2013

Blogittude for the New Year

Thanks for dropping by jafabrit's art blog. I am and artist, embroiderer, photographer, jafagirl member, FAF member,and craft activist and have a daily passion, or is it an obsession ;) for creating. Hope you enjoyed your visit.

Just a recap of the year 2013
Naw! It was a horrible year for so many reasons, so I think I'll skip it. It's a New Year and it starts with a new blogittude.
So with

Dayton City Paper

Welcome to jafabrit's art blog. One of the many things I love to do is support my jafapal Nancy and the Yellow Springs Arts Council.

Nancy and her team put together an amazing Jumble Art Sale at the Gallery and I was asked to take the photographs for the article by Sara Sidlow.

If you are local and you missed it this year, please keep it in mind for next year. Not only was there an amazing

Boxing Day

This blog entry is by Corrine Bayraktaroglu aka jafabrit who is the admin for Free Art Friday blog, the jafagirls website, and Yellow Springs Arts Blog. Corrine is an artist, embroiderer, photographer, jafagirls member, blogger and craft activist.

and Jafabrit is still recovering from Christmas Dinner.

Until Next Year

This blog entry is by Corrine Bayraktaroglu aka jafabrit who is the admin for Free Art Friday blog, the jafagirls website, and Yellow Springs Arts Blog. Corrine is an artist, embroiderer, photographer, jafagirls member, blogger and craft activist.

Seasons Greetings

On display at the Gloria Gallery custom Christmas Ornaments

WONDERSPUN and The Wonder of It

Yes, apparently I am absolutely so brilliant that this award winning Design Firm said they would love to hire me for projects in the future and pay me handsomely for my work

BUT

not for the one they used ahem!

Even though, as they stated on their website, they had a wonderful opportunity to brand Wonderspun for their upcoming film "Manny", I was told it was a special favour to a friend

The UGLY Reality: Kudan Augmented Reality

yes, that ever so humble little spin painting
often attributed to Damien Hirst
that I did in 2010 and posted on my blog

was used for commercial use by Kudan.

Several weeks ago I found my spin art on Kudan's website banner, a specialist agency that creates Augmented Reality Apps for advertizing etc. Thought it was rather clever

and wanted to try and give them a chance to work

VK.com and copyright problems

VK is Russia's version of FB and it's not the FIRST time I have found work of mine being exploited on the site, and probably not the last. Today I found

yes

Dotty Spin Painting AGAIN

being used for a cafe promo

VK was slammed last year by a US report

I like how the owner of the site says you have to prove it in court

REALLY

it's hanging on MY wall ;)

Happy Halloween! New Tattoos by Matt Decker!

Hope you enjoy feasting your eyes upon some new work by Matt Decker!

Copyright Infringement: Weird Excuse

Recently I was told by an infringer that not only was I lucky they used my image, it's a great way for people to notice my artwork.

Yes, so how do people notice YOUR artwork if nobody knows it's YOUR artwork?

The whole point is to be noticed so people will either buy your work or licence your work, yes!

Copyright Infringement Excuses

But we didn't make money off it
But we

Yarnbombing News

Put up a nifty bit fiber art up at the Springfield Museum of Art.

Sorry no pics, will have to buzz over here, or here ;) to see the pics.

David Byrne article so IRONIC

It is titled "the internet will suck all creative content out of the world," and featured in the Guardian News.

"The boom in digital streaming may generate profits for record labels and free content for consumers, but it spells disaster for today's artists across the creative industries".

HELLO readers, yes, a disaster!

The IRONY part.

Some of the WORST offenders in my case, and the bulk

The Most Famous Artist You Don't Know

Yes, me!

I don't care about being famous, but I sure as hell would like to get paid like one, & credited for my work.

I put a lot of time,love and effort into it and expect to be payed for it.

You like to get paid (that's how you pay the bills right) and get credit when it's due, YES?

Like many creatives/photographers I do a quick image search once a week and found several of my works

New Horizons

Still working on the new website

meanwhile

You can find me hanging out on the

Jafagirls FB page

or

YS Put a Bird on It.

EXHIBITS

Currently I have my work on Exhibit at the Winds in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

Upcoming for October

Bound 2b Round

at Village Artisans

UPDATES

Thanks for dropping by :)

While I am no longer posting images on this blog, the art journey continues.

You can find me hanging out on the

Jafagirls FB page

or

YS Put a Bird on It.

AND

A new WEBSITE is in the works.

Until then you can see some of my public art projects here.

EXHIBITS

Currently I have my work on Exhibit at the Winds in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

Upcoming for