Kickstarter crowdfunds for all comers new or old where ever they maybe, whereas Creative NZ is a semi regulated government site really for NZ creators who have a track record and willing and organised to get through the eligibility wall…
Monthly Archives: August 2015
The Business of Creativity – Creative Growth Animation
To me Creative Growth Project animation projects a very “nice”, “clean” and somewhat superficial representation of the creative process along with a reward or prize for all this work at the end. The creators are all very “posh” and “well…
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The Business of Creativity – 99u vs Creative Growth Project
99u is a big bold, polished and subtly Adobe operated site that help make ideas a reality through “our Webby Award-winning website, popular events, and bestselling books”, sounds like a bit of a hard sell but if the related Behance…
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The Business of Creativity – Definition or Defamation
Business according to Google – “the practice of making one’s living by engaging in commerce.” Creativity according to Google – “the use of the imagination or original ideas, especially in the production of an artistic work.” So if we mix…
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The Business of Creativity – Random Thought or Idea
To me creativity is the moment of a journey when an idea germinates and spreads a thought for a motion of time energy and hapless hopeless wonderment – it is from this confusion of words that a form or shape…
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Funding Creativity – Interview
INTERVIEWER – Well what do you now think about all this funding stuff? ME – It’s just a jump to the unknown. GUESTS – And then a step up to the front. ME – With your hand on your heart.…
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Funding Creativity – Pressing Moment
My eyes turn to search for a solution within, without and about such is the inner turmoil that Dr Google looms as my LED beacon of light, so as I type the words “I want money to create art”, my…
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Funding Creativity – Beg to Create or Fight the Fight
Funding, funding, alas poor funding but those who want to create, let them try and to those who do not want to try in this world of the eternal funding struggle I say they do not deserve to beg! But…
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