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Hardly Surviving Artist(s)…

The best about blogging is easiness of writing and posting.

Everything that’s in my mind that I think should be important to notice I can easily post it.

Modern world is world of contrasts, at one side we have problems with weight, at the other side we have hungry people. Someone will buy a cart that is worth as a completely equipped house at the other side we have people living in a carton box,…

Then my favorite… Donations!
Ok you have some extra money, and you want to share it with world, or you with someone will say “you are so noble”, what will you do. The answer is correct you will make donations!

BRAAAVOOO! You will give US$ 10.000.000 to some organization to fight cancer, aids,… that is very nice

But, if you give 10M, someone else 15M,………..
What do you think will they find ever that cure=NO.

Q: Why not?

A: Search is better than discovery (better funds)
… and if you find that real cure for some diseases a lot of people will stay without US$ 100.000/year salary!

Situation is the same wit eco and cheap fuel.

Let’s back to art…

Last week here in my hometown was a charity auctions of artworks for Safe Children house. 800 invitations was sent! Was it successful? NO Why? No one has appeared (800 invitations!)

There is no benefit from safe house, buying art,…

In past artists has patrons, sponsors, and they could live, create, paint and live proper like artists. These days we have auctions with millions of dollars for masterpieces of death artists. Imagine for example musicians, what if popular would be only classics, and music of death composers and performers and only several contemporary!?! …Or actors?! … or what if I die… and nothing no benefit even form my grandchildren?!
I can only hope and pray that my grand grand children will have some benefit from my art and artworks.

What if, or what would I do with some extra $?

Rearrange my house, make some extra space for painting,… or go to some island first, on a whole month vacation, then rearrange,…:)

If you have some suggestions, how to profit now instead of in 2118, please comment or send me a mail!

Why am I news presenter?

Yes besides everything I do, I read news. Yes, I’m presenter at the regional TV station Panonija here in my hometown Novi Sad Why?

I’m constantly working on myself, on improvements, to achieve better artistic technique, or to try to catch happiness in life.

To be news presenter good look and voice are not enough! You need something more to be completely here in that single moment. That’s easy someone would say, but it’s not! You are almost never here, in your mind you are usually somewhere out there, with your family, ideas, problems, hopes,… Everyone should learn how to clear mind, how to be completely here. Only than you will be in the possibility to work with 100%, to finish it, and to proceed further Some of the philosophy schools are teaching us that to be present now, here, at the moment is the key, or one of them. If I say don’t think about the elephant, what’s in your mind… elephant Clean your mind, clean your self, and at the end try to catch that tiny moment between breath in and breath out! That will be then only the beginning.

Just spread your wings, and fly

Web Design, Why?

I had this great idea, to live where I live, in Serbia, to work what I love and like-to paint, and to provide my living by selling my works of art. How to manage that? I’ve decided to make my personal page, at the space provided by my internet provider (3MB), and after few months, and sleepless nights, my first website was ready. I was ready to go internationally. I can remember, that night when I have uploaded my first website my girlfriend and I have opened bottle of wine and cheer…

That was the beginning…

Did I sell anything via that site? … NO

… but thanks to this site I have begun to make websites for my friends.

This first website was great beginning, for some new opportunities in life, great introduction in capabilities of internet…

I have made my second website www.topalski.com, and this site was, and still is… great project, totally hand made, without any base (sql), but still have more than 360 html pages, 314 artworks, and real links about 800! But… when I count links at the side-bar (member off,…) it has more than 20.000 links!!! First page at the moment has google page rank 4! For some art related searches it is listed at the top of major search engines!

I design websites, because it gives me freedom, like painting, freedom of artistic creation, freedom to play, freedom to explore.

Currently I’m working on this blog, main conte website (www.conteart.com) and on some websites for my frinds.

Oh yeah, not to forget, when I make some website for my friends, after that, they share with me they money friends

I you wish, we could share and be friends!

About My Sign…

Here is my sign, or latest version of it. Here you can see it described with all versions and step by step evolution…

If you take a closer look at my sign it could look like some sign of some secret group, that… but you could be also at the wrong way (or maybe not)…

What represents my sign???

I could say this is the Fourh Version, but let’s take closer look through versions…

V1 The first Sign (1990)

I’ve decided to make my own and personal sign. This first sign has only my initials in Greek= Darko+Topalski

V2 The Second (Deltha System)-(1993)

Now we have something different. First to my previous sign I’ve added another (outside) circle for the protection. Then I’ve implemented some old and ancient symbols in my sign to increase its strength. First Cross (unity of four elements, four main sides of the world), then another opposite triangle to the previous (Solomon’s Stamp), plus we have also here one arrow or triangle for every part of the world!

V3 The Third (1999)

The third version is just a little bit different from the previous. I’ve removed the inner circle and added eye, as the symbol for the visual. That year I’ve started to work more active on my art!

V4 The Fourth (2004)

The fourth and the final one is also the reason that afraid some visitors of the first version of this site (who knows, maybe did also the third to my first site).
OK finally now we have double squares instead triangles (4+4=8), 4 is the number of the emperor, and eight is for the equality (Libra). With more progressive arrows for the sides of the world. It has the idea of me in the art world, and idea (a dream for now) of equality of my work and sale,… but who knows.

Every sign is centered, it means that the center of triangles, circles, crosses and squares are at the same point!