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, from artist Paul Watson.
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…
UPDATE: Schema.org/VisualArtwork has now been officially accepted. Details are available in a series of 3 posts: Schema.org’s VisualArtwork launched Mapping existing data stored in VRA Core 4 format to schema.org’s VisualArtwork Getty AAT Linked Open Data in schema.org’s VisualArtwork This…
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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: Schema.org/VisualArtwork has now been officially accepted. Details are available in a series of 3 posts: Schema.org’s VisualArtwork launched Mapping existing data stored in VRA Core 4 format to schema.org’s VisualArtwork Getty AAT Linked Open Data in schema.org’s VisualArtwork This…
Read the rest of “ An idea for an alternative schema.org type for artwork”…
UPDATE: Schema.org/VisualArtwork has now been officially accepted. Details are available in a series of 3 posts: Schema.org’s VisualArtwork launched Mapping existing data stored in VRA Core 4 format to schema.org’s VisualArtwork Getty AAT Linked Open Data in schema.org’s VisualArtwork Following…
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UPDATE: Schema.org/VisualArtwork has now been officially accepted. Details are available in a series of 3 posts: Schema.org’s VisualArtwork launched Mapping existing data stored in VRA Core 4 format to schema.org’s VisualArtwork Getty AAT Linked Open Data in schema.org’s VisualArtwork (Kicking…
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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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…which I think can work equally well for the visual arts: …
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As I’ve been working on The Book of the Erinyes I’ve been trying to work out who it’s likely to appeal to. The problem is that it doesn’t fit comfortably in any one area. It sits between art and craft, between bookbinding and book art, between mainstream and underground. It’s art made…