New Prints Today
I am stoked to report that we have printed several new prints by Dan Funderburgh and Michael Perry. Dan’s print – ‘Census’ - is a signed and numbered 3-color edition to benefit the campaign for Barack Obama – Dan’s donating all proceeds to the campaign.
Universe Factory by Michael Perry is actually an edition of 4 prints available individually or as a set.
Still #2980
A first edition of 4 prints by Michael Perry – drying and waiting to be trimmed down to size.
→ Obama Campaign Organizers Trying To Win Election Instead of Get You Yard Signs
Organizers – the people out there killing themselves to win this election – hate yard signs with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns.
Barack Obama’s organizers hate them. John McCain’s organizers hate them. It’s because yard signs don’t vote – but they do generate a ridiculous amount of complaining that must be patiently listened to. Until yard signs sprout little legs and go to the polls on Election Day, in a presidential election with universal name recognition they are just a nice little decoration.
They’re little feel good things, making you feel like you’re on the team. There is nothing wrong with that – that’s not the objection. The objection is that there is limited time for organizers to accomplish a wide array of prioritized tasks, and in this election they’ve chosen to prioritize identifying, registering, persuading and getting their voters to the polls. Yard signs cut into the organizer’s sleep time – literally.
Collect SoHo
Artog’s Collect SoHo art crawl is tonight in – wait for it – SoHo. We’ve put a lot of effort into organizing it and it’s really shaping up.
If you are free in the city this evening, come on by and check out the shows: the Dia installations Earth Room and Broken Kilometer recently re-opened and the participating galleries have a lot of great art from emerging and more established artists; also, notably, the Drawing Center is hosting an artist talk with Pat Steir and curator Joao Ribas in their Main Gallery at 6:30pm and a show of drawings by Rirkrit Tiravanija that I am looking forward to seeing.
→ Artlog on the radio @Technology in the Arts
Just worked up the nerve to listen to the interview Nish and I did with Brad Stephensen for the Technology in the Arts, um, um, podcast.
Thanks, Brad!
Reprints
We reprinted the We are so good together prints on speckletone natural paper over the weekend for those of you who were waiting.
I am also pretty stoked to print some new posters next week with Mike Perry and a few other folks.
→ Required Reading for "User-Generated Content" Sites: Io Group v. Veoh @Electronic Frontier Foundation
This ruling provides valuable guidance to companies that host video, audio, and text files on behalf of users (see, e.g., Muxtape). Too many “Web 2.0” start-ups are careless about the requirements of the DMCA safe harbors. They don’t register a Copyright Agent, or keep good records of their responses to takedown notices, or have a demonstrable policy of terminating “repeat infringers.” Sure, doing this “compliance” work costs time and money. But, as the Veoh decision demonstrates, the payoff can be enormous, since copyright is almost certainly the biggest liability risk these sites face.
Oh and
I rebuilt the Artlog application over the past several weeks and we launched it yesterday. I am still adding features and bringing the portfolio sites back online with the new design, but it’s a major improvement as is, I reckon.
Have a look at the new user profiles and the new map guides if you’re interested.
Kaboom!
I am pumped to release a new print for the store by Matt Hollister. It’s a two color poster and measures 13 by 20 inches.
We ran a hundred off over the course of one evening a couple weeks back with a little moral support from Sam Friedman.
Good times.
And we're back
I just got back from ten or so days in California. Posters purchased while I was gone went out this afternoon. Thanks again for your orders, folks. More new prints coming along shortly.