Pinterest

My sister showed me this awesome new website Pinterest.com. It's an online cork board where you can collect visual images; art, clothing, home decorating ideas, etc, and save it all in one place (more easily perused than your Favorites list), and other people can look at what you've found and "re-pin" it to their own boards. You can have as many cork boards as you want- to be categorized by theme or topic. It's an incredible resource and an amazing way to collect and share images on the web. Each image "pin" includes a link back to the source website. Above is a screen shot of one of my boards- I don't have as much stuff on there as other people who've been using the site longer. Check it out!! In order to sign up you click "request invitation" and then they send you an email a few minutes later with log-in instructions.

Kickstart

I had never heard of this before: an internet-based way to get funding for creative projects. People make a webpage proposal for a project (film, book, exhibition, etc) they are hoping to do, and request funds from internet benefactors. The benefactors pledge a certain amountof money, which they will only give if the project reaches it's stated monetary goal in a given amount of time. Such a great idea! Artistic funding by the people, connected by the internet.
Check it out: www.kickstarter.com