I work on marketing projects at Going Off Script, publish the art blogazine Hyperallergic and created Nectar Ads - the new art blog ad network. Google PlusTumblr (3.0; @veken)http://veken.org/<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lze40eRhc21qzp0tuo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>This is totally what my friends and family think I do.</p>http://veken.org/post/17609178840http://veken.org/post/17609178840Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:50:37 -0500entrepreneurs<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxzw3vXbzV1qzaos7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://hyperallergic.tumblr.com/post/16059613807/underlying-image-ad-reinhardts" target="_blank">hyperallergic</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><em>Underlying image, Ad Reinhardt’s “Abstract-Painting No 4” (1961) <a href="http://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2011/07/ad-reinhardt-abstract-expressionist.html" target="_blank">via</a></em></p> </blockquote>http://veken.org/post/16074752341http://veken.org/post/16074752341Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:45:43 -0500<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw22os6gzZ1qzaos7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>20,000 Followers! woohoo!</p>http://veken.org/post/14085501757http://veken.org/post/14085501757Sun, 11 Dec 2011 17:20:00 -0500hyperallergic<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvj9ajIJVf1qzaos7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://hyperallergic.tumblr.com/post/13592321654/artist-john-fekner-sent-this-work-he-created-for" target="_blank">hyperallergic</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Artist <a href="http://www.johnfekner.com/" target="_blank">John Fekner</a> sent this work he created for World AIDS Day, which is today December 1.</p> <p>For more information on what this day and how AIDS continues to impact the lives of millions of people, visit <a href="http://www.worldaidsday.org" target="_blank"><a href="http://www.worldaidsday.org" target="_blank">www.worldaidsday.org</a></a>.</p> </blockquote>http://veken.org/post/13592815360http://veken.org/post/13592815360Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:36:55 -0500<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv92jwyEIj1qzaos7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://hyperallergic.tumblr.com/post/13334501470/hi-hyperallergic-fans-hyperallergic-is-in-the" target="_blank">hyperallergic</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Hi Hyperallergic fans!</p> <p>Hyperallergic is in the running for a blogging award in Russia worth thousands of dollars. We pride ourselves as an online art site that pays all its contributors and we want to continue to improve and this prize will allow us to do that. In order for that to happen <strong>WE NEED YOUR HELP!</strong></p> <p>Just <a href="http://aifaar.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=62&Itemid=73&lang=en" target="_blank">click here</a> and vote for Hyperallergic (like in the illustration above). And THANK YOU for helping make Hyperallergic the premiere venue for art news, criticism and reviews online.</p> <p>PLEASE <strong>REBLOG</strong> AND ENCOURAGE YOUR FRIENDS TO VOTE!</p> </blockquote>http://veken.org/post/13334908588http://veken.org/post/13334908588Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:15:25 -0500hyperallergic<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luzm8ly66A1qzaos7o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luzm8ly66A1qzaos7o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luzm8ly66A1qzaos7o3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://hyperallergic.tumblr.com/post/13091404393/does-anyone-know-who-started-these-uc" target="_blank">hyperallergic</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Does anyone know who started these UC Davis-related pepper spray art pieces?</p> </blockquote>http://veken.org/post/13098201844http://veken.org/post/13098201844Sun, 20 Nov 2011 23:11:12 -0500arthyperallergic<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lu5tx9oTid1qzp0tuo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>ICElab performance at BAC (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am" target="_blank">instagram</a>)</p>http://veken.org/post/12345274087http://veken.org/post/12345274087Fri, 04 Nov 2011 19:43:56 -0400<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltsz3brjnH1qzp0tuo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Clean Hrag (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am" target="_blank">instagram</a>)</p>http://veken.org/post/12053901285http://veken.org/post/12053901285Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:06:46 -0400<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltpopgCxGZ1qzaos7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://hyperallergic.tumblr.com/post/11983409668/if-youve-been-following-occupy-wall-street-then" target="_blank">hyperallergic</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><span> </span></p> <p>If you’ve been following Occupy Wall Street, then you’ve heard the question a million times, and may even be asking it yourself: what are the movement’s demands? What do they hope to accomplish?</p> <span>Now the “<a href="http://The%20Declaration%20of%20the%20Occupation%20of%20NYC%20%20(pictured%20left)%20created%20by%20Rachel%20Schragis%20is%20a%20start." target="_blank">Declaration of the Occupation of NYC</a>” created by artist Rachel Schragis is a good place to start.</span><span> </span></blockquote>http://veken.org/post/11996134868http://veken.org/post/11996134868Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:50:14 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsyzc2nsSX1qzp0tuo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>The first Twitter ad (err “promoted tweet”) in my timeline is for an “app” that <strong>replaces ads on the web</strong> with Chuck Norris quotes.</p> <p>Yes, Twitter is promoting the bigoted, Tea Party spokesman, WorldNetDaily columnist, Mike Huckabee loving, anti-gay Chuck Norris to me.</p> <p>And yes, <strong>Twitter is advertising an advertising blocker!</strong> </p> <p>And for the record, I am liberal, gay, older than 15, and sell online advertising for art sites. All things twitter should know about me so they don’t waste my time and piss me off with ads like this.</p> <p>Way to go.</p> <p>#twitterfail</p>http://veken.org/post/11364427154http://veken.org/post/11364427154Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:24:02 -0400twitteradvertisingtwitterfail<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsm3xbRHeY1qzaos7o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://hyperallergic.tumblr.com/post/11073269124" target="_blank">hyperallergic</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>The front page of the #OccupiedWallStreet Journal. Clean and professional web-like design.</p> </blockquote>http://veken.org/post/11102029893http://veken.org/post/11102029893Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:35:40 -0400occupywallstreet<iframe width="400" height="299" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/8rwsuXHA7RA?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Steve Jobs - The Crazy Ones</p>http://veken.org/post/11100916557http://veken.org/post/11100916557Thu, 06 Oct 2011 10:40:38 -0400steve jobs<a href="http://metmuseum.org">The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a new website.</a>: <p>Not as sexy and dynamic as MOMA’s, but it’s simple, straightforward and worth checking out.</p>http://veken.org/post/10689218703http://veken.org/post/10689218703Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:09:00 -0400artmetropolitan museum<a href="http://blog.instagram.com/post/10444123475/v20">Instagram 2.0</a>: <p>According to the announcement, the update includes high resolution photos, new filters, a new camera app with live previews, while making everything 100x faster.  </p> <p><a href="http://blog.instagram.com/post/10444123475/v20" target="_blank">instagram</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Today, we’re excited to announce the release of one of the largest revamps to the Instagram app since it launched nearly a year ago.</p> </blockquote>http://veken.org/post/10446767695http://veken.org/post/10446767695Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:44:43 -0400instagram<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqq06gdabA1qzp0tuo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>NYC advertising sometimes makes a lot of sense. (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am" target="_blank">instagram</a>)</p>http://veken.org/post/9572762501http://veken.org/post/9572762501Mon, 29 Aug 2011 22:56:39 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqlilqMLdV1qzp0tuo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>What a <em><strong>terrible</strong></em> way to greet your customers named Irene - as if ”grubHub” is a better name!?!?</p>http://veken.org/post/9459890118http://veken.org/post/9459890118Sat, 27 Aug 2011 12:46:38 -0400marketing<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqgd0mW0mf1qzaos7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://hyperallergic.tumblr.com/post/9348342371" target="_blank">hyperallergic</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://hyperallergic.com/33110/art-o-mat/" target="_blank"><strong>Getting Your Fix with Art-o-mat</strong></a><br/><br/> While in Rochester I stopped by the George Eastman House the former home of Kodak film founder George Eastman, and now home to a pretty unique photography museum. The real treasure though, was both unlikely and unexpected. On my I encountered a vintage cigarette machine, cheerily out of time and place. I was delighted to see not tobacco, but art advertised in its tiny little windows…. <a href="http://hyperallergic.com/33110/art-o-mat/" target="_blank">READ MORE</a>.</p> </blockquote>http://veken.org/post/9379574782http://veken.org/post/9379574782Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:20:05 -0400hyperallergic<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqgwyoIcg01qedj2ho1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqgwyoIcg01qedj2ho2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqgwyoIcg01qedj2ho3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqgwyoIcg01qedj2ho4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqgwyoIcg01qedj2ho5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqgwyoIcg01qedj2ho6_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqgwyoIcg01qedj2ho7_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqgwyoIcg01qedj2ho8_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqgwyoIcg01qedj2ho9_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a href="http://futurejournalismproject.org/post/9373340832/steve-jobs-quotes" target="_blank">futurejournalismproject</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Quoting Steve Jobs. We Will Miss You. Be Well.</strong></p> <p>Quotes gathered via the <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/08/24/steve-jobss-best-quotes/%20" target="_blank">Wall Street Journal</a> and <a href="http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mac/commentary/cultofmac/2006/03/70512?currentPage=1" target="_blank">Wired</a>.</p> <p>Select thumbnails to view.</p> <p><a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-apple-jobs-resigns-20110825,0,6615772.story" target="_blank">Background</a> on Steve Jobs stepping down as Apple CEO.</p> </blockquote>http://veken.org/post/9375334827http://veken.org/post/9375334827Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:44:49 -0400steve jobsapplequotes<a href="http://thisismynext.com/2011/08/24/steve-jobs-resigns-apple-ceo/">Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO</a>: <p>Sad news today.. </p> <p>He will stay on as Chairman of the Board, director and Apple employee.</p>http://veken.org/post/9350864397http://veken.org/post/9350864397Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:57:55 -0400apple<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqgc2hIkFW1qzp0tuo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“<a href="http://gapingvoid.com/2011/08/23/the-whale/" target="_blank">The Whale</a>”</p>http://veken.org/post/9347496633http://veken.org/post/9347496633Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:37:29 -0400