by Amanda on September 25, 2009

My friend Karen recently recorded an album. In her basement. With a guy she met through Craigslist.
The occasion? Her 10th wedding anniversary. The CD was a gift for her husband, Perry, and she shared copies with me and a few other friends.
I offered to post some of her songs on Creative DC. Then, as I …
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by Amanda on July 15, 2009

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.
Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
- Scott Adams (Dilbert)
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by Amanda on June 12, 2009

Last night I attended the DC premiere of a wonderful documentary called Beautiful Losers. I highly recommend this film – I’m still feeling the buzz of inspiration, almost 24 hours later. It’s about a group of punks, skaters, graffiti artists and other “outsiders” who start hanging around and making art together in New York’s Lower East Side in the …
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by Amanda on April 29, 2009

This is just one of a series of celebrity portraits created by artist iri5 out of old cassette tapes and film. She explains the thinking behind the series, called Ghost in the Machine, thusly:
In this series I showcase a number of portraits of musicians made out of recycled …
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by Amanda on April 14, 2009

Thanks to John for passing this along!
From the Wooster Collective:
On Facebook we’ve been asking a series of questions about art, being an artist, inspiration, etc. The responses that are being posted …
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