Celebrate The Internet

OneWebDay is a day for the glob to celebrae the Web and its importance to our lives. The first one is being held today in many places around the world. People are expected to celebrate by orgnizing events, bloging etc.

I take this to highlight how the web affected my life. Since my friend Adam taught me the basics of internet my life has changed dramatically. Every thing has improved to better, from special and personal life, to education to work. I participated in prestigious conferences, I posted some of my research work, and if not the Web I would not be able even to know about the opportunities of participating. I got valuable feed back from colleague scholars on other parts of the globe.

Last year I got married to my lovely wife who first I met through this international online organization of youth TIG. Family and friends got the happy news online. Of course, today she cooked a delicious dinner as a celebration of OneWebDay :).

Recently I started my online art project – The Colorful Days - in which I paint dates. Web was behind the inspiration I got for the art. I was reading blogs about current art projects and I found a successful and amazingnline art project. The power of web is the back bone of my project, for instance, I use free wikipedia information for my site.

Thank you very much Susan Crawford for starting OneWebDay.

From my side I want to participate in celebrating and supporting the first OneWebDay. I added 22 September to the special dates I will sell the 22 September painting on online auction. If I sell it, I will denoate 60% of the money to OneWebDay.

In the last 3 weeks many interesting things happened. I sold 7 days ... well let us say the first week has been sold.

These are the 7 days being sold:
28 September, 1 January, 8 July , 5 February, 10 August and 30 August. We gave our first customer across the Atlantic, a free day, he choose 11 September.

Every one has his day, but there are only 366 colorful days in the world, so have one of The Colorful Days of the world.

Please help me reach the guys who may be interested in the colorful days; please spread the word, may be one of your friends will be happy to know about this project. Please let me hear from you through TIG messenger or to the project email " ali@thecolorfuldays.com ".

Have a nice day ...

Some of you may know that I am selling days. Every day in the Gregorian calendarwill be sold and painted. There are only 366 days, every day will be painted only once.

Feel free to check the site and don't hesitate to order one of the colorful days of the world. Please do not forget to tell your friends about this project, especially those who may like the idea.

One of the interesting blogs that I cannot stop reading is Sala's blog because I am learning a lot from there. He is the artist behind two art achievements, first the onethousandpaintings and the other is the web based art "web site as graphs". His first work is about painting the numbers from 1 to 1000. What is interesting in it is that the price of the painting is determined by the number reduced from 1000. He is bringing success to his experiment of art and mathematics. He sold around 572 in 5 months.

The second work is HTML based; Sala created an applet that is able to reflect websites’ structures into beautiful shapes. While the first work is a highly pure conceptual art, the second crystallizes that area of art when technology is successfully used in bringing to existence the beauty and aesthetics around us which we cannot feel with our limited senses.

Moreover, booth of the works shares the core point, the essence and simplicity of mathematics. The applet Sala produced brings the abstraction, idealism, purity and completeness of mathematics behind HTML technologies, from editors to browsers, and that adds to the value of the graphs produced - from an art point of view.

For every one who is interested in today's art such work is of high importance, it is living creation of art history.

It is the inspirational power of Sala's work that led me to lunch the colorful days project.

I am adding more features to the website, and it is developing little by little, I will keep improving the site as days pass. Yesterday I added an example of how a colorful day may look like. I have also added some FAQ, and today I lunched the pricing system of the project, its based on 8 July the starting day of the project.

The colorful days project is an art project, the goal is to sell painitngs with days of year, every day will be painted once. For more details check the project web site www.thecolorfuldays.com.