Add "music industry distruptor" to the ever-growing list of new media job functions. Bay Area entrepreneurship group Women 2.0 will be talking about the industry's struggle to monetize with a few start-up founders who, instead of poking fun at big…
Continue Reading →Jailbreak Toys, makers of the Barack Obama Action Figure, will present ART + ACTION = Obama 08 at Toy Tokyo's gallery: The Showroom NYC on October 17th. Contemporary artists, toy designers and graf writers like Mars-1, Peat Wollaeger, kaNO, Brin…
Continue Reading →The candidacy of Barack Obama is inspiring politically conscious artists to create at a never before seen breakneck pace. The latest artist to nod in the direction of everyone's favorite hopemonger is Spear favorite Dan Funderburgh. Funderburgh's most recent letter…
Continue Reading →Plenty of us would rather not know where the government's cut of our paycheck ends up, but for those citizens that are rather concerned, there's USATaxDollars.com. Simply enter your income and out comes a breakdown of where the Federal Government…
Continue Reading →If moose had a say in this current presidential election, we think they'd vote for the candidate whose running mate didn't spend a fair amount of their time gunning them down. Unfortunately, the species is not included involved in the…
Continue Reading →It seems Etsy's crafty influence has rubbed off on eBay, and with good reason. Melbourne artists have donated their work for FUSION 2008, a global street art charity auction that benefits Kids Under Cover. By buying a print, individuals can…
Continue Reading →During this political season it's almost guaranteed that you'll be relying on various media sources for your up to the minute election coverage. If you're looking at online periodicals and sites run by certain 24-hour news networks, the likelihood that…
Continue Reading →Though is nothing funny about going hungry. The World Food Programme hosted a competition calling for creatives to shoot videos related to the topic. The one that receives the most views by October 16th -- World Food Day -- will…
Continue Reading →When crisis takes over a country, its citizens, as history has shown, oftentimes returns to its cultural roots to help find stability in all the chaos. Woodstock, for example, proved that unrest during wartime adds water for creativity to grow.…
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