Well said, webdancer. Excellent points, one and all. I like the idea of a calendar better - very timely (bad pun, sorry). :oP But seriously, before we do go all out and start an anthology of digital art in book form, the slightly less daunting task of creating a 2003 calendar is a happy middle ground. It's halfway between a full blown art compendium and the more traditional digital art print. Plus it's functional. Clever one, webdancer. Rather than dissipating our energies into doing both a book and a calender, I would like to volunteer exploring the calendar idea first. We can still get around to doing the book eventually, but creating a "limited edition" calendar (similar to a series of signed lithographs) will generate invaluable lessons for future undertakings. Not as big nor as messy as putting together a book (or even a magazine). The limitations of the calendar make it a nice controlled experiment. We can either do 12 images (monthly) or the more inclusive and challenging 52-week version. Here's another point to bend your noodle... who chooses which artists go into the calendar? What theme? My only suggestion on both counts would be to try and create an inclusive concept behind the calendar, rather than an exclusive one. I think it should celebrate community and coming together, rather than simply providing a venue for individual talents. Of course, we still have to do this by high lighting the individual works of community artists. Sounds difficult? Not really. It could be as simple as "prop passing" from one image to the next. You might do a render with a specific background that has a Poser figure as a... uh... pregnant elven warrior (for example only). The next image in the calendar could use the same background, with a different figure holding a sword. The next one features the same sword raised high in the middle of a battle - armored figure mounted on a white charger... The next one has that same armor, lying on a cold slab of stone inside a mausoleum surrounded by a garden... And the garden spills out to a landscape... etecetera, etcetera, etcetera. Again... this could be the mother of all bad ideas, feel free to shoot it down. The images need not be created specifically for the calendar, it would be just a matter of lucky hunting around in the galleries for an underlying thread of connectivity. We don't even have to tell people about the connections between the images. For the calendar, I would rather not have text, prose or poetry... the days and dates will provide sufficient graphic clutter. Besides, aren't these images supposed to be worth at least a thousand words. Let us please let them speak for themselves. In addition, these calendar images might even offer an opportunity for subtle advertising. Some merchants and content creators who specifically said "non-commercial" use for their products might have to be oriented towards the benificial advertising this kind of exposure will bring them. Again, this is in "addition"... let us not dillute our intent of featuring art by inserting heavy handed advertising. Let's be simple and subtle with the credits, be they products or freebies. Bedtime here... Let's keep this discussion open. It's on the verge of becoming something practical. :o) Cheers! - M

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