David Lovins Blogs

A lot of artists are very conservative. I do not know why. There is no reason for it. Many make very safe art. I wonder if that is really art if it is 'too safe'. Plus, it is boring. Art should have some entertainment value, otherwise, why... 

I guess you guys will just have to figure out how I did that. 

That seems to be the ratio I have come up with. I don't know how it applies to other people, but for me, for every thousand hits I get, a sale occurs somehow. This has been pretty consistent since I started on this site. ... 

Well, I've talked to my brother about pixels.com, and we think of it as if it was a video game. In an online games, when you accomplish something, they give you an achievement award, or they keep track of what you have completed in the game. I ... 

I can't make people buy. All I can do is present my work. I have sold ten items now on pixels.com. I am very happy about that. Every item except one was to someone I know. It is hard to break into the market of selling to people I don't kn... 

I was ready to throw my hands up in the air, but then I got a sale of three more greeting cards. That makes eight sold. I was pretty happy. I was also able to put in my tax information into pixels. It was pretty easy. I was wondering why I did... 

Well, photographers are a dime a dozen, especially now with cell phones and digital cameras. I have to admit that I've joined the digital photo revolution. My style of photography is low-key, and almost documentary in nature. Some... 

Most art is for teen-agers. Most art is created not to offend anyone. Most art is for family viewing. Most art attempts to be pretty or beautiful. I don't have much interest in these kinds of things. Art school was a great place to exp... 

Well, those are my stats. It takes a lot of hard work to do well on this site. It is hard to get people to even look, much less buy. Most people in America don't care about art that much. They would rather watch football. Regardless, I'm... 

It is not the same as it used to be. There are new kinds of art. There are new ways to view art. There are new ways to buy art. There are new ways to think about art. What used to not be art is now art. Too bad Andy Warhol is not st... 

Unfortunately, most of the hits that I have gotten on pixels.com has been through server and bot hits. Not many actual, real people look at my work. I guess I will have to post more naked lady art. Maybe that will get some attention. Th... 

All a gallery would have to do from anywhere in the world, is order prints from this website. They could fill a whole gallery with my work. They wouldn't even have to tell me. They could sell my art at a profit, and I might never know. Of... 

I tried reading other artist's blogs on this site, and I got so very bored. Most artists write these really long passages that no one except them cares about. I couldn't get through any of them. My advice is to keep blog entries short. It... 

I just looked at the DeviantArt website again. It was the first time I looked at it in two years. Pixels.com seems to be much better. Plus, DeviantArt doesn't seem to be all that deviant. It's just a name. True deviance would be a complete... 

It's been a little frustrating with titles on this site since you can only put the letters 'A-Z'. To be able to use any kind of punctuation, including parenthesis, would be ideal for me, in order to fully express the meaning and what I intend with... 

To get 350 photos uploaded took a little more than a month. Eventually, I'll have one-thousand photos up. Maybe by then, maybe some people will notice my work. After spending most of my life in poverty, maybe some sales will come in. I mi... 

Just give me a day or two. I'll get to 5000 hits. Also, I've noticed a lot of comments that people give on sold artwork just isn't that good. I wish you guys would step it up a little with some honesty. I don't expect much from people on pixe... 

Linking this site with Twitter has really helped. I'll get to 5000 hits soon. All I have to do is keep uploading to accomplish this. The more hits you have, the more sales you might get. I know on youtube, that the more hits you have, the... 

I have a real casual approach to photography. I just point and shoot. Sometimes there is some preparation work involved, but not always. Some day I'll learn how to use my camera better. I'm just too lazy to find out at this point in time. A ... 

Yesterday, someone bought a greeting card from me. I made two dollars. I was really happy. It took me a month from scratch on this site to accomplish this amazing feat. I thought it might take up to a year to sell something. I am glad I go... 

My goal was to get three-hundred photos up in one month on pixels. I did it. I am ready for a nap. At this point, I have not gotten a single sale. I'm starting to wonder what it will take. It could take a year before I sell something, who ... 

Well, with every picture upload, I'm pretty sure I can get around ten hits due to servers and bots. Once I linked up with Twitter, the hits started to come in. I highly recommend it if you are purely interested in getting hits on pixels. Anyway,... 

Porn is a billion dollar industry, and is viewed all over the world. I consider that porn is art sometimes. Most of the time, it is bad art, but it is still art. There is nothing wrong with the human body. A lot of women don't like porn, ... 

Before Twitter, I hardly got any hits. Then, I linked pixels.com to Twitter, and I started to get a lot of hits. Granted, right now, a lot of the hits are server and bot hits, but once you get those, then others come. I highly recommend anyone... 

My favorite thing to do on Pixels.com is to check my sales, and it says "You have not sold any artwork through Pixels.com". I love to check this every day just to read this message. I really don't expect much. I've only been on the site for thre... 

Most of the hits that I've gotten on Pixels.com have come from servers. It is hard to get people to look at art, much less buy it. I figure from over two-hundred photos that I've posted that I've gotten nine or ten server hits from around the world... 

I am sure someone will eventually get nosy about my education, so I might as well post it. Bountiful High School Bountiful, Utah Graduated 1986 Hollywood Art Center School Attended two years Cal State University, No... 

My goal currently on this site is to proceed until I have a thousand images. Then I will see what happens from there. I currently have two-hundred and six images. I have not gotten a single sale yet, but I know it takes t... 

What is art? Do you know? Do I know? I notice a lot of people just take a picture, then make a painting of it, using their camera as reference. Is that art? I also notice some people take copyright free images and sel... 

Wow, I got 1000 hits today. That is amazing. I started to get a lot of hits once I linked this account to my Twitter account. It seems like every time I upload a photo now, that I get hits. At this point, I haven't ... 

I have two followers now. Cool. It is nice to have someone other than my brother follow. I reached over one-hundred photos today. That took a while. I have 129 views so far. I have zero point zero sales so far...nada..noth... 

If not for Howard Stern, I would not be on this site, so I thank him very much. I heard the commercial for Pixels.com on his radio show. That indicated that this site had some traffic, and that they had enough money to buy an ad spot. haha. 

Anyway, I maxed out at twenty-five images. I did not know this was going to happen. I guess this means that I will have to cough up the $30, and become a member. I did not know it was a 'pay to play' website. Nothing will occur with just having a... 

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