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Crowdsourcing Art | Neon Burns

// September 1st, 2010 // View Comments // b-loud

Crowdsourcing art is just what we do. This week we have the wonderful Debra D’Breau to showcase. Her digitally enhanced art is beguilingly brash & bold. Her confidence in lustrous form erupts in a high-octane contrast. Each image whips viewers in the gut and her powerful pictures leave a long-lasting sensory hit. She is a greatly valued artist in our Crowd and always offers positive feedback to many of our emerging artists. To commission art from Debra’s colour brandishing brilliance go here. Otherwise enjoy the interview…

What was your very first artwork?
Doodles of my “Lines” as far back as grade school.

Describe the piece you love the most—why?
“Fallopia” It was part of my theses in college. It took over a hundred hours to complete and I received an A+ for it. The crazy thing is I painted it with my then 6-year-old daughter’s grade school, glitter paints. The one I have posted is not the original.

What are your methods? Your inspirations?
I paint, draw and write, but at this time I am having an epiphany with photography. The world and the people in it are my inspirations.

What did it take to make it to where you are now?
Success, poverty, success, poverty, success, poverty. . .

Do you make a living from your artwork?
My artwork is giving me life.

Who has helped you along the way?
My mother has been my greatest support. She always saw the artist within, but I never dreamed it would ever be a possibility. I was a corporate girl chasing the money and found it didn’t necessarily bring me fulfillment.

What 5 artists (dead or alive) would you invite for the ultimate dinner party?
Ansel Adams, Georgia O’Keeffe, Salvador Dali, Richard Avedon, Francesco Scavullo, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rin. I know I named (6), but I couldn’t choose one to leave out.

Your favourite curse?
A bit embarrassed to say, but it’s “f_ _k!” It’s a word that fits every occasion.

Your biggest (albeit endearing) flaw?
Overly emotional and overly sensitive..

Qualities a man needs to seduce you and the flaws that will repel you? Seduce? He must be a true gentleman. Repel? A man that has no respect for himself.

Your parents advice you should have followed, but didn’t?
You cannot spend $3, when you only have $1.

Your idea of the perfect weekend?
Room 26, in the Victorian House, at the Beachmere Inn in Ogunquit, ME.

Who would you chose to rule the world?
The universe, but it already does so I’m good.

Favourite ice-cream?
Breyers Butter Pecan

Where do you see yourself in…..One month? One Year? One Decade?
I don’t even know where I’ll be tomorrow. Life can change in an instant.

Crowdsourcing Art | Rippling The Realities of Pornography

// August 4th, 2010 // View Comments // b-loud

We are a fairtrade Crowdsourcing art agency. The incredibly talented and experienced DongSheng Guan joined our Crowdsourced art community in March. His latest works took us all by surprise. I’ve never seen pornographic imagery transformed so uniquely. His digitally remastered images play with our notions of reality, toying with our perceptions of graphic and recognisable forms. His new work lures you in and conjures temptations for more. Each distorted picture traps you lusting to know the original image whilst enjoying the vast possibilities. Commission enticing artwork from DongSheng here.

Your first work of art?
Sorry, I cannot exactly answer you, a long time ago, you know, I’ve been engaged in painting for 30 years. The first time I participated in a national exhibition was in 2000; the work was in a realistic style in watercolours.

What is your favourite work of art?
If you mean the world and all works of art, I like too much, if referring to my own, I like the current batch of digital works mine. This is because they are distant reality from our own with strong visual impact and important to me.

Methods and inspiration?
I choose pictures and then use digital technology to transform them until there is the birth of a new image. From reproduction to show, from watercolour to oil painting and then to digital art; I pass a long process and have gradually realized the relationship between technology and art and won my freedom of artistic expression.

What are your artistic aims?
To create desire.

Who has helped you along the way?
Mainly my brother, he graduated from Tsinghua University and then the University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom. He opened my eyes to make decisive change.

Where five artists will be invited to the last dinner you?
Van Gogh, Picasso, Dali, Andy Warhol, Beuys

What is your favorite curse?
Fuck

Your biggest (although endearing) flaw?
No artistic talent.

Who would you choose to rule the world?
God’s doing well.

Favourite ice-cream?
With Strawberries

Where do you see yourself in a decade?
After ten years, hoping to travel to Europe, where the best exhibitions are.

Cross-Crowdsourcing | Artists, Entrepreneurs and Flying Machines

// July 20th, 2010 // View Comments // b-Crowd

What the hell is Cross-Crowdsourcing pollination I hear you ask! Let me explain…Becoming a painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer demands super-duper dedication. It is the dying art and renaissance dream of the polymath. Leonardo Da Vinci, known to practise all these disciplines, drew success and legacy by opening himself up to mind-popping diversity. All the disciplines benefited as his practise in one  informed the others. So why not use our focused Crowdsourcing agency as our polymath platform.

At the creative Crowdsourcing agency, blur Group, we are opening new possibilities by cross-pollinating  artists with entrepreneurs. We believe success, innovation & exciting forms of production will materialise by fusing ideas and knowledge from different expertise. Artists from our art community at b-uncut now have access to a leading 7 stage, 49 phase start-up system and innovation methodology already practised by many entrepreneurs. The program was created by artist, innovatr and entrepreneur Philip Letts as a foundation of blur Group’s Crowdsourced entrepreneurial network, Innovatrs. Each b-uncut artist can now join this entrepreneurial network for free and learn, share, collaborate & integrate.

We know artists and entrepreneurs share many complementary assets. Look at the founder/photographer Philip! Creativity, self-belief, dynamism, a gun ho attitude and ‘occasionally’ a short attention span are all common threads. Every artist is an impresario who pushes boundaries of thought and thrives in the unknown. Conversely an entrepreneur understands commercial limits but creatively deals out his cards. Artists offer the start-up off the wall creativity, the stuff dreams are made of and the collaboration is balanced with grounded, focused realisms. Generally speaking, the most successful entrepreneurs and artists have a balance of “out of the box” and “feet on the ground”. Depending which you are, you’ll tip more one way than the other.

Emerging artists and start-ups alike can contribute incredibly to one other and both flourish on the edge. Both confront risk and uncertainty with determination and faith in their pursuit. And both are open to “different” thinking and versed in creativity. Developing your art studio into a profit making engine requires fundamental learning in many areas of business from creation and sales and sadly to the boring books of accountancy before the tax man comes-a-knockin’. Exploiting our successful crowdsourcing model we are now pairing our community of artists with our network of entrepreneurs to catalyse the creative age. And this friends is C-C-P.

Commission Art | Collage Shapes Cut Colours

// July 7th, 2010 // View Comments // b-loud

Swedish artist Stefan Fransson joined our art community in February. He contributed an awesome iPhone 4 wallpaper and was crowned a winner in our competition this week. In the past few years he has taken to a distinctive digital style. He creates collages from photographs, previous paintings and 3D works. One of his digital collages ‘Thin Ice’ became a large print commssioned for the new Google Centre in Stockholm,Sweden. It became a theme for a permanent installation for the reception room where he also created a big 3D tree branch that was decorated with different prints of his collages. Get to know the wonderfully talented artist Stefan  better in the interview below. Commission art here.

What was your very first artwork?
Kind off self-tought expressionism:My Primal Scream.

Describe the piece you love the most-why?

I like ‘Thin Ice’,most.It has an interesting combination of abstraction and photographic reality. Off my latest works,it is Deep Surface.

What are your methods? Your inspirations?

I like to mix things.Fit things together,so that new images appears. Everything has to ‘melt’ into the compositons.For me this is a way to find unpredictibal meetings,of different images. Also,when I look back at my works over the years,it seems as I have been collecting patterns.Patterns that might have connection with life,change and movements,but also with image making.

What did it take to make it to where you are now?
Drawing,Composing,Collecting,Balancing.

Do you make a living from your artwork?
I am an art teacher, part-time.The rest comes from my art.

Who has helped you along the way?

Family, freinds,and other artists. Have got a lot of inspiration from the nordic nature,with the interesting changes of seasons and light.

Crowdsourcing Art | Best Free iPhone 4 Art Wallpapers

// July 5th, 2010 // View Comments // Eyes on the Crowd, b-wired

Here are 6 awesome art iPhone wallpapers for your new iPhone 4. These fantastic wallpapers were hand selected from the great range of entries in our crowdsourced art community. The entries were so cool we were inspired to create our own! To download the best free art wallpapers for the iPhone 4 just click here.

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Buy Art Online: Feng Shui Photography

// June 23rd, 2010 // View Comments // b-loud

David Lorenz Winston is a fine art photographer based in Talent, Oregon. An amazing photographer who joined our art community in March, David enjoys pickleball, piano. walking, free-form dancing, travel, social networking and photographing the local landscape. As you’ll see in his deeply soothing photographs David captures the stillness in nature and surprise in the ordinary. His imagery is about discovery and takes the viewer on his refreshing journey discovering peaceful, isolated moments. Our leading crowdsourced commission art service at b-uncut means you can buy photography online in his clean, distinguished style from his ever observing eye. Read the interview below and get to know the artist that is David Lorenz Winston.

What was your very first artwork?

In third grade I recall using black and brown crayons to bring out the tactile quality of a large tree trunk. I had no idea what I was doing, but it made me feel great.

Describe the piece you love the most—why?

There are so many pieces that I love, that I would be hard pressed to come up with one. Solitude is the image that I’m most grateful for finding as it propelled my career as a fine art photographer. I discovered it on a foggy morning after a light snowfall in the horse country, west of Philadelphia. It was a magical moment, a zigzag fence leading into a beautifully formed bare tree and then into nothingness as the fog took over. I had no idea at the time that this image would one day be on posters, greeting cards, magazines and more, that it would touch the lives of so many all over the world.

What are your methods? Your inspirations?

Originally I was inspired by the street photography of my teacher, George Krause and also that of Henri Cartier Bresson. As I started to show my work, I began to move more toward the landscape and to use color. My inspiration was the great color photographer, Ernst Haas. I continue to love both street photography and landscape photography. I use a digital SLR camera to capture my images and then use Photoshop in subtle ways to bring out my work. Its very much a two tiered process, capturing the image and then using digital processing to bring it to another level.

What did it take to make it to where you are now?
I started out doing art and craft fairs from Maine to Florida. They were both a great education and at the same time, a wonderful means for me to begin selling my work to the public. They taught me a lot about presenting and marketing my work. From there, I worked with corporate clients who used my work in their offices as wall decor and with art consultants who sold to healthcare facilities, law offices, among others. My work was also sold through stock photography companies. In 1999, Bruce McGaw Graphics accepted three images for posters, one of which, Solitude (mentioned above), has had unusual mass appeal and continues to do well.
I have also been involved with internet marketing, starting a weekly photoletter, archived on The Winston Weekly blog. I started the photoletter in January, 2007 with a list of 36 and over three plus years it has grown to over 1000. I find this to be a wonderful way to make contact and to make occasional sales. It delivers my latest work
on a regular and predictable basis keeping me in the awareness of many. It has also helped me with clients who also see what I’m up to. This has also led to new work.

Do you make a living from your artwork?
Yes

Who has helped you along the way?
Art show promoters and companies that have published my work, including, UNICEF, The National Wildlife Federation, Bruce McGaw Graphics, Pomegranate, Palm Press,
and Hallmark.

What 5 artists (dead or alive) would you invite for the ultimate dinner party?
Henri Cartier Bresson, Ernst Haas, Lewis Hine, Sebastiao Salgado, Minor White

Your favourite curse?
Chocolate

Your biggest (albeit endearing) flaw?
Forgetfulness

Qualities a woman needs to seduce you and the flaws that will repel you?
Good listener, Intelligent, Confident, Open to new ideas and charming.
Poor listener, talking too much, poor sense of feng shui

Your parents advice you should have followed, but didn’t?
Save your money

Your idea of the perfect weekend?
Traveling to the Oregon Coast, finding an amazingly lit landscape which I totally take in through my heart and eye, having a wonderful dinner with my partner and finding another amazing landscape the next day that blows me away.

Who would you chose to rule the world?
The Dalai Lama

Favourite ice-cream?
mint chocolate chip

Where do you see yourself in…..
One month?
Creating short videos

One Year?
Doing less and accomplishing more

One Decade?
Doing nothing and accomplishing everything

NYC Bicycle Film Festival 2010, June 16th

// June 15th, 2010 // View Comments // b-scene

The Bicycle Film Festival (BFF) started in 2001, it celebrates the bicycle through music, art, and of course, film. It all started when founder Brendt Barbur was hit by a New York City bus while biking and became determined to turn his negative experience into a positive one. Ever since, the BFF has been a great inspiration for the urban bike community. The film festival will be held at Anthology Film Archives at 32 2nd Ave and 2nd St. in the Big Apple on June 16th through to the 20th, you can get your tickets here. Visit the site and see where it will be held next!

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