Ideas for promoting and selling art, music, and writing, using long tail economics, and the new internet business models available for artists, writers and musicians.
Earlier today Matt Cutts of Google tweeted about a new feature on Google’s Image Search: It’s a new tool that allows users to filter their image search results by Usage Rights, allowing them to only find images that have various Creative Commons licences. Now you can slice/dice Google…
To start off 2014 I’ve launched a brand new version of my website. As you can see, this blog, which used to be on its own subdomain of new-media.lazaruscorporation.co.uk, has moved to its new home of www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/arts-tech, and the RSS feed is now available at http://feeds.feedburner.com/artstech. For…
A bit more technical than my usual posts here, but… I upgraded to Kubuntu 13.10 on Thursday evening on my desktop machine at home, and one of the packages included in the update was Apache (Apache 2.2 upgraded to Apache 2.4). Just in case any of you upgrade to Apache 2.4 in the future I thought…
This is my second draft of an idea of how to mark up artwork using Schema.org (the first draft is here). Your comments and criticisms would be gratefully received. It is intended to replace both http://schema.org/Painting and http://schema.org/Sculpture (and http://schema.org/Photograph when it…
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There has been a lot of news recently about the UK’s new “Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act” (AKA the “Instagram Act”) which allows the commercial use of ‘orphaned works’ under certain circumstances. Yes, the act is badly thought out, and as a visual artist who puts images of his…
Update (May 7, 2013): I’ve produced a slightly updated 2nd draft of this idea, which can be found here. This is my first draft of an idea of how to mark up artwork using Schema.org. It is intended to replace both http://schema.org/Painting and http://schema.org/Sculpture (and http://schema.org/Photograph…
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Following up from last week’s post, I wanted to try to put some basic tutorials up for artists to show how to mark-up HTML5 to display a painting, using schema.org to provide some semantic structure. Given that there are strong differences of opinion over whether RDFa or Microdata is the best/correct…
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(Kicking this blog back into life to pursue a solution to a problem) The Dream Imagine a Google Image Search where a potential customer could search for contemporary artwork that is available for sale in a specific price range which is no larger than a specific size (the right size to fit on the…
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Here’s a short illustrated story for you: Steve Lieber is a comic book artist. He drew Underground, a graphic novel (written by Jeff Parker, drawn by Steve, and colored by Ron Chan). The story follows Park Ranger Wesley Fischer as she tries to save Stillwater Cave – and then has to save herself. On…
Ariana Osborne is credited as “Chief Mechanic” on the FreakAngels(1) web-comic/graphic novel series (written by Warren Ellis, artwork by Paul Duffield). In practice it seems that this means she’s the web designer/maintainer and general “make the crazy idea work in practice” person. One…
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