Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Fire, Juggling, and Monday Artday

This is Boom-Boom, sword-swallowing, juggling, and tightrope-walking over fire. I sometimes feel like her as I go about my life of home-maker, husband, dad, webmaster for California State University, and squeezing in art, blogging, and Monday Artday.

I just got an email from a marketing company proposing advertising on this site. I looked them up - they promote online poker. Hoo-boy. I've made the decision not to advertise on this site. Maybe one day I'll offer some Monday Artday-specific products but I think I can keep the site looking more friendly and fun by not littering it with google ads and gambling sites. I'll find another way to make that 10 or 20 dollars a month. Really, the satisfaction of knowing that artists are coming here to inspire and be inspired is payment enough.

Rock on, artists!

8 comments:

Unknown said...

you're the man Mike..

this is very good.

Sharin Barber said...

ON FirE man this is fantastic!

josh pincus is crying said...

Good for you, Mike. Although a certain amount of gambling does support my $600 a day heroin habit, it does not belong on an art blog. Gambling is evil, but smoking makes you look cool and grown up.

JPiC

Lisa Graves said...

rock on MIke.

and thank you-I have enough problems staying out of the casinos... just sayin'.

pixzlee said...

Wow! That is a lot to juggle. I hope you manage it as coolly as Boom Boom seems to do.

Antonia Glavic said...

Beautiful piece! Love the colours & texture once again. Very very awesome.
Super glad about the gambling no-go too. :)

Unknown said...

This is an awesome illustration! I think that is really me on the wire. ha ha

sandygrafik said...

She's totally cute!! I love her "vintage" look!