Emmah Williams and Engender Truth gaining wider Recognition through Networking
December 8, 2007
Emmah Williams, Creative Artist (storyteller and poet - works in progress), and activist for peace in the Gender Wars through her Engender Truth blog, recently received email from Edward Dunning, a co-Founder of the Family Interventions Project in
Midnight.Haulkerton’s Violence of the Soul album is going to Slay Demons!
November 30, 2007
I’m listening to a fresh demo of Joel Falconer and Greg Cameron’s song for Midnight.Haulkerton’s forthcoming album Violence of the Soul (VotS), a project I’ve been intimately associated with for some time as we worked to develop repertoire, form the band, get all the business in order and deal with the vicissitudes of life, that tear the soul and urge it this way and that.
The track is Forget and it’s a great personal statement that is right on theme, right on track and utterly authentic. Yesterday, 26 November, 2007, Joel was telling me how much Greg likes to rock and just loves music. Well, he’s right, and you can tell. The guitaring on this track just blows your head off and you right out of it. I don’t think I’ll move back in now I’ve been liberated from my skull. Thanks, Greg! I never needed that container anyway.
Falconer delivers a powerful vocal that rocks out and grabs your whole body and chills it with thrills that are unnerving and delicious. It’s like great sex, only…better! Have I had great sex? Sure! I’m not a real donkey lover, yah know. Just a pretend one! (That’s an inside joke Joel may let you in on some day and has to do with the hidden history of the Lascaux Caves. Don’t ask. The Order will want my entrails.)
Two verses take us into a chorus where Falconer shows his talent for long line delivery that never ceases to amaze me. He’s got that Sinatra phrasing knack, that was once so unique. But he’s not a crooner, nothing soft about Falconer, he’s a hard man with voice that’ll scrape your soul raw.
The bridge is a sweet drop into a trippy taste of etherealism, Midnight.Haulkerton style.
VotS is an album that addresses the way the world–our experience of society and civilization–rips at our lives. It’s the first in a series of planned albums from Midnight.Haulkerton.
I can’t wait till these guys are in the studio recording this album! (2008, all going well) When Falconer is in deep throat there is nothing quite so orgasmic. Midnight.Haulkerton has got one of those sounds that pumps your blood up and gets you ready and roaring to tackle the world.
Slay Demons, yes, Midnight.Haulkerton could do this with a single well-placed chord, but as Joel said, “It’s not the demons we want to slay - it’s the angels.”
Yeah, not too keen on the cherubs myself, mate.
IR2F so easily but I will have a hard job forgetting the first time I heard Forget.
This was just a demo!
Update: MySpace removes pirated NDK Creative Artist article from website
September 27, 2007
MySpace has notified NDK Creative Artist by email today that his article Traditional Model Music Industry Shows Increasing Signs of Collapse which was misappropriated by MySpace user and BMI Songwriter/Producer Colin Preston, as mentioned in the Allforart News Flash of 22 September 2007 in the Free Articulator has been removed from MySpace.
No apology, as requested, has been received from Colin Preston to date.
News Flash: Free Articulator Catches Intellectual Property Thief Stealing NDK Article and publishing it on MySpace
September 21, 2007
It’s not hard to reprint intellectual property licensed under a Creative Commons License. As we declare in the footer of every page of the Free Articulator, the content published on this site is Creative Commons licensed. We encourage other publishers around the internet to reprint our content, enhancing the value of their site and bringing publicity to our contributors. But we do have a few conditions, as stipulated by the Creative Commons license:
The content must be attributed and link back to the Free Articulator - a standard practice in any field.
The content must not be a derivative of the original, but an accurate and unchanged copy.
The content must not be used for commercial purposes.
Today we discovered plagiarism and intellectual property theft of our content by a fellow named Colin Preston on his MySpace blog. The article that was ripped off was NDK Creative Artist’s “Traditional Model Music Industry Shows Increasing Signs of Collapse”, and the plagiarized version can be found here, until MySpace takes action as requested. Screenshot here.
Mr Preston failed to attribute NDK Creative Artist and link back to the Free Articulator, he made a derivative by modifying the content, and it is arguably a commercial use of the content as his MySpace profile is clearly a promotional tool for his services as a musician and producer.
“I’d be flattered and grateful if he had just done the right thing,” said NDK Creative Artist, who wrote the lyrics for the tuneback “Creative Commons for the Common Man“.
The article in question is, in part, an anti-piracy piece, and Mr Preston has pirated NDK’s work in order to make himself look reputable and anti-piracy. The gall, hypocrisy and lack of integrity of some artists is undesirable.
The Free Articulator has notified MySpace and Allforart, the Free Articulator, NDK Enterprises Limited and NDK Creative Artist will take further action as necessary.
We offer our content to the world with only a few stipulations; it’s not that hard to reprint Creative Commons material. Do the right thing.
If you would like to learn how to protect yourself in similar situations, click here to subscribe to the Free Articulator now - we’ll be publishing a series on intellectual property for artists soon.
Spammers Spoofing Allforart in what amounts to Fraud are put on notice
July 14, 2007
Although Allforart Limited has never launched a single email campaign to date, spammers are already spoofing Allforart’s email addresses and using them to send out SPAM in violation of domestic and international anti-spam laws.
The Free Articulator…dream to reality
July 4, 2007
What a journey it has been to put this together. The Free Articulator was conceived quite literally years ago, and it has gone through a tremendous amount of consideration, thought and work from so many great and good people all of whom contributed to its present form in one way or another. It’s a great pleasure for me to finally see it launch, for I have worked very hard to understand the publishing medium, which with the advent and rise of blogging has changed significantly. Thanks to Joel Falconer, the Free Articulator’s Editor-in-Chief we have finally come of age and are launching today proclaiming our Creative Independence and our commitment to help artists become Creative Artists, about which, you’ll read more in subsequent publications.
Welcome to the Free Articulator
July 4, 2007
The Free Articulator has been a long time coming.
In fact, since I took up my position as the Editor-in-Chief of this publication, I’ve had a child, graduated high school and gotten married (all in that order, by the way).
So I guess you can see why it took us so long–that is, apart from the universe practically working against us to prevent this publication from coming into place.
