How to Promote Music Online

Promote art online is not simple but difficult: it's not like to promote a software or a technical handbook where is ok to optimize a website for a certain keyword or to write an article giving some informations about how to solve a problem. After we have finished our website and we have uploaded our music, our pictures or our writings then we have to make it visited and to achieve this goal we have to use a technique called article marketing that is about writing articles, including a link for more infos to our website, and sending them to the many article directories that can be found searching Google by "article directory". A problem of these directories is that they don't allow to put excerpts of our art directly also because would be useless to us since nobody search the internet by our name or by the title of one of our artworks if we are not famous. A good workaround is to write recensions about a famous artist or its works and concluding our review with a description of our artistic activity with a link to our website, obviously between our recension and our art should be a connection: if we paint landscapes we will not write about music or different styles like modern,fantasy or others that have no connection with our art. Then very important is to talk about something that is connected to what we are promoting since who loves landscapes probably doesn't love abstract art.

In our site, according to our kind of art, we will make available some songs, some pictures or some writings. We will pay a particular attention in promoting a novel since our excerpt, available for free download, will be an episode without its final and with at its end a link to the page from which our book can be ordered: the lack of the final serves to produce the suspense to create the need to buy the book. To sell its download on our website we can use PayPal.com or if we sell it as a printed book we can use lulu.com that charges us the production costs that is performed only for the effectively sold copies.

Now it's time to introduce you to PubblicitAdvertising that is a visual article directory in which you can submit your articles with the possibility to attach images to them, this will not only make your article marketing more attractive to the humans but to the search engines too since they give a lot of importance not only to the article's title but also to the words that appear in the descriptive texts of the images.

source : http://www.goarticles.com/

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A Gallery of Nature and Soul

THE EARTH VISION GALLERY, created and arranged by Josef Graf, is a thematic exhibit of photographs and watercolors contained within the covers of a book. The premise of the exhibit, which offers a holistic experience of nature, color theory, and the soul, is to liberate nature from the bondage of our materialistic perspective.

The exhibit is a synergistic creation, divided into five segments:

1 The Black and White of Nature 2 The Color of Nature 3 The Nature of Color 4 Color Unbound 5 Nature Unbound

Beginning with a minimalist forum, the Black and White segment, nature is reduced to a polarity, dark and bright, light and shadow. The next segment, The Color of Nature, carries the observer to an arena that is laid open, spread out in an uncontainable panorama. Now, flesh is put on the bones, there are progressive increments, myriad gradations come into play.

When the viewer encounters The Nature of Color, he or she discovers that color is born in the interplay between light and dark. Blue is the first lightening of the dark. Yellow, the first darkening of the light. Green, the merging of blue and yellow, mediates. Red rises to oppose the station of green. And the colors progress in their dynamic way.

Out of primary color, comes secondary and tertiary color. And a limitless array of tone and hue, an infinity of coloration is born.

Once we come to the segment entitled Color Unbound, we find that color is bound when confined to form, unbound when released from form. Ultimately, beyond the initial period of concerted expression, the personalities of the colors become dissipated, and when rendered completely unbound, color seeks parameters in which to incarnate.

Finally, with Nature Unbound, we are brought full circle. Color becomes unbound when form is reduced to gesture. Nature, on the other hand, becomes unbound when the human Spirit implements vision, or raises perception to a higher level.

Now, as stated, we have come full circle. Nature has again been reduced to black and white. This time, instead of enhancing nature with color, it is vitalized by means of sentient inspiration, the heart's natural forum.

We are called upon to meet the challenge of embracing nature by raising consciousness to a level equal to the power that color embodies. If we can take hold of nature in her basic elemental form, and vitalize it the way color does, but in our own egoic way, we can help liberate nature from the bonds fashioned by our materialistic consciousness.

The full exhibit - The Earth Vision Gallery - can be accessed on the Earth Vision site

About the Author

J Graf is the coordinator of Insight21 - http://www.insight21.net and the sister site, Earth Vision - http://www.evsite.net - - - doorways for the 21st Century.

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Avril Lavigne Sk8er Boi

Sk8er Boi was used in many different media outlets. It has been heard in the television show Cold Case. It also appears in the video games Elite Beat Agents and SingStar Pop. In 2003, the song was optioned for a movie by Paramount Pictures but has either been abandoned or is in development hell.

The song Sk8er Boi is about a preppy girl and a skater boy. The boy openly likes the girl but she refuses to tell him her true feelings, that she likes him back, because of peer pressure from her friends. Eventually he becomes a rock star and she sees him on television. She regrets not telling him her feelings while she had the chance. He is now dating someone else.

Some people trace the inspiration of the song to Marc Gould who Lavigne was dating at the time. Other people say that Sk8er Boi is Lavigne's autobiography, with one small exception, she is the skater that liked a preppy boy.

The music video was directed by Francis Lawrence. The video starts with a man in an alley with a mound of spray paint on the ground. He is advertising for a concert that Lavigne is hosting. The video continues with advertising seen everywhere from computers and cell phones to coffee cups. There is even a star, the symbol of her concert, spray painted on the road. In the middle of the music video it shows Lavigne and her band setting up for a concert on top of cars. The concert begins and people start filling in around the cars. Eventually the police try to stop the concert. They start putting people into the police car and Lavigne finishes her concert by smashing her guitar into a windshield. The last shot of the video is of a helicopter flying over Lavigne and Lavigne looking up at it. FYI If you watch the music video closely you'll see that Lavigne switches from blue to black pants with her green shirt halfway through the music video.

In the music video Lavigne is wearing a green and gold shirt from Wilkesboro Elementary in North Carolina. She picked the shirt up at a thrift store in New York. Orders poured into Wilkesboro from all over the world for the T-shirt Lavigne had worn in the video. The shirts had been out of circulation for four years but were reprinted. The school earned enough money from the t-shirt sales to buy new computers.

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