I’ve put up an experimental gallery at kunstmatrix — they allow embedding into our website, but I not only don’t know how to do this, I haven’t a clue how to do it. In short, if it gets done, it’ll be by someone else.
So here’s the hot-link to see my new 3D virtual exhibit. I hope you like it, because it’s what you’re going to be doing for the next while, as well as promoting the things.
The thing is, absolutely anything can go into an exhibit hall like that, and they have tons of variations plus connecting halls and such.
I’ve recommended that I put up some museum exhibits, and I will, if they’re wanted, but it brings to mind one distinct psychological advantage that the online virtual gallery gives you — it suggests that these works of art might someday hang in a museum.
Nothing in a flat advertisement or eBay listing does the same thing. The feeling of a museum comes from the way the client travels through the space.
By the way, it’s very easy to learn navigation in there, if you just take a moment to figure it out.
I’ve been kind of rough with the information on the paintings, so there’s a lot of discrepancy in the names and so forth — I hadn’t thought it would be static, hoping that we’ll sort out all the titles and such later on.
I only first heard of this kunstmatrix thing yesterday, registered yesterday, and built this exhibit tonight, over a period of about four hours, which includes the learning curve.
Please note that I have not put in a guided tour. I don’t want to. I want them to learn how to move in there.
That’s the price they pay for visiting my exhibit. Someone must pay … and you leave Jack Burton alone. He saved Chinatown from devastation and ruin, and helped Egg Chen destroy David Lo Pan.
If you ask me, he deserved it.
So now I’m thinking of producing a second exhibit — it could be anything. I have dozens of incredible shows that I could put in there, but it’s not that easy, and I want to make sure that it’s really worth doing, so I’m being extra-cautious in my decision — which collection should I put up next?
I have a very basic account at the moment, but could upgrade it for more money — right now, I’m playing it very cautiously, very conservatively, until we see some results.
First of all, YOU need to help me by going through the exhibit and reporting on it, and mentioning it and your reaction to it on some sort of social media.
This is important. Nobody will go look without someone pointing the way, and that someone turns out to be you.
Without your help, this can’t and won’t work. You need to find a way to get folks to look at this and other exhibits we have up.
Oh, by the way, the exhibit items need not be for sale — they can be informational and educational.
What can you imagine that YOU could put up in one of these?
It gets posted on their site and you can embed the thing onto your own website, if you know how.
In case you DON’T know how, they’ve made a video tutorial to teach you how. They’ve thought of almost everything.
I’ll be exploring the realm of connected galleries and such, probably similar in handling to regions and domains in many game formats, and I’ve used quite a few besides the Godd™ Engine, speaking of which, have you gotten everything off of etsy from me for your game making efforts?
So take a couple of hours to do one of these galleries — one thing you’ll notice is that there’s quite a long lag time for the uploads, unless you’re in mid-town Manhattan.
If you ARE in midtown Manhattan, you’re in the right place to set up an art sales organization, and you don’t need a physical gallery to rake in the dough — just a great online presentation.
What I have in mind is a combination of ZOOM and the virtual gallery, to make sales happen almost face-to-face.
There are a dozen different ways to do this, and I’m open to hearing about all of them. One thing I definitely want to put up is a BardoTown exhibit — that’s on the way already.
I have collections of Miro, Werkmann, Matisse, Picasso, Renoir, Rembrandt and more.
An obvious theme for the present small size of each collection would be a blanket show of Dutch and Flemish Masters — that’d be Rembrandt, van Ostade and a few more — I have at least a gallery-full, about 50 pieces, that I could put up, but hey, listen — what if I put up my Rembrandt CSI show?
That way, clients can order whatever they want and you fulfill by locating the items.
Here’s another thought, if you’re already on fiver.com — why not make these things for people?
They are NOT easy, and there’s no shortcuts around the tedious tasking. It’s hard work, complicated work, and requires attention, skills and mastery — none of which are common among the Great Unwashed.
In short, they’ll pay you for what they won’t do.
That idea extends all kinds of directions — for instance, if you wanted to publicize a horse ranch, or a small industrial workshop, or a singing group.
See, you can include audio in your thingy, video, too. There’s a lot of communication potential in this gallery format, but the best use in my opinion is to sell architectural scale artwork, things that can’t be shown in the ordinary gallery setting, with a ceiling limitation of about 20 feet.
It’s important to keep the scale of the virtual the same as the actual, and they make that easy by prompting you to decide the size yourself, measured in inches or centimeters, as you’d measure any painting or wall art.
Here’s another thing — you can indicate the current status of the item, whether it’s for sale or not for sale, on hold, unavailable, and so on.
You can add explanations and all sorts of other data, all of which they prompt you with, so don’t worry about missing anything — you will.
Once again I make the point that this is not a moron’s game — the individual moves are straightforward and clear, but the connecting tissue is rather game.
What I mean is, you can really screw it up, without half-trying.
Fortunately, nothing is permanent, and you can delete, erase and destroy your work if it starts to gobble up your kitchen. They make it easy to remove graphics, too — much too easy, in my opinion.
What I mean is, if you didn’t want it up there, why did you upload it?
They only accept .jpg or .png format, so be warned — your tiffs will be summarily rejected, case into the outer darkness, never to be seen again.
Well, it’s not that bad, but it’s not at all a snap of the fingers, and had I not had years and years of game engine editors and a variety of photoshops in fingertip range, I would have had a much harder time navigating the waters and, as I said, I didn’t include all the extras, or what I call extras, because I don’t want to make a visit totally automatic, on autodrive.
They’ve got enough of that with their autodrive and autopark electric vehicles.
One of those things backs into you when you don’t happen to be looking, you join the ranks of a new type of citizen — the downtrodden.
Okay, that’s enough chit-chat, I’m off to try another round of uploads and placements in yet another as-yet-unpublished gallery space.
Maybe I’ll patch something up from the pieces — they make that available, if you can figure out how to make it happen, and I’m relatively sure I can get hold of it long before dawn — about 45 minutes from now.
See You At The Top!!!
gorby