Monthly Archives: May 2008

Bomb It! A Graffiti Movie

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 the train passes [...]

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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 [...]

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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 end [...]

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The Modern Day Artist Living In The Modern Day World

Editors note: This is a guest post from Meilena Hauslendale Founder of Silence Speaks for Artists & Authors.
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 [...]

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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 category [...]

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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 visitors, and [...]

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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 [...]

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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?

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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 I’ll buy the beer. (I can [...]

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