My library is selling its long tail: Last Saturday, like almost every week-end, my son Kai and I went to the local library. As always we tried to score five new children's books, a goal we somehow always manage to attain :-) And when there's time and attention span left, I get to choose some books and cd's as well. That fortunately being the case, I noticed that the music department was selling part of its collection. Not junk, but truly magnificent stuff. Apparently, the...

Everything gets recuperated: Duchamp and Banksy: Last week I got quite uneasy because last.fm was rumoured to being sold to Viacom. This has not happened until now, so I might have jumped to conclusions too quickly. But in our capitalist system it's a sad truth that, given enough time, everything gets recuperated. In many cases ironically enough by the system it tends to criticise.Take for instance the artist Marcel Duchamp...

Online communities and selling opportunities for artists: A few weeks ago, I reported about Humble Voice , an online community for artists to present their work. Here are a few more arts communities that have recently launched, or received extra funding to pursue their mission. First Sistino , offering artists the opportunity to sell high-quality prints of their works. Sistino has been created by Art.com . Then there is Imagekind , by "Curious Office Pa...

Humble Voice, a community of artists: Humble Voice is a new community for artists (and art lovers). Not unlike Myspace, it offers the possibility for artists to create profiles. Photography, art, films, writing and music may then be added to this profile and shared with the community. Additional features include calendars to track local readings, art shows, band performances and community events. Each artist community homepage contains featured artists, each day's top listened to/viewed/read...