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  "send"
  by Natalie Tyler

  US$26.33

  Something a little different for me, but I thought I’d have a bash at a theme that’s been floating around in various forms over the past few days. Inspired by Danny the muse and sjem the executioner. Other works on this theme from much more talented people: / / /

• Nasty Bubblemails
  by Jo O'Brien

  I seem to get my share of creepy and nasty bubblemails and emails. Thankfully not all that often, but often enough. I have always use…

  I seem to get my share of creepy and nasty bubblemails and emails. Thankfully not all that often, but often enough. I have always used two tactics with such people. The first is to reply to them “I don’t think that was an appropriate email to send, but seeing as how you do, you won’t mind me publishing it with your email address on my profile.” While this works well as a scare tactic, it doesn’t prevent them from moving onto another victim. The other tactic is to report the offending bubblemail to redbubble using the link provided and let someone objective review it and act. Today I got an (in my opinion unprovoked) email that said: “You are so disgusting !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” This is just the latest. I’ve had much worse: untalented, slut, idiot, you should be ashamed, f words, revolting… the list goes on. Heck, I’m the first to admit when I’ve pushed someone’s buttons wrong but I’m only quoting ‘out of the blue’ type mails here. Anyway… I’m on a tangent. My discussion questions are: What do you think is the best way to deal with people who bubblemail or email nasty things? Do people actually use the report button? And if not – why not? Any good ideas for how to tackle situations where people are not as lovely as they first appear? Where does this type of behavior become bullying or harrassment?

• Canvas Prints and Email Signatures
  by RedBubble

  Another update to the site this morning. A lot of work in the backend to help deal with this rapidly growing community but with few new f…

  Another update to the site this morning. A lot of work in the backend to help deal with this rapidly growing community but with few new features to keep everybody happy: / Canvas prints have been added. For now they are canvas mounted on board. We have decided to leave it the artists to decide which works they want to sell in this form. If you want to sell canvas prints you will need to update your portfolio accordingly. / An automatic email signature. This is a random image strip of your portfolio such as this one from Paul’s work. It is still a work in progress and Xavier has explained here what it is all about. / / More sharpening of the small images.

• Showing off your Calendars - Part II
  by John Barratt

  I recently added a journal entry on how to show off your calendars by embedding the individual preview images for the cover & each month …

  I recently added a journal entry on how to show off your calendars by embedding the individual preview images for the cover & each month here . Last Friday we released some new functionality to allow you to preview your calendar via a downloadable pdf file. This gives another way of being able to publically show your calendar, and potentially via different means. If like before, you go into mybubble -> calendars -> edit calendar -> buy/preview then you should now see a link below your preview image saying “You can download a reduced-quality PDF preview here”. Here is a link to my snow calendar as a PDF, the same one as in the previous journal article. This is a file of only a few MB that can be downloaded and saved or opened up in acrobat reader. Note that this is low quality preview only, it does not have the full detail of the final printed version. The idea here is it gives you a little more detail than the standard web preview, and allows for your whole calendar to be conveniently ‘shared’ in one file. So, you can copy that link (right click in your browser and select the appropriate option) and then do things like embed it in your journal entries, add it to emails, or put it on other websites as you would like. You could also attach the saved pdf to an email, and send it directly to an friends or family that may be interested in seeing/buying your calendar.

• A copy of the email I sent today
  by Jo O'Brien

  Hello to Ears Wide Open! After reading a lot of discussion in the forums I would like to present my proposal to you. I am based in Mel…

  Hello to Ears Wide Open! After reading a lot of discussion in the forums I would like to present my proposal to you. I am based in Melbourne and am very seriously committed to renting a stall at a couple of markets to sell RedBubble Artists’ work and promote the site. I currently manage an art gallery that sells prints and originals on commission and have a strong understanding of what is involved to make this idea work. Rather than just throwing it up as a suggestion, I have included a suggested plan so that you have something tangible to discuss. I think the market stall idea has a lot of merit and could potentially grow into quite a lucrative endevour as well as being a huge promotional tool. It is a way of tapping into Melbourne’s art culture which is heavily concentrated in street stalls, markets, garage sales and small independent galleries. The benefits include increased membership on the site through being visible to Melbourne artists at their predominant place of work and increased sales through order taking on site at the stalls and through increased online patronage. Anyway, on to the plan! BubbleMarket Plan Interested artists will complete a form through the RedBubble website to register their interest in participating and agree to the consignment and payment terms. I will agree to sell their work on consignment only. All care (in fact heaps of care) but no responsibility will be taken for artists work at the stall or in transit. In the interests of keeping it simple and reasonable for a 1-2 person stall, I’d suggest a standard mark up that all submitted work will be sold at. We would have to keep prices competitive with “market” prices. I would add a small surcharge to all sales to cover my time and labor to be negotiated. Artists’ biographies, catalogues or portfolios are more than welcome if artists will post them to me. I would like to promote the individuals along with their art. If you can give me a catalogue with order codes/numbers and a cordless EFTPOS machine (even an old Click Clack one) I will take orders on behalf of RedBubble.com. If taking orders to be posted I will need all relevant info regarding postage costs to add to the order price. If I am using a Click Clack machine I will not use it for ‘on the day’ sales where the artwork is taken. Stolen cards will be declined long after the customer has gone and you are trying to deposit into the RedBubble bank account. Artists would order their own work at the base price. It would be really awesome if we could arrange to have it all end up at RedBubble Fitzroy and I’d pick it up in one go. On the day I’ll keep a meticulous list of sales and stock so I can track who is owed what money and generally account for the whereabouts of all stock. I do a fair bit of bookkeeping for our three galleries and am competent in tracking dollars and cents! At the end of the day or on the next business day I would return all unsold stock to RedBubble along with the cash. It would be great if you could pay people via the usual method. Unsold stock could be posted back to artists or kept for future markets. Expenses Summary : / -Renting the stall and perhaps a display table / -Posting unsold artworks back to artists ( I will make neat piles for you) / -Appropriate display equipment such as clear, hard backed, display files/slips to prevent damage / -Carbon Invoice book for recording sales and providing receipts / -Promotional material –lots please / -Labor to organise artwork prior to market day / -Labor to organise payments and postage after market day / -Labor associated with creating and printing a catalogue I’d be asking RedBubble Admin to help out with: / -Letting me collect artwork from Fitzroy in one go instead of 50 people posting stuff to me / -Pay artists and deposit cash (I will provide sales lists) / -Supply a click-clack or other portable Credit Card/EFT machine for catalogue orders / -Provide postage price information for catalogue orders. Contingency Planning: / -Select a market with under cover areas because artwork and rain do not mix and bad or windy weather would equal cancelling / -Have 1-2 other people available on the day in case I get hit by a bus, my car is stolen etc. / -Ensuring all artwork available for sale complies with copyright laws I have tried to cover all the main bases here but have probably missed a few things that will be blaringly obvious to others. Perhaps lets discuss it properly because I am really prepared to back this idea and make it happen with a bit of your support. BubbleMarket could become a regular event and a HUGE promotional tool for RedBubble and all the great artists we are so lucky to have on here. Do not hesitate to give me a call in or outside of business hours to discuss this idea further. Jo O’Brien / jo.obrien@hotmail.com

• My email to polyvore/ I'm so proud of us redbubblers!!!
  by Suni Pruett

  I sent the following bubblemail to polyvore only a few minutes ago..and I thought that some of you might like to read it as well…I may …

  I sent the following bubblemail to polyvore only a few minutes ago..and I thought that some of you might like to read it as well…I may have expressed a little too much in this email…but I had to stand up for what I believe in…... To Whom It May Concern / You stated in a recent comment that most of your members are young and that you appreciated those who were not rude in their emails to you…. Well…I was not one of those who sent you an outrageously profane message..although I must admit my first one was not very polite either….However, I do not feel like I should have to apologize for standing up for what I believe in…but I will anyway..and I will explain why…...I apologize if I may have seemed rude in a previous email…but it is a very serious situation when you are an artist…..and you live your life through your work, whether that be by a camera lens, photograph, pencil, paint, canvas, digital art etc..and you see that someone somewhere has stolen what you what you worked so hard to make …..what you have put your pride, soul and joy into, what reflects your emotions, what makes you who you are….....For many artists like myself and the many other talented members of Redbubble….our art is one of the things that we are most proud of in our lives…it is what makes each one of us who we are. To use it without permission is not only unacceptable..it is like a stealing a part of our heart and soul….a deep and utter betrayal…led alone changing it and editing it without permission is an insult to each of us individually. Getting our name out there and getting the proper exposure and credit for the art that we produce is part of the gratification that we get when we produce a piece of art….so of course we are going to get more than a little upset when our hard work is used without our permission…..Some of us earn our living by the art we produce therefore when it gets stolen or ‘accidentally’ used without permission…it affects our general welfare on the whole…..not just our emotions and pride…..so pardon me if I was offended by this ordeal and by the fact that someone took and used a piece of my heart and soul. / Thank you for your time, Suni Pruett I know that I may have went over the top with this email that I sent…but I am severely upset about this whole ordeal….and I wanted the people of polyvore to truly try to grasp how it felt to see images that we treasured on display etc….. On the plus side…I am so very proud to be a member of the redbubble community…there is such a tremendous power in numbers and it amazes me that even though some of us are halfway across the world from each other…we stood as one for what we believed in!!! Way to go REDBUBBLERS!! Now we just need to make sure we take the next steps together to further protect our images! Thanks for reading the ultra long journal… I had to get it off of my chest… Suni

• A Response to Email Chain Letters....a bit of humour to share around this was sent to me by a friend!
  by Suzanne German

  Here’s a response to all the emails we receive warning and advising us on what to do and not do in order to lead more happy fulfilled and…

  Here’s a response to all the emails we receive warning and advising us on what to do and not do in order to lead more happy fulfilled and prosperous lives:- / ........ / Dear All My thanks to all those who have sent me emails this past year…..... I must send my thanks to whoever it was who sent me the one about cockroach eggs in the glue on envelopes because I now have to use a wet towel with every envelope that needs sealing. Also, I now have to scrub the top of every can I open for the same reason. I no longer have a lot of savings because I gave it to a sick girl (Penny Brown); who is about to die in hospital for the 1,387,258th time. Or signed across my bank accoutn details to the senior bank clerk in Nigeria who wants me to split £7 million with me for pretending to be a long lost relative of a customer who died. I no longer worry about my soul because I have 363,214 angels looking out for me, and St. Theresa’s novena has granted my every wish. I no longer use cancer-causing deodorants even though I smell like a water buffalo on a hot day. Thanks to you, I have learned that my prayers only get answered if I forward e-mail to seven of my friends and make a wish within five minutes / Because of your concern I no longer drink Coca-Cola because it can remove toilet stains – just as well really! I no longer can buy petrol without having to watch and make sure that a serial killer won’t crawl in my back seat when I’m filling up and later grab me from behind whilst drawing a jagged edged blade across my throat. I no longer go to shopping centres because someone will drug me with a male deodorant sample and rob me after using me as a sex toy - I no longer answer the phone because someone will ask me to dial a number for which I will get a phone bill with calls to Jamaica , Uganda , Singapore and Uzbekistan – posing as Borat on the other end of the line! Thanks also, cause now I can’t use anyone’s toilet but mine because a big brown African spider is lurking under the seat to cause me instant death when it bites my bum. And thanks to the great advice I’ve been sent, I can’t even pick up the £5.00 I found dropped in the car park because it probably was placed there by a pervert molester waiting underneath my car waiting to grab me and have his way with me. If you don’t send this e-mail to at least 144,000 people in the next 70 minutes, a large dove with diarrhoea will land on your head at 5:00pm this afternoon and the fleas from 12 camels will infest your back, causing you to grow a hairy hump. I know this will occur because it actually happened to a friend of my next door neighbour’s ex-mother-in-law’s second husband’s cousin’s beautician. By the way….a South American scientist after a lengthy study has discovered that people with low IQ who have infrequent sexual activity always read their e-mails with their hand on the mouse. Don’t bother taking it off now, it’s too late Happy New Year to All xxx / / / Suzanne German – December – 2007.

• David's Message Board
  by David Librach - DL Photography

  Got a question? Want to leave a comment? Well this is the place to do it. _I try to keep things fresh and moving here. If there i…

  Got a question? Want to leave a comment? Well this is the place to do it. I try to keep things fresh and moving here. If there is something specific that you are looking for, or would like to see similar images from the same series, please feel free to write me a note or contact me directly at dave@dlphotography.ca. _some additional images can also be viewed at my other website: / DL Photography

• Coming soon to a bubble near you
  by RedBubble

  A big thanks to everyone who has jumped on board. It’s such a buzz for us to see the community evolving and so much great work on display…

  A big thanks to everyone who has jumped on board. It’s such a buzz for us to see the community evolving and so much great work on display. One of the most common requests we are getting is “what’s next?”, closely followed by “when?”. So to keep you all in the loop, here’s the inside word on what’s coming soon at RedBubble… 1) T-shirts – Design your own or buy one from the other talented folk on RedBubble. Either way, we’ll print on demand and send them out. Black and white to start with, using high quality American Apparel tees. 2) Activity Log – The overview tab in MyBubble will soon help you keep track of sales you’ve made, comments on your work, who likes your stuff, and what people on your watchlist are doing 3) Mounted Prints – Art and photos mounted on gatorboard – a top request from all you graphic artists out there. Super strong, dimensionally stable, and dent resistant. All at a nice affordable price. 4) Better Gallery – Browse more easily through the rapidly growing set of work. Check out the newest stuff, most popular, featured, maybe even wander randomly. 5) Email This Link – Making it easy for you to tell your friends about your favourite works, journal entries or RedBubble members. Beyond that, new stuff will be coming out every month or so. A few things near the top of our wishlist are postcards & greeting cards, canvas prints, and print-on-demand books. So, what do you most want to see on RedBubble? We can’t promise to build it all, but your feedback is a big part of how we decide what to build and when.

• A "Gift" that touched my heart in ways that NO words can express!!
  by TrEaSuReDiMaGeS

  This was written and sent to me Christmas morning from our eldest son Danny, who couldn’t be home for Christmas this year, and when I rea…

  This was written and sent to me Christmas morning from our eldest son Danny, who couldn’t be home for Christmas this year, and when I read this the flood gates opened and there are no words to describe the LOVE I have for our children….... I love you with all my heart too son!! :-) I’m privledged to be your mom!!!! “The Thought That Counts” / You have always been there whenever you were needed, from a simple talk, motherly advice, or just a shoulder to cry on. All of the long talks on the patio, Christmas where I never went without, trips to baseball practice, and years of great parenting didn’t go without notice. I couldn’t think of a gift that could express or repay all the wonderful things you have done over the years so I thought I would give you “The Thought That Counts”. / You always had the answers for every problem I had or showed me how to get out of the trouble that was never too hard to get into, spoiled me every Christmas with more gifts than I knew what to do with or deserved, and love all year long. You also provided me with the knowledge of what a good wife, mom, and woman should be like. No one could or will ever take your place but thank you for being that example of what I need to look for so that I would make the right decision. / This Christmas is a little different with work and all the other things in life that get in the way but just remember… “It’s the Thought That Counts” The thoughts of the love that we have for one another, the memories of the past, the things that you have done for me and taught me to make my future better, and the memories that we are going to make together tomorrow. Today is just another day but it’s the thoughts that last forever. / I’m sorry that I can’t be there today but I just want you to know that just because this Christmas isn’t the usual that we’re used to doesn’t mean I have forgotten all the ones in the past. Thank you mom for all those wonderful memories and gifts from the past, but most of all thank you for the ones that made me what I am today. The ones that you can’t buy or wrap but that come from the love of a wonderful mother, I love you mom. Have a very Merry Christmas /

• Creating Subscription Email Lists with Burnt Feeds (Pt. 1)
  by mingtees

  I’ve been doing a lot of research on using rss feeds and blogs lately, because marketing degree notwithstanding, i hate marketing. Espec…

  I’ve been doing a lot of research on using rss feeds and blogs lately, because marketing degree notwithstanding, i hate marketing. Especially the obnoxious spam and invasive type, i hate getting it and i hate to put it out. But i have weird niche markets, so i can’t really scratch my butt and wait for people to find my stuff on MP’s or find my website either, the type of people that like my kind of stuff don’t really shop at the big POD’s, so i have to either find them myself, or put my stuff in a place where they can find it. So i have been looking for some ways to reach them via non-invasive marketing techniques. E mail marketing is kind of great for busy people that like your stuff, but don’t have time to check out your site every few days to see what’s new. And there are problems with the usual ways of using email marketing. / One way is to use the email function like the one that CafePress offers. Problems – brand spam, content control. And one for me – i have a shop there, but i don’t have them on my website, in fact, at CP I have all outward bound links to my sites spammed all over my header on all pages. / Building your own email list is another option because you have control over content, but it’s a LOT of work, cgi scripts or a paid service, people have to visit your site to opt in, and more importantly, a lot of people probably don’t want to provide their e-mail due to privacy and spam fears. / Which leaves a better option. What if you have a lot of sites, a lot of shops, and in addition to designing t shirts or artwork, you have decks and shoes and posters at Zazzle, you’re in a band, you’re a writer or a photographer or a website designer,you run marathons, and you support a favorite charity? So you want to include a lot of this info in your mailing list as well. / A blog with a burnt feed is ideal for this. You just start a blog where you post your content, new designs, sales and promos, and any other info you see fit. Burn your feed, then you have the html generated to post anywhere you like, not just your site. Profiles, myspace, facebook, other shops, even in your email or posting signature. So if someone suscribes to your feed by email, they simply get an email everytime you make a new post. Simple as that. / And it’s pretty simple to set up too. You’ll have to get an account at either Blogger or MySpace, unfortunately those are the only 2 options. I very highly do NOT recommend Myspace for this purpose, for many reasons. The blog looks like crap, you may not want to send people outside of MS there, and most importantly, MS makes money on your content that should by rights be yours. More on that later. / So first thing is to get an account at Blogger and set up your blog. (It’s free and simple.) Then make your first post or two, maybe an intro post, and then one of maybe a new shirt design or new artwork, or a sale or promotion that you have going on now. Good enough! Then click on the feed suscribe button to get the feed url. (it will say “feeds” in the url there somewhere). Copy that from your browser, and hold onto it, you’ll paste it elsewhere. / Then go over to Feedburner to burn your feed. Paste the feed in the place provided on the home page. Then create an account, and claim your feed. If successful, click on the “Promote” tab, and select the options of publishing a chiclet for subscription, and then on the offer e mail subscription. The html is cut and paste, and there you go! But one more thing – go back to Blogger click on “settings” and then on the “feeds” tab. Here you’ll have to enter the url that Feedburner will give you to redirect your subscriptions there. So this is what it looks like – I have to give you my MySpace page, as that’s the only place i’ve pasted it so far. And yes, my blog looks like crap too, i just set it up like 2 hours ago. Asian Tees on MySpace Look for the links on the right under that blob of text under the Asian Tees banner, and right before all of the images.

• Jo in The Chair - Yay
  by Jo O'Brien

  Interview by James Pierce for Wrapped Up Issue #2...

  Interview by James Pierce for Wrapped Up Issue #2 The Chair – A little more serious than the ‘The Couch’ James: Give us a bit of background about the gallery you manage, what’s it like ? What kind of work do you show ? What sells ? Jo: We have three galleries around Melbourne and specialise in affordable original art. It’s really challenging and creative work and I get to meet some very talented people. Most of my day is spent promoting emerging artists to our lovely customers and sourcing artwork to sell. We exhibit most forms of visual art including paintings, illustrations, sculpture and prints. I find many customers are looking for artwork to fit a particular space in their home. Often they buy something because of its size or colour. Other customers come in for a browse and fall in love with something on display. Often these customers are drawn to quirky and unique images or artwork that is presented in an interesting way. / James: How important is it for an artist to have a body of work ? Do most artists come to you with a few pieces, or a series with a theme ? or something else ? / Jo: It is important to show that you are creating art regularly and that you are improving with experience. Reputable galleries will want to know that you are more than a ‘one hit wonder.’ I like to see a minimum of 5-8 examples when considering an artist. If they are presenting me with a series, I also ask to see work from outside the series. A website or online portfolio is perfect for this because they often include information about the artist and images of older works that have sold. Our best selling artists have their own distinct style which makes their work recognizable outside of a gallery environment, but they are also careful to keep each piece unique. James: What difference do you see between what’s popular online and offline ? Is the physical gallery crowd more conservative ? Jo: There’s a much greater appreciation of photography online. In a gallery it is the hardest medium to sell and artists have to create well presented, interesting and unique images to be noticed. Animation, stencil art and street art are enjoying popularity offline as well as on. Textured artworks, paintings, objects and multimedia pieces sell well in galleries. Online it is mostly about the image however the gallery crowd are also looking for presentation, texture, quality and information about the artist. I am often surprised by how unconservative gallery customers are. I have found that an original, creative and well executed idea is the strongest selling point to any artwork. James: As artists, what are some of the little things we can do to stand out to buyers, attract a little attention ? Jo: I could write a book answering this question! My best advice is to connect with your customers. Be accessible and tell your story. That could mean attending gallery special events, or it could mean having a biography, email address and phone number on your website. Online you can participate in forums, competitions and instant messaging. Update your website or profile regularly so that there is an incentive for people to visit it often. Offline, be a self-promoter. Exhibit when you can, join collectives, write to various media publications, and start introducing yourself as an artist rather than a check-out-chick. If you have trouble self-promoting, pair up with a friend and promote each other. On a practical level, think about what your art will look like on display in a gallery or home and be creative. Consider the quality and type of materials, the packaging or framing, any extras that you can throw in, what information will be on display with your artwork and how it will be presented. Do something different to make your work stand out. James: How important is price to buyers ? Jo: Last week I had a women who fell in love with a stunning and very expensive piece. She handed me a credit card and said “don’t tell me how much – just put it through and deliver it.” Alas, this is the minority. Most people are decorating a particular space and have a predetermined budget. Others fall in love with an artwork and will save up especially or ask for a layby if it’s more than they had anticipated. Inexperienced art buyers often associate size with price. If it’s too cheap I am asked “What’s wrong with it?” If it’s too expensive I am asked “What’s so special about it?” It comes down to ‘value for money’ which is very subjective and unique to the individual. Having artwork with a range of prices means that you have something for everyone. James: What’s the future ? How does digital artwork fit into the ‘real world’ of art ? Jo: Websites and online folios have replaced business cards for artists and galleries are going online to service interstate and international customers. More and more I meet people who want to find art online rather than drag their spouse around galleries all weekend. In store we use online catalogues to show customers prints and to place orders in real time. The practice of having a physical gallery or showroom with an online store is starting to emerge. Customers like to see an example of the finished product before buying but once they have, are more receptive to buying online. Internet shopping may never completely replace seeing and touching the real thing in store but the two methods work well in combination. I’d like to see more galleries embrace the technology to bring their customers an almost limitless selection of art. If you’d like to know more, please don’t hesitate to email me at jo.obrien@hotmail.com or comment here.

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  A Sea view
  by Bootkneck

  US$3.99–US$91.20

  Robin Hoods Bay Robin Hood’s Bay is a small fishing town or village located five miles south of Whitby on the coast of North Yorkshire, England. Bay Town, as it is known to the locals, is in the ancient parish of Fylingdales and in the wapentake of Whitby Strand.The town, which consists of a maze of tiny streets, has a tradition of smuggling, and there is reputed to be a network of subterranean passageways linking the houses. The main legitimate activity had always been fishing, but this started to decline in the late 19th century. These days most of its income comes from tourism. Robin Hood’s Bay is also famous for the large number of fossils which may be found on its beach.

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  Mosh Tee
  by Disenchanted

  US$23.76

  Spread the love and wear this stylish tee around the office! Cheers, / Matt

• email from redbubble 2/7/08 You've recently made a sale on RedBubble. Congratulations!
  by ginnymac

  woopee a great heap of big thanks and hugs to :Helene Kippert” for buying a tee from me…

  woopee a great heap of big thanks and hugs to :Helene Kippert” for buying a tee from me Tee“

• New Donation Email
  by HopeForChloe

  I am so excited to announce, / Hope For Chloe / has a / new email address / it is / hopeforchloe@gmail.com Can I ask that all new…

  I am so excited to announce, / Hope For Chloe / has a / new email address / it is / hopeforchloe@gmail.com Can I ask that all new donations go there please. / With the new email address, It makes filing far easier because its not going into an everyday email account. / It will be stricktly used only for Hope For Chloe Donations or any letters you would like to send to Chloe, Priscilla and Angel. I can assure you, all donations are being deleted immediately after upload, so then they can never be used again for any other purpose other than donating them to the Hope for Chloe fund. If you have made a journal with the old email details in it, could you please change it to the new email details . / That way images dont get misplaced. / Thankyou for taking the time in reading this. Priscilla, Chloe, Angel & Alex…and S.S. ( Secret Squirrel )

• Creating a Subscription E-Mail List with Burnt Feeds - (Pt. 2)
  by mingtees

  Or – Why Blogger and not MySpace, Content, and other ways to make money with your feed. So you have your nice burnt feed, and you have…

  Or – Why Blogger and not MySpace, Content, and other ways to make money with your feed. So you have your nice burnt feed, and you have it plastered everywhere you can. But there’s more, what about content? Why Blogger? etc. Well, MySpace is maybe fine for MySpace. But first off Blogger gives you a bigger reach than you may have with just your sites and networks, via blog groups, pings, blogrolls, linkbacks, etc. Any blog book can explain this stuff for those who don’t already know about it. But there’s more. Ads: / One thing that makes MySpace blogs look crappy is all of the ads on the page, especially at the top. Anytime anyone clicks on that ad on your blog page, the advertiser pays a price per click, which goes right to MySpace, not to you. On Blogger, you have the option to sign up for AdSense, which is content driven (ads are triggered by keywords), and there are plenty of other ad providers you can sign up with as well, many where you can pick and choose the ads you want on. I have actually opted not to do this for now, as i’m trying to focus on content sales, ie t shirts, not have people click out on ads. But another option – you can keep the ads off of the front page, and instead run ads on just your archive posts. Just wrap these tags around the code snippet AdSense gives you – < ItemPage > </ ItemPage > . Good enough. Content – Affiliate t shirt and other sales / One reason i resisted Blogger for so long, other than the fact that I’m no writer, is that i didn’t want the pressure of posting on a frequent schedule. Because you do have to post with some regularity to not drop off the radar. And if i posted primarily new designs, well, i’ve done around 4 over the past 3 or 4 months. And 2 or 3 of them sucked and were just site filler. But it’s an ideal situation to post other people’s shirts and stuff to generate content, reviews, and make a few bucks from other people’s stuff. It’s easy with Zazzle, you don’t even have to have a shop there, just an associate’s account. They pay 15% = volume bonuses, and there’s cut and paste code. RedBubble – Please an affiliate program! There’s such great work on here! Amazon.com / This is the thing about MySpace that really gets stuck in my craw. If you have a blog there, of have seen anyone else’s blog posts, often you see those thumbnail icons with “currently reading” or “listening to” of “watching” or whatever. (I read a lot, like a book a day, and not Barbara Cartland. And i have lots of other books to recommend, photography and art books for design references, poetry, literature, etc.) Click on that link, and it takes you to the Amazon.com page for that item. If someone actually buys it, Amazon pays a comission (i think around 4%). But, that comission goes to MySpace, but on your blog content, and your recommendation. Tacky, sleazy, low rent, cheesy. (sound familiar?) / But with Blogger, you can sign up for an Amazon account yourself, and any book, DVD, CD, or whatever you blog and recommend, you just add your code that they give to the end of the item page link url, and if anything you recommend sells, you get the comission. You probably won’t get rich, it will most likely be a pittance, but better you than MySpace getting it. / You can also get associate accounts from Ebay, Imagekind, Art.com (who i refuse to promote as they gouge to pay their artists too small a comission). / Please RB – affiliate program! If anyone is interested in ths sort of thing, i have lots of other info and tidbits about feeds, For example, Zazzle allows tailored feeds, so i created a category in each of my shops there called “New and Featured”, i have a feed for that category on my Facebook pages, and everytime i make a new shirt and put it that category, it shows up on that feed, and people can subscribe to it (but not by email).

• potential virus email - becareful
  by frozenfa

  Hey everyone!! i just woke up and my bro was telling me about his lecturer who got his whole pc crashed cos he open a bad email.. hehe.. ...

  Hey everyone!! i just woke up and my bro was telling me about his lecturer who got his whole pc crashed cos he open a bad email.. hehe.. Basically, if you get an email with the title, Top 10 CNN Stories, pls try avoid opening it. I mean, no harm playing safe eh? you can just go to cnn webbie and check out the top 10 news. Apparently the lecturer also didn’t check who the sender was and blindly open the email.. oh dear.. n_n” So yea! just wanna warn all my friends. i myself hate virus, and i would hate it one of you guys accidentally got attacked by it.. damn those virus inventors.. And of course, THANK YOU SO SO MUCH to EVERYONE for their sweet replies to my new webbie!! Love you all! XD i just woke up and haven’t clean the house and bath.. but i think a virus warning is always best to share with asap. so here i am! hehe.. can you see my sleepy zombie face? XD

• Oh for RSS LOL
  by Craig Shillington

  WOW … RB is such a diverse and wonderful community to be involved in!! SO MANY other wonderful artists out there to share with, I LOVE …

  WOW … RB is such a diverse and wonderful community to be involved in!! SO MANY other wonderful artists out there to share with, I LOVE it. Now that I am gathering a few friends around though, I am finding it harder and harder to keep up. I so can’t wait for these pages to have RSS feeds on them so I can put the links in my reader and NEVER miss another posted photo, Journal entry or response to a comment I have made on someone else’s work. :) Even Email notification would be nice. Or an extra page in our Account that can feed these things, so we can check there. Anyway … if I have missed anyone … it’s because it’s a little hectic right now remembering and trying to keep up. Keep up the awesome work Elves :) It’s going really great :)

• Okay... So Who REALLY Sent Me This...
  by JenniferB

  I just received the following gmail: comments@whitehouse.gov / to me / / show details 10:05 AM (1 hour ago) / / / Reply / / ...

  I just received the following gmail: comments@whitehouse.gov / to me / / show details 10:05 AM (1 hour ago) / / / Reply / / / On behalf of President Bush, thank you for your correspondence. We appreciate hearing your views and welcome your suggestions. Due to the large volume of e-mail received, the White House cannot respond to every message. Thank you again for taking the time to write. Now I can’t recall writing anything to that dipstick Pres Bush at the White House and I sure as hell haven’t added him to my MySpace friends, so what the hell is this? Any clues anyone? :-) I’ll send a bomb back… Can I be arrested for saying that? 8-0

• A story of Two Choices
  by adgray

  *I actually dropped in to spread this story … think I’ve read it before but when I saw it in an email I decided it should be bubbled ab…

  I actually dropped in to spread this story … think I’ve read it before but when I saw it in an email I decided it should be bubbled about too! / So read at your leisure & enjoy! / [but keep your tissues handy if you’re prone to tear-ing up! :O)] / Chookas! X♥X . Two Choices What would you do? / You make the choice! Don’t look for a punch line – there isn’t one! / Read it anyway. / My question to all of you is: Would you have made the same choice? . At a fundraising dinner for a school that serves learning disabled children,the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended. After extolling the school and its dedicated staff, he offered a question: “When not interfered with by outside influences, everything nature does is done with perfection. Yet my son, Shay, cannot learn things as other children do. He cannot understand things as other children do. Where is the natural order of things in my son?” The audience was stilled by the query. The father continued. “I believe,that when a child like Shay, physically and mentally handicapped comes into the world, an opportunity to realize true human nature presents itself, and it comes, in the way other people treat that child.”Then he told the following story: Shay and his father had walked past a park where some boys Shay knew were playing baseball. Shay asked,”Do you think they’ll let me play?” Shay’s father knew that most of the boys would not want someone like Shay on their team, but the father also understood that if his son were allowed to play, it would give him a much-needed sense of belonging and some confidence to be accepted by others in spite of his handicaps. Shay’s father approached one of the boys on the field and asked if Shay could play, not expecting much. The boy looked around for guidance and said, “We’re losing by six runs and the game is in the eighth inning. I guess he can be on our team and we’ll try to put him in to bat in the ninth inning.” Shay struggled over to the team’s bench put on a team shirt with a broad smile and his Father had a small tear in his eye and warmth in his heart. The boys saw the father’s joy at his son being accepted. In the bottom of the eighth inning, Shay’s team scored a few runs but was still behind by three. In the top of the ninth inning, Shay put on a glove and played in the right field. Even though no hits came his way, he was obviously ecstatic just to be in the game and on the field, grinning from ear to ear as his father waved to him from the stands. In the bottom of the ninth inning, Shay’s team scored again. Now, with two outs and the bases loaded, the potential winning run was on base and Shay was scheduled to be next at bat. At this juncture, do they let Shay bat and give away their chance to win the game? Surprisingly, Shay was given the bat. Everyone knew that a hit was all but impossible ‘cause Shay didn’t even know how to hold the bat properly, much less connect with the ball. However, as Shay stepped up to the plate, the pitcher, recognizing the other team putting winning aside for this moment in Shay’s life, moved in a few steps to lob the ball in softly so Shay could at least be able to make contact. The first pitch came and Shay swung clumsily and missed. The pitcher again took a few steps forward to toss the ball softly towards Shay. As the pitch came in, Shay swung at the ball and hit a slow ground ball right back to the pitcher. The game would now be over, but the pitcher picked up the soft grounder and could have easily thrown the ball to the first baseman. Shay would have been out and that would have been the end of the game. Instead, the pitcher threw the ball right over the head of the first baseman, out of reach of all team mates. Everyone from the stands and both teams started yelling, “Shay, run to first! Run to first!” Never in his life had Shay ever ran that far but made it to first base. He scampered down the baseline, wide-eyed and startled. Everyone yelled, “Run to second, run to second!” / Catching his breath, Shay awkwardly ran towards second, gleaming and struggling to make it to second base. By the time Shay rounded towards second base, the right fielder had the ball, the smallest guy on their team, who had a chance to be the hero for his team for the first time. He could have thrown the ball to the second-baseman for the tag, but he understood the pitcher’s intentions and he too intentionally threw the ball high and far over the third-baseman’s head. Shay ran toward third base deliriously as the runners ahead of him circled the bases toward home. All were screaming, “Shay, Shay, Shay, all the Way Shay” Shay reached third base, the opposing shortstop ran to help him and turned him in the direction of third base, and shouted, “Run to third! Shay, run to third” As Shay rounded third, the boys from both teams and those watching were on their feet were screaming, “Shay, run home! Shay ran to home, stepped on the plate, and was cheered as the hero who hit the “grand slam” and won the game for his team. That day, said the father softly with tears now rolling down his face, the boys from both teams helped bring a piece of true love and humanity into this world. Shay didn’t make it to another summer and died that winter, having never forgotten being the hero and making his Father so happy and coming home and seeing his Mother tearfully embrace her little hero of the day! ~ AND, NOW A LITTLE FOOTNOTE TO THIS STORY: / We all send thousands of jokes through the email without a second thought, but when it comes to sending messages about life choices, people think twice about sharing. The crude, vulgar, and often obscene pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion about decency is too often suppressed in our schools and workplaces. If you’re thinking about forwarding this message,chances are that you’re probably sorting out the people on your address list that aren’t the “appropriate” ones to receive this type of message. Well, the person who sent you this believes that we all can make a difference. We all have thousands of opportunities every single day to help realize the “natural order of things.” So many seemingly trivial interactions between two people present us with a choice: Do we pass along a little spark of love and humanity or do we pass up that opportunity to brighten the day of those with us the least able, and leave the world a little bit colder in the process? A wise man once said / Every society is judged by how it treats it’s least fortunate amongst them! . You now have two choices: / 1. Ignore / 2. Spread the goodness! . May your day, be a Shay Day – sunny today tomorrow & always! . Chookas! X♥X .

• wHATS UP WITH THIS? Be Careful red bubblers...... of Fraudulent invitations....
  by artist4peace

  IN THE LAST 10 DAYSiI HAVE GOTTEN 3 funky bubblemails / 1) an email wanting to use my work for a logo BUT they wanted me to respond ONLY…

  IN THE LAST 10 DAYSiI HAVE GOTTEN 3 funky bubblemails / 1) an email wanting to use my work for a logo BUT they wanted me to respond ONLY through their personal email and not bubble mail.In going to their site…there was no information on them at all! I REPLIED saying I wanted to negotiate initially through RB etc. and never heard from them again. / Today 2)received an” I admire you talents& wanna get to know someone like you…blah blah” AGAIN requesting I respond to>>> a personal email acct.<<< I went and checked and there was NO information on them..0.. / I reported the 1st one to R B ,this one I am writing you guys about it! I have some great red bubble friendships and with some, we do communicate at times with our personal email accts…...or by phone or skype in addition to bubble mail etc.. / Each of these people/artists, however, have a site with info on themselves and have invested time posting works in art or writings and with site presentation you have a clear sense of who they are /what you are about!....I only want to be in relationship with those who are members who have invested themselves in our community genuinely… / Take care and I love you, / Dalzenia (-;

• Is Your Name Wayne and have you recently emailed Helena FairieWoman?
  by Helena Nelson-Reed

  Yesterday I was responding to RedBubble emails and accidently deleated one instead of saving it. I know your name is Wayne but didnt note…

  Yesterday I was responding to RedBubble emails and accidently deleated one instead of saving it. I know your name is Wayne but didnt note the second word or name. Your comment was a positive one and I was going to say thank you. Please accept my apologies for being so clumsy, if you write again I promise to be more careful in answering. / Cheers, / Helena

• Let's help each other......
  by Carisma

  I am willing to pass the knowledge that Leoni has given me with pleasure, only is difficult on RB because we need to not use spaces when …

  I am willing to pass the knowledge that Leoni has given me with pleasure, only is difficult on RB because we need to not use spaces when we explain procedures….Leoni managed only because she gave me instruction by normal email. Whoever want please send me your email by bubblemail and I will send the instructions and how Leoni explained to me. It will be a plesure! Love you!!!! XXXXCarisma