August 2008 Archives
August 24, 2008 - Cleveland, Ohio - Whitey's Army and Navy store in Medina Ohio is the subject of the newest DOUGLAS Art Prints® contemporary art print. "whitey's". What almost seems like a made up character of a store or possibly something taken from the past this is a real store on the Medina Town Square today.
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This is one of several new prints that will come from my recent trip to downtown Medina while on assignment to in fact take some advertising photos for the city of Medina. Medina is one of those areas that is growing from rural to subdivisions many containing multi million dollar homes but at least so far they have kept the small town quaint peaceful atmosphere. The big chains are not far away so one can only wonder if downtown Medina can draw enough people for the small shops to survive.
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August 9. 2008 0 Cleveland, Ohio - DOUGLAS Art Prints® is announcing the release of another in their series of contemporary art prints, this one simply titles "arches". In the bold black and white Douglas is know for. "arches" is the third and final print in the series taken from the 1930's vintage apartments here in Cleveland, Ohio, Edgeley Manor.
The print shown as it would appear in a 22.5 in. X 16.5 in. frame.
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"My work as a commercial photographer is my first love just because I have the opportunity to see and photograph these pieces of living history,: Douglas, the owner of DOUGLAS Art Prints® said. "Capturing this history in both my photos and my artistic interpretation is truly a blessing for me. I may have been there to get advertising photos but I got a great deal more. This is a little piece of Cleveland history today and someday it will be gone forever."
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August 5,2008 0 Cleveland, Ohio - Today the Associated Press reported 11 charged in connection with credit card fraud. "hacking of nine major retailers and the theft and sale of more than 41 million credit and debit card numbers", the report stated. DOUGLAS Art Prints® wants to again let our customers know this can not happen to them.
DOUGLAS Art Prints® never has or stores any customer credit card information on any of their servers. All of our customer credit card and personal information are entered on Nova Information Systems servers.
"My customers are too important not to do everything possible not to let that happen to them," Douglas, the president of DOUGLAS Art Prints® said. "I can't help but wonder how many small retailers are hacked but it doesn't make the news. I have invested time and money to make sure that can't happen to my customers."
DOUGLAS Art Prints® never has or stores any customer credit card information on any of their servers. All of our customer credit card and personal information are entered on Nova Information Systems servers.
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August 2, 2008 - Cleveland, Ohio - This newest addition to the limited edition series of DOUGLAS Art Prints® contemporary art prints is called "the apartment". Our last print "the door" is in fact the front door to "the apartments". We have another print coming from the Edgeley Manor 1930's apartments.
As we mentioned with the earlier print this historic apartment building has been beautifully kept close to the original.
"I was there to take advertising photos but couldn't pass up taking some additional time for subjects for my art," Douglas, the artist and owner of DOUGLAS Art Prints® said. "Just seeing the high rise buildings across the street that leveled similar architecture meant these could be gone next month."
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