My friend Barbee Cain wins international art competition

Talentspeaks.com has posted about Global Talent Database member Barbee Cain winning an international photography contest.

Barbee is a close friend of mine, and I am really glad to see her doing so well. Go to her TalentDatabase listing and give her some acknowledgment and bookmarking love if you will :)

Barbee Cain is a multi-talented artist from Florida specializing in henna art and photogrpahy.

Click to see her listing now

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My adventures at Winter Music Conference this year

Talentspeaks.com has pubished an article I wrote about my experiences at the 2007 Winter Music conference in Miami. Check it out... and please leave a comment after the article on talentspeaks.com if you went too!

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One phone number for life

I recently wrote an article about this new FREE phone service for talentspeaks.com. You get one phone number that will ring all your phones at once. Great for bands, groups of artists, and all sorts of other aplications. Really cool stuff!

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Philanthropy on a budget: YOU can make a difference

 When I was in San Francisco last weekend on a business trip, a small speech was given by the president of kiva.org, and I learned about an awesome way I can make a difference in the world. I can be a philanthropist without having to donate $1 million $!

Kiva is a micro-finance organization which lends small sums of money to entrepreneurs in other countries where the American dollar goes very far. Though it would be difficult to make a huge difference here in the US financially, I (and you) can make a tremendous difference abroad. The money you put in is actually a 0% loan to help a budding foreign entrepreneur get his or her business off the ground. You can review each entrepreneur in need of funding and choose to fund projects you personally believe in.

I have invested in four individuals so far, and I can easily track their progress through the Kiva site. When I get repayment from any given entrepreneur I will roll that back into a new project. I strongly encourage you to find a Kiva.org project you believe in and invest. It is so cake, you simply pay through paypal; it could not be any easier. And you can invest as little as $25. You would not even miss $25, but it can make a tremendous difference to someone abroad. And by investing in an entrepreneur you are helping create infrastructure in another country (the old saying about teaching a man to fish rahter than giving him fish comes to mind).

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Calling figurative artists

Hello my friends. I am seeking artists who do artistic nudes in any medium for my new blog at nudearts.blogspot.com. My goal is to promote figurative artists' work, and help get the word out there. By any medium, I am serious. Photography, painting, mosaic, tattoo, illustration, sculpture, etc. Bring it on!

Here are the guidelines:
Art must be of nude human form.
No pornography please. Let's keep it tasteful. Thanks.
Please submit your site address.
Your submission signifies I may use some of your images to be posted in my blog about your work.
Please have or provide images that do not have watermarks, etc, unless they are unobtrusive at the bottom.
Please have very bvious biographical information on your website, or provide some when you email me.
Please include websites your work is on you would like plugged.

Thanks! I look forward to helping you and getting turned on to new art.

~Gabriel

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Artists, Promote Yourselves

Talentspeaks.com just published an article I wrote about artist self promotion. Please check it out and if you are so inclined sign up to be a beta tester.

Read my article on Talentspeaks

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There's a Revolution

The time is coming my friends. We are making great progress on our project. And we are starting to let the cat out of the bag. See the public face of theInspirit at Talentspeaks.com.

We are calling on artists, venues, writers, promoters, publishers, enthusiasts, fans, and buyers to become involved with a dialogue about a NEW SYSTEM. Can you feel the winds of change blowing?

~Gabriel

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Thanks everyone!

Thanks to everyone who came out to my show at AKA Lounge last thursday. I had a blast, and it was great to see everyone. We will be having a closing party too. Details to come...

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Kicking artist: Echo

As I have been working on this artistic friend expansion here on myspace I have seen some amazing work. There are so many talented individuals here. It struck me as I was marveling at art by a particular artist this evening that I should take time to call out some good artists. I wish I had the time to recognize everybody.. but for now I will start here:


Echo

Echo is a talented illustrator from my neck of the woods, Florida. She shares my taste in subject matter and her execution is brilliant. Go visit her myspace page. And if you dig it, buy a t-shirt or something. I just ordered mine...




~Gabriel

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Expanding Artistic Network

I have big things going on. As an artist I've spent many years struggling. I used to think you just had to make great art and the rest would just work itself out. I've learned the hard way that one has to develop many other skills to succeed. And I want to help other artists learn and improve in the fine art of self promotion.

To that end, I recently got involved in a new project. It is under wraps at the moment, but the project goal and my personal goal is to aid artists in taking things to the next level. So until I can unveil it, I am making as many artist friends as possible here. And soon I will be calling out to the community to become a part of this exciting project. I look forward to all of our success!

~Gabriel

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