[From Issues : Public Arts (www.newsaic.com)]
This is what I was talking about, for those that don’t bother to read the actual post (and just other’s reactions to it). The treatment of art (music, film, painting, fine arts, et al) in this country has been abysmal and I find that sad. I find it sad as someone that worked as an artist, sought funding, got funding through Canada for a project I was on, or even the government of Slovenia for another. But never from the US.
What my post was about, and what I actual told Mahalo as well, is that I don’t think the debate around HOW to monetize cultural artifacts is the answer, that to find an answer we have to look back to how we value art itself.
That means how we value paintings, digital art, conceptual, installation, photography and film. And yes, Music. And yes, both good and bad music. The worst of a medium is sometimes the fuel for the best of art in another medium (witness Andy Warhol, Yoko Ono, Marcel Duchamp, Rauchenberg)
My point is: how can we really debate the value of music or movies or photography, how compensation works, etc when we can’t, since 1989 when the NEA fell apart, figure out how to make art viable as a commercial practice and how to value and support it as a part of the fabric of a functioning society?
Both high and low art.
Commercial and non-commercial.
Art and art.
Here’s some more stuff to actually read (and not just react to):
An Artist to Plead for Art (from Time)
Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”
Jean Baudrillard’s “Simulacra and Simulation“
Its funny, but there’s a similar debate in the knitting world. Creative people come up with patterns and can opt to either sell them, or distribute them freely. Say they don’t mind if people turn around and sell the item made with the pattern, or they do mind.
And how much to charge for a pattern if it isn’t for free.
Similar problems with knitted items.
The thing is, if people don’t value their own work, how do they expect anyone else to?
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[From Music Industry Gurus' Five Point Plan to Save their Business | Listening Post from Wired.com]- #
Rauschenberg is one of my ultimate favorite artists and his passing is terribly sad
[From Robert Rauschenberg, American Artist, Dies at 82 - New York Times]- #
this is fucking crazy.
[From Swiss man soars above Alps with jet-powered wing - Yahoo! News]- #
Funny thing is, with smart people, these are not challenges. With smart partners, they are open opportunities.
[From hypebot: Top 10 Issues Facing Music 2.0]- #
seriously: awesome news if this is true. I hope they provide API hooks through XMPP payloads as well, as some good ole stateful API programs would be every nice indeed. Death to HTTP polling! FBML pushes through XMPP for the win!
[From Breaking: Facebook to Launch Jabber/XMPP Support for Chat - The Unofficial Facebook Blog]- #
This is an incredible story that I didn't know much about, but every jew and non-jew should read and be inspired by.
[From Irena Sendler, 98; member of resistance saved lives of 2,500 Polish Jews - Los Angeles Times]- #
The ultimate twitter revenue is the use of premium SMS to provide for "fanclub" type feeds for some individuals. These would be exclusive feeds with some public messages and some private. For instance, imagine a band X that had a 1 dollar a month Twitter feed. The private 1 dollar a month feed included exclusive information, links to songs, etc. Also another twitter revenue source that can't happen if they don't fix their infrastructure: reselling the infrastructure! Getting good economies of scale with their SMS gateway and reuse from the HTTP and XMPP API's. The premium SMS one I've been hounding Ev and Biz about for a year now. I want it!
- #The Ultimate Twitter Revenue Model - ReadWriteWeb
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I feel like Anne Sullivan: "IT HAS A NAME!" Well thank goodness for that, because after all this time I thought I was working on just Technology!
[From New Music Economy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia]- #
water finds its level
[From The State of the Facebook Platform | 20bits]- #
Finally a nice use of Core Animation. Groovy and tactile.
[From Acrylic | Times]- #
- Music Industry Gurus’ Five Point Plan to Save their Business | Listening Post from Wired.com
- Robert Rauschenberg, American Artist, Dies at 82 - New York Times
- Swiss man soars above Alps with jet-powered wing - Yahoo! News
- Cocoa Touch Developers
- hypebot: Top 10 Issues Facing Music 2.0
- Breaking: Facebook to Launch Jabber/XMPP Support for Chat - The Unofficial Facebook Blog
- Irena Sendler, 98; member of resistance saved lives of 2,500 Polish Jews - Los Angeles Times
- twitter revenue
- XMPP, Spread, Daemons, Python… aka a fun day being a geek.
- New Music Economy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Well there’s your problem!
- The State of the Facebook Platform | 20bits
- Acrylic | Times
- Postcards From Yo Momma
- twistori
- SanFran MusicTech Summit
- Interns needed at WBR
- New: Video Comments On All TechCrunch Blogs
- A VC: Something Important Is On The Horizon In The Music Business
- spleak