Alan,

How do you do it?  You give it away like candy.  It's a gift you have.  Again, you manage to get such an emotional responses with the users you interact with.

Gary,

I can understand where you are coming from.  This is my first forum with you.  My encounter with Alan has been interesting.  Like you I also google my name to see what comes up.  To my surprise, before I started uploading my art and my profile picture, even the social networking site, my name and any images relating to me never came up.

Now that I am a member on Artslant, and a few other sites that promote emerging artist, I am now google-able.  It feels good to see that, as an unknown artist, that a major search engin now recognizes me.  But really, who looks up your name, other than you?  I realize getting noticed is important for artist.  I often check this site for popular emerging artist to see my ranking and others.  I have to wonder, does it really matter?

For me, displaying my work is all I wanted, there is a really good chance that nobody cares what I do.  Also selling any art was not going to happen.  My main hope is that I can connect through my work, now and well into the future long after I pass away, with other human beings and maybe perhaps non humanoids.

I have not had any experience as you do with regard to google searches in your post.  You are giving Alan too much credit for writting a simple artical on ArtSlant.

Sincerely,

Jin Hwang

Alan,

I found a picture of you when I googled british portrait artists.  See below.  Have you been working out?

Alan, I noticed that you are at #40 today, but you are the most ative of them all.  I am not sure how those ratings work.  If they are based on views, I wonder who is looking?  What exactly is Neo-Futurism?

Best wishes on your book.  Let me know how it goes, I'll buy one if you promise to autograph one for me.

Sincerely,

Jin Hwang.

You shall know a man by his works......The guy or girl, which ever we do not know...may even be a robot or spam bot, produces crappy creations which 'it' calls art. It's a pure shameful reflection on the art world. And furthermore, is doing whatever 'it' can, to screw around with everyone 'it' comes into contact with. 

Results speak for themselves. I hope that we can get to the bottom of this....quickly.

Alan Armstrong    
Ana Beatriz Barros Sitting on a Chair., 2011 
Mixed Digital Watercolor on a photograph
© Alan Armstrong 
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Alan...are you the photographer of these arty butt girls?

Alan,

I think Adrian was asking if your art originally came form photographs, traditional or digtial, and if they were your photographs.  There is no dout that it is digital art.  So, just tell him it was your photographs or you used a photograph as referrence to create your digital art or you did neither and it was all your creation alone.

If someone came to me like that, I would tell them straight up one of the three respones.

you missed the point there Alan...

Are these photographs, ones that you took?...ones that you set up personally? and if they are not, have you asked for permission to use these photographs?

Alan...what are your views on artist integrity?

Is the internet a freedom zone where one can 'steal' other peoples photographs to make profit for oneself?

Do you think that anyone taking someone elses works of art off the internet and then manipulating them in such a way that they become your own, is artists integrity? or is it plagiarism?

EVERYONE CAN SEE THAT alan armstring IS AVOIDING THE QUESTION HERE.....

you missed the point there Alan...

Are these photographs, ones that you took?...ones that you set up personally? and if they are not, have you asked for permission to use these photographs?

Alan...what are your views on artist integrity?

Is the internet a freedom zone where one can 'steal' other peoples photographs to make profit for oneself?

Do you think that anyone taking someone elses works of art off the internet and then manipulating them in such a way that they become your own, is artists integrity? or is it plagiarism?