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The new release of MADNESS the twenty track pack includes the sickest remixes of the album Freak Controller from DJ Digital, Morphy, Mant & the crew... it has to be experienced to understand!! Touring the FREAK OUT RUN of the North Island is on the back of this release from EMI... check out this comp' download for a taste >>> Untangling Malibu Digital+Morphy remix
ARTIVIST : creative developed a series of contracts that involve a shared risk/shared profit that helps venues & artists achieve a common goal - successful events.
The contract method, developed for Salmonella Dub, reduces standard deposits & works on a percentage break of gross profit; both the artist & the venue need to expel effort to maximise returns & both benefit greatly by working together to achieve this success.
"We modelled the contract at a couple of gigs earlier this year & it went well... since then a major festival has picked up the idea & it was essential in securing acts" says JoFF Rae of the contract... "the key is to make an agreement & see the benefits to yourself & to others in the equation & stick to it through to delivery - possibly a practical example of the Nash Equilibrium.
La De Da picked up the contracting method & with help from JoFF Rae secured all of its acts on $10K in deposits; the event sold out in 10 days but Rae was concerned that the promoter had not shared the complete success of the event with the acts, only declaring 10,000 PAX sales when there was 13,500 PAX. This defeats the purpose of the contracting ethic.
The Nash Equilibrium - informal definition: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Informally, a set of strategies is a Nash equilibrium if no player can do better by unilaterally changing his or her strategy. To see what this means, imagine that each player is told the strategies of the others. Suppose then that each player asks himself or herself: "Knowing the strategies of the other players, and treating the strategies of the other players as set in stone, can I benefit by changing my strategy?" If any player would answer "Yes", then that set of strategies is not a Nash equilibrium. But if every player prefers not to switch (or is indifferent between switching and not) then the set of strategies is a Nash equilibrium.
Thus, each strategy in a Nash equilibrium is a best response to all other strategies in that equilibrium.[3] The Nash equilibrium may sometimes appear non-rational in a third-person perspective. This is because it may happen that a Nash equilibrium is not Pareto optimal. The Nash equilibrium may also have non-rational consequences in sequential games because players may "threaten" each other with non-rational moves. For such games the Subgame perfect Nash equilibrium may be more meaningful as a tool of analysis.
ARTIVIST : creative have entered into a commitment with Salmonela Dub to develop & support content & creative direction of production on some specific projects. A measure of confidentiality surrounds exact details but some exciting prospects could come from the collaborations...
Salmonella Dub frontman, manager & driver Andrew Penman & Creative Director JoFF Rae have a long history from the beginnings of the Sal Dub machine; both guys are Fire Horses & "would have been drowned at birth if we were born 2000 years ago in China - either totally destructive or extremely productive" says Andrew...
"I'm excited about the prospects & what is already happening in the fold... Waiheke in February, Easter shows including the Surf Nationals in Gizzy & the chance to work with MC Mana again" says JoFF... "looking forward Spring 2010 is going to be cool with some definite !"
ARTIVIST : creative will be building & designing visual systems & content unique to the Salmonella Dub product & performance...
Freak Local is the first single from Salmonella Dub's brilliant new album Freak Controller... "the rest of the album is brilliant & worth more than one listen... it translates to an opportunity to make some sick sh*t on stage!" says ARTIVIST : creative JoFF Rae.
We say GET SOME OF THIS!!!
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ARTIVIST : creative collaborate with the most experienced & productive artists with capable & humble technicians in New Zealand to develop specific product for target market demographics… we make content to suit our target audience!
artivist
Artivist is a portmanteau word combining “art” and “activist“. Artivism developed in recent years while the anti-globalization and antiwar protests emerged and proliferated. In most of the cases artivists attempt to push political agendas by the means of art. Yet this is not political art as it was known before, in the sense of artworks being political. The artivist is often involved in Streetart or Urban Art, Adbusting or Subvertising.
In some cases, Paris in 2003 for instance, artivists were arrested for acts of political art that verged on property destruction. A typical short term goal of artivists is to reclaim public space, especially by subvertising or destroying ads in urban areas or city transportation systems. Nevertheless artivists engage in different media like the internet not only for actions which could be described as hacktivism.
Often the acts of artivists can be refererred to as part of the larger concept of Culture jamming.
There is a chapter on Artivism in It’s Bigger Than Hip Hop by M.K. Asante, Jr.
Asante writes of the artivist:
“The artivist (artist + activist) uses her artistic talents to fight and struggle against injustice and oppression— by any medium necessary. The artivist merges commitment to freedom and justice with the pen, the lens, the brush, the voice, the body, and the imagination. The artivist knows that to make an observation is to have an obligation.”
creative
creative |kriːˈeɪtɪv|
adjective
relating to or involving the imagination or original ideas, esp. in the production of an artistic work : change unleashes people’s creative energy | creative writing.
• (of a person) having good imagination or original ideas : Homer, the creative genius of Greek epic.
noun
a person who is creative, typically in a professional context.
DERIVATIVES
creatively adverb
creativeness noun
THE RIGHT WORD
Everyone likes to think that he or she is creative, which is used to describe the active, exploratory minds possessed by artists, writers, and inventors (: a creative approach to problem-solving). Today, however, creative has become an advertising buzzword (: creative cooking,: creative hairstyling) that simply means new or different.
Original is more specific and limited in scope. Someone who is original comes up with things that no one else has thought of (: an original approach to constructing a doghouse), or thinks in an independent and creative way (: a highly original filmmaker).
Imaginative implies having an active and creative imagination, which often means that the person visualizes things quite differently than the way they appear in the real world (: imaginative illustrations for a children’s book).
The practical side of imaginative is inventive; the inventive person figures out how to make things work (: an inventive solution to the problem of getting a wheelchair into a van).
But where an inventive mind tends to comes up with solutions to problems it has posed for itself, a resourceful mind deals successfully with externally imposed problems or limitations (: A resourceful child can amuse herself with simple wooden blocks).
Someone who is ingenious is both inventive and resourceful, with a dose of cleverness thrown in (: the ingenious idea of using recycled plastic to create a warm, fleecelike fabric).
by any means necessary!
Jean Paul Sartre
The phrase is from a translation of a sentence used in French intellectual Jean Paul Sartre‘s play Dirty Hands:
“ I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we were born. It is not by refusing to lie that we will abolish lies: it is by eradicating class by any means necessary.” ”
— Jean Paul Sartre, Dirty Hands: act 5, scene 3. 1963
Malcolm X
It entered the popular culture through a speech given by Malcolm X in the last year of his life.
“ We declare our right on this earth to be a man, to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.” ”
— Malcolm X, 1965
