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<title>Barrys Day</title><link>http://www.barrysday.com/index.html</link><description>Exploring Art as a way of life and life as art</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:creator>barrymac@mail.ie</dc:creator><dc:rights>Copyright 2008 Barry McCullough</dc:rights><dc:date>2009-02-23T18:28:22+00:00</dc:date><admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://www.realmacsoftware.com/" />
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<lastBuildDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:32:41 +0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Please go to The Kitchen Table Artist</title><dc:creator>barrymac@mail.ie</dc:creator><category>Journal</category><dc:date>2009-02-23T18:28:22+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.barrysday.com/index_files/3715ac64bf61eb0f0409e8d9e0d66b59-22.html#unique-entry-id-22</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.barrysday.com/index_files/3715ac64bf61eb0f0409e8d9e0d66b59-22.html#unique-entry-id-22</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I've decided to consolidate my web sites to make things more manageable and focused.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Christmas is a time of despair and New Years eve celebrations are a time for renewal</title><dc:creator>barrymac@mail.ie</dc:creator><category>Journal</category><dc:date>2009-01-01T17:56:39+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.barrysday.com/index_files/6cb0fd43ca451b380214bed22490b0bc-21.html#unique-entry-id-21</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.barrysday.com/index_files/6cb0fd43ca451b380214bed22490b0bc-21.html#unique-entry-id-21</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[So on this New Years day onwards I'm still going to 'live my life as an artist' but apply some of the skills I learned and honed as a managing director in my previous life.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Focus on finding out exactly what works for an artist and what doesn&#x27;t in 2009</title><dc:creator>barrymac@mail.ie</dc:creator><category>Journal</category><dc:date>2008-12-25T15:41:39+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.barrysday.com/index_files/28768b4fd9a57471883f6095a7c55692-20.html#unique-entry-id-20</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.barrysday.com/index_files/28768b4fd9a57471883f6095a7c55692-20.html#unique-entry-id-20</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I haven't posted here all that regularly over the last month but for me, and this is the good part, I've been steadily working away on my art day after day in my studio in West Cork.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>What helps to make an Artist Group work and what doesn&#x27;t - Part 2</title><dc:creator>barrymac@mail.ie</dc:creator><category>Journal</category><dc:date>2008-11-25T22:19:10+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.barrysday.com/index_files/9ea29e96e41b00baa978488a76ccb3ad-19.html#unique-entry-id-19</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.barrysday.com/index_files/9ea29e96e41b00baa978488a76ccb3ad-19.html#unique-entry-id-19</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[It's almost impossible for them not to have a bias in group decisions, discussions or day to day activities, no matter how fair minded they may think they are.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>What helps to make an Artist Group work and what doesn&#x27;t - Part 1</title><dc:creator>barrymac@mail.ie</dc:creator><category>Journal</category><dc:date>2008-11-22T14:23:51+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.barrysday.com/index_files/ca0c245a504b1a69dfa0410f021c1a96-18.html#unique-entry-id-18</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.barrysday.com/index_files/ca0c245a504b1a69dfa0410f021c1a96-18.html#unique-entry-id-18</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Don't discuss any other member or group issue in a way that you wouldn't (or won't), do face-to-face with the absent member.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Rehanging the Galleries</title><dc:creator>barrymac@mail.ie</dc:creator><category>Journal</category><dc:date>2008-11-17T00:00:53+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.barrysday.com/index_files/8485b6dcfad7c7a83b995cce38d2d38c-17.html#unique-entry-id-17</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.barrysday.com/index_files/8485b6dcfad7c7a83b995cce38d2d38c-17.html#unique-entry-id-17</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[It might be of help and interest to other artists groups to write more about how this group of artists functions as I think it takes a certain resolve and perhaps certain life experiences of sorts, to make it work and work well.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>To fulfil my self obligation as a writer and an artist to communicate</title><dc:creator>barrymac@mail.ie</dc:creator><category>Websites</category><dc:date>2008-11-11T14:42:28+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.barrysday.com/index_files/0d5b4ceda6f3896fc1b51606b99e91e0-16.html#unique-entry-id-16</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.barrysday.com/index_files/0d5b4ceda6f3896fc1b51606b99e91e0-16.html#unique-entry-id-16</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[There are times in the past when I've done just that but I've learned that a balance of art activity and communication is best.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Getting in touch with the Muse</title><dc:creator>barrymac@mail.ie</dc:creator><dc:subject>Barry&#x27;s Day</dc:subject><dc:date>2008-11-09T19:38:51+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.barrysday.com/index_files/7625cdc23e01d4cab6045bf890291188-15.html#unique-entry-id-15</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.barrysday.com/index_files/7625cdc23e01d4cab6045bf890291188-15.html#unique-entry-id-15</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Re-organising the Studios and Galleries has taken me away from the trend I was on prior to the changes within our Artists Group, (mentioned in my last post).]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Renewing the Studios and Gallery</title><dc:creator>barrymac@mail.ie</dc:creator><category>Journal</category><dc:date>2008-11-04T13:48:58+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.barrysday.com/index_files/eafae4ca2de9ae6a18f7927eee499e39-14.html#unique-entry-id-14</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.barrysday.com/index_files/eafae4ca2de9ae6a18f7927eee499e39-14.html#unique-entry-id-14</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Rehanging the Gallery, redoing signage, setting up a new web site www.workingartiststudios.com, paying the rates, the rent, the electricity, and on and on. All good stuff, all requires doing, but it sure tests one's resolve to keep focused on the actual art itself!]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>My art as a Sacrament</title><dc:creator>barrymac@mail.ie</dc:creator><category>Journal</category><dc:date>2008-10-27T14:17:54+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.barrysday.com/index_files/fb889ffe81f1dcf1f00367aba02d386a-13.html#unique-entry-id-13</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.barrysday.com/index_files/fb889ffe81f1dcf1f00367aba02d386a-13.html#unique-entry-id-13</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Rather than to add more to the list started on that post, (as no doubt a lot more could be added), for me underpinning my work as a writer and artist is a clear sense of Vision and how my work my art connects with Spirit.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Antidotes against getting sucked into a downward spiral of despair</title><dc:creator>barrymac@mail.ie</dc:creator><category>Freelance</category><dc:date>2008-10-24T20:41:18+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.barrysday.com/index_files/def2a545ab646742e51a756b80455229-12.html#unique-entry-id-12</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.barrysday.com/index_files/def2a545ab646742e51a756b80455229-12.html#unique-entry-id-12</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[So it's one thing experiencing the chaos of the 'recession' and the daily madness reported by the politicians and financial sector I wrote about in my last post, but the real challenge right now in these difficult times is how to keep on going and to prosper in every sense of the word, (not just financially), as an artist.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Taking Action against the Madness</title><dc:creator>barrymac@mail.ie</dc:creator><category>Daily Living</category><dc:date>2008-10-22T12:33:14+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.barrysday.com/index_files/80b733aa8ce7f6769f161f15c9283f0f-11.html#unique-entry-id-11</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.barrysday.com/index_files/80b733aa8ce7f6769f161f15c9283f0f-11.html#unique-entry-id-11</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[In the media the Sunday supplements and articles celebrating the 'never, never' world of endless credit in the form of second homes, fitted kitchens and exotic holidays, facials and fast cars in a 60 mile and hour limit country, all washed down with expensive highly taxed wine!]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Rediscovering the joys of writing</title><dc:creator>barrymac@mail.ie</dc:creator><category>Writing</category><dc:date>2008-07-16T00:49:21+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.barrysday.com/index_files/63e7089276e1ef500f5b0549df1592e1-10.html#unique-entry-id-10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.barrysday.com/index_files/63e7089276e1ef500f5b0549df1592e1-10.html#unique-entry-id-10</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Around nine years ago I wrote a book called STOP which was published by Collins Press At that time it was the same, at first hard going and then I got my second wind, so to speak, and the writing became almost compulsive, as I filled notebook after notebook.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Even more web work on www.trailsofthespirit.com</title><dc:creator>barrymac@mail.ie</dc:creator><category>Websites</category><dc:date>2008-06-28T22:27:53+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.barrysday.com/index_files/c7a72a6c90a9a462d0c1b8a44f2d2686-9.html#unique-entry-id-9</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.barrysday.com/index_files/c7a72a6c90a9a462d0c1b8a44f2d2686-9.html#unique-entry-id-9</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[It's about level after level of refinement and adding new features and information, I enjoy it it's like eating peanuts when I start I can't stop!]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Setting up Postcards from the Amazon for sending free eCards</title><dc:creator>barrymac@mail.ie</dc:creator><category>Amazon Rainforest</category><dc:date>2008-06-25T16:52:40+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.barrysday.com/index_files/7ff7fa9eb4671982426959eca5c700c6-8.html#unique-entry-id-8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.barrysday.com/index_files/7ff7fa9eb4671982426959eca5c700c6-8.html#unique-entry-id-8</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I plan on adding some of my own original art work over the next few days and I've invited some artists friends from the Amazon region of Peru to also add some of their original paintings to this site -, so it should get even more interesting.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Website www.barrysdrawings.com is finally redesigned</title><dc:creator>barrymac@mail.ie</dc:creator><category>art</category><dc:date>2008-06-20T00:45:20+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.barrysday.com/index_files/9b4153aa4e2d98e70c73d06df431b663-7.html#unique-entry-id-7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.barrysday.com/index_files/9b4153aa4e2d98e70c73d06df431b663-7.html#unique-entry-id-7</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Updated another of my web sites http://www.barrysdrawings.com It's a sister site to this one and focuses on art stuff, (surprise, surprise with a url like that).]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Working on my Trails of the Spirit website - eco tours to the Amazon Peru</title><dc:creator>barrymac@mail.ie</dc:creator><category>Amazon Rainforest</category><dc:date>2008-06-18T12:46:41+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.barrysday.com/index_files/424ce0e129c3b3de423abbd2549ed6c0-6.html#unique-entry-id-6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.barrysday.com/index_files/424ce0e129c3b3de423abbd2549ed6c0-6.html#unique-entry-id-6</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Like art, to do it purely for it's own sake is relatively easy (as long as I can overcome procrastination), but to then show it and share it with other people requires those loads of skills, website design and development, writing, emails, business cards and on and on. Better get used to it Barry!]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>At the coal face working on my online drawing portfolio</title><dc:creator>barrymac@mail.ie</dc:creator><category>Journal</category><dc:date>2008-04-01T23:36:27+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.barrysday.com/index_files/be47345fd888b092ce4d3107e71cab3c-5.html#unique-entry-id-5</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.barrysday.com/index_files/be47345fd888b092ce4d3107e71cab3c-5.html#unique-entry-id-5</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I even turned on the tv later in the evening to take a break and ended up working my way through it - the joys of a MacBook laptop.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Experimental Drawing on a wet Sunday morning</title><dc:creator>barrymac@mail.ie</dc:creator><category>art</category><dc:date>2008-03-30T12:45:15+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.barrysday.com/index_files/09904df159d5d20dc4e922d3e5e8d92b-4.html#unique-entry-id-4</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.barrysday.com/index_files/09904df159d5d20dc4e922d3e5e8d92b-4.html#unique-entry-id-4</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I'm going to push the edges of what drawing is and has been for me up to now, more experimental more edgy more true to my way of seeing and experiencing my world.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Long day at the computer finishing off my new web site</title><dc:creator>barrymac@mail.ie</dc:creator><category>Journal</category><dc:date>2008-03-28T21:30:12+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.barrysday.com/index_files/ec325345014769ac07cfd424fead58ad-3.html#unique-entry-id-3</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.barrysday.com/index_files/ec325345014769ac07cfd424fead58ad-3.html#unique-entry-id-3</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Well not exactly a new web site but a complete redesign of the first Gallery site I put up around three years ago. This site is my main online Art Gallery http://www.crimsonsalamander.com]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Artists need to communicate&#x2c; I sure do&#x21;</title><dc:creator>barrymac@mail.ie</dc:creator><category>art</category><dc:date>2008-03-27T21:40:29+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.barrysday.com/index_files/4486a96d32ce8d5c36b7130521fbb6b8-2.html#unique-entry-id-2</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.barrysday.com/index_files/4486a96d32ce8d5c36b7130521fbb6b8-2.html#unique-entry-id-2</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[From my previous vocation I've the experience and expertise to develop, design, and program web sites, so this is the only practical media for me right now and I'm willing to put in the time.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Beautiful spring day&#x2c; bills&#x2c; but art classes later.</title><dc:creator>barrymac@mail.ie</dc:creator><category>Journal</category><dc:date>2008-03-26T11:59:14+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.barrysday.com/index_files/766b3067b3e46e6bfc2b983e29729e7d-1.html#unique-entry-id-1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.barrysday.com/index_files/766b3067b3e46e6bfc2b983e29729e7d-1.html#unique-entry-id-1</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Got a bill in the post for driving over double white lines out in the countryside at 1:00 in the morning - pay the 80 euros fine or else!]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Setting up this web site and stuff</title><dc:creator>barrymac@mail.ie</dc:creator><category>Journal</category><dc:date>2008-03-25T10:13:42+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.barrysday.com/index_files/59d76e7099557120e161f10b3ed09b38-0.html#unique-entry-id-0</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.barrysday.com/index_files/59d76e7099557120e161f10b3ed09b38-0.html#unique-entry-id-0</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Back home finishing off the first edition of this site only to discover my web host's servers and network has gone down big time.]]></content:encoded></item></channel>
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