Link: Paper Crafts | YAMAHA MOTOR.
Link: Paper Crafts | YAMAHA MOTOR.
Gail Ellspermann points out an important project taking place within the art community on September 11th. It involves creating a piece of 9/11 relevant Mail Art of any size. The collection already includes over 1,500 pieces of Mail Art and it would be wonderful to include yours.
The one requirement is that it be mailed on 9/11/06
When your art piece is ready it can be scanned or photographed and added to a flickr album, your blog, etc, Then we'd love to see it, and it would be great if you would go the comment area below and add the URL where we can find it.
Bonus: If you add an image to your blog and send a trackback to the URL listed below ( see where it says trackback: http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/5750418 ) your entry will appear right here below this entry.
Your creation can be mailed to: Remember September
P.O. Box 793 Katonah, NY 10536 USA
Documentation to all (randomly chosen entrants receive a CD with all images, all others receive an 11″x 17″ color poster of selected entries)
On 9-11-06 Bloggers all over the world will also honor the 2,996 victims in a personal tribute that you can read about here.
On Saturday at 8 pm Eastern time a class calles "Evo Does ATC's" looks interesting
Cybersta
Word is that to join the on-line chats and classes, you need the MIRC program and instructions about this is at the top of the Schedule page.
Sounds like fun!
Subject: Rain or anything to do with rain, like raindrops, puddles, storm clouds, etc.
Medium: Any
Size: Post cards 4"x6" or ATC's 2.5"x3.5" - she explains: I have a small PO box, so I try to keep my mailart small.
Deadline: Sepember 1, 2006
Send to: Pam Chatfield - PO Box 1705 - Seabrook, NH 03874 - USA
Enjoy poking through the finds at Craftivism, including:
I have no idea where she got it, but someone has lots of time on their hands.
Click the image for a much larger one that you can be boggled by.
Is it art?
Click on the image below for an enlargement and details.
If you do decide to send them something we'd love to see it too. Would you put a link in the comments to more of us can go peek at your handiwork?
The artist behind the art money phenomena has been denied permission to use the word “bank” on his web site. If Lars Kraemmer does not change the name, he risks four month in prison.
"Limitation to artistic freedom"
Mogens Holbøll is a legal advisor and chief secretary in the artist union BKF, and he handles the case of Lars Kraemmer. He beliveves that the Danish Financial Advisory Board suffers from a severe case of tunnel vision.
“The decision shows a clear assault to artistic freedom. I respect
the work of DFAB that helps protect consumers against false financial
institutions. But in this case their judgement have failed completely.
Nobody can mistake this for a real bank.
The quotes are taken from the BIAM's website and are missing something in the way of language.
But what's clear is that they do begin a journey closer to the slippery slope by calling themselves a "bank" and regulating of the Art Money including the valuation and the increase over time.
Yet there have to be some regulations, don't there?
And, on the other hand, there are blood banks and sperm banks so . . .
What do you think?
Link: .press archive - art money
Also Interesting -
Not exactly on topic but cool to look at Numismondo - images of world paper money
Ithaca Hours - a local currency program, and food for thought
Art money for animals in need - http://www.craftersforcritters.com - a confusing link which does not lead to a clear landing spot
To learn how to Leak Links yourself as part of the Link Leak Virus, visit Mike Sigers' blog
Try It Tuesday is a website that sponsors the idea of setting aside at least part of every Tuesday to do a project that they explain each week.
Illustration Friday, Inspire Me Thursday and now Tuesdays are tempting me too. So many ideas and so little time!
I thought that was a cool idea until I started realizing that priorities start to get lost at some point when we starting adding more and more things to the "to do" list.
The upside of Try It Tuesday is that you could do something in a new way or learn something new.
But it doesn't look like something you could take a half hour to play with between the vet's appointment and the conference call and doing some marketing for yourself and getting that proposal out to the client from Buffalo.
And I couldn't commit this chunk of time to do it every Tuesday - especially on Tuesday specifically.
For me Illustration Friday works better because it keeps the whole thing relatively simple . . .
The illustration (or doodle or whatever) that you do on the theme of the day can take five minutes - or a collage could take an hour.
Well OK so the art forms I do often takes days, which is why I do Illustration Friday only every other week or so. And I can normally submit something by Sunday or Monday - or Tuesday - and there's no pressure about when you submit it.
I'm sure all the participants who do the more involved project kinds of web activities aren't retired - or independently wealthy - but I don't think I could do the Tuesday sort of things and continue to keep my professional life going.
People who participate or who have tried it are enthusiastically
encouraged to tell us about their experience because what works for one
of us doesn't necessarily do so for the next guy, but it'd be great to
hear about what you found.
How / What / Why
The Bottom Line
How do you balance things that you already are important to you career and family-wise with these neat ideas and websites that you discover?
And are there other things like this that you participate in and would like to share with us?
Hundreds of readers await your comments - I hope you'll share some thoughts and experiences.
