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01/02/2006: "2006 - a happy new year..." by Asbjorn Lonvig

Good morning - it's 1 January 2006.
Yesterday I performed all traditional Danish rituals in order to enter 2006 in a happy way.
In order to make 2006 a Happy New Year.
A splendid seafood dinner, serpentines, table bombs, funny hats, lots of rockets etc.
Except one traditional Danish ritual.
I was not drunk.
No beer. No vine. No drinks. No champagne. Lots of mineral water.
My entrance to 2006 was vertical. Not horizontal as it often was.
I have no hangovers.
I have cleaned up my domestic domaine and I am ready to write.


I have decided that 2006 is a happy new year...
A wise man - a philosopher from Copenhagen - said at the end of 2005:
Don't put your life into an account. Live your life now - passionately.
Don't commit yourself to any New Year Resolutions.
Don't exercise.
Don't loose weight.
Don't quit smoking.
Don't...
Don't put your life into an account. Live your life now - passionately.

The wise man of course said this with a smile.
But I sure see his point.




Here is how I'll try to live my artist life - now - passionately.

- Weekly domestic art initiatives.
- The World Wide Days project.
- The revival of the poster project.
- The Auctions project.
- Monthly interactive lecture in Lille Fejringhus Gallery.
- Monthly article to online and printed Art Magazines.
- Fairy Tales
- The book Museums of the world.
- Education, education and education.




Weekly domestic art initiatives.
Is about continuously being in touch with the domestic market.
By personally presenting new art works to potential buyers.
It's about earning a living.

World Wide Days.
Is about continue building a network of online galleries worldwide.
It's about optimizing existing exhibitions.
It's about adding new art works to the exhibitions.
It's about monitoring new exhibition possibilities.

Revival of the poster.
It's about marketing the print on demand of my art works.
Print on demand ordered online at my print partners in Salt Lake City, UT and Raleigh, NC.
Print on demand - prints on paper or canvas - ordered at Asbjorn Lonvig Digital Art Laboratory.

Auctions.
Is about auctioning art works on ebay.com, kunstverket.se and other auctions.
It's about maintaining skills about how to do it.
It's about optimising use of online auctions.

Monthly interactive lecture in Lille Fejringhus Gallery.
Is about deciding myself where and when to do interactive lectures.
Lille Fejringhus Gallery is the perfect place.
An interactive lecture is mentally exhausting, so only once a month would be nice.

Monthly article to online and printed Art Magazines.
Is about being on the move, about telling the stories, that an artist must tell.
It is about a kind of relaxation.
A visual artist relaxes when he expresses himself literally.

Fairy Tales.
Inuit Circumpolar Area culture and especially Greenlandish culture are the inspiration to a series of new fairy tales in children's books. The Laura-project it is called.
I'll visit Greenland in 2006.
The fairy tale series the Lucca-project has been translated from English into Dansih, German, French, Italian, Japanese and Chinese.
In 2006 a bilingual edition in English and Persian (Arabic) will be published.

Museums of the world.
Is about Editorial Croquis, which is a printed art magazine and a publishing company in Buenos Aires that has run some of my articles about art museums in Spanish.
The director and editor of Editorial Croquis Martin Enriques Gil has recently asked me to write a book "The Museums of the World by Asbjorn Lonvig", published by Editorial Croquis in Danish, Portuguese, Spanish and English.
And I have answered: I'll do it, I'll find out how.
In 2006 I'll do something about it. Layout. Edition sizes. Sponsor contracts. The first visits to museums etc.

Education, education and finally education.
Is about using computer and internet in art and art marketing.
I have to continuously improve my skills in this area - even if I originally was a trained IBM software specialist.
In 2006 my skills concerning using Adobe Illustrator CS2 must be raised to a professional level.

Thoughts.
Some years Artprice.com - the leading art information company in the market - pronounced that the art market would increase to 3,5 times the existing art market because of computers and internet.
Since then I have concentrated 100 % on using computer and internet.
During this period of time I have got a lot of condescending response.
I believe the whole art market now is realizing that Artprice.com was right.

In 2006 condescension will be replaced by acceptance???

Replies: 8 Comments

on Tuesday, January 17th, Driver said

The next time I searched my own surname, many of the sites that came up were yours! That alone tells me you've done some work on maximizing the effectiveness of search engines.

on Wednesday, January 4th, Ellen Fisch said

Great to see you Asbjorn! & good advice!! A friend recently told me that I have a very positive outlook. He asked me if I ever had negative feelings. I told him that every morning (I am definitely not a morning person) before I get out of bed, I allow all the negatives to enter my head... I then discard these "downers" and begin a new day. Some days are more fruitful than others, but each is an opportunity. As long as I can work and dream, every year brings promise. 2006 will be wonderful!!!

on Tuesday, January 3rd, dianne Bowen said

Everyday you do your work is a good day. Do it everyday with out fail. Show it as much as possible. Go to openings, meet new people. Immerse yourself. It's a good year.

on Tuesday, January 3rd, Matt said

I'll start with my experiences concerning search engines.
What do you think about that?

Excellent and thank you in advance!

on Monday, January 2nd, Andrew said

Useful indeed!!! I'll look forward to it.

on Monday, January 2nd, Asbjorn Lonvig said

Dear Andrew,

You wrote "That alone tells me you've done some work on maximizing the effectiveness of search engines. Ever do any seminars on this?".
I would very much like to share my experiences with computer/internet with you in any way it might be convenient. A seminar would be nice, but then some of us must travel. What might be obvious is that I white about computer/internet topics in my next blog or blogs - here in this forum. I'll start with my experiences concerning search engines.
What do you think about that?

Sincerely,
Asbjorn

on Monday, January 2nd, Andrew said

All of the sectors you've divided your work into...all of them...are tools which will bring positive results to anyone who has the stamina, as Jose mentioned, to put them to work. And they have a multiplicative effect, too, in that the use of several together means each one will be more effective than it would be if it stood by itself.
I have to mention, Asbjorn, that I once commented on one of your blogs. The next time I searched my own surname, many of the sites that came up were yours! That alone tells me you've done some work on maximizing the effectiveness of search engines. Ever do any seminars on this? Happy 2006
Andrew

on Monday, January 2nd, jose freitas cruz said

goodness gracious, Asbjorn, i sure don't have the stamina you seem to enjoy this year... i'd be horizontal, as you put it, if that were to be my agenda. no, i'm going to be lazy this year and just paint. i'm actually even hoping that no exhibition opportunities pop up before the 3rd quarter of the year - it'll be a year for digesting the 1st five of this century and seeing what comes out, in the hope that something new will burst onto the canvas. but i wish you all the success you deserve and hope, as you do, that condescension be replaced by acceptance in 2006.

jose