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Feb. 14th, 2008
07:15 pm - This is so inspiring!
Feb. 3rd, 2008
12:49 am - Still trying to get my blog fixed
Originally published at . You can comment here or there.
I am still working with the tech support guys to get my blog back to its original location and condition. I am still hopeful, but don’t want to post too much here because I may lose all these new ones when we get the original site fixed.
So, in the meantime, I thought I’d give you something free just for fun. The image here is copyright free and you can save it by putting your mouse over the image and right clicking. Then just choose save or save target.
Hopefully all will be back to normal soon.
Feb. 2nd, 2008
10:05 am - I’ve been tagged
Originally published at . You can comment here or there.
Heather at A Creative Journal has tagged me with the Seven Oddball Things meme. So I’m supposed to write seven weird things about myself.
1. On right/left brain tests I always come out balanced 50/50
2. I can wiggle my ears
3. I eat the whole peeling of oranges
4. I don’t really like poetry
5. My son is a professional bullrider (that’s not really about me, but hey, I’m digging here!)
6. I used to assist Drs in open heart surgery
7. I once owned a pet sheep in my backyard in a city
Now, I tag:
Laurie at Laurie’s Thoughts
Eveline at Ebenezer Scribe
Deb at Cowboy’s Sweetheart
Nici at Art Shaped World
Lani at Lani Puppet Maker
Debra at Reach Dabble Shine
Karen at Square Peg People
Jan. 29th, 2008
09:39 pm - New e-Book on finding the child-like joy in creating
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I have just uploaded a new e-book to the Creative Clown Shop. You can see it here. It is a 28 page workbook designed to help you find the joy in the process of creating, without thinking about the outcome, or comparing your work to others’.
The book is a printable workbook and costs $10.00. If you are ready to just have fun, and let go of the seriousness of art, check it out.
07:26 pm - Do you teach live classes?
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Do any of you teach live classes? Apparently here in Tulsa, some of the parks have community centers where they offer inexpensive classes of all sorts. I have a phone interview with a man from one of the centers to talk about teaching some classes. They offer art classes for adults as well as arts and crafts for kids and seniors.
I’ve written e-courses, and taught teleclasses but haven’t done it in person. Unless you count my years as an occupational therapist where I used all sorts of art and crafts with my patients. I worked for the school district for many years so actually did work in a classroom setting there, so I guess that counts.
Anyway, I’d love some input from any of you who have experience and can give me any tips, advice or encouragement.
Jan. 25th, 2008
12:20 am - How do keep learning?
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It’s a trick question. The answer is “keep living”. 
I lost my whole blog. I’ve tried for days to recover it, to no avail. So, I started from scratch. I’m still holding out hope to recover my old posts. I am waiting on Dreamhost’s wonderful tech support people to see if it can be done.
I’ve learned a great deal about mySQL in the past few days, but probably just enough to be dangerous. No, that’s not true. Actually, I learned enough to get serious about backing up and organizing things so that this never happens again!
But, I did take time for some really fun art! My friend, Kristina, sent me this great wooden box. It had a place on the lid where you could insert a photo. I decided to make it into a jewelry box. I painted it and then inserted copper in the photo place.
This is the top. It was hard to get a picture because the copper reflects the light so much.
I used a stylus to make the outline of the star shape and the spiral. Then I painted it with alcohol inks. In person, the copper almost looks pink against the red ink. It’s really much prettier than this photo.
I painted a verse around the sides that says, “Jewelry take my mind off my wrinkles.”
I used gesso and acrylics to paint the wood. After the paint dried, I mixed a little brown paint in some water and just painted that wash all over it.
I’m letting the paint dry overnight and then I’ll give it a coat of polyurethane.
This is the first thing I’ve made in a long time that I just really love.
Now I’m wishing I had taken a picture of a view of the whole thing, better, instead of just the sides all separately. Oh well, I know you all have great imaginations !
Jan. 11th, 2008
12:48 pm - Great Copyright Reference
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I just signed up at Docstoc. It’s a site where you can upload any documents you’d like to share with others. You can set the copyright terms of your document. You can download, email or get the code to embed other people’s documents, too. I found some great articles and e-books there.
This one is great. It’s a visual table of the basics of copyright law.
Copyright, Trademark & Patent Survey
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1909 Act |
1976 Act |
1988 Berne Agreement |
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prior to 1/1/78 |
1/1/78 to 2/28/89 |
3/1/89 to today |
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Copyright Notice Requirement |
Requires:</p>
1. © symbol or “Copyright” or “Copr.” or else © forfeited. 2. Year of the work’s first publication 3. Name of the owner of the ©. abbreviations may suffice |
Requires:
1. © symbol or “Copyright” or “Copr.” or else © forfeited. 2. Year of the work’s first publication 3. Name of the owner of the ©. abbreviations may suffice |
Required prior to 3/1/89. • Notice option from 3/1/89, but may affect monetary recovery as D may claim innocent infringement. |
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Specific locations:
• printed matter must appear on title page or one immediately following. |
No specific location for © notice |
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date of publication/registration |
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Duration of copyright §302 |
28 years and 28 year renewal | 1) Life of author + 50 years
2) Anonymous/Pseudonymous: 75 years from first publication or 100 years from date of creation, whichever shorter. 3) Joint works: Last surviving author’s death + 50 years |
Life of author + 50 years |
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Duration of sound recordings fixed §301(c) |
• Prior to 2/15/72 only protected by state statute and common law and unaffected by 1976 Act until 2047
• From 2/15/72 through 12/31/77 has 28 year © and 47 year renewal (75 years) • From 1/1/78 - current life of author + 50 years |
• From 1/1/78 - current life of author + 50 years |
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Duration of works created but not published before 1/1/78 §303 |
• All works created but not ©/published before 1/1/78 will be protected until 12/31/2002 per §302. Failure to publish before 2003 will result in forfeiture of renewal rights.
• If works are published before 2002, © protection lasts until 12/31/2027 (50 years from 12/31/77) |
If works are published before 2002, © protection lasts until 12/31/2027 (50 years from 12/31/77) |
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Duration of works published during and after 1950 and before 1/1/78 |
Works published from 1/1/50 will be in their first term of © protection in 1978. Renewal is to be done in the 27th year, some time after 12/31/77 and within 1976 Act. 47 years renewal term, 75 total.
• 1st term: 28 years • Renewal Term: 47 years |
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Works in second term as of 1/1/78 |
Works in second term sget 19 extra years tacked on, protected until 12/31/2005 |
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Forfeiture: Easy to do by any simple omission. No forfeiture if:
• accidental omission when the owner attempts to comply • omission without consent of © owner |
Forfeiture may be cured for omission per § 405(a)(2) when:
1) the work is registered within 5 years of publication; and 2) owner makes reasonable effort to add notice to all unmarked copies sold in the US. |
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• 28 years with the ability to renew for an additional 28 years for total of 56 years from the time of publication
• Several laws were passed by Congress extending older copyrights to terms totaling 75 years. |
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© begins at |
C/L state protection exists. Federal protection at time of publication |
• State C/L protection exists but is extinguished with fixation in tangible expression. • Federal Protection from first fixation in tangible expression. |
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Requirements for © protection |
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§301 1. Must be fixed in tangible medium of expression per §106. 2. Must come within the subject matter of copyright per §§ 102 & 103 |
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When is a work published? |
1. Investitive publication: when owner invests himself of federal statutory protection. 2. Divestitive Publication: that which owner divested himself of state C/L protection. • court hates forfeiture and usually tried to find some protection for an injured owner. |
• §101: dissemination to the public, but not limited &/or unauthorized, nor public performance. |
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May © owner bring suit before registration? |
NO. May have to bring suit against © office to obtain © if not approved initially. |
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If you would like todownload the entire document, you can here.
Jan. 9th, 2008
04:54 pm - Live Class - Do Art Like A Kid
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Remember when you just drew, cut and painted for the fun of it, without worrying what anyone else thought about your finished work? If you’d like to spend an hour recapturing that feeling, please join me for a live class on January 23rd at 9 PM Eastern Time. Using a cheap journal, crayons and pencils we will explore the path to reliving the days when having fun was all that mattered.
The class will be on the internet so you will not need your to make a phone call. It will last approximately one hour. The cost is $10.00.
To sign up for the class go to this link. Class will be limited to 20 participants so don’t miss out!
Jan. 8th, 2008
06:30 pm - Childlike Fun While Cleaning
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You know how we often talk about getting back to the childlike state of mind while creating? Well, how great would it be to try to get that state of mind at more times than just when we’re doing art?
Like, when you’re cleaning house!! I found the products here and I think they are just wonderful. I want these!! And I want to give them as gifts to all the women I know.
This first one is just too much fun! How would like to go get out your Barbie and do the dusting?
And this one. Oh my gosh! I hate washing dishes and this would make it so much more pleasant. Wash a few and then blow some bubbles to cascade down upon you while you wash a few more. Awesome!!
Tags: fun, creativity, class, Barbie, bubbles
Speaking of childlike fun, I’ve got a live class coming up that is about this very topic. Not cleaning house!!! No WAY! But about finding the joy of the creative process. So stay tuned for more info on that!
Jan. 6th, 2008
01:18 pm - Got Shtuff?
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This post was written by Jazzy Mouse, who brings you the Cool Tip of the Week. I think this is a really fun idea!!!
-Zura
Greetings All!
Ok, so you’ve done the turkey and ham and presents and lights and some of you have even packed all that stuff up already (the rest of us hate you ever so slightly for that yanno LOL), so it’s time to move into a new year with a new fun thing!
This is called a BOSS! which stands for Bag of Shtuff Swap 
Here’s the setup…
Get a nice gallon sized ziploc bag…as many as 5 if you wanna play that much, or just one.Now then, look around your creative area for cool stuff you’ve had for just about forever that you KNOW could become cool art but just haven’t gotten to, dont want to anymore, whatever the reason. Stuff that ziploc bag with stuff….dont get too crazy and feel like you have to send antique lace and $40 tubes of oil paints, this is just a fun swap of supplies you aren’t going to use.
Put your zippy bags in a manila envelope, padded if need be, and whatever the postage is to send it out, stuff enough postage in for your return package. The return postage can be stamps or money if you hide it well. this is a central location swap, so you send all your goodies here and i switch the baggies out and remail them to your swapping buds. How cool is that? Well i can’t even begin to tell you how cool it is The first BOSS we’re running will be for Valentine’s Day…so look around for love themed goodies to put in your baggies….paper, cards, beadies, photos, you get the idea. I knew you would
To sign up for this swap, send an email here to let me know you are going to play, and you’ll get all the deadline dates and addy to mail your goodies to! Be sure you write me no later than Jan 19th, to be sure we all get our shtuff by Valentine’s Day.
You are not gonna believe how this will jump start your creativity, promise.
Then, if you want you can send pictures of things you make with the goodies and we’ll post them here on Creative Clown.
So start hunting up your love themed stuffs, and let me hear from you soon!
the BOSS lady,
~O8:>
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