Archive for November, 2011
How do you find out if a record label is seeking new talent? Most often, it will be right on the company’s website. Look for “Contact Us,” “FAQ,” or “Submissions” on the record label’s website. This is where you will find information about how to contact the record company, and often where to send your demo CD.
Here, you need to look carefully at the language that the page uses when describing submissions. Some pages will be enthusiastic in requesting materials and state that they are actively seeking new talent or artists. Others will be more coy, stating that they are “always accepting submissions” and sign new talent periodically. And some companies will simply tell you right away that they are “not accepting submissions at this time” and that they are not seeking any new talent. No matter how great the label, you don’t want to be sending your material to a person who will simply toss it in the trash!
Looking at these sections of companies’ websites can be a good help to you in determining which labels are signing artists, which will help you get a record deal. If you are strategic in sending your demos, you are more likely to get responses. Keep in mind that some labels will say that they are not accepting unsolicited submissions, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t seeking new artists. This just means that you will need a connection or contact that can get your demo into the “solicited” pile. Sometimes, a music contacts database can even help you find a more exclusive address or contact that can get your demo heard-even if a label says it does not accept unsolicited materials.
With a little digging, you can discover record labels looking for new artists. With a working knowledge of how to contact record labels, you’ll learn how to submit a demo to a record label, and once you know which labels are seeking talent, you’ll be on your way to knowing how to get signed to a major record label.
Although most people think of welding as a way to build buildings and other shapes, there are many people who have chosen to use welding as an art form that is as creative as any inventor.
Generally speaking welding art comes in large pieces where people use scrap metal to form objects that they are interested in. As an example, one artist may use sculptures to create animals or other scenes in nature. Another may use welding to make a statement about something through their art.
One idea that is very popular is the making of sculpted iron gates that are uniquely ornamented. They are very large and can enhance either the entrance to an estate or the entrance to a particular garden or other area within an estate.
Another area where welding art is common and interesting is in the building of temporary stage structures for musical extravaganzas. As an example, one welding artist, Kenny Baird created this type of stage for Kenny Rogers. Baird is also a master welder.
Some of the welding art is experimental to see what types of metals can be welded together in an art form. An example of this is work by Wylie Mitchell of Texas, where he created a sculpture using copper, mild steel and stainless steel. This created an effect that looked weathered and interesting. The contrast in colors made this an attractive piece.
For some welders, traditional welding became too confining and they were bored with construction of buildings and wanted to do something more. They saw the potential to work with the metals to bring them into a fuller way of expression.
Welding art uses the same processes as other welding. Many artists are skilled in arc welding and others use plasma cutters to produce intricate patterns. Still others use lasers to produce certain forms of welding art. This type of art is only limited by the imagination.
Many artists specialize in certain things. Some will create sculptures, others altars and tables and some will concentrate on building large sculptures that sit in front of office buildings or in parks. It will depend on the artist’s tastes and interests as to what they decide to do.
Wall sculptures are very popular with welding because they can be decorative especially when other types of metals are welded to them or they can be shaped through hammering, cutting and shaping the metal into unique shapes.
Many welders who also do art specialize in repair work. They attempt to create that same effect as the original piece wherever possible. The materials used in welding art can be everything from iron to other forms of steel. This really depends on the artist and their preference and skill at using specific materials. Stone and bronze seem to also be popular materials for some welders who do art.
Many art welders use simple and inexpensive tools to get their artwork done. The same equipment that they would use for other welding projects are part of the art toolkit as well.
An artists’ intuition, talent and genius makes an interesting observation when paint is applied to the canvas.
We all know that the best things in an artists’ work are so much a matter of intuition. There is so much to be said about this point of view that it discourages questions about the artist intuitive phenomena.
Intuitions are shy things and apt to disappear if looked into too closely.
Furthermore, there is a danger that too much knowledge and training can lessen the natural, intuitive feeling for the student, and leave a cold knowledge of the means of expression in its place.
If you are an artist and have what it takes, then you have a consciousness, and you try to produce your best work.
Talent can be described as “that which we have” and genius can best be described as “that which hold us.” We may have little control over this power that “hold us”, it may serve us to abandon oneself to its influence. There can be little doubt as to it being the business of the artist to see to it that this talent is developed and proven to be a fit vessel to hold the expression of whatever is given them to express. It must be left to the artists’ individual temperament to decide how hard to pursue any intellectual analysis of the elusive things that are the true matter of art.
When the art student realizes that art training can only deal with the perfecting of a means of expression and that the real matter of art lies above this and beyond the scope of teaching, he cannot have too much of it.
Great things are only done in art when the creative instinct of the artist is recognized and action is taken to bring that art into being.
Dean Nimmer states, “Shut off your conscious mind, full of self doubt and negative chatter and let your intuition guide you.”