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Writing a Bio:

The instagram bio is a short (150 character) introduction to you and your practice. This means whatever you put there has to be concise and quickly explain what you do, and share any other important links etc. I have take […]

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Updated Instagram So Far…

After doing a little research on other successful artist Instagram pages, I have updated my page with the new username, and a new profile picture, as you can see from the screenshot below: Although I have changed the username to […]

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Birthmark

Birthmark   Rose and Heart by Carole Day. Felt tip pens and brushes. When I was born I had a bright red birthmark on my upper left arm. I don’t really remember it much, but my mother said that other […]

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Day 13 – Magic Mountain, or Uncanny Valley?

My final day of this adventure, and I went to the heart of everything – The Googleplex, Google HQ. And for good measure I also went to Infinty Loop, the Apple HQ. The Googleplex is too perfect, which makes me […]

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Day 12 – Rethinking Democracy

A penultimate day of artiness, and (finally) a chance for a wander round San Jose itself. Lots to like, big, open urban spaces with impressive buildings and public art, though I don’t know if that is how it appears to […]

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Future Gazing…

I’m rather enjoying the freedom of my art-life at the moment. I have no targets, no deadlines, and apart form the wrapped twigs tangent, I have no work that “needs” to be done. I am revelling in being able to […]

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Strange Objects

Trainers. Pencil. Carole Day   Geranium on the Windscreen. Felt tip and brush. Carole Day   Strange Objects Every so often in my life I have come across strange objects in unexpected places that cannot easily be explained. I find these encounters […]

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REELS (post n.2)

Are Reels useful for an artist exposure?  I have recently used Reels on Instagram more than regular to analyse the amount of new following it could provide and compared it to the other art accounts + how it works in […]

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Day 11 – Codex, Kerouac and Keats

By chance, Cambridge(shire) artist and former podcast victim Karen Eng is over this week to photograph the Codex Artists’ Book Fair, so we agreed to meet up. Artists’ books are at the opposite end of the tech continuum and as […]

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Inspiration…

As I mentioned at the end of my previous blog post, I now need to focus my attentions on the visuals of my instagram account, and the image that I want to create when sharing my work online. Up until […]

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Blank Slate

The above image shows my now blank art instagram, from which I can now work up. Although I didn’t mention it on the previous post, a key area of change for me is the name or handle, as although I […]

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Day 10 – The Sea, The Sea

I made it to Monterey Bay, an iconic drive down the Pacific coast with thrilling sea views. The sea was a very deep blue and the white foam of the breakers was spectacular. Sadly it was too windy for many […]

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NFT’S and Social media

As part of my Professional Practice Two module, I will be trying to gain a better understanding of social media platforms and trying to understand how they function to promote artists work. I would also like to look at whether […]

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Professional Practice Two

This module asks to develop and sustain an on-line prescence through the use of a blog and/or websites and social media. Researching social media to gain a better understanding of it.

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Day 9 – The School of Visual Philosophy

Being the Second Saturday of the month, the School of Visual Philosophy across the road from the Flamingo Motel was holding an open afternoon, and it was great. The school is set in a large open plan space (former shop […]

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