Tag: art
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Royalty Exchange :: Are Artists Commodities?
Many of you already know this, but a new site opened up recently called Royalty Exchange which allows professional investors to bid on – and win – percentages of creative and commodity-generating estates. Think “Sinatra’s discography” for the former and “the mineral rights to Joplin” for the latter. Royalty Exchange is great news for investors,…
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Art History : it’s a method, not a subject
Today’s encouragement for all of you artists is a weird one, but a good one if you take a couple of moments to reflect with me on art history and change. We will compare two quotes—one is a poem and one comes from a philosophical work. Then in the comments, we’ll reflect on how these two are linked.…
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How to be Creative, Even if You’re Not
because we’re all in the process of reshaping the world around us, we’re all “creative” – we’re all makers. Legislators make order. Lawyers make cases. Chemists make cures.
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The Haven Foundation for Artists
If you make a living full-time off of the arts and have been struck by a debilitating tragedy (or if you fear such an event) you might want to check out The Haven Foundation. The Foundation was formed by Stephen King in order to help artists. In his words: In the summer of 1999, I was struck…
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Make Good Art Speech by Gaiman
I’d reserved the Make Good Art speech for an upcoming post called 50 Reads for Writers. But I don’t want it to get lost in the noise. So even though I’ll share the video once more in a future post, I’m posting it here separately. If you haven’t seen or read Gaiman’s Make Good Art speech, you should probably…
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For the Fear of Christian Art
:: long story short :: I have yet to meet somebody who, deep down, wanted to become something other than a good person. Or at least a good citizen. Though I’m directing this post at the Christians in the room, I think anyone will find it valuable if they swap out “Christian” for “good citizen”…
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Comics that Nourish
People keep tucking away all kinds of imagination-based encouragement into the nooks of the internet, you simply have to dig a bit to find it all. Thanks to Meghan for pointing this one out. Stephen McCrane over at Doodle Alley started drawing comics that nourish for people like you and me. He took the principles that helped him develop his…
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The Secret to Breakthrough is the Community You Left
When an artist gets blocked, he finds breakthrough by returning to those creative limitations as sources of inspiration
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In Good Humor and Craft: The drDOCTOR readings
In my experience, I’ve found one of two problems in many literary crowds and clubs: they either take themselves too seriously or not seriously enough. The former never approach their craft with a healthy dose of self-depreciation and humor – let’s just be honest, creative writing is a strange thing to do in 21st-century America. The latter seldom try…
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Sitting at the Feet of Peruvian Paintings
“People need to be given greatness. I don’t need to do a thousand things that are badly made. I need to do one thing that’s honest and well-done and people will respond.”
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Nice Art, but where are the *real* Crystal Bridges?
Crystal Bridges features all sorts of American-born art from the 15th century onward. This was the first time I have ever felt connect to an American heritage older than 200 years.
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a = 6r (where a = acceptance; r = rejection)
What if you could mathematically figure out the amount of time it will take you to get accepted? To succeed? For those following on Twitter, you know that I just found some interesting math from the folks at Gud Magazine, math that may provide answers: Responses Acceptances: 1.7% (154.7 day(s) avg. per acceptance) Rejections: 98.3% (25.4…