I wrote a long post on Gawker Artists on Artnewyorkcity last night it needed to be taken down. I did get a chance to look at the Sitemeter stats of Gawker Artists which is getting a lot of traffic – much of it from other Gawker sites running banner ads which link across the blog properties and I think it's very well done.

It's much different, and more sophisticated than what I've seen on the other blog networks, including the one's I belong to.  I would say that what Gawker is doing by cross linking their blogs in the way they do – is really smart. As an artist, my mind trained to see pattens – pattens in the motifs I paint – patterns in Web Analytics and Advertising campaign data.

Sorta reminds me of a painting  over the weekend I tried something new, for me:

In, what I call a "painting within a painting" (not a mirror, BTW) I sketched a repeated set of patterns that would go on and on, but I gave up after a certain point.   I did not think much of this work – but when I printed a copy and hung it on my wall at work – I found my eye looking at it.

I've thought about painting "pageviews", "visits", "uniques", etc, but haven't decided on how to do that yet.  

I credit my artistic vision as that ability to see what is going on in the Gawker properties.