much time as they needed to work together with me to get the results that they wanted to achieve and better - this appreciation of the time that I am willing to give each and every person that comes to me has caused an entire network of different people from all walks and professions of life but specifically concentrated in the real estate industry where the sales person is extremely conscious of the importance of their appearance and how it influences a clients perception of them and the client's willingness to work together with them - to grow continuously throughout the New York Metropolitan Area - what is even more amazing now is that these same individuals have also begun to take an interest in my collection of art images which they may be able to utilize in their own businesses to better develop a relationship with their clients - and so the fascinating adventure of business continues for me - each and every moment of every single day!!! ………………………………………………………………………………………
11-17-2012PABCDEF by Walter Paul Bebirian

Is the Idea that We Call Money Causing All of the Stress in People's Lives?

well I have been thinking - have the farmers been causing the cows that they milk stress by doing the milking so early in the morning - and then why do they do the milking so early in the morning - is it because they might have been - all of these years - up most of the night worrying about money if the have enough of it to pay their bills? and why are so many of the people in the New York City always rushing around - while talking on their cel phones - talking and rushing and going on and on about millions and billions of dollars - in such a stressful way - or texting frantically - is it because they have the stock market on their mind and whether or not they are losing or gaining money- are they worried when the money they have goes up or increases in value - that they will lose it later on or that the value of the denomination it is in (dollars) will go down in or decrease in value? or are they worried when the value of the money they have goes down or decreases in values that they will not be able to gain enough for later on in their lives? does any of this frantic unnatural behavior make any sense when it is driving humans to do things in a stressed manner? sure - when the industrial age and man's being was tied to the machine it seemed as if it was only natural that he be pushed - cajoled - poked and prided like a cow to get up early in the morning (at the crack of dawn) and get the most out of utilizing the abilities of the machines that he was working with and thus get the most money out of the production from their existence that they could for the owners of the factories and industrial complexes that they working in? but have we begun to see that there are more valuable things in the lives of humans than money? health - intellectual pursuit - a general overall feeling of contentedness? are these not as important or perhaps even more important than the grab for money that consumes so many people's lives??? Is the farmer and his cows - chickens - pigs and even corn and other foods that he and his colleagues are growing - are they all adversely effected by the idea that is called money in such a way that there is no human endeavor during any day of the week or any week in a month or any month in the year that is not filled with stress and even anxiety (in some cases) about money and its attainment for existence in our society? …………………….. ………………………..
12-5-2012OABCDEFGHIJKL by Walter Paul Bebirian

A Turning Point in My Life and Career!

This is the main Money Series which is derived from a drawing utilizing colored pencil and ink on Japanese Rice Board - listen to the Interview with Laura Hollick where I talk about the motivation and ideas stemming from my creation of the main image and then go ahead and enjoy the individual images in the series - it is in the original drawing and thus that I placed all of my energies for months - day at night at a frantic pace - never sure during that period of time whether or not I would ever draw - photograph or do anything with art at all after that point in time: The Money Series Since creating the main image in this series and then making the individual pieces in the series - these have been the main motivation thereafter until this point in time to continue on in my work as an artist - I look on this piece daily for the motivation - drive and inspiration that then sends me off in so many different infinite directions every single day - . . . . .
MONEY by Walter Paul Bebirian

Don't Cause Traffic - Create Presence!!!!!!

you know - I have been thinking about this mad drive to get "traffic" to people's websites and it just hit me while I was listening to a commercial about getting traffic to your website yes it really hit me - we all - no matter who you are and where you drive and whether you are a driver or passenger in a car or a bus or on a plane - dislike or some might even say - hate traffic in these circumstances - on the road - in the air - on the runway - even on a boat at sea or in the lake - and so why would we want - at least in referring to visitors to a website - to call getting more visitors and viewers - traffic or to create more traffic at a website - I would think it makes a whole lot more sense both idea wise and for the actual visitor experience to keep a website or blog or galleries or whatever we wish people to travel to- talk about and share with others - in as smooth a condition as possible so at least for a little while today I will be thinking of a better term or even a few better terms to use to refer to increasing the presence of my website - galleries and blogs in people's minds! . .
12-2-2012NABCDE by Walter Paul Bebirian

Do I Have a Brand or Not?

I am not sure how to answer this question - on one hand it seems like a great idea to jump on the band wagon of the latest trend in creating a brand and utilizing that to market my art - and on the other hand when I hear the word brand - I think of Coca Cola - Sony - McDonald's - White Castle - and each one of these brands have only a handful of products that they market all over the world to everyone - can I do that as an artist? Perhaps yes - with a handful of images -creating many many copies of these handful of images - focusing on them alone and looking to present them to as many people in the world as possible to eat the up or drink up their essence or purchase them - whatever the goal is to motivate them towards - but unlike these major brands that I mention - I have so far 160,000 images in my galleries all of various styles and genres and types - and from the creating side of things there is no way that I want to either limit or focus on any one of the types or styles that I already have worked on simply because my creative side is focused not on reproducing what I already have or copying or doing anything similar but on creating new and interesting images based on my feelings and either working out something totally brand spanking new or creating from the images and techniques that I already have in my collection and coming up with something new - so as I have said elsewhere at another time when musing on the differences between artists and business people (who yes I understand can be considered as artists in their own fields as well) the main difference that I sense - perceive and experience between artists and business people is that artists are always going on to something new where basically the business people are selling their main stable of products to the entire world - can I as an artist do that? yes - which means that yes I can conducts business as well as live and work as an artists - but the lines are still very very vague in my mind as to where the transformations occur in one direction or the other - will I or do I have a brand - yes - to a certain degree I did that by naming the entire body of work that I have been placing in my online galleries as The Bebirian Art Collection -but since I am still on a frantic paced path to create more and more work - any efforts that I have begun towards marketing any of this work are at the extreme beginning stages - and may remain at that level for quite some time until I force myself to work on that area to a greater extent or until I find someone that will work with me on that in a way that suites me - . .
12-3-2012C by Walter Paul Bebirian