Featuring artists: this category includes articles and videos which show the work of artists besides myself or which talk about other artists’ work.

On felted wool sculptures and being the patron

I just commissioned Amelia Santiago to make a sculpture of my favorite Brittany, and being on the buying end of art was a little unreal.

Austin Kleon: creativity, copyright, and superstition

Austin Kleon may be an advocate for creativity, but he also has a strange relationship with copyright, as this snippet of the “Image Use and Copyright” page of his site proves.

Un modèle d’affaires pour un artiste qui renonce au droit d’auteur

L’auteur de cette bande dessinée n’est pas le seul artiste qui gagne sa vie sans le copyright, et le modèle d’affaires pour faire pareil n’est pas si compliqué que ça.

Instead of competition / Au lieu de la compétition

There is a lot more collaboration that goes on in the animal world than we would maybe like to admit.  Nous n’avons peut-être pas envie de l’admettre, mais il y a moins de concurrence parmi les animaux que ce qu’on nous a appris.

Posséder la culture

Par moments, nous pouvons apprécier l’idée de la propriété intellectuelle, mais la plupart du temps nous nous approprions nos bouts préférés de culture sans trop se soucier du droit d’auteur, et cette représentation du Petit Prince sur une tombe en est la preuve.

Portrait professional

The software that enhanced this photo by Jose Mondia may make the portrait into a lie, but my way of painting people does too.

Ira Glass in the looking glass

Ira Glass saying that Mike Daisey doesn’t tell the truth is like saying that René Magritte doesn’t represent reality. The statement is at least as wrong as it is right.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder

I’m so glad Scott Bradner caught this moment of me with my camera.  I don’t have any other pictures of me with my closest collaborator.

Learning from copying / Apprendre avec l’imitation

Recently, a stranger made a painting based on this detail image of one of my portraits, and in doing so she made me very happy.  J’étais ravie quand, récemment, quelqu’un a fait une peinture basée sur cette image d’un de mes portraits.

Without effort / Sans effort

A lesson about art learned from Marcel Marceau and miming in general.  Une leçon artistique présentée par le mime et par Marcel Marceau en particulier.

A business model for an artist who does not use copyright

The creator of this comic isn’t the only artist who makes a living without copyright, and the business model to do the same isn’t that complicated.

In it together

Thursday Friday’s Together bags bring up interesting questions about status and hierarchy, both in the social sense of those words and in how they relate to the concept of intellectual property.

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