This was the first time Elizabeth has been on the Arts Alive show to talk about her felting and painting.
9/22/2012
Elizabeth Santone on Arts Alive
This was the first time Elizabeth has been on the Arts Alive show to talk about her felting and painting.
9/14/2012
Painting with Fire
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| Nike of Samothrace |
This summer I worked with artist Dwight Evalt on a video to show one of his painting techniques which uses fire. The beginning of the painting Nike of Samothrace. It came together and a young local musician Treven Hughes' music fits the action. The music was recorded last year at McMinnville Community Media studio.
Dwight and I are almost neighbors. Dwight lives in Carlton Oregon. His website is dwightevaltart.weebly.com
Liz and I and Dwight were on this year's Art Harvest Studio Tour A program of the Arts Alliance of Yamhill County which has been sponsoring the Tour for 20 years. The 2012 Tour was Friday Oct 5, 6, 7 and the second weekend Oct 12, 13 and 14. With a Student Education Tour during the week between.
It was a pretty good Tour. I don't think Dwight demonstrated painting with fire. You can see here.
It was a pretty good Tour. I don't think Dwight demonstrated painting with fire. You can see here.
8/10/2012
Copyright permission for Non-Commercial One Poem A Day
Indie Filmmaker’s journal: Part Four.
Copyright investigations include looking at the work for copyright notice, author, publisher, place and date of publication, directly searching the copyright office and other records or pay to have the copyright office do a search. Well that is the start, but Copyright circular 22 says “the results may not be conclusive.” They go on to say “In many cases, it is important to consult with a copyright attorney before reaching any conclusions regarding the copyright status of a work.”
Okay. I get the picture. I need to assume there is a copyright owner and I need to find out who that is and ask them for permission. I can’t afford an attorney who is going to charge me more per hour that earn in a week. I am trying to increase the cultural destiny of my community and my world by putting work on public access TV and on my Youtube site. I have to get the permissions myself.
Copyright investigations include looking at the work for copyright notice, author, publisher, place and date of publication, directly searching the copyright office and other records or pay to have the copyright office do a search. Well that is the start, but Copyright circular 22 says “the results may not be conclusive.” They go on to say “In many cases, it is important to consult with a copyright attorney before reaching any conclusions regarding the copyright status of a work.”
Okay. I get the picture. I need to assume there is a copyright owner and I need to find out who that is and ask them for permission. I can’t afford an attorney who is going to charge me more per hour that earn in a week. I am trying to increase the cultural destiny of my community and my world by putting work on public access TV and on my Youtube site. I have to get the permissions myself.
8/01/2012
Copyright Permission and Fair Use
Indie Filmmaker’s journal: Part Three.
As we learned more about copyrights and trademarks. We looked around as we filmed, doh, almost every thing is property owned and controlled. Making a copy of it, even not intentionally copying it could be copyright infringement. What about Fair Use?
“We’re almost ready to do the interview. Sound check good. Could you turn off your CD player.”
“Why. Can’t you hear me?”
“Hear you fine. You are playing Zappa’s “Apostrophe” album. If we tape his doing “Stink Foot” as background to your interview, we could have a copyright problem.”
“Oh, Okay. Stink Foot is Zappa’s best.”
“Yeah I know. One more thing. Could you move to your right a couple of steps. We need to get the “Big Lebowski” movie poster out of the frame.”
“Okay, moving to the right.”
Fair Use is an important limit on copyright owner’s rights. Deciding if a copyright protected work is fair to copy or film is more artful than a science. No clear and agreed upon guidelines. There are four factors to consider.
As we learned more about copyrights and trademarks. We looked around as we filmed, doh, almost every thing is property owned and controlled. Making a copy of it, even not intentionally copying it could be copyright infringement. What about Fair Use?
“We’re almost ready to do the interview. Sound check good. Could you turn off your CD player.”
“Why. Can’t you hear me?”
“Hear you fine. You are playing Zappa’s “Apostrophe” album. If we tape his doing “Stink Foot” as background to your interview, we could have a copyright problem.”
“Oh, Okay. Stink Foot is Zappa’s best.”
“Yeah I know. One more thing. Could you move to your right a couple of steps. We need to get the “Big Lebowski” movie poster out of the frame.”
“Okay, moving to the right.”
Fair Use is an important limit on copyright owner’s rights. Deciding if a copyright protected work is fair to copy or film is more artful than a science. No clear and agreed upon guidelines. There are four factors to consider.
7/30/2012
Copyright Permission and Releases
Indie Filmmaker’s journal: Part Two.
“I look like a raccoon.” He said. “A bald raccoon. And the music is not me. Not me, doesn’t fit with my work. Change it.” He was not happy with our little masterpiece.
“Music, good music, free music is kind of hard to find.” I said. “We can leave the music out, no problem. But the raccoon thing is about the lighting at your house. Not much we can do about that, now.” I didn’t tell him it was also a function of our ignorance of proper lighting. I felt bad. He was a professional artist, we were amateur videographers.
We were learning, still finding out about how to do interviews of artists for informational features for our local community access cable TV station, which covers a small rural county. I see it as a kind of journalism. The Stanford University website mentions that many journalists do not obtain a signed interview release on the assumption that giving the interview was consent. The US Copyright Office and the University of California site are helpful in understanding permissions and releases. Releases can help avoid legal actions for libel, invasion of privacy or copyright infringement (interviewee’s words can be copyrightable).
“I look like a raccoon.” He said. “A bald raccoon. And the music is not me. Not me, doesn’t fit with my work. Change it.” He was not happy with our little masterpiece.
“Music, good music, free music is kind of hard to find.” I said. “We can leave the music out, no problem. But the raccoon thing is about the lighting at your house. Not much we can do about that, now.” I didn’t tell him it was also a function of our ignorance of proper lighting. I felt bad. He was a professional artist, we were amateur videographers.
We were learning, still finding out about how to do interviews of artists for informational features for our local community access cable TV station, which covers a small rural county. I see it as a kind of journalism. The Stanford University website mentions that many journalists do not obtain a signed interview release on the assumption that giving the interview was consent. The US Copyright Office and the University of California site are helpful in understanding permissions and releases. Releases can help avoid legal actions for libel, invasion of privacy or copyright infringement (interviewee’s words can be copyrightable).
7/29/2012
Obtaining Copyright Permissions
Indie Filmmaker's Journal: Part One
“If someone uses my images without my permission, I will own their home.” She said it with a smile in a small voice, soft and smooth. It was in her eyes and her smile, she meant what she said. She told us a story of finding one of her works being sold on the internet without her permission. She told us about registering copyright. We were interviewing her for an artist profile of her to put on our local public access cable TV station. We knew we had her permission, we were doing a 30 minute video profile of her as a completely non-commercial gift to her and to our community. Video is our hobby, we want to increase the cultural density of our community, we did not want to become homeless from our good intentions.
In almost all cases creating videos is a composite craft. In making documentaries, in making fictional movies and in filming performances using the work, the property, of others is necessary. There is nothing like the desire to follow the rules and also a good dose of fear of losing your home to stimulate the search for knowledge.
“If someone uses my images without my permission, I will own their home.” She said it with a smile in a small voice, soft and smooth. It was in her eyes and her smile, she meant what she said. She told us a story of finding one of her works being sold on the internet without her permission. She told us about registering copyright. We were interviewing her for an artist profile of her to put on our local public access cable TV station. We knew we had her permission, we were doing a 30 minute video profile of her as a completely non-commercial gift to her and to our community. Video is our hobby, we want to increase the cultural density of our community, we did not want to become homeless from our good intentions.
In almost all cases creating videos is a composite craft. In making documentaries, in making fictional movies and in filming performances using the work, the property, of others is necessary. There is nothing like the desire to follow the rules and also a good dose of fear of losing your home to stimulate the search for knowledge.
7/22/2012
Summer Vacation
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| Liz at the Beach, we were looking at tidepools |
What I’ve found is sleeping in is easy, but conflicts with trying to establish new routines, like getting up early to see the sun rise. The long walks are fun, relaxing, fit with enjoying the moment and good exercise. Submerging into a novel of an afternoon is an exercise of the mind and a nice workout for the imagination. Letting the old “to do” list languish is one of the enjoyable fundamentals of maintaining a vacation mindset. The dilemma springs from setting up new routines, which sprout new “to do” lists, which stand on the sagging shoulders of the waiting old “to do” lists.
Not surprising, staying unplugged is the hardest. I’m in the “geezer” age group born in the time of radio and black and white movies. Now the world for me is almost completely connected by technology. Computers and the internet are plugged in daily life in how I communicate, in how I entertain myself and others, in how I learn. Unplugged means being absent. The screen flicker, the din and the rumble of the world is quieted. Solitude accepted, solitude savored, an essence of the vacation mindset. But the pull to reconnect is strong, a riptide sucking me back to the cyber sea.
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