Other stuff too.
If you right click on artwork, just to look at the full sized picture, it gives you code to borrow the picture to put it on your site, which means, it turns out, they approve of your using the artwork. That was a neat find -- and the pictures display at full size when you use them.
Some very, very pretty work is available.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Mormon Midrashim: I really enjoyed this blog.
Mormon Midrashim: Whose world is "realer"?
Not a bad post, but a great blog, all in all. I want him for a guest blogger at Wheat & Tares.
Not a bad post, but a great blog, all in all. I want him for a guest blogger at Wheat & Tares.
Friday, February 3, 2012
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Classic games, available once more
buy for $5.99
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26 MB
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- September 26, 1990
- Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 (32 & 64 bit)
- English
- Origin Systems / Electronic Arts
- single-player
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1.6 GB
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- December 30, 1994
- Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 (32 & 64 bit)
- English
- Origin Systems / Electronic Arts
- single-player
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78 MB
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- September 22, 1993
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Sunday, January 1, 2012
Two books for inspiring thought
I was just thinking of using Call of Cthulhu for Steampunk Chicago, with magic, and with some Lawrence Watt-Evans for spice.
A different kind of inspiration, but a fun one ;)
A different kind of inspiration, but a fun one ;)
The Final Folly of Captain Dancy and Other Pseudo-Historical Fantasies
by Lawrence Watt-Evans
(Jul 18, 2011) (1 customer review)Back Cover: "... Final Folly of Captain Dancy and Other Pseudo-Historical Fantasies ..." See a random page
in this book.
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Progress, now vs. 2010 and the year 1800
It is fun to read past generations moaning about general decline. In college it was interesting to read about all the technological advances that occurred in the "Dark Ages."
For perspective, an except from an essay (read it in full at http://www.sciencemeetsreligion.org/blog/2011/12/the-great-decline-of-western-society-what-are-the-facts/):
For perspective, an except from an essay (read it in full at http://www.sciencemeetsreligion.org/blog/2011/12/the-great-decline-of-western-society-what-are-the-facts/):
Imagine a better-off-than-average family somewhere in Western Europe or Eastern North America in 1800 [Ridley2010, pg. 13]:
- Worldwide living conditions. There is widespread concern that our global economy, while lifting up some, has condemned hundreds of millions of others to extreme poverty, particularly in light of the current worldwide economic recession. But according to the latest U.N. report (2010), its Human Development Index rose in all but three nations (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia and Zimbabwe) from 1970 to 2010. For example, worldwide average income per capita in 2010 was $10,760, which is twice the inflation-adjusted level in 1970. Over this 40-year period, income per capita rose in all but six nations worldwide, with increases averaging 184% in developing countries and 126% in developed countries [UN2010].
The family is gathering around the hearth in the simple timber-framed house. Father reads aloud from the Bible while mother prepares to dish out a stew of beef and onions. The baby boy is being comforted by one of his sisters and the eldest lad is pouring water from a pitcher into the earthenware mugs on the table. His elder sister is feeding the horse in the stable. Outside there is no noise of traffic, there are no drug dealers and neither dioxins nor radioactive fall-out have been found in the cow’s milk. All is tranquil; a bird sings outside the window.Oh please! Though this is one of the better-off families in the village, father’s Scripture reading is interrupted by a bronchitic cough that presages the pneumonia that will kill him at 53 — not helped by the wood smoke of the fire. (He is lucky: life expectancy even in England was less than 40 in 1800.) The baby will die of the smallpox that is now causing him to cry; his sister will soon be the chattel of a drunken husband. The water the son is pouring tastes of the cows that drink from the brook. Toothache tortures the mother. The neighbour’s lodger is getting the other girl pregnant in the hayshed even now and her child will be sent to an orphanage. The stew is grey and gristly yet meat is a rare change from gruel; there is no fruit or salad at this season. It is eaten with a wooden spoon from a wooden bowl. Candles cost too much, so firelight is all there is to see by. Nobody in the family has ever seen a play, painted a picture or heard a piano. School is a few years of dull Latin taught by a bigoted martinet at the vicarage. Father visited the city once, but the travel cost him a week’s wages and the others have never travelled more than fifteen miles from home. Each daughter owns two wool dresses, two linen shirts and one pair of shoes. Father’s jacket cost him a month’s wages but is now infested with lice. The children sleep two to a bed on straw mattresses on the floor. As for the bird outside the window, tomorrow it will be trapped and eaten by the boy.
Looking at industry money flows
Many times people do not understand how the money flows or where the costs are in an industry.
Sometimes even those who work in it have no idea.
http://ivanhoffman.com/moneyflow.html is a good example of someone explaining the way the money flows in a huge industry (the music industry) that many in the industry do not understand or appreciate.
Just to start (quoting from the article):
Just to start (quoting from the article):
The artist will usually get a royalty of anywhere from 5% at the low end to 15-25% at the high end of the Manufacturer’s Suggest Retail List Price (the retail price) as a gross royalty but that royalty is almost always illusory.
The company will generally deduct for “packaging” (remember “packaging?” that is, when albums came with covers and liner notes?). The artist should of course negotiate not to have such a deduction for digital downloads since there is no “packaging” in such formats. The company will also deduct an amount, currently somewhere around 15% for pretty much nothing at all but which historically was an amount allocated to “breakage” (remember when there were actual records that could break?).
Now the 85% basis for royalty calculations has simply become part of the royalty structure and there is no rhyme or reason to explain it. In fact, it used to be 90% as the standard but could, in the right instance, be negotiated to 100%. Needless to say, this is negotiable as well. There are often many other deductions and reductions in the above royalty rate for foreign, mid-price, budget price as well as different rates for foreign sales.
Additionally, the artist gets a share of the licensing income (read “Is It A Sale or A License?” ). If the recording is used in a commercial, movie, television show or the like, the company negotiates a “master use” license with the user and collects the money and pays the artist’s share to the artist, which if properly negotiated, should not less than 50% of the gross and sometime much higher than that. And it is not just the rate that is important; it is the basis upon which the rate is calculated which is even more important.Read the rest of it. Now, look for that same informatin in your industry.
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