Elizabeth Gilbert: A different way to think about creative genius

About this talk

Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses -- and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person "being" a genius, all of us "have" a genius. It's a funny, personal and surprisingly moving talk.

About Elizabeth Gilbert

The author of Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert has thought long and hard about some large topics. Her next fascination: genius, and how we ruin it. Full bio and more links

Collage Illustrator: Claudine Hellmuth

Claudine Hellmuth is a nationally recognized collage artist, author and illustrator. She combines photos, paint, paper and pen into quirky, whimsical-retro collages that she calls Poppets®.

Her artworks have been featured on The Martha Stewart Show, in Mary Engelbreit's Home Companion magazine, on HGTV's "I Want That!" and on the DIY Network's program, "Craft Lab."

In addition to creating her artwork full-time, Claudine teaches collage workshops in the US & Canada, and she has written 2 books about her techniques, "Collage Discovery Workshop" and "Collage Discovery Workshop: Beyond the Unexpected." She has also produced three instructional DVD workshops.

Claudine's studio and home are in Washington DC, where she lives with her husband, Paul and their very spoiled pets - Toby the wonder dog and Mable & Stanley the cats.

The Orphan Works Roundtable and Webcast

Hosted by the Office of Advocacy of the U.S. Small Business Administration on 08/08/2008 in NY

How Will the Orphan Works Bill Economically Impact Small Entities?

View the Roundtable Video Now
http://videos.cmitnyc.com/asip.html

"A Seminal Event"
"Unprecedented"
"The most effective advocacy in opposition to these bills I have seen."
"The Gathering of the Tribes"

These are some of the comments we've received from last Friday's Roundtable on Orphan Works, conducted by the Small Business Administration. Artists, photographers, songwriters, musicians, writers and spokesmen for collateral businesses all made this the best attended Roundtable the SBA has conducted.

As one member of the audience said, perhaps the only good thing about the Orphan Works bill is that it's brought so many creative communities together. The full house is the best measure of the concern creators have about this effort to undermine copyright law.

Here are some of the key points to emerge from the discussion:

• The high cost of digitizing and registering work with commercial databases will make compliance impossible for most artists.
  
  
• This will cause billions of unregistered works to fall into the public domain.
  
  
• To make money, commercial databases will have to promote and facilitate infringement.
  
  
• Infringer-friendly databases will compete with artists for clients.
  

As one panelist summed up:
this bill "will socialize costs and privatize profits."

To learn more about who was here visit the IPA Blog

LEARN MORE & TAKE ACTION
AGAINST THESE BILLS: www.owoh.org

Please forward this message and link to every copyright holder you know.

Penelope Dullahan Interview

Sheri Gaynor of feistyfemales.com interviews illustrator and entrepreneur Penelope Dullahan. You may also know Penelope Dullahan from Illustration Friday. If you are looking for a way to kick start your ideas, this is worthy of your creative input.

"Penny will share how she made the transition from art director at a successful ad agency, to successful illustrator, with an impressive client list. Penny has created illustration work for Target, United Airlines and Harper Collins, to name just a few."

Listen to the interview here.