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Foundmyself - An Online Artist Community Offering Unique Ways To Connect With Audience
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on September 17th, 2009
Foundmyself.com is online art community that offers artists some unique ways to connect with their audience. It enables them to add comments and post their art including painting, design, movies and other experiences.
Foundmyself Forum
The platform provides an art forum for artists to connect with other artists. If you want to get an in-depth art critique, participate in contests, or just discuss art related stuff, this is the place to do it.
Art gallery
The art gallery showcase an artists’ portfolios on the site. When you become a member, you can upload your own work, and can even offer it for sale if you want for commission free by their “Honour System.”
With their Honor System policy, Foundmyself offers artist all the tools they need to share their creations, sell their art, and customize their galleries without any mandatory cost.
Worth 1000 - Image Manipulation and Contest Website for Digital Artists
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on August 28th, 2009
Worth 1000 is an online community of digital artists where they can use their skills to manipulate images for the respect of others. They can even earn cash prizes by participating in daily photo contests.
The contest themes can be anything, from film posters mash-ups to creating new animals, from modernizing classical paintings to inventing new sports.
Features of Worth1000
If you have a registered account, you can join the contests by adding your work. You can even rank other artists work.
You can submit entries either using their online photo-editing software, or you can upload images from their desktop if you’d rather use software like Photoshop or Gimp.
In addition to photos, they host contests for multimedia, and text writing that follows a similar format.
Learn New Skills with Worth1000 Forum
The Worth1000 website has a large community and hosts many forums. You can have general discussions on any topic or discussions on techniques for the various types of contests. As there are active Admins and a word-filter that monitors the forums, a high level of control exists.
Company Insight
Worth1000.com was designed by Aviary, a New York company that ‘is on a mission to make creation accessible to artists of all genres, from graphic design to audio editing’.
Their founders included Avi Muchnick and Israel Derdik. Muchnick named it after the old saying “a picture is worth a thousand words”.
Create Online Portfolio on Artists Community Platform ‘MyFolio’
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on April 17th, 2009
MyFolio is an online community of artists and creatives where they can create online portfolios of their images, videos and audio files.
Create Online Portfolio of Your Creativity with MyFolio
MyFolio.com is the destination for creatives and art enthusiasts looking to connect with other artists, prospective employers and the general public.
MyFolio’s Features
From features perspective, MyFolio.com covers most of the basic need for a social network to be useful for its creative audience.
Artists can upload and tag media or files for a variety of categories ranging from animation, concept art, films, paintings to music and photography, create a portfolio, manage bookmarks and keep on top of internal messages from other users.
Their videos are accessible in both Flash and Quicktime formats.
Registered users can indicate of their work can be viewed in public or kept private, if it is work in progress or not, and which copyright applies to the work.
MyFolio Service Prices
MyFolio is free up to 1 GB of storage, but it also offers a paid version at $2/month which removes ads from the portfolios and comes with 2 GB of storage.
RareIndianArt - Buy Indian Handicrafts, Rare Art and Paintings
Posted by ilovegajeebo in startups on February 2nd, 2009
Indian Art has earned global acclaimations. A portal that lets you view and order handicraft and rare art sounds interesting idea, though there is a big problem of authencity as well as authority of the art been sold.
Another issue which comes to our mind is, there would be only a handful of people who would order something like ‘rare art’ through a portal unless the site itself is very popular.
The site also need lot of improvements from design perspective to make it look attractive.
Zazzle - Create Custom T-Shirts, Posters, Art and Sell Online
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on December 1st, 2008
Zazzle is an on-demand retail platform for consumers and major brands, offering billions of retail quality, one-of-a-kind products shipped within 24 hours. Offering the largest library of customizable digital images from world-class brands, Zazzle enables content owners to unlock their entire libraries of content, making it available for purchase and customization by consumers.
Through Zazzle’s innovative on-demand retail and technology platform, users can instantly create, customize to fit their personal style, purchase and sell a near infinite array of products online.
Zazzle- Custom T-Shirts, Posters, Art and more
Zazzle.com makes it easy and relatively inexpensive to produce a variety of different types of products. Not only do customers have hundreds of products to choose from, but they also have access to many different symbols and designs, including Disney figures and other movie icons that can be put on any item.
In addition to creating customized products for yourself, users can become contributors by sharing their unique creations in the Zazzle galleries. Users can earn up to a 17% commission every time someone purchases one of their designs.
Everything about the Zazzle marketplace and website is dynamic and user-generated, including the rank of products, categorization, comments, reviews, fan clubs, and more. The power should be in your hands.
Zazzle sees itself as an eBay-style marketplace for buyers and sellers. At Zazzle, once you’ve uploaded your custom design, you can sell it online. You can link to your Zazzle goods on your website or blog.
visit website - http://www.zazzle.com/
visit blog- http://blog.zazzle.com/
RocketBoom - Daily Videoblog about Internet Culture
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on November 14th, 2008
RocketBoom - Daily Videoblog about Internet Culture
Rocketboom is a daily international news program based in New York City. They cover and create a wide range of information and commentary from top news stories to contemporary internet culture.
RocketBoom is a very popular Monday through Friday videoblog, or vblog. The segments are short - around 3-5 minutes and released weekdays at 9 am EST. RocketBoom is extremely low budget Instead of costing millions of dollars to produce, Rocketboom is created with a level video camera, a laptop, two lights and a map with no additional overhead or costs.
Rocketboom is presented in the format of a newscast with a comedic slant. Each weekday Rocketboom offers oddities, vlog excerpts and explores emerging social. It sometimes presents political commentary. Apart from an occasional use of old newsreel footage or vintage commercials, mainstream media is avoided. The Rocketboom weblog and Apollo Pony feature supplemental material that isn’t fit for the vlog.
Topics of Rocketboom videos typically cover top news stories of the day, international arts and business, technology news, and a quirky section of internet culture, Watch daily news on this website, subscribe via email, iTunes, or RSS, browse their archives, or find Rocketboom on many off-site destinations like YouTube, Vimeo and Yahoo!.
visit website - http://www.rocketboom.com/
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