Magazines

Magazine Name : Oil Spoils

My Magazine will be more a way for curators and wholesalers to see and browse the upcoming talent the magazine will act as the buffer/broker for the transactions that take place. There is already an existing magazine called Art Forum. They don't actually deal but a lot of galleries and artist pay good money for valuable space. We will focus only on oil paintings no abstract modern nonsense .

The target demographic would be students teachers dealers and collectors of art. I would say on a pure aesthetic value it would even appeal to the common day person because of the beatiful works being displayed.

Art Forum and other lower end art magazines have in the recent years been accused of being biased and preferential in its assessment and managing of the works that they display. We will differ by not charging our advertisers a penny instead we ask only of a very modest 5 percent on all transactions involving any of the works in the catalog. We will never let money sully our judgement. With a smaller more focused selection of works it will breed an intense but healthy competition.

Advertisers:
Dick Blick Art Stores
Gamblin Oil Paints
Winsor Oil Paints
Gesso Primers
Uthrect Art Stores

Articles:
The High Cost of Being You : Dilemmas of the Starving Artist 


Auctions at Christies : In the Den of the Beast


Bristling with Anger : 10 Ways to Avoid Brush Wear


Rising Star Showcase : 50 Young New Faces


Counterfeiting : How to Spot the Fakes 


For the cover we will keep it very simple white border around one full sized image that the editorial staff will decide on.

Books

Well I would say that every book that I have read have had a profound effect in my life I have accumulated a wide genre choice of books so I will try and narrow it down to the most profound 3.

 The first books that ever came into my possession as a child was a run of novels written by the author Piers Anthony. These were a favorite because they drew you in with these almost fantastical covers and yet don't try to dumb down or belittle the reader. Very impish humor mixed in with dark satire. Dirty puns I never got as a kid I get now with re-reading that is the sign of a good series is when it can
 make you re-read.

 Now as I got older my taste got a little darker and more seasoned when it came to reading fantasy novels. With that in mind I tended to go towards books with grittiers tones. I fell in love with a British author by the name of Simon R.Green and his detective like series cocerning a place that is always midnight The Nightside.

So now a days I read what ever strikes my fancy at the moment. And at the moment I am reading Tim Lebbons Dusk and Dawn book both horror novels both very dark.

Media Impact

There are many faucets of media that permeate our daily life's. As we go about our tasks we are bombarded with sights and sounds that are keyed to make us want to consume. Where ever we go we can not escape the drone of the media machine. I will focus on the most crucial and aspect, the Internet. Whenever I log on to anything now a days there is always about a 30 second buffer of noise IE. ads asking me to buy this or meet that. The Internet generates revenue through advertisement, if the radio invited ad spaces then the Internet just took it to the inevitable outcome. We don't seem to mind though, I think this is due to the fact that we can block out the noise and just hit the mute button. Some sites have wised up to this and have made it mandatory. Pandora once allowed you to turn the mute button on their ads but as of lately doing that would make it so all your songs thereafter do not play. The biggest source of income for sites like Facebook and Twitter would come from their advertisements. I personally am not a fan of all the ads that permeate the cyber space but I know that upstart sites need these kinds of revenues to expand and that current franchise what to reach a new subset of consumers.