Mr. JMW

When I first started this site I put some of my graffiti art canvas pictures on it and some interesting things started happening.

First, I misspelled Graffiti with “graffit” and that seemed to actually be a good thing. Google picked up my pics as “graffit” and I was on the first page of google images for “graffit” or “graffit art” for a while. Only after I fixed the spelling mistake did I eventually get removed from the first “graffit” images page.

Second, some of the people that found my work started hot linking images of my canvases on there myspace page as backgrounds. I didn’t like this at first because I wanted my site here (mrjmw.com) to get credit for being the source of those pictures. So I put a watermark on them with my sites name, and soon, they stopped hotlinking.

As you can see I’ve basically abandoned mrjmw.com for the time being. But considering the above, I’ve decided to target graffit and encourage the hotlinking of my images. Hopefully, I’ll see some more traffic from the graffit keyword. And to encourage people to hotlink my images I’ve set up a small portifolio page at mrjmw.com/art . From there you can access all of my graffiti canvas images and sketches etc. I will have no watermarks on these images, only the one of my name/logo “JMW” if it is not already in the painting itself.

Now I’m not trying to promote this website as much (take a look and you can see why lol) but I’m trying to promote my name as an artist. Also, I’m not really going to try to promote agressively. I’m really just wanting to have fun creating some art and have a somewhat organized place on the web where I can share it with others.

I have been blogging a little at photoblog.mrjmw.com and I hope to do more of that when I get the chance.

Peace everyone!

My most recent painting says “Fuel”, I chose to write the word “fuel” as an attempt to add more meaning to my art. And also to raise awareness of the fact that (as Chevron puts it) “Energy will be one of the defining issues of this century.” I wrote a little bit about it in the post “Will You Join Us?.”