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amazing work
more on this idea of free, I read about this because it affects my artwork
a talk on Poly Face Farms way of agriculture and how it can provide for human needs and, yes, heal the world.
more on free
how free works now
great, great.
Severn speaks at the United Nations Earth Summit
This horse has such heart and grace. Excuse me, but I weep when I watch this... yea, I know.
artwork in the creative commons. mandalas made from photographs of...
I met her at Photolucida in April of 07. Her work is so beautiful, and intimate and real. The colors are amazing, and the actual prints up close are even better.
This is an example of the studio set up I had for shooting most of the photographs for the Feathers Series. There's a digital camera in there, the Canon 20D, and North Light Sunspots for illumination.
Around 1993 or so, while hiking in the California hills, I had the idea that images like this could be made into beautiful mandalas. I love to hike and while hiking would look and look at the all the amazing stuff around me. hmmm...
The image here is an example of one of the first photographs I created to make mandalas from.
If an artist does nothing else, at least you can say the artist communicates. Maybe you hate it, maybe you really like it. What if what an artist is, is a community manager... a conduit for communication between people? Admittedly the artist would shape the tenor of the communication through the character of their work and the quality of their interaction with the community.
Things you can learn from the music business (as it falls apart)The first rule is so important, it's rule 0:
0. The new thing is never as good as the old thing, at least right now.
Soon, the new thing will be better than the old thing will be. But if you wait until then, it's going to be too late. Feel free to wax nostalgic about the old thing, but don't fool yourself into believing it's going to be here forever. It won't.
I think for digital artists, the new thing is here. You or I can make copies of the digital work and each copy is as good as the original. The reason artworks were sold in limited editions in the past is that the means of producing the work wore out from use as the artist made the final piece. Think of a printing stone (a lithograph, literally 'stone' + 'drawing'). With a lithograph, after a while the printed image got less and less precise, until it was no longer satisfying.
With my work there is no factual reason to limit the edition. Does not mean that I have not wanted to -- thinking that doing so would increase the value of the work. But I would have to place a severe limit on the work - 20 copies is considered to be about the right amount. That means only 20 people in the world could have the work. And the price I had to charge meant my friends could not afford the work.
But I wanted my friends to be able to have these works, and I wanted you to be able to have them too. Just viewing the full-resolution digital file on the screen is amazing. I have see these images that way hundreds of times, and I still go batty when I open up the original file and view it on the screen. And until now, maybe 5 people in the world have seen them that way.
So I decided to make the full-resolution digital files available to you. Do think this was the right decision for me as an artist? How do you feel about having these files available to you? How can I help you work with the files once you do download them?
