The Next Garde
December 8th, 2007 admin
The Sundance Channel has posted interviews with twelve of today’s “cultural pioneers.” Supposedly discussing what fuels their passion and creative process.
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Strictly No Photography
December 4th, 2007 admin
The Mission: To organize the world’s forbidden visual information and make it universally accessible and useful.
“Strictly No Photography is a photo-sharing site for photographs taken where you are not allowed to take them. From the inside of the Kremlin to Kensington palace, from art galleries to war zones. Here you can see everything you’ve ever wanted to see that you’re not supposed to. There are pictures that range from the ordinary to the profound. Whatever the content or the quality though we think that each one stands as a little piece of art in itself, as a little expression of personal liberty.”
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Not Quite Art
November 30th, 2007 admin
Today I stumbled across “The art show that believes there is life outside the galleries.” I found the show on iTunes. It is a show out of Australia and currently there are 3 episodes available for download. Each show is 30 minutes long. The host Marcus Westbury takes his camera out to look for art from the “outside.”
The first episode covers a new cultural center in Newcastle Australia that is in the works, but artists in the town wonder why all the attention is paid to a big culture center when there is already culture happening in Newcastle. Why spend all that money to create a place to bring in art and culture when the city already has art and culture. Maybe money should be poured into Newcastle’s present art and culture scene. There are some good questions raised.
Click here for the show’s website were you can download each episode.
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How To Survive As An Independent Artist
November 27th, 2007 admin
A guy name Michael W. Dean made a nice little movie called D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist. It is made up of conversations with artists in many mediums who have made it on their own. Visual artists who stay away from the gallery system. Musicians who refuse to sign to labels. And performance artists who do not hire managers. All in all it is a very inspiring film for an artist trying to make a go at it without a lot of cash.
My favorite quote from the movie is: “Zines are more important than Rolling Stone.”
The movie was cheap at $8 for the DVD with no copyright protection in place. In fact the cover of the disc tells you to, “Burn The DVD.” But now you can watch it free on YouTube. The filmmaker has listed his reasons for putting it on you tube here.
Here is the first part of the film:
And here is part two:
Click here to check out the rest of the movie.
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Bryan Collins Limited Prints Available
November 18th, 2007 admin
Local artist Bryan Collins has these 3 limited prints available for sale on his website. There are 50 of each and they are hand signed and numbered, they also include a certificate of authenticity.
Click here to buy. (You will be taken to Bryan’s website.)
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When Artists Strike
November 16th, 2007 admin
I’ve been keeping an eye on the current writer’s strike since it may prove to be a watershed moment in art history. At the core of the strike is the fact that studios do not want to pay artists for material on the internet. I have been planning on posting about it at some point but today The Rocky Mountain Chronicle covered it and included two well done videos:
Click here to read Rocky Mountain Holla’s blog. Tell em Art Palaver sent ya!
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National Novel Writing Month
November 1st, 2007 admin
Grab that blank notepad, pick up a pen and start writing because today begins National Novel Writing Month. Here is a statement from their website:
What: Writing one 50,000-word novel from scratch in a month’s time.
Who: You! We can’t do this unless we have some other people trying it as well. Let’s write laughably awful yet lengthy prose together.
Why: The reasons are endless! To actively participate in one of our era’s most enchanting art forms! To write without having to obsess over quality. To be able to make obscure references to passages from our novels at parties. To be able to mock real novelists who dawdle on and on, taking far longer than 30 days to produce their work.
When: Sign-ups begin October 1, 2007. Writing begins November 1. To be added to the official list of winners, you must reach the 50,000-word mark by November 30 at midnight. Once your novel has been verified by our web-based team of robotic word counters, the partying begins.
I tend to be a glutton for punishment so I am going to go for it. I admit I comforted by the fact that they do not stress quality, just quantity. So I can think of it as National Novel Draft Writing Month. I’ll try to remember to keep you posted on my progress as I attempt to put down 1666 words on paper a day.
Click here to read more about National Novel Writing Month.
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The Art Palaver ATC Swap
October 30th, 2007 admin
Thanks to Post Due I’ve discovered this nice little website called Swap-bot. Swap-bot is a place for people to come together and swap things. Because of Post Due I have been enjoying making and trading postcards with people around the U.S.
I thought it would be worth an attempt to set up a swap for the readers of Art Palaver. A simple swap of Artist Trading Cards or ATCs as most people call them. An ATC is like a baseball trading card but created by an artist and given away. They are 2.5″x3.5″. I have kept the swap simple and open to any reader of Art Palaver.
You will need a password though to prove you are a reader of Art Palaver. That password is “canvas”.
So click here to check out and sign up for the Art Palaver ATC Swap.
Click here to find more details about what an ATC is.
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Has Your Work Ever Been Stolen?
October 24th, 2007 admin
I came across a post via Laughing Squid where a photographer vents some frustration with having photographs being used without permission. In this day and age such an issue is on the minds of artists, especially those one the internet.
How about you? Is this a problem you have had to deal with? Any thoughts on how to handle this in the internet age?
Read the post by clicking here.
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Taking Count Chocula To The Next Level
October 18th, 2007 admin
As a kid I probably ate more cereal than any other food. It is because of that art like this appeals to me. Doktor Viktor Von Kreep has created some scary cereals just in time for Halloween.
Check out the rest of em on his blog by clicking here.
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