Graffiti. What do you think? Is it art? Is it crime? Personally I think yes and sometimes. And I must admit the quality of said graffiti can have an effect on my opinion. When I am painting over bad graffiti on the side of the building I manage I can be pretty grumpy. But when [...] Read more »
Free 278 Page Photoshop Book
One of the greatest tools being used today is Photoshop. A complex and rich visual editing software that can be used for way more than photography. Photoshop has pretty much become a medium in and of itself. But like I said it is rich and complex. So we need all the help we can get [...] Read more »
Keeping You Informed
Hello Art Palaver Reader, As you may have noticed the posts have slowed down a bit as of late. It is about time I told you about that. I’ve been working hard under the hood of Art Palaver and also ZAF622. It is taking more time and effort than I expected. I hope in the [...] Read more »
The Modern Day Artist Living In The Modern Day World
Modern Day Artist Editors note: This is a guest post from Author & Artist Meilena Hauslendale An artist in today’s world faces a variety of challenges that may or may not have been present before. Our goals have changed, our desires to share our imagery and visualization have taken on a whole new set of [...] Read more »
Art Palaver Did Not Win A Webby
The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet. Established in 1996 during the Web’s infancy, the Webbys are presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a 550-member body of leading Web experts, business figures, luminaries, visionaries and creative celebrities. The Webby Awards presents two honors in every [...] Read more »
Planning Culture In Fort Collins
The City of Fort Collins Cultural Services has released a “Cultural Plan.” A 30 page document stating what they hope to do in Fort Collins. This is the vision statement: To identify Fort Collins as a uniquely creative community and destination for the arts, culture, and science that enriches the lives of our citizens and [...] Read more »
A Candidate That Inspires Creativity
I’ve heard it said that Hillary is a PC and Obama is a Mac. And it does seem that the creative community has embraced Obama. Doing a Google search for "Obama art" yields about 2,380,000 results. Doing a Google search for "Hillary art" and Google asks you if you meant "hillaryart." Crude research for sure [...] Read more »
May 1st Is RSS Awareness Day
At least according to RSSday.org. And I think it is a worthy cause. RSS is a great tool that can help you manage all that information out there. Google Reader is my preferred way to manage my RSS feeds. Do you RSS? Read more »
Links Links And More Links
1. Can you carve within the lines? 2. Creepy creepy creepy. 3. What’s old is new again. 4. A perfect fold every time. 5. A place you will never find the work of Darren Mahuron. (His stuff is here.) Can’t forget about number… 6. Who ever wants to sit down and argue about this list [...] Read more »