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Well said mate, Bravo!

And I couldn’t imagine another place better than here…super congrats, well deserved…and seriously not surprising!!

exactly! Hoorah to redbubble!

Wow…

Well done RB~!

I’m seriously inclined to agree with the message of this … well done, for bringing back into perspective ….

Hear hear!

Wow. Who knew? I bet you are all very busy…... That’s a lot of hits…

Well I have had over 20,000 visits on redbubble, so look out National Gallery, I’m taking you on…..

totally agree!! Redbubble rocks the socks off any ‘art museum’....keep up the great artwork everyone!

I think it is wonderful that the view on art is changing also… its a little tiring to think that some of us could make it and not all, and especially when we are dead, I hope one day we can be seen for what we are and appreciated when we are alive, and hopefully earn a living one day for it :) Go Redbubble… you are changing the world of ART!

bubble bubble toil and trouble…...... great stuff redbubble

Everything helps that’s the main thing

Kinda puts a different perspective on things….

well done bubblers for the huge hits

Go us!!

Thanks for giving us such a platform!!

PS – Funky new avatar!!

wow how impressive is that…...

I have thought this before where else could you get a few hundred people a day looking at each piece of work we create . This is a marvellous place and I spend far too many hours in a day on here but I love it . What a great community you and everyone else at RB have created . Well done to all of you . We all appreciate the work you have put in to create this site.

Gooooooooooo REDBUBBLE taking over the world, and don’t we love it…......

Well said keep up the good work RB

Magic!.... congrats!...... well deserved for the effort you guys are putting in.

Awesome, I totally love being here much more than any ‘on foot’ gallery because this place is constantly ‘evolving’ and changing exhibits 24 hours per day..how cool is that?

Zoe

This online community is brilliant, and a hot bed of talent!!! I’ve organised a group, mixed-media show at the Global Gallery in Sydney on June 18 – The Populous Cast – and 13 out of the 15 people taking part have been hand picked to take part via Red Bubble. Thanks RB, you rock!

Well done RB and keep up the good work. A big cheer to all the artists too!!

glorious to be part of, thankyou RedBubble – KIng of galleries.

We hear you, though being a painter, it is a sad truth that many don’t get to (or try to) experience more frequently, the art forms that require more than an internet connection for us to be genuinely engaged, provoked and moved by them in the way they were intended, in the flesh.

With all due respect to the digital arts and the achievements of redbubble, some times pixels just don’t cut it. Some times the “real action” requires presence, human presence.

Thank you Redbubble !

That is the best thing I have heard EVER!!!!!! You guys ROCK!!!!

Where else would a grandmother get over 35,000 people looking at her photos? Thanks guys for all you do, and thanks Martin for expressing this so well.

Congratulation.

Rock on RedBubble….
Where else can you see and buy Top Rate art and still be in your PJ’s ???
:)

You compare apples with potatoes- while RedBubble is a great place to meet people and exchange art, the impact of this art is NOT the same as when you are standing right before a monumental picture which towers high above you, of look at a miniature smaller than the palm of your hand. Each has it´s own place in the world, RedBubble as well as the museums ans galleries, all are needed.

too right mate.

Well done to the Bubble and to all of us!!!
I wish Red Bubble was a planet we could inhabit,
because since I joined, a nicer community I could not find.
Here’s to Us.
(Now where’s that rocket fuel…....)
Vive l’artiste!
Regards,
Marcus (gabriel6)

We need to hear this…...encouragement indeed at a time when you can lose heart by the isolation of sitting alone, looking at a mere computer screen.
This certainly does put things into perspective….
however I also have to honour what Paul Ruiz says, as much as I love RB and the online artworld, it is a bit like watching your favourite sport on tv as compared with going “out” to a venue and watching it LIVE!!!

LOVE Red Bubbling and am happy to see it going from strength to strength. Power to RB

Well done redbubble and to all the artists, writers, and photographers, cheers .
This is the best site I have come across, since I started in Feb. 08 I have quit most all the other sites.

Well Done

Well said…I completely agree with you…and eventually they will catch on. ...”they” will have to…the way of the art world is changing! Thanks for sharing this!!

I agree Martin! Art galleries are mostly artificial and far removed from culture. RB is much closer to being embeded into life and culture. And i think when it links people who do shows in the real world, become friends…and colaberate…becoming a means to end…its right on the money!

I love, love, and love this. The integrity of creativity on this site rocks on, How, in a virtual reality, can this be so? Yet it does! Can this be? Where is the corruption of power? Where are the ego wars? here are all the god-heads battling for control of the world? Yet these self defeating conflict do not undermine the creative life-force of art here. And this life-force is not broken when the virtual grows into the physical word too. (A real RedBubble gift, might I add) The diversity of creative cultures here are amazing, but in some ways I do see room for a growing world unity here. (I know some language barriers exist, but there are all these creative minds here. Fine art lives and is born here. Right out of the womb of now. Let the natural subterranean flow be. It bubbles!

I do love to look at works of the ‘masters’, but they seem rather removed from the world. I prefer the living art that we see on Redbubble and other art hosting sites.

Damn Straight

The Internet is, in my opinion, the great decentralizer. It was intended to be as such by many of the academics and libertarian-minded individuals who created it, and while it has had some setbacks (access, to name one) and some politicization over the course of its life in the hands of consumers, it has done far more widespread good than (in my opinion) any other form of media, particularly since it is the most quickly adopted medium of all time. It takes the judgment and rights of the few and filters that down to the judgment and the rights of anyone with a mildly decent connection. I’ve been to some great art museums and seen paintings by some of the greats (Michelangelo!), and while I do still consider them greats and geniuses, I’ve seen the living create some amazing works, too. As you pointed out, the big museums don’t so readily recognize that, sadly.

The fact that we can share our art, meet other artists, sell our art, and so on is a really wonderful thing when one considers how many artists of the past never sold one thing in their lifetime, couldn’t easily share their art (unless it was what the elite, those who bought and commissioned art, wanted), and sometimes even meeting artists was difficult. RedBubble, and similar sites, do so much good for the creative spirit.

I’m a media student, and one of my textbooks was recently talking about one theorist’s opinion that we are actually coming to the close of “the information society” and have begun entering “the creative society.” He argues that many of the applications we will use have been or are being created through the information society, and so now we can play and create and be innovative (which, in turn, will improve the technology of before). I firmly believe that’s an accurate portrayal of things, and I think this site is proof of that. We are creating on top of what existed before in the offline art world.

Oranges and apples!
It’s fantastic that art is able to reach millions more people but nothing I’m afraid compares with seeing an artwork in real life!

...and I bet you can’t view a Monet at 2 am with a hot chocolate in your PYJAMAS!

Red Bubble makes art available anywhere, anytime, great for me who lives in a rural area. Additionally the standard is high and the creativity diverse with a community that supports eachother in their individual quests to express!!!

THANK YOU TO ALL INVOLVED THAT KEEPS THIS ENGINE OF MAGIC GOING.

that is quite wicked

A few clicks on the web can take you to redbubble, but it takes a lot more than that to make it to one of the other galleries in terms of planning, hotel, travel, vacation time, entrance fees, etc. No wonder people prefer online galleries. What would be interesting to see is the statistics of sales at these gallery gift shops versus at say, redbubble.

All power to RedBubble. Not only do you share inspiring works of art for free but you actively encourage people to engage in their own creative pursuits. Its great to have an online gallery.

All power to RedBubble. Not only do you share inspiring works of art for free but you actively encourage people to engage in their own creative pursuits. Its great to have an online gallery.

Absolutely agree but my daughter took a great picture of me, in Musée d’ Orsay, in the actual presence of a number of Renoir paintings!!!!
(I am amused to find that I jumped in only 2 minutes after Marilyn did. Great minds ! I had not read her comment!!

The difference for me is how seriously people take it, and the relationship that has with the price people are prepared to pay to take it home. For me, even the comparison with my excellent local gallery, Three Stories, is quite different. There I can price a work at $500-$1000 and someone will take it home for that exclusive right. Online is such a disposable realm – nothing to do with RB, its just the nature of the online word, which makes exclusivity an impossibility, and market saturation the only way to make an impact. I’m not really saying anything, just making casual observations…

HEAR HEAR dam right !
I sold 2 cards in a months.

wish I was set free by my art !

If I may indulge in one further comment, I totally respect RB for not taking the advertising route at this point, which would be very lucrative with 40,000 users a day… thats what, 400,000 page views? ... R’spect.

There is so much talent and creative energy on Redbubble that I could spend hours and hours viewing the wonderful work here! There’s a fantastic community Spirit and people seem to inspire one another. I love it here and enjoy the interaction with people of all ages and interests. I wouldn’t get that in a gallery! Redbubble is the place to be!S

All the effort made in creating such a site, pays off.. well done!

Congrats all. Fantastic team effort. Of course, if the daily 40,000 are all rb artists, that might change the perspective a little, said he, playing devil’s advocate :)

I’m sure McDonalds gets more visitors/customers each day than a top notch eatery. Mr Blobby had a number 1 hit single in the UK once. Let’s not get carried away by quantity and volumes, eh?

True, true,true! I’ve always known that redbubble was the best!

Martin, this is all well and good for us. Hopefully it will get better from here.

I’ve been here since the early days and seen the site grow tremendously, but I strongly feel you guys in RB HQ need to offer more product options in regard to framing options. I need the right product to sell and at the moment the product mix isn’t quite there.

Yeah, I’ve spoken to Pete, but I’m anxious to move forward with the right product mix with you guys supplying it to me. Come on guys – cards are great but they are not the big ticket items.

Think bigger.

Cheers

Well said and go for it RB. and congratulations;)

Cheers Redbubble. Great news and great to be a part of it.

Absolutely! and lets not forget how this art can reach people like little ole me stuck out in the sticks with no sign of visiting a big city gallery any time soon.

As always well said Pilgrim!!

i have just made it 40,000 and 1 hits for RB today! Its slightly addictive I must say

fantastic I reckon, I am very happy to be a part of RB. lets rock :) well done mate!

i believe this is the best gallery in the world, real and cyber, where else can you chat to people, have a cuppa and something to each, a toilet break and still have people looking at art… way to go bubble…

Great news RB well done !!!

Amazing, though I am not surprised.
Though I hope its audience will begin to realize that many of the artist on sites such as RedBubble are struggling artists balancing their time with other occupations. And that it would dearly help if they purchased the work that they say they love so much.
The cards/prints/posters compare very favorably with other commercial work available on the high street. How often have we bought some “cheap” card for someone’s birthday but with a little thought and planning we could have purchased something unique and extra special from RB.

:)

Well done redbubble.

A word of warning.. if Red Bubble wants to compete with (cough..cough) serious art institutions.. you are going to get lots of dreary people coming in and taking over.

The great thing about the Bubble is that it feels like it is run for artists.. by artists.. thats a very hard thing to preserve.. any number of “art” advisors will want a slice and they drain all the life out of things.

Beware the dead hand of the institution.. this is the new frontier.

I agree with you….evenually they will have no choice but to catch up…..RB is a great place to be…..It took a little while but I have now over 10,000 hits an growing faster every day…

so great to be involved with an art site that is so great.

great work rb, this is a wonderful communtiy and such a buzz to be part of it. 40,000 visitors a day is just amazing.

Not to take anyhing away from the particular achievement and uniqueness of RB through the online medium, however methinks this statement takes too much away from these institutions, and by deafult, other art forums. Definitley a (Vic Market) case of apples and oranges as said earlier. Comparisons of some aspects get a little silly.
It’s about complimenting, gateways, opportunity, community, and the links between.

Now that’s very impressive. And I’m sure we have a HUGE amount of MORE artwork in here to choose from!

I am enjoying reading all these response and I agree also that I am making a bit of an apples and oranges comparison. But they are both fruit. I don’t believe a visit to the Met is the same as logging on to RedBubble. But I do believe that it is too easy to dismiss the latter and too easy to hold the former in awe. I do believe that participating in art is more important than viewing it. There I’ve said it! And I also believe it is great to view lots of art in lots of contexts, including the various galleries. Martin

The Web has had a democratising/levelling effect on art as it has many other things such as journalism.

Art institutions like National Galleries and large private collections are the hangover of teh decaying society that brought them into being. The byproducts of an exploitative economy and power structure that had its heyday in the Industrial Revolution.

The rich controlled teh definition of art through its purse strings both by the dependence of most of teh artists we deem to be “great” on rich people’s benefaction and also throught their grip on art education.

What we have now is a new definition of art emerging, where the previous bourgeois/Establishment controls have been circumvented.

It’ll will be interesting to see whether the great artists of the future are still those groomed and pimped by the rich or whether they will arise from this new frontier.

If Internet sharing and the scare it has caused to traditional (pan-global corporate) models of music and software commerce is any guage, then we may see some serious change ahead.

well said and thanks, the net is a brilliant resource for artists, emerging and established.

Thanks for giving up this platform. It was an incredible idea, seeing fruition in its infancy. I’m lucky to be a part of it. Thank you so much. You are all to feel proud. Ya dun good!
Susan

One word “Impressive.”

Very well said, agreed!

I love art galleries but I love Red Bubble too. It has given me and lots of other people the opportunity to get creative…that wouldn’t have happened just from a trip to the gallery

RB ROCKS!!!! XXXX

Awesome and we don’t even have to leave our homes to access it all so we’re good for the environment as well!

The ability to visit galleries from all over the world and speak directly with the artists is an amazing resource that RB offers all of us. Thank you!

rock on :)

I think the mix is working well! Show up in a gallery, shop and/or museum with your fysical works once in a while, but realize at the same time that the limits of location, selection procedure and the number of visitors have a limited impact. The redbubble gallery is open 24 hours, 7 days a week, accessable from anywhere, has huge space and stock and the curators are yourself and the other Redbubble members! In a way Redbubble and similar sites can make the circle round and make it happen that you enter your works in fysical places of your choice more easily because of your web presence and presentation!

Nice propaganda speech but poor analogy. The NY Metropolitan Museum sees about 4 million pple a year according to Wikipedia, while The Louvre in Paris sees about double that. The Louvre also has its own website where you can do a virtual tour of the museum.

“I do believe that participating in art is more important than viewing it.“

I totally disagree…I don’t think that one is more important than the other, as a matter of fact what is Redbubble about if not to visually share Artist’s works.

Good on yuuuuse !

While I love RB, I think this is a bit of a crazy way to look at things. Since when is art about competition? Viewing art online and in person are very different experiences, and while there’s huge benefits from online galleries, brick and mortar galleries have an important place in the landscape.

Also, if you want to compare statistics, perhaps you should look at viewer/day/per artwork. I think if you were part of an exhibition at a major gallery, you’d get more sets of eyes than via RB.

Ben

Not everyone can get to the musem’s and in those 40k hits you would proberly have about 25 -35 % coming back more then once in a day. So if RB gets 40k hits a day for art views, does that mean RB is going to more of a musem then a selling site for artists? mmmmmm But well done on the whole RB.

An interesting little blog. I feel though that there is still something very nice about looking at an original piece in person that the internet can’t replicate.

Art Galleries will always have their place, and artists like Michelangelo and Leonardo will continue to be looked up to as the great masters of all time.
But, would the galleries want to show my humble work and my photography, which in it’s own way is a record of my journey through life?
Indeed not, and I have not been a bubbler for long, but I have seen some wonderful work by others, and though I do not comment, not feeling that I can add much in that way, I am impressed every day by what I can see, and now that my abiliity to walk is much limited, it gives me the chance to see art in all it’s forms, and I am delighted to be a part of this comminity, Continue, it is great to belong here.

Thank you so much for the info on museums vs RB. I hadn’t looked at it, but Monet’s popularity and price is because suddenly his work caught on with the fashionable crowd. And, since many of us were Art students, or have become so in our own way, we believe all the myths and hype that surrounds dead artists’ work. The fact is, we can’t all, and we don’t all want to own a Monet, or even a Picasso. RB and such are the ‘new thing’. Now you’ve gone and made me think, and it’s 3 a.m. here!!

Nice one MayWebb

A public gallery is devoted to the collection of the best of the work of the past and the past. Some centres of contemporary art (MCA Sydney etc) collect – with their collections becoming less contemporary with every passing year, whilst others (Baltic Maills Gateshead) exhibit but do not collect. Both are subject to a curatorial practice that is absent on Red Bubble.
Anyone who views my work (or that of any other participant) on RedBubble does not see the object itself but a necessarily degraded version of it. i learned this years ago when a gallery offered me an exhibition on the basis of slides and then rejected the artwork. The same gallery then rejected another submission on slides which they went on to present on the basis of the actual artworks.
When I am in London I will spend hours in the National Gallery, the Tate Galleries and various other commercial and non-commercial galleries. I won’t spend that time viewin on RedBubble. In my view that is not what it is intended for.

How many of the visitors to redbubble per day are people who have not contributed to redbubble?

In my opinion, there is nothing like live music and face-to-face art. It makes the work tangible, clear, and accessible. Yes, I agree that if you really want to see the art you must see it in real life.

And then there is Red Bubble…RB is a a wonderfully supportive site for all artists, regardless “sainthood”.

Congratulations for being at the top which is a combination of the amount of redbubblers, links back to redbubble.com : another new site doing just that mine and the high quality of work delivered by the IT team behind Red Bubble.

Now, I rather take my son to a museum, which I do often, a complete different experience. The virtual world has brought so much to so many and is very convenient but can not be always compared to real life experiences :)

well done indeed!

Thank you for keeping us informed. I think that really is what matters most in this article. Also Congratulations to everyone that makes RB a success.

yes l have to agree RB is a fantastic site for “artists” but no way can this replace the real life visit of a museum, walking in and being surrounded by art that has gone down in history untouched unchanged originals….wow breathtaking!! but yeah “sitting” here in my pj’s in my computer room is just no comparrison ..NOT..hahahaa. well done RB anyhows,,yaaa

While I enjoy exhibiting my work here, and seeing other people’s work, I also enjoy art galleries because there is something about seeing actual works of art – scale, texture, colour and light are different.

There are many good things about the web and sites like RedBubble. It overcomes geographic boundaries and distances. Much more art can be stored on servers than in a physical building. We can choose what we want to show. However it’s not entirely barrier-free. For a start, would-be users need internet access and, if they want to upload work, some means of digitising it. That generally doesn’t come free.

Some people have mentioned the expense of travelling to famous art museums like MOMA and the Louvre. How about thinking more locally? I live in a small city by world standards, yet there are plenty of opportunities to look at art completely free of charge. I have two public art galleries, an arts centre which has regular exhibitions, several cafes which exhibit local artists, and several dealer galleries, all within 15 minutes walk from home. I not only get inspiration from going to these exhibitions, but I’m also supporting artists who in many cases are living, even in the publicly funded art galleries.

So, while RedBubble is a great channel for many creative people, art galleries do have their place, and I’ll continue to visit them.

RB I get your drift. You are on a particular journey and Im on your coat tails.
One of the major influences/ damascus moments was the Carravagio exhibition in NGV.
tHIS CONVINCED ME TO FOLLOW MY ART.
SO BE IT.

Wow thats about 14,600,000 entries through the Red bubble doors per anum
and realisticly R.B is just starting to warm up. Can’t wait to see the figures for next year. Well done to the team at RB

I respect and enjoy art galleries, as a place to dream and explore the history of art. I hope they never go away. There is nothing better than seeing art “in person”. That being said… I enjoy creating art, and being able to enjoy the creative artworks of others in a more immediate way. I may not be on par with The “great artists” of the world, but I like people being able to “share” in my work while I am still alive. I may not ever have work in the “MET”, but this is fun just the same! Thanks Redbubble!

wow!! i had no idea Re bubble was that big!! i am very honored to be a part of it!!, and go red bubble !! we got something special going on right here!!!

I agree with what you say, art museums are mausoleums. My work is on redbubble but also in virtual worlds that can have 50,000 visitors at any one time of the day, it often works out to 3/4 million per day-shame they’re not all there for art;-)

And just so I am completely clear, I also love going to art galleries. I ache to go to the Prado to see Velasquez and to the Hermitage etc but on a day-to-day basis I simply cannot get there. And once there I can’t participate in what’s happening. RedBubble (and other sites) provide this venue for new, participative art and on a day-to-day basis much more people can access this art, and do, then can go to the great museums.

Aaaaah wish i could see the faces of my great great grandchildren as they trawl through the 27 billion pages (preserved) online of magnificent pictures of dogs, cats, babies, cars, terrible poetry, poor writing, vignetted pics (with film look scratches), naive nudes and stupid philosophically and politically niaive statements.
Makes you wonder why the hell you’d ever want to go to one of thos elitist ‘art museums’.

Master… ppfffft… we are the new order…

I still love RB though, but for slightly different reasons (;->

I LOVE RB !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((HUG)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
Thanks for all that you do Pilgrim !!! (and everyone else here at RB)

Well here’s to making RB the number 1 in the world! Sure is in my book!

“WE Are ART” !! :)

Why do I love redBubble so much?

I am geographically isolated from things I enjoy..galleries, etc… so visiting redbubble and seeing the works which abound..is a wondrous thing!!

RedBubble is also dial-up friendly :) :)

love what you got here, i could never afford to go to those places, not in a million years, rb is like traveling the world in 80 minutes, stunned by how much beautiy and hard work are shown by all artists on this site, and feel honored when these fine people take time and look at my art. All here dont care what race you are or what you believe in, art is for all and diverse like us all

As a new member, I’m totally awed by the amout and the quality of work presented here. I was initally drawn by the professional way the Redbubble site was set up and am very proud to be a member of this community.

Fantabulous stuff Rebubble!!

yesyes-yesyes

Just exactly how do you compare apples with oranges?

I think this is a very strange notion. It goes right back to the argument that went something along the lines of – after photography was invented, art (as in painting drawing, etc.) was dead, or, to continue in the same vein…
TV did in Cinema
Cinema did in live theatre
Digital dudded chemical photography.

All irrelevant arguments.

Each art form has its own place, and whereas one art form may suit some better than others it is just not relevant to say that one is better than another. It is simply different.

It will be a sad world indeed if online ‘art’ takes away the pleasure of art in galleries, on peoples’ walls, on walls in the street, etc. etc.

If you don’t believe me, try and stand in front of an aboriginal rock painting or rock carving than has been there for millennia and tell me that it doesn’t move you in a way that your computer screen ever could.

And one last comment…. don’t we want people to buy the non online versions, real, not digital versions of our creations?

Knowing someone has been moved enough by one of your own works to hand over their hard earned to buy a physical version of your creation and hang it on a wall in their own home is a very satisfying feeling indeed, for both the purchaser and the seller.

Long may the National Gallery continue to inspire us all.

Go RB Go… but well said Jeff and a few others.

Yes… I forgot to add … Go RedBubble!!

I’ll never have any of my ‘art’ in the National Gallery, but I know I will always find acceptance here… and who knows… I may yet sell a real live, physical, non digital work here someday too… and that too is what RedBubble is also about.

There is something Special about RedBubble.

You rock RB x

cheers red bubble! I love the site too!

There is no other site like Redbubble for the community spirit that is such a strong thread running through it…...............we are so lucky to have such a wonderful tool at hand to share our art lives with tens of thousands of other like-minded individuals…...........thanks again, guys you make our art worlds go around. :+))

I agree with Jeff that nothing can beat standing in front of art, whether it be old masters, Native American pottery, modern sculpture, or works of completely unknown local artists in gallerys. However, I love RB for the inspiration and because I can post artwork here that wouldnt otherwise be seen.
The online community of RB is so welcoming and supportive and encouraging, and those are things you rarely get consistently when you put art other places. (Although I will say that making sales to people when I am standing there talking with them and they are buying my pottery is extremely satisfying!)
Anyway, congratulations to all of us for making this such a popular internet gallery!

that is awsome news! All thanks to the WWW we can show off our Art to the World! Thanks a MILLION RED BUBBLE!
Debi

This is AWESOME to know…......................I am so happy to be a (small) part of rb :)))Kristi

Well congrats on that achievement and looking forward to seeing some more beautiful art

So true, plus I will probably never be where the Monet is displayed but if someone on RB takes a photo and posts it I still get to look + I get to see an awful lot more that they will never see.

Great stuff, I’m so proud to be a red bubbler

good point

RedBubble is the best!!!
mel

awesome and congrats

Let’s keep it going!

It’s a great place, no doubt…congrats!

RB makes me happy. Go RB!

RB makes me happy. Go RB!

Certainly Martin Hosking, author of Art About has to right to brag about the popularity of redBubble and the impressive numbers of hits and visitors.
Surely the comments in response to this thread reveal some intelligent, thoughtful, and interesting points of view.
Lelia Thomas points out the decentralized nature of the medium and the creative spirit flourishing within this community.
Sandra Chung opines that the ‘masters’ seem removed from real life.
Marlyn Brown feels that we are talking ‘apples and oranges’. Real life viewing in her view is not the same as on-line viewing. I tend to agree.
Others have responded in terms of the sales opportunities afforded by the on line versus the real life gallery opportunities.
I appreciate reading all of these thoughtfully considered replies and skim over the ‘adda boys’.
Having been through the framing, registering, and showing cycle in real life galleries I can relate to the hard work it takes to sell a piece of art work. I found it more satisfying to learn and be inspired by other creative artists than to stand around explaining my work to someone who is looking for a bargain.
The beauty of this redBubble community for me is the ease of it.

_{I can concentrate on producing rather than marketing.}
I can share my work with friends and family 24/7.
_{I can share my work with like minded people from all over the world!}
I can make comments and receive them openly and freely with anyone here.
_{There is always the possibility of making a sale here painlessly.}
I don’t have to incur the costs of framing, attend openings, pay registration fees.
~Mostly I just enjoy sharing my work like so many enthusiastic others.

I feel we are a community of professionals, non professionals, dabblers, hopefuls, and photographers, artists, writers, and hopefuls. If there were not a ‘master’ among us I would be surely surprised.
Perhaps there are future “masters” among us who are yet to be discovered and invited to show at the Modern Museum of Art. I think there is place for both.

Jack your eloquent response, took the words right out of my mouth…this is the first time I have had the opportunity to showcase all the different series of work I produce, and indulge myself in painting and showcasing as many pieces as I want to, without having totally concentrate my efforts on “the consistent body of work” I have to produce for the Galleries..

The RedBubble experience is pure unmitigated pleasure to create and show your best work, knowing you have many who love what you do, and take the time to tell you so…that alone is worth the journey…

Art is the last freedom, please allow it to be so everyone may see!!!...:))

Well done RB and all those that contribute their art to the site…fantastic results :)

You go RB!!!

Power to the living artists at last.

Thanks to my friend I heard about red bubble & I am enjoying taking my art work out of storage to show the public. The great thing its free, exhibitions costs so much money; framing etc. I hope I make some sales, that would be a wonderful bonus.

I went to the Louvre in 2001 is a good collection of paintings and sculptures, here in Los Angeles only the museum in Pasadena can maybe compare to it. For an archaelogical museum is La Brea Tar Pits which also has an art museum with a great Asian exhibit.
chord0

The met has been my favorite since I was a Kid. I am not well traveled so the only other museums I have visited out of New York is the Museum in Ponce, Puerto Rico. It is very beutiful but it is a baby compaired to the ones in New York. I look forward to some day visiting other museums. I hope me work is recognized before I am layed to rest. What a shame. Anyway I am enthusiastic about redbubble and support it by getting the word out. Now my friends and family know about redbubble and the word is spreading.

Well said Boss

We need bigger monitors to see the artworks larger. And maybe some classical music to properly appreciate the works. (and would it kill somebody to bring around a tray of canapes once in a while?). Still, congrats to Redbubble…. there’s something to be said for the grandeur of seeing artworks live and life-sized, but there’s more of a community here.

Hear hear!
I love RedBubble!!!

!!!! Well done to you for all your hard work in getting this site up and running!!! It certainly is “the best”!!!!! *-)

Well said!!!! So proud and glad I am with this creative and talented Community of outstanding artists, well done to all!

Good points, well made, Martin.

I visited the Met and MoMA in NYC for the first time last Dec and both were unique, wonderful experiences – historical as much as ethereal.

As others have commented, both RB and famous galleries have their place and we are a much richer community for having both. Like the internet itself, there is great, good, mediocre and, yes, even bad (unimaginative) art on RB. But it’s all about community. The great galleries contain commonly acknowledged “great” art, chosen by elite experts and the verdict of time.

I think RB’s natural next expansion should be to encourage/formalise physical gallery showings of work by members, especially the original work that loses much when viewed digitally, such as painting and illustration. I know that this has just started happening in Melbourne.

As the traffic numbers (and volume of comments) reveal, RB is an incredibly vibrant community. There’s so much talent here. Why not bridge that gap between the physical and digital art realms. Of course it will require a degree of selection and determination of quality, as well as administrative and geographic considerations, but who better to do it than RB? Let’s have the best of both world!

well done

I like both the Art, Photography and wonderful people on this site. Nice work RedBubble.

RedBubble is one of the greatest museums I have had the pleasure to visit and I have seen many. Not only that, I get my own corner in your online museum to share my work and make viewable to millions of people throughout the world. Thank You

Love your work Red bubble team.
Thanks!!

Hi Martin (Pilgrim) and all
I found RedBubble by accident and have been blown away ever since by its vibrant, friendly & of course fascinating content. tere is so much room to grow, make connections with like minded individuals – especially from all over the world. A wonderful melting pot where it’s safe to bare one’s soul!

WOW!! Go us!
I think this is important info to have actually. Sometimes it is really easy to feel invisible on a big online gallery, but it’s important to know that for every person that comments on a piece or faves a piece who is obviously a part of our lovely Bubble…there are soooo many more each day who simply pop in, enjoy the work we’re all doing and move on. They might even tell friends who will do the same, and tell friends…etc etc.
I’m really happy to be a part of this! And to be a part of the wonderful community of people I’ve come to know and love here as well.
Ok…enough sappy stuff…off to find some more zombies and vampires!

am i really an artist?.....woohoo!!! lol
seriously though thanks to all on here and its creators ive gained a whole lot of inspiration and encouragement …...thank you all!!
Davey

Thats great to here that were so popular go RedBubble

yeah for RB!

Congratulations! It shows all jobs are well done.
Take care, Bonnie

great information and writing…way to go RB!!

Great to know about Red Bubbles’s popularity….I’m all for the art worl through the Internet.

Waiting for the world to catch-up. I began digital photographic art nine years ago and had NO respect in my community. I was told I wasn’t a “real” photographer. I was told I wasn’t a “real” artist. I was actually denied entry into some legitimizing venues. Now the world in my neck of the art community is catching up. Because people all have a digital camera and access to a computer, they begin to see the technical expertise required. It is good to see the world is catching up and beginning to look beyond the traditional boundaries of definition, nationality and limitations. The virtual world opens up just that…. the world. Congratulations,
Covitch

Great stuff.

WOW!!!!!!!

used to think all the “real” artist died out centuries ago
all those artists i used to admire as kid, Leonardo, Michealangelo,donnotello, rapheal…
(it all got started with the ninga turtles)
Magneficent works on a grand scale
they now all seem same old, same old, unchanging, stagnent, dead
Then here is Redbubble, a new living thing
Like a giant red spider
growing bigger every minute
Breathing in and out with each comment we make,
changing constantly as is takes in our creativy
then giving birth to tiny spider artworks
that leave the web to find a new home
on some admirers wall
on the othe side of the world

So few of us ever get the chance to visit such places, let alone exhibit in them and Red Bubble gives us the chance to share our work with millions of people with a few click of the mouse. The quality is so high on RB and it’s a privilege to be part of it.
Lisa x

That is fantastic! Thak you redbubble that I , and an artist may be a part of this. It is great to meet and interact with other artists! They continue to amaze and inspire me!

Michelle

I completey agree, and am very thankful for the exposure the internet and Redbubble afford us:) It makes it so much more convenient—- and allows more valuable time to spend creating!

Becky

Woohoo… YEAH!!