Well, I was already fond of Puffer Fish but this artistic little fella is absolutely fantastic!
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
6/28/2008
Three-spotted rabbitfish
A Three-spotted rabbitfish floated by to say, hello there! and to update his profile for the ladies...Profile: Three-spotted rabbitfish
Nickname: Spots
Age: 5 months
Status: between relationships
School: graduate of Rabbitfish U
Location: Western Australia
Willing to Relocate? Yes
Interests: crab, lobster, shrimp under dappled moonlight
Most Famous for: good listener
Contact: rabbtfsh3 at au dot seahorse dot net
Text? glub...yes.
5/26/2008
Congress to make Online Artists into orphans
Orphan Works Act of 2008
Watch YouTube video
On April 24, Senators Pat Leahy (D-VT) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Reps Howard Berman (D-CA), John Conyers (D-MI) and Lamar Smith (R-TX) introduced legislation (S.2913, HR 5889) which is now being referred to as the Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Act of 2008. It is virtually the same bill that was presented in 2006, and subsequently rejected by Congress. But now, they are trying again.
If passed, the Act would radically alter copyright laws, taking away the automatic copyright now guaranteed to artists of all types who create any type of work. Right now, under U.S. law, artists are automatically guaranteed copyright on everything they create, from the sketches in their sketchpad to their best paintings and sculptures.
Under the Orphan Works Act, every creator will be required to register everything he or she creates in a private registry system, requiring a fee of course, and supposedly to make it easier for the "public" to search for works and contact the creators if they want to use the works for some purpose.
Everything created in the last 30 years will need to be registered through this as-yet nonexistent system, including those works already registered via additional fees with the copyright office. If they aren't, and some member of the public makes "due diligence" to find the creator of a work and can't find him or her, that member of the public is entitled to use the work without any limitations, and artists will have no legal recourse.
That means every piece of work artists have out there, especially online, would be open season for use by major publishing houses and businesses (Microsoft â€" who owns one of the largest online image databases â€" and Google have already voiced support for the bill and indicated they will use thousands of images) and everyone in between.
Proponents of the bill say it will assist the public in identifying and contacting creators of works and going through the proper channels to contact them to ask for permission. While we understand the need for an organized system of search, there are MAJOR FLAWS in the proposed bill that need to be addressed before any such proposal should take place.
Here are a few points:
Under this law, artists would need to register EVERY piece of work they create, including those works that you have already registered with the Copyright Office officially, in some system that does not exist and would likely require them to pay to do so. The time and cost to do this is going to be prohibitive for visual artists.
While this is meant to apply to all types of creative works, including music and literary, visual artists will be impacted the most because of the sheer volume of work they create, making it very expensive to register everything they have ever created or will create.
For the visual arts, there would still be little protection for them and their work, even if it is registered, because search tools would rely on names of artists or titles of work, and not image recognition tools, which are still in their infancy of development.
Under this law, if artists register their work, they would have to respond to EVERY inquiry sent to them for use of the work.
So in other words, if an artist has a work out there in a registry system, and some person contacts the artist and says he or she wants to use the artist's work for free on his or her Web site or in his or her new catalog, the artist would need to take the time to officially respond to every inquiry within a specified time limit, letting him or her know if the artist doe not want to have him or her publish the artist's work for free. This will take a lot of time and effort that professional artists do not have.
Last week, the House Judiciary Committee unanimously approved the bill, and on May 15, the Senate Judiciary Committee did as well. This means the bill will be presented to Congress, likely before the end of May.
We need you to write to your representatives ASAP and let them know that you do NOT want this bill to be expedited, as it is now. Tell them we need a better solution, or tell them you don't want it at all: Just be sure to tell them something soon.
Click the links below to get more information on the bill, including a video that gives you a great overview of the artists' concerns:
watch YouTube video
capwiz.com
government update PDF
Click below for several options of pre-written and editable letters that you can fill out, and that will automatically identify and send it to your representatives when you enter your address:
Illustrator Partnership
What does Congress understand about Art? Or about starving artists? Very little, but they certainly will be creating more of them with this travesty of a bill which I assume is meant to increase governmental revenue.
Anti-social boogers, imho.
Watch YouTube video
On April 24, Senators Pat Leahy (D-VT) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Reps Howard Berman (D-CA), John Conyers (D-MI) and Lamar Smith (R-TX) introduced legislation (S.2913, HR 5889) which is now being referred to as the Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Act of 2008. It is virtually the same bill that was presented in 2006, and subsequently rejected by Congress. But now, they are trying again.
If passed, the Act would radically alter copyright laws, taking away the automatic copyright now guaranteed to artists of all types who create any type of work. Right now, under U.S. law, artists are automatically guaranteed copyright on everything they create, from the sketches in their sketchpad to their best paintings and sculptures.
Under the Orphan Works Act, every creator will be required to register everything he or she creates in a private registry system, requiring a fee of course, and supposedly to make it easier for the "public" to search for works and contact the creators if they want to use the works for some purpose.
Everything created in the last 30 years will need to be registered through this as-yet nonexistent system, including those works already registered via additional fees with the copyright office. If they aren't, and some member of the public makes "due diligence" to find the creator of a work and can't find him or her, that member of the public is entitled to use the work without any limitations, and artists will have no legal recourse.
That means every piece of work artists have out there, especially online, would be open season for use by major publishing houses and businesses (Microsoft â€" who owns one of the largest online image databases â€" and Google have already voiced support for the bill and indicated they will use thousands of images) and everyone in between.
Proponents of the bill say it will assist the public in identifying and contacting creators of works and going through the proper channels to contact them to ask for permission. While we understand the need for an organized system of search, there are MAJOR FLAWS in the proposed bill that need to be addressed before any such proposal should take place.
Here are a few points:
Under this law, artists would need to register EVERY piece of work they create, including those works that you have already registered with the Copyright Office officially, in some system that does not exist and would likely require them to pay to do so. The time and cost to do this is going to be prohibitive for visual artists.
While this is meant to apply to all types of creative works, including music and literary, visual artists will be impacted the most because of the sheer volume of work they create, making it very expensive to register everything they have ever created or will create.
For the visual arts, there would still be little protection for them and their work, even if it is registered, because search tools would rely on names of artists or titles of work, and not image recognition tools, which are still in their infancy of development.
Under this law, if artists register their work, they would have to respond to EVERY inquiry sent to them for use of the work.
So in other words, if an artist has a work out there in a registry system, and some person contacts the artist and says he or she wants to use the artist's work for free on his or her Web site or in his or her new catalog, the artist would need to take the time to officially respond to every inquiry within a specified time limit, letting him or her know if the artist doe not want to have him or her publish the artist's work for free. This will take a lot of time and effort that professional artists do not have.
Last week, the House Judiciary Committee unanimously approved the bill, and on May 15, the Senate Judiciary Committee did as well. This means the bill will be presented to Congress, likely before the end of May.
We need you to write to your representatives ASAP and let them know that you do NOT want this bill to be expedited, as it is now. Tell them we need a better solution, or tell them you don't want it at all: Just be sure to tell them something soon.
Click the links below to get more information on the bill, including a video that gives you a great overview of the artists' concerns:
watch YouTube video
capwiz.com
government update PDF
Click below for several options of pre-written and editable letters that you can fill out, and that will automatically identify and send it to your representatives when you enter your address:
Illustrator Partnership
What does Congress understand about Art? Or about starving artists? Very little, but they certainly will be creating more of them with this travesty of a bill which I assume is meant to increase governmental revenue.
Anti-social boogers, imho.
1/21/2008
Piranha Dreams (collage)
Paper Collage: Piranha Dreams by jude cowell 2008.Come visit Collage Mirage when you get a mo and join us if you wish!
9/22/2007
Pisces: Two Fishes
An Art representation for you of the two fishes of the zodiac. One fish swims upward, one down, for Pisces may go in either direction and often feels trapped between two worlds.
Yet most real-life fish do not choose to swim downstream although it's the easiest and most dangerous way to go. Fish need dynamic stability created by swimming against the current even though they may make no apparent forward progress. Which world, which way? is the question for those born under the sign of the two fishes.
And you don't have to have your Sun in Pisces (Feb 19--Mar 20) to be Piscean for other planets in the oceanic sign will qualify you for Pisceanhood, such as Moon, or having a stellium (3+) planets there.
Pisces is the twelfth and final sign of the zodiac, the end of the cycle of worldly experience and it contains all the other signs within it. It is the sign of sacrificial service, infinite compassion, and vicarious suffering, and is traditionally connected to the advent of the Messiah.
Otherwordly, spiritual Neptune, ruler of the seas, is associated with Pisces but the sign's traditional ruler is Jupiter, associated with philosophy and codified religion. (Being a Saturnian astrologer, I only use traditional planets as rulers of signs. The outer planets--Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto are higher frequency, transpersonal planets. That's just the way I roll.)
In fact, many Pisceans live within the sound, if not the sight, of a body of water.
Pisces is the most inspirational and psychic of all the signs (I know--my natal Moon is there!) and as such it represents the meeting place of matter and spirit upon the plane of emotionality.
In Astrology, the Tertiary Progressions (based on the movements of the Moon and beginning with the birth chart) give us information on this emotional/intuitional plane and describes the much-touted mind-body connection we all must navigate in life. Blended with natal Moon information, it's a lot to consider yet most people agree that emotions influence health.
Is imagination more real than reality? Then you've just met a dreamy Pisces!
People of the artful Pisces persuasion can be exasperating, downright perverse, contradictory and vague...but can also be the soul of kindness.
So you may wish to get to know a Pisces today--even if you're one yourself!
9/11/2007
Giant Red Kelp revealed...
...to be...
Giant Red Kelp!
A few goldfish busy themselves nearby as they plan for their futures.
Other specimens of artist-invented plants waft along with gentle, imaginary currents undersea as the ubiquitous bubbles arise from unseen gills and escape upward, toward the one ray of skylight.
This drawing reflects my continued aim to blend on paper the earthy realism which Saturn represents with the nebulous, mystically spiritual Neptune of the watery realms.
Spiritual aspirations are the province of Neptune's trident, and Neptune's links to Pisces, the two fish swimming in opposite directions, and to Creativity, make it a seductive muse perfect for artwork, music, literature, and film...dissolving Neptune is the urge to merge, while Saturn hardens and solidifies.
Want to have your most flattering photo taken?
Do it when Neptune connects with your Venus, or when Venus links up to your Neptune.
Start with beautiful Venus as the Attraction Principle, then add Neptune to diffuse light and cast your visage piquantly inside a rosy glow...you'll be a *smash, Dahling...it's one of the magical effects of Neptune's Veils!
*harmonious relationship between Venus and Neptune in the natal chart may be required for best results; offer not valid outside solar system.
9/04/2007
Found! Ancient Beehives from 900 B.C.
In the ruins of the city of Rehov, Israel, archaeologists have discovered a sweet treat--honeycombs, beeswax, and 30 intact hives--the first of its kind ever found!
Seems the Land of Milk and Honey was all that after all!
Archaeologists Discover Ancient Beehives as evidence of a 3,000 year-old beekeeping industry. Who knew?
Now if only the more modern, mysteriously missing honey bees could be found. Then all the little Dreamyfish would celebrate, wouldn't you?
And have you visited my Lulu Storefront for modestly priced Downloadable Art? You may unavoidably discover there an image that's the bee's knees...who knows?
Seems the Land of Milk and Honey was all that after all!
Archaeologists Discover Ancient Beehives as evidence of a 3,000 year-old beekeeping industry. Who knew?
Now if only the more modern, mysteriously missing honey bees could be found. Then all the little Dreamyfish would celebrate, wouldn't you?
And have you visited my Lulu Storefront for modestly priced Downloadable Art? You may unavoidably discover there an image that's the bee's knees...who knows?
8/05/2007
New Dreamyfish Art: Red-banded wrasse
Here I am...a Red-banded wrasse, Pseudolabrus biserialis (Klunzinger.) I'm a single, red male from the Recherche Archipelago, but willing to relocate...I love algae salads, nibbling coral bits, and romantic swims on moonlit nights.
Contact my PR rep, jude cowell if interested...
6/05/2007
Diluvian Flux
There must be a fish in there somewhere...Diluvian Flux may be downloaded at my Lulu Storefront for printing or for desktopping!
5/14/2007
You May Cross the Great Water
You May Cross the Great Water is an I-Ching-inspired drawing and although you can't see any fishies, I'm sure they're glubbing under there somewhere!
To support a starving artist/astrologer's work by purchasing Limited Edition Color Prints or PostCards, please email for ordering details to: judecowell at gmail.com--payment bwo of PayPal is available for your convenience.
Another option is to check out my Cosmic Persona Designs storefront at Lulu.com.
And you may wish to discover new drawings posted at Secret Moon Art and Cosmic Persona Designs.
Or how about jude's threshold a variety mix of Art, Astrology with Politics, Beatles concerts, and the like.
Yet you may wish to check out new verses from Mr.A.Cat on some of the presidential candidates who are campaigning at us already at Lim's Limericks but do avoid if you tend to wear your political indoctrinations upon your sleeve...for who knew cats could be so political?
Also today I have published a Political Astrology post on the New Moon of May 16 (Wednesday) at Stars Over Washington where a big week is now in progress in our nation's capital...it's Whistleblowers Week...hope it does America and the whole world some good, don't you?
4/10/2007
Sailfin cardinalfish
Say hidee hi to this Sailfin cardinalfish who's visiting Dreamyfish Art all the way from the North West Cape, Western Australia.
Here you spy a Sailfin cardinalfish, Pterapogon mirifica (Mees) all ensnared within his most colorful dream...and you are currently having a sneak peek into his wildest phantasy! You know, fish dream, too.
For ordering details--Limited Edition Color Prints, PostCards (one image or mix, pks of 6,9, or 12), DeskTop WallPaper (scanned and good enough for your scampish purposes); or for your more quizzical Queries, please contact: judecowell at gmail dot com
Payment bwo PayPal is available upon request.
3/12/2007
Three-spot rabbitfish
This Three-spot rabbitfish, Siganus trispilos (North West Cape, W. Australia) is glad to see you here at Dreamyfish Art takin' in the sights, seein' what you can see...havin' a sneaky peek into the dreamworlds of the more glamorous fishies in any sea, Ladies and Gentlemen: the fish of Western Australia a la Dreamfish Art!
Limited Edition Color Prints (appr 8"x10"+) available as well as PostCard packets-- Artist's Choice Mix recommended. Surprise your friends, stun your enemies...send them a Postcard with art smeared all over it.
Or...mosey by my Lulu Storefront for printable Art Downloads at modest prices...they're much better quality than lifted ones, y'know!
1/31/2007
Clown surgeonfish
Dreamyfish Art wlecomes a new denizen: a Clown surgeonfish, Naso lituratus (Bloch and Schneider) visiting from Kendrew Island, Dampier Archipelago.
1/18/2007
Ornate butterfish returns!
The fish of Western Australia are smashing, aren't they?
In Western Australia they have many fish
so lovely and sassy they make quite the dish
you won't find them swimming around in your pond
without traveling southward to oceans beyond!
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