3 month ago
jonhicks : Kogoro Kurata: Japanese Ironsmith with a Morbid Twist
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6 month ago
Andy Baio : Kevin Kelly on 1,000 true fans - this model for indie creators is a natural use of the Internet, but still rare
philgyford : Kevin Kelly - The Technium - 1,000 True Fans - The idea that you only need a relatively small number of people willing to pay you occasionally for your work in order to make a living. (Stewart Lee suggested he needed 7,000 fans in 2005.)
deusx : Kevin Kelly -- The Technium - "I don't know the actual true number, but I think a dedicated artist could cultivate 1,000 True Fans, and by their direct support using new technology, make an honest living. I'd love to hear from anyone who might have settled on such a path."
Rod Begbie : Kevin Kelly -- 1,000 True Fans - "Anyone producing works of art needs to acquire only 1,000 True Fans to make a living." Discussed this over lunch today, and could definitely think of a handful of bands I'd pay $10-a-month to "patronize". [via] #
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10 month ago
WillPate : Forget MTV - Apple's iPod ads are the new music-star makers
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philgyford : "An Ilustrated Life" Preview - Lovely collection of pages from "artists, illustrators and designers'" sketchbooks. Awful slidy Flash interface though. Illustrators are worse than estate agents in their use of appalling interface techniques. (via Ted Mills)
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16 month ago
jonhicks : Free Gilbert & George art online - Art for all!
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18 month ago
WillPate : Artists see differently - "artists have learned to identify the real details of a picture, not just the ones that are immediately most salient to the perceptual system"
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31 month ago
WillPate : we*heart*prints - "we*heart*prints is a compilation of beautiful, affordable art prints."
jimray : we*heart*prints - "We*heart*prints is a compilation of beautiful, affordable art prints." And one of the nicest non-blog blog designs I've seen in a bit
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32 month ago
plasticbag : "Music giant Sony is launching a venture aimed at promoting talented gay and lesbian recording artists." - What a strange move. I suppose it makes some sense to have a team surrounding gay artists that can understand the issues that they might be confronted with, but at the same time it does smack a bit of ghettoisation. I'll be following this...
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36 month ago
WillPate : Bill Strickland on artists and entrepreneurs
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plasticbag : Inferring Descriptions and Similarity for Music from Community Metadata (pdf) - This is nice - a paper on using particular parts of speech from web pages about artists to create a metric of artist similarity. Think about the stuf you could use delicious tags to do!
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