Altered Art News
Welcome to Altered Art News, our occasional web journal that keeps you up-to-date with what's new at altered-art.net and what's happening in the world of altered and mixed-media art.
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Keep Google Honest
We trust Google to bring us the best search results. But now Google is betraying our trust...
Twelve Tags of Christmas 2011
Wow! It really doesn't seem as though twelve months have gone by since the last time, but Tim Holtz has started his fifth annual 12 Tags of Christmas series of holiday-themed tags today, 1st December 2011. Every day for the next twelve days you'll find ideas and inspiration for creating your own altered shipping tag on a Christmas theme...
Stop the Craziness!
Do you have a website or blog? Do you like to visit websites and blogs?
I know that it's a silly question, but something has happened that's going to affect most of us in one way or another.
In May 2011 a law was passed which means that if you live in the European Union (regardless of where your visitors come from, or where your website or blog is hosted) practically everything that you do that involves storing cookies, either directly or indirectly, is illegal unless you explicitly ask your visitors for permission.
You'll almost certainly be affected if you have third-party advertising on your website, or collect statistics about how many visitors come to your blog, or even if you have Facebook Like buttons. That's right: under this new law those Facebook Like buttons that you see everywhere are illegal if you live in the European Union.
Those are just a few examples.
Even if you live outside the European Union you may be affected. Do you like to visit websites or blogs run by webmasters from Europe? If they're trying not to break this law you'll be asked whether you'll allow them to store cookies. That could be annoying the first time, but what if you want to refuse? Under this crazy new law it's illegal to store this information, so you'll be asked again, and again, and again...
Please click here for more information and a video guide in less than three minutes.
So what can you do?
If you live in the European Union it may not be too late to make sure that when this law is implemented in your country all the craziness has been removed. It's not due to be implemented in the United Kingdom until May 2012. Please consider contacting your elected representative about this badly-considered piece of legislation.
Calling Arizona Artists!
It was on 14th February 1912 that Arizona became the 48th of the United States of America, and in celebration of one hundred years of statehood next year the Artists' Coalition of Flagstaff is sponsoring the Arizona State Centennial Artist Trading Card Project.
The project is open to residents of the state of Arizona, and original artwork submissions in the form of artist trading cards will be accepted until 15th December 2011. Your submission may be in any medium or combination of media, including paintings, photographs, collage, metal, fibres, ceramics and glass, and be on any subject related to the past or present of Arizona. As usual, the only restriction is that of size.
There will be a touring exhibition during 2012, and submissions will be shown in art galleries in Flagstaff, Sedona, Jerome, Prescott, the Phoenix and Tucson areas, and Bisbee. If you're an Arizona artist, this is an excellent opportunity to have your work seen.
Paricipants may submit up to ten artist trading cards, and will receive an equal number of randomly-selected cards after the exhibition.
For more details, please go to http://flagstaff-arts.org/2011/08/19/az-centennial-artist-trading-card-project/.
We are pleased that the Artists' Coalition of Flagstaff has recommended our website as the source of information on artist trading cards.
Like this Site?
You may have noticed Facebook Like buttons starting to appear at the bottom of some of our pages. You'll now find those buttons on most of the pages on our site, and also in the left margin if you like the site as a whole. If you've enjoyed your visit, or found a particular page useful, why not let your friends know by giving us a Like?
Small Art, Big Impact (updated)
We've just received an update from Stephanie Zing at Bohemian Art Cafe, who tells us that the closing date for entries has been extended to 15th July 2011. Get creating, folks!
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Small Art, Big Impact
We've heard about an exhibition of artist trading cards, to be entitled Small Art, Big Impact - Artist Trading Cards, and held from mid-August to early September 2011 at the Oxford Community Arts Center in Oxford, Ohio. This is a terrific way to have your artwork seen and admired by a very 'arty' community...
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