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IMPORTANT VISIONARY ART NETWORK INFORMATION

27/11/2017

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IMPORTANT NETWORK INFORMATION:
Slide Show embedding does not work anymore!

VISIONARY ART NETWORK
I had sent this out as a broadcast to our members on ​November 15th 2017:
Dear Members of our Visionary Art Network, I noticed with chagrin that the embedded slide shows do not work anymore.
Ning is tinkering with the system: I assume because Adobe is not supporting Flash anymore, they are switching to HTML5, which by itself is not bad - what is bad is that the HTML5 embed codes for those "new and improved" slide shows DO NOT WORK!
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this is extremely frustrating!

WE WILL BE WORKING ON A SOLUTION

READ MORE ABOUT IT HERE

At the same time, this is a opportunity to also change and modernize the look of our website, using a new template. All this will take time, considering that we have hundreds of pages that need to be updated.

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NING OUTAGES

13/2/2017

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Ning outages on the private Visionary Art Network
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Today, Monday February 13th 2017, I noticed that our private network on Ning was down for a while.
 

According to the Ning Status Report, they are working on Error 500 issues. That last status is dated December 28th 2016. That we are now in the middle of February, I am a bit disturbed about this.

Of course this affects to a large extend our public Visionary Art Gallery since we rely on embedded slide shows from our private Ning network.

Hopefully this gets resolved soon - I mean, I am not getting any younger, and I certainly don't need those headaches.
 

I had been featuring a good number of our artists on the spin-off site Visionary Art Exhibition as well as featuring our Artists of the Month on You Tube. These features do not rely on Ning feeds, other than the 'Featured Artists' images on the VAE site would link to the respective artists pages on the VAG.

All artist pages on the VAG feature at least one image, plus a link to the artists own website, so if there is a outage of the embedded slide show, at least some functionality remains. I also stored a good selection of the best work from most of our artists off-line in case a outage or other glitch with this network develops we can at least continue featuring our artists on the public websites mentioned above.  Should the outage persist, I could add these stored images to the artists pages, but this would require a lot of work and may take some time. 

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For members only (no public access)
​this is the link to our 
PRIVATE VISIONARY ART NETWORK
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VAG VISIONARY ARTISTS OF THE MONTH

10/12/2016

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ARTISTS OF THE MONTH

​The Visionary Art Network Artists of the Month, from when this feature was first introduced when the public website opened in August 2009 to presently December 2016.
The private network was started on the Ning platform in January 2009 by Otto Rapp with a handful of friends. As the network grew, we eventually mirrored the best content from our network in the public Visionary Art Gallery (VAG): 
VISIONARY ART GALLERY 
Represented are Surrealist, Visionary and Fantastic Realist artists from around the globe. Associated with the VAG is the spin-off Visionary Art Exhibition (VAE) site: 
VISIONARY ART EXHIBITION - there you find guest blogs and special selections of artworks from our network. The section of Featured Artwork is regularly updated: FEATURED ARTWORK 
​Visit the VAG page for Artist of the Month ► Slide Show here: 
ARTISTS OF THE MONTH SLIDE SHOW - the images link to the respective artists pages.

Soundtracks by JASON SHAW 
www.audionautix.com under a creative commons attribution license

all images are © by the artists

video produced by
 OTTO RAPP
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Inside Imaginary Realism, Visionary Art and Beyond...

26/2/2016

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Inside Imaginary Realism, Visionary Art and Beyond...
Inside Imaginary Realism, Visionary Art and Beyond...
A promo for a small scale C31 TV series featuring Visionary Artists who currently live in, or were originally from Australia. This is the second season of this show.
Featuring artists:  Adam Scott Miller, Bonny Hut, Bryan Itch, Chandrika Steinhardt, Kuba Ambrose, Melissa Shemanna, Orryelle, Paulie Mann, Tobius Miller. 

Produced and edited by Bonny Hut
Brought to you by Metro Television
In association with 
Visionary Art Network Australia

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Merry Christmas

22/12/2015

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Post by Otto Rapp
Merry Christmas from Otto Rapp
First of all, I would like to wish everyone in our community a Merry Christmas!

#facepalm

I like to share an e-mail that had me quite upset today:
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Visionary Art 
Date: Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 9:48 PM
Subject: XXXXXXXX  has reported an issue on Visionary Art
To: Otto Rapp 


XXXXXXXXX  reported the following issue on Visionary Art

URL Reported: http://visionarytribe.ning.com/photo/the-exodus?commentId=2675382%3AComment%3A139302&xg_source=msg_com_photo

Issue:Fraud

Additional Information:Hi,
I am XXXXXXXX  and I've published some of my imagery in Visionary art.
I was outraged to see that when I googled my name I did see among my imagery some that somebody's else images advertised trough Visionary art....using my name and the name and description of my imagery.
Example: http://www.vagallery.com/visionary-paintings-xii.html

Please fix it ASAP or I will take my art of the website.
It is wrong to use my name to promote somebody's images.
Thanks
XXXXXXXXXXX

Network:    visionarytribe
User:      XXXXXXXXXXX
Email:    XXXXXXXXXXXXX
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_5) AppleWebKit/601.3.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0.2 Safari/601.3.9

For additional questions or to contact Ning, please click here:
http://help.ning.com

My reply to this, and subsequent e-mails 
can be viewed by registered and logged in members
of our Visionary Art Network only:
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#Facepalm
Since that exchange (and subsequently there were more e-mails) XXXXX  left the network.
After this, I 'hid' the public page from search engines and made it invisible in the index and site map.
What remains when a external link directs to the public page is this disclaimer:

should you be directed to this page by an outdated link, please note:
Quoting XXXXXX  from an e-mail dated 22.12.2015:

I don't want my name and my image 'XXXXXXX' to be on the cover of this 100 artist album....and I absolutely don't want the images of this 100 artists being associated with my name and my art.


I  subsequently removed images from all references - and XXXXX  later removed all  uploaded images from the network site and left the network(a short step ahead from banning, so it saved me the trouble).


​Page updated 23.12.15
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25 Disturbing Art Pieces that Challenges People's Sanity

7/8/2014

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Post by Otto Rapp

25 Disturbing Art Pieces that Challenges People's Sanity

Deterioration of Mind over MatterDeterioration of Mind over Matter

Deterioration of Mind over Matter

Unbelievable - to be listed among some of the worlds famous artists - and for the List25 author Petr Habarta to pick my work as the title image! This work is one of my earliest, dating back to 1973 and it is from a phase that I jokingly refer to as my "Scare thy Neighbors" period.

here it is on DeviantArt - with the background story: 
http://fav.me/dser0i
acrylic on canvas, 20"x28", 1973

One painting, entitled “The Deterioration Of Mind Over Matter” is a frightening picture of a decomposing human scull firmly ensconed on some devilish birdcage in which the raw gore of mans physical being lies lifeless at the base. The parting flesh of the scull is secured by a tromp-loeil safety pin. This is truly an image that could have been utilized in the former issues of “Tales From The Crypt”, in fact it brings to mind in its own scary way the imaginations of Edgar Allan Poe. The poem, “The Conqueror Worm” comes to mind immediately:
But see, amid the mimic rout
A crawling shape intrude!
A blood-red thing that writhes from out
The scenic solitude!
It writhes! - it writhes! - with mortal pangs
The mimes become its food,
And the angels sob at vermin fangs
In human gore imbued.

Excerpt from the critique by J. Brooks Joyner, Editor Visual Arts, The Albertan, Saturday, May 29th, 1976


Here is the twitter posting from List25

25 Disturbing #Art Pieces That Challenges People's Sanity - http://t.co/fPsFQRs52b #Art #Bizarre pic.twitter.com/snrcDbUVKh

— List25 (@list25) August 4, 2014
on my facebook wall
Author Petr Habarta on List25
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Error 500 on our Ning Network pages

28/6/2014

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Error 500 on our Ning Network pages - Visionary Art

Report by Otto Rapp
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Though Ning Status claims that after yesterdays glitches about Error 500 'All systems go', I found that this is not so with our network. Some pages work, some don't - it changes frequently - flickering off and on. After several tries to even get into the network, and several more tries to submit a ticket, I finally succeeded to get through (even submitting the ticket I got Error 500 several times before I got through).
This of course affects some (and sometimes all) of our slide show feeds on the public Visionary Art Gallery.
I hope Ning will resolve this soon. Our public site is very successful and gets well over 2000 hits a day, with a respectable alexa ranking and very good bounce rate (meaning visitors stay and browse).

At the moment I write this, it seems to work again, but I had problems with 'off-and-on' feeds all morning long, so I am a little worried it may go off again. Hope not!

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