Many thanks for being a loyal ClustrMaps user for the past year. Now that a year has elapsed since your account http://artbanx.blogspot.com was registered or archived, we are writing just to let you know that an annual automatic 'archive' of your red dots has taken place, meaning that all your 'other' (previous) red dots are safely stored in the Maps Archive, which you'll find by clicking on the Maps Archive link immediately above your large full-size world map.
Although the map archive has already happened, your existing map will stay displayed until the NEXT update of your map. This helps to avoid displaying a totally empty map until there are fresh dots to show.
We sincerely hope this has not caught you by surprise, BUT we fully appreciate that it may have come at an unexpected moment! You may not have been aware of this, although we do explain this on our Products page listing on
http://clustrmaps.com/products.htm
and also on our Frequently Asked Questions page, in particular at the following part of the page:
http://clustrmaps.com/faq.htm#archivereset
The above item in turn contains links to deeper explanations such as
http://clustrmaps.com/timeline.htm
We know that people always like to have ever-more-dots, but the regular archive is the only way we can avoid having the maps turn into a 'giant red smear', and continue delivering the scalable service that everyone has come to expect.
The good news is that all of your totals are stored correctly, i.e. the new maps include the old archived totals in the grand 'running' total. If it helps to explain things to your own readers, you can always copy and paste the archive map referred to above (right-click and Save as... or right-click and View Image and note the URL and use that), and add that in to the appropriate page near your current active ClustrMaps thumbnail map with a suitable commentary (e.g. "Last year's totals:").
If this has caught you out by mistake, then we apologise and will endeavour to make this action much clearer in the future.
In the meantime, here is wishing you all the best, and thanks again for using ClustrMaps!
-The ClustrMaps Team
Working hard? Good boy.
Art should never be ignored in schools in my opinion. Art may seem less useful to some people than say, maths, science and language (the more quantifiable disciplines) but it is not. There is now, a growing opinion that art is essential for rounded development and is fundamental to problem-solving. Doing art awakens parts of the mind that would otherwise lay dormant.
The book ‘Drawing from the Right Side of the Brain’, by Betty Edwards is an excellent learning-to-draw book and suggests that art uses the right side of the brain and analytical-type activities, the left. The one aspect I know intuitively from being an artist and running a business is, not to use one or other, but both. By doing art, you stimulate the side of the brain not often used well from the age of about eight, and by combining the two side, you literally become smarter, I think... twice the grey matter as it were. It is also a great way of learning problem solving skills, and if you are already pretty good at solving problems, it keeps you good at it. There is no CTRL Z in the artist's pallet.
Sir Ken Robinson sums it up in his talk at the conference 'Do schools kill creativity?' Feb 2006. I urge you to watch this... "Do schools kill creativity" it is hysterically funny and gets the message across brilliantly.
Red Bath Tub by Banx - Acrylic - 850 x 1000mm
Catwalk by Banx - 1200 x 900mm
Art Work Ahead by Banx - Acrylic - 600 x 750mm
No Leaf Blowers by Banx - Acrylic on Canvas - 600 x 750mm
Portrait of Rocky by Banx
