JOYENGINE: cause sharing is cool

Last summer I spent a few weeks traveling through Spain and Portugal. It was an amazing experience. Lisbon, Portugal was one of my favorite places we visited. The locals were very approachable and the country was beautiful. Anyways, OFFF is currently talking place in Lisbon and I wish I was there. IS050 is taking part in the international festival and has been updating his blog.

I received a rather alarming email from the good people at conceptart.org this morning. It appears that legislation regarding artist’s image rights is being rushed through congress, and it appears to lay the groundwork for artists losing the rights to the very images they create. Please read all of this and click the links to contact your state representatives (it literally takes minutes and has been done for you) and email this story to everyone you know below!

According to the ORPHAN WORKS ACT (which will be written in the House at 2:00 today, and in the Senate tomorrow), “orphan work” is copyrighted work whose owner is unable to be located with what the infringer himself decides as “reasonably diligent search.” In a radical departure from existing copyright law and business practice, the U.S. Copyright Office has proposed that Congress grant such infringers freedom to ignore the rights of the artist and use the work for any purpose, including commercial usage.

Essentially, this will mean artists will be responsible for paying to register their images in a system that is untested, time-consuming and redundant, costing them hard-earned money and time to legally retain the rights to images THEY ALREADY OWN. A website has been created that allows us to easily contact representatives, and tell them to vote this down! Please, if you value art and the people who create it (you’re HERE so I know that you do!!!) then take a minute and help put those assholes in Washington in their place.

http://capwiz.com/illustratorspartnership/home/

This link has all your information on what this bill will mean to artists, and how to contact congress and see this changed. Things like this happen every day people, and democracy doesn’t work if we don’t participate. Don’t let this bill weaken our artists’ rights!

contact Senate Judiciary Committee:
http://capwiz.com/illustratorspartnership/issues/alert/?alertid=11349191

contact House Judiciary Committee:
http://capwiz.com/illustratorspartnership/issues/alert/?alertid=11349111

Check out: Dgnetics Musics for some seriously raw musical talent.

The voting is up! Go check out all the winners. I know a few local firms had some sites in the running, but I can’t seem to navigate the flash thingy well enough to find out if they won… Actually I just managed to find that Texture Media won for their PENTAX site. Congrats! Anyways, check it out, this is the creme de la creme of current web design.

If you know anyone in Indiana or North Carolina call them and recommend they get their ass out to vote and rally anyone and everyone they can. As difficult as it’s been, winning the democratic nomination will be viewed as childs play compared to what’s to come from the right.

And in regards to Obama being all talk, and no action… have a look at his Senate voting record. It’s pretty damn impressive for a “junior” Senator.

We’re stoked to spread the love on this one… This Saturday, May 10th at the Plastic Chapel on Colfax… COLLABORATION at it’s finest!!! John Fellows and Kris Fry have teamed up to break out In Cahoots, a super-collaborative endeavor conspired and created over the past 2 months. This seriously graphically skilled duo will be droppin’ silk screen posters, lino cuts, drawings, and an all new zine for the show. The work’ll be rad for certain - stop by.

Amidst a recent flurry of new work ranging from the creation of a couple of new identity systems, some gorgeous wedding invites, a stash of custom built and hand-painted signs, and a brilliant pop-iconified painting of Marilyn Monroe(wish we had a photo) for the Life as Legend traveling exhibition at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center - Scot Lefavor managed to fully handle the below commission. Courtland Urbano(left) and Sean Herman(right) are two all around super rad and way crafty dudes. Both are signigicant players in the perpetually emerging Colorado art & design scene. Courtland commissioned Scot to create a painting of him and his best bro Sean. While the attached photo does some justice to the piece, it’s lacking the required detail necessary for full appreciation. Lefavor is up’n the ante with some new techniques and odds are good they’ll be fully utilized for his upcoming show at Andenken with Amanda Marie. We can’t wait to see…

Regan Rosberg is a good friend and a spectacular artist. Regan will be showing work in the upcoming Molten group show at Space Gallery on June 6th. Molten runs from June 6th to June 28th and features work by some of our regions top talents. You can get all the info on the show here. Below you’ll find one of Regan’s latest pieces. Her work for the Molten show is resin based and includes some seriously photorealistic painting. Ms. Rosberg is certainly on top of her game.  Visit her website to get the real deal.

Download the new full-length nine inch nails record: the slip for free.

Here is what NIN has to say: “As a thank you to our fans for your continued support, we are giving away the new nine inch nails album one hundred percent free, exclusively via nin.com.”

The Filmlot, the online magazine for creative independent filmmakers is psyched to announce their premiere Denver screening of Beautiful Losers! Here’s all the event details:

 MAY 22nd, 7pm at The Mayan Theater (110 Broadway)
Aaron Rose will be there for a Q&A after the film!

After party will be held at The Continental Club (475 Santa Fe Dr.)
featuring DJ IDULL!

Tickets can be purchased online

This may not be really art related, but engineering and creativity surely have their place around here…and this concept is fresh! Behold the CUBE Urban Street Concept, the folding bike of the future! Full size wheels, ultra compact folded size and the badass design cues of this machine put all other “city” and “fold-able” bikes to shame. It even has a bike powered generator with LED lights that turn on automatically when it gets dark! The site is in German and english as well, but the “innovation” section with the urban bike concept is only available in German….you’ll just have to drool at the photos and video explanation. Check it out… no info on availability or price yet, but I will for sure will be keeping my eyes on this one.

Based in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, artist Joris Laarman designed this line of furniture, which mimics the structure of bones. Though partially hollow, these form a strong, almost architectural matrix of support. This polished aluminum chair was created using software that mimics the process by which bones grow over time.