Ideas and their value - Support the Tuneback
July 14, 2007
I think there is such a thing as unconscionable commercial exploitation. It comes about when those who have money and power already act to take away from others the opportunity to exploit their own creations without so much as a “by your leave”.
When I heard about what had happened to the concept of the tuneback that was created and invented by my creative collaborator, friend, and colleague Joel Falconer, well I was immediately aware of the immorality of those that decided to capitalize without so much as a courteous well-mannered contact to the creator of the first tunebacks. This is what passes for “good business” today. And as the world has come to know it’s also what largely passes for the style of business a lot of American companies carry out today. Scandal, corruption, cheating, stealing, lying it’s the American Way today. An honorable person will tell you straight what is what, and when you look at it, they will be right. Not just right in a technical sense, but right in a moral sense. Read more
A Powerful Concept for Creativity - Function determines structure and content
July 13, 2007
“Function determines structure and content.” This principle has powerful utility in the craft and business of creativity, when I say “powerful utility” I mean: it has broad applications in every field. This is such a powerful concept that it can help one manage and resolve creative blocks. Read more
Foundation Principles — The Declaration of Creative Independence and the Code of a Creative Artist
July 12, 2007
Allforart, the Free Articulator and other companies and entities in the Allforart Network and all who work in that network hold as vital and important the founding documents that govern what we do and how we operate. These founding documents are:
…and those applicable principles and concepts stated in A Creative Artist Enhances Society which will be a free download to Free Articulator subscribers and discounted to subscribers when it is published in hard copy.
But why do we need these things? Read more
Midnight.Haulkerton hits 4,000 downloads with “Fallen out of love with politics”
July 12, 2007
Midnight.Haulkerton’s latest tuneback, Fallen out of love with politics pushed the band’s download count over the 4,000 mark last night, an astonishing achievement for a group that revealed its name to the public only months ago.
Fallen out of love with politics is a tribute to the work of Al Gore and the example he sets, out of office, of what a politician really should be.
The 4,000 downloads figure comes from the band’s blog statistics alone, and figures from other sites that host the songs–including the Sydney Morning Herald and CanGoogleHearMe.com–are expected to be collectively at least double that of the band site’s figures.
The Declaration and the Traditional Industry - How Creative Artists want to do business
July 11, 2007
Some people will be concerned when they read the Creative Artists’ Declaration of Creative Independence that we are ignoring the fact that there are good companies, doing good business and cutting ourselves off from the lucrative market that the traditional industry model appears to have a firm hold on.
Well, that would be an incorrect assumption on their part. We do want to do business, but on our terms and in a fashion that is based on unbreakable trust. That means doing honest business with Creative Artists, because Creative Artists do honest business, and even exceptionally generous business.
So, who or what is a creative artist?
July 7, 2007
Well first of all, it’s not “creative artist.” It’s Creative Artist.
Why is it capitalized? Because it’s a profession, and it’s a title, and it’s an important defining characteristic that separates artist from Creative Artist.
Secondly, an artist is not a Creative Artist until they have demonstrated the criteria and behaviour of a Creative Artist. A Creative Artist is deeply committed to the welfare and well-being of humanity on every level, to such a degree that they will suffer any amount of the crap that passes for civilized society on this once beautiful planet we’ve trashed, to get the work out. Creative Artists know that most people in this “civilized society” have a singular lack of respect for and recognition of those who speak the truth to the rest of us.
A Live Earth observation…
July 6, 2007
I find it very interesting to observe that Al Gore, a statesman I much admire for his real commitment and firm stance on Global Warming and Climate Change, was unable to bring about any change in awareness through the political process of democracy, and that it took moving into the field of art & entertainment to make any sort of meaningful progress in raising awareness and consciousness.
Creative Artists Declaration of Creative Independence
July 4, 2007
Welcome to the Free Articulator. We are not ready… there is much still to be done, but we can wait no longer while the world declines before our very eyes. We take our stand now with this Declaration and let the chips fall where they will. We launch today, the 4th of July, a day America has claimed as its Independence Day and which we now claim as Creative Independence Day.
Creative Artists Declaration of Creative Independence
We, the undersigned Creative Artists, in order that we may better serve our society in its time of need, hereby declare ourselves independent of the current traditional industry of art & entertainment in order to exercise our Creative Rights, extending from the rights of free citizens living in democracies.
‘Jailbreak’ - Kozanotra Episode 1
July 4, 2007
A sense of utopia was always maintained with great care in the Centauri system colonies; utterly pretentious and artificial, a thin veil hiding the harsh realities of post-colonisation, but instated on a people completely oblivious to its existence. Authorities in every government department and then some put great thought into every detail of this sham, to prevent citizens questioning the United Colonies, to prevent any chance of any uproar from occurring. The truth, of course, always has a way of coming out—but why bother thinking of the consequences left to another century? In the here and now, the ’safety’ of the colonies—or rather, the comfort of its leaders—was the most important thing to protect.
Quality & Compromise
July 4, 2007
We live in a world where mediocrity has become the overall condition of our world. Where “good enough” is too often the highest goal of an increasingly indiscriminate and careless culture who are too willing to accept too little. What happened to Quality? Do any of us today really know what this word means, and its effect on our lives?
