Winter Park art festival<\/strong> <\/a>takes place twice a year, and the weather today – breezy and cool – helped lure out thousands of people.<\/p>\nThe Autumn event was packed with quality exhibits from local and far-away artists, music and good food. The chicken souvlaki wraps were priced high, but they topped anything I had before outside of Greece.<\/p>\n
I had the opportunity to talk to a number of artists, that create paintings working with mixed media, oil, watercolors and sumi ink. I would classify three of them as masters, as they presented amazing pieces of art, belonging to a national gallery or the homes of eclectic patrons.<\/p>\n
Art is important to the domain industry, as artists seek to secure their identity online. Roughly 80% of those artists whose work stood out, have web sites, and although they prefer to showcase their work in public they do want to share it and sell it online as well.<\/p>\n
Most of them used their full names, or last names with the word “art” as a suffix. They all used .com domains, and almost 99% used email addresses other than their domain names, mostly Gmail, Hotmail or MSN. This latter fact clearly surprised me. It’s an indication that to the artists, work and personal matters intermix; they want to be able to check a single email on a daily basis.<\/p>\n
Investing in art domains<\/strong> is something that I do; at the same time, today was an opportunity to have some fun and reach out to other creative individuals, outside of the domain industry.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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