Shared Creation Projects

We speak here of writing, film and other media, but I’ve been taking a look at a blog that speaks about design. Design tends to sit about and when its good - we hardly notice it, when its great - we go “Way Cool”, and when its bad we tend to gripe. Yet despite the impact it has on us - how much do we actually think about design?

If you’re creative then design is important, it affects how people interact with your work and how they actually find your work. Design is something that is important.

So take some time to stop and think about design once in a while and use it check your own actions and creations.

Of course sitting and thinking isn’t as good as understanding - hence the Laws of Simplicity. This is an excellent blog and is a recommendable read. However once you start you realise that the latest entry is a little bit in the past. Fortunately this is more - once you’re done with the original Laws of Simplicity website move on to http://our.risd.edu/ This is where the story continues. RISD by the way is the Rhode Island School of Design - and the blog lives up to the name.

So next time you need a quick snippet of good reading and design go here.

Time to mention a useful and free resource to all artists working in a digital medium. I am referring to the digital artists handbook. You can pick it up from:

http://www.digitalartistshandbook.org/

The objective of the handbook is to be a source of valuable content that bridges the gaps between arts and various platforms and resources. The handbook is built by inviting articles from artists and specialists who are given reign to talk about tools and methods of working.

This makes this not a one publication - but a growing, living and breathing arts project that could turn out to be a great boon to those wishing to work in the realm of digital art

Interestingly it focus on Open Source - in terms of both free software and open content - it wishes to facilitate collaboration and working together by using these structures to make it possible. that means we have to mention it - we share a common goal.

All this makes it a resource worth keeping an eye on. It is a grand project and it is brought to us by Folly whose first rate arts projects have been mentioned in Shared Creation before. Great news to see that they are keeping up with invaluable and useful projects.

I torn as to whether this should be a news post in the magazine or here in the Projects section. I figured that what I’m about to talk about only grows and exists so long as it is worked on - so its a project.

A Shared Creation group now exists on Facebook. It’s purpose is to allow Facebook members to share with each other what they are doing and to talk to each other about subjects that concern them. I’ll regularly write posts from what goes in that group so that the news can easily spread to a wider audience.

Facebook has millions of users, but news from Facebook on a website like Shared Creation can spread further - faster thanks to search engines and RSS. I think this could be a good combination - the power of social networking and the web working together to help people out.

We’ll have to see how it works out.

Technorati Tags: Collaborate, Community, Facebook, Web

I’ve just discovered a new blog that takes on the job of issuing advice to new film makers. This is a great personal project by Marion - a 32 year old commentator from Canada.

If you’re interested take a look at this blog at: http://www.myspace.com/maryscolumn

I rarely have difficulty figuring out where to place an entry. Then I heard about castingfirst.net and realised that it had to go into both magazine and projects sections of Shared Creation. So here is a quote of the entry in the Magazine. Enjoy

We’d like to introduce you to castingfirst.net Putting it simply this is a free resource where you can post / advertise for castings, notices and jobs for your next project, event or gig. Registration to use castingnet is free, and its aim to bring together the world wide entertainment community is honourable in the extreme.

Check it out.

Flat Holm is a small island just 5 miles offshore from Cardiff and Barry. It has been a religious retreat since the dark ages, received the first radio transmission across water in 1897 and is a site of special scientific interest and a nature reserve.The Flat Holm Project (see www.cardiff.gov.uk/flatholm) aims to give you access to it.We’d like to draw your attention to some of the courses that will be run on Flatholm. Photography A Photography course is being run on the 29th of July with Tim Collier. Tim has kindly provided the photographs used in this article. You should also take a look at Tims website orange pebble for details of this and other courses. Yoga On the 29th of July Jackie Marshall will be teaching a full day Yoga Course. The 29th of August sees Louise Noyes taking up the challenge of teaching yoga on Flat Holm Art July 29th will see artist Shirley Anne Owen teaching art using water based media, watercolour, acrylic and inks. August the 29th sees water colourist Peter Cronin takes up the reins to give you the benefit of his 20 years of experience Details regarding all these courses are attached to this article in adobe PDF format. Just click on link to see the full details. You can also contact the Flat Holm project for additional information.

• Photography Course Description
• Photography Course Itinerary
• Art Course Shirley Anne Owen
• Art Course Peter Cronin
• Yoga Course Louise Noyes
• Yoga Course Jackie Marshall