About-Face‘s stated mission is to arm “women and girls with tools to understand and resist harmful media messages that affect their self-esteem and body image,” has sprung up. The site features a “Gallery of Offenders” as well as a “Gallery of Winners” to highlight who … Read More →
Category Archives: Online Strangeness
21st Century Business Models for Artists
The Dream Cafe folks, with whom I’ve been collaborating on an exploration of the effect of new technologies on storytelling, have a blog series on 21st Century Business Models for Artists that is quite edifying to read. These essays form the bulk of what has … Read More →
Super Secret Project Update!
For the last several months I’ve been working with Continuous Labs on their not-exactly-secret CC project. I’m working as a consulting artist and translator on the Mediator twitter project. I’ve really enjoyed working with the M2I guys (that’s Mesh 2 Internet, a translation protocol) and … Read More →
Worth1000.com | Photography Contests
An attendee from GenCon, where I set up a last-minute booth to sell my photos, suggested that I check out Worth 1000, a daily photography contest website. They also have daily contests for 3D rendering (for some reason labeled “Photoshop”), Illustration, graphic design, and writing. … Read More →
Another podcast
PhotoWalkthrough.com – Free video tutorial podcast covering digital photography post processing using adobe photoshop cs2. John Arnold shares a fascinating perspective on digital imaging, and has a lovely British accent to boot. Sadly, I don’t have a video-enabled iPod, so I can’t watch these unless … Read More →
Wear a (trendy) low-cut blouse
I’ve become a podcast fanatic. In Episode 12 of Focus Ring, there is a really interesting conversation about the McNugget-style layout of image sharing sites like Flickr and Deviant Art: namely, every image is presented to you as a thumbnail before you can find the … Read More →
ThinkGeek :: Pirate vs Ninja Batteries
ThinkGeek :: Pirate vs Ninja Batteries Each battery looks like a regular AA battery, but sometimes looks can be deceiving. For the Ninja vs Pirate Batteries are packed with Ninja Stealth Power or Pirate Plunder Power goodness. Are we claiming these batteries last longer than … Read More →
Chicago Artists Resource
Podcasting goodness from CAR, forwarded to me a while ago. This is a fairly clunky copy/paste from the email, which contained many broken links. Hopefully, I’ve managed to successfully edit those dead links out without any html errors. Creative Chicago Expo Podcasts are now online!How … Read More →
Photomation.com
photomation.com is another website that does prints online. The referral said “They do great work and on almost any surface.”
Mucking about as an artist
A few links for myself, and anyone else who thinks their work is good enough to compete with me, and thousands more practiced than me. http://www.artdeadline.com/ http://www.theartlist.com/ http://www.chicagoartistsresource.org/
Five Sentenc.es
Just heard about Sentenc.es – A Disciplined Way To Deal With Email. Not sure if I have that in me, but it is certainly an interesting idea. The gist is, you make the pledge to yourself, and then include the link to the appropriate subdomain … Read More →