Many of the people who are in SEO and those in Web Analytics have creative backgrounds.  I read somewhere that many of the SEO/SEM people were formally writers, painters and architects.

Here’s one of my earlier works from 1988, when I painted large oils.

It’s not a very good photo (the cell phone camara is just not up to the task of the details of this painting - I think it’s 6 ft long by 5ft wide - something like that), I took it early this morning with my Cell Phone Camara, but it’s one of the few paintings I still own…and yes, I’m the guy in the background (mirror).