crowdfunding is in the LJ Spotlight this week, and we've been having some lively discussions. You should come join us! If you're a writer, artist, musician, or other creator, then you can use this community to promote your project and to discuss how to run a cyberfunded project. If you're a patron or fan, this is a place for you to talk about your favorite ( Read more... )

The Rose & Bay Awards focus on a growing business model known as "crowdfunding" or "cyberfunded creativity," which directly connects creative people and patrons of the arts online. The awards span six categories: Art, Fiction, Poetry, Webcomics, Other Projects, and Patrons. (Other Projects includes any cyberfunded creativity that isn't art, fiction ( Read more... )

stryck is offering another Feast of Poetry today, and you are invited to partake! Go to http://stryck.livejournal.com/773263.html and request a poem by suggesting verbal or visual prompts and poetic forms.

Also, next Tuesday, March 2, ysabetwordsmith will be offering another of her Poetry Fishbowls. This time the theme will be "elements & elemental spirits." She'll be ( Read more... )

stryck is offering "Poetry Nibbles: a Serving of Haiku" today. You can leave her a prompt at http://stryck.livejournal.com/762516.html, and she will write a haiku for you.

In other news, my blood sugar has been uncooperative today and I have a migraine, so I'm going to go hide someplace cool, dark, and quiet for a while.

djinni is hosting a Steampunk Icon Day today! He is taking requests for steampunk icons of you, your character, or your pet, drawn in ink and watercolor. He will sketch as many requests as he can get to today, and if tips reach his goal, he will draw every request. So go request an icon!

Examples of icons he's done for past icon days (warning - huge art ( Read more... )

If you haven’t discovered Ursula Vernon’s art and writing yet, you’re in for a treat (my eternal gratitude to memegarden for the links). You can browse her LJ ursulav and find links to her website and webcomic in her userinfo. I was laughing when I read her description of the blog-o-sphere:

This always reminds me of bathospheres. I imagine people in little iron ( Read more... )

I'm assuming you've all seen Serenity by now. If you haven't, what's keeping you? Grab your family, friends, coworkers, strangers on the street... grab someone and go! If you've seen it, go see it again! It's great entertainment and it tells a story that matters about characters we can care about. We need more movies like this, and if we want ( Read more... )

If you have cats and you don't know how to recognize a feline asthma attack, you should check out http://www.fritzthebrave.com/. Under Overview, click on Symptoms and then watch the video of Fritz having a coughing attack ( Read more... )

Both hiking and the game were called off today because other people are sick, but last night at least, things went according to plan. I had a relaxing evening watching this short film that Neil Gaiman wrote and directed, with Jessie purring in my lap for a while and then curling up next to me to sleep (she has more sense about such things than I do ( Read more... )

I woke in a happy, mellow mood today, despite getting nowhere nearly enough sleep. I had a happy, sleepy bus ride to work. Everything was incredibly beautiful--the sunlight dancing through the trees, greenery everywhere I looked, a bluejay, flowers--everything in such vivid colors... I wondered if perhaps some puckish creature had slipped something ( Read more... )