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• Make a Living Riding the Long Tail - Part 1

  
  Ask Harriete — Authority: 422
  There were many insightful and provocative presentations at the 2009 ACC Conference. After thinking about all that went on, I want to focus on three major insights that seemed to be most relevant to making a viable livelihood from your...
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• Creating a New Craft Culture

  
  Lynette Andreasen — Authority: 112
  Ive had intentions of doing a post about my trip to the American Craft Council Conference for weeks now, and have finally realized that I just dont have time (my thesis is 4 months away, every minute counts right now!) to write the quality of post I was hoping for. So, instead of telling you all about the ...
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• Long Tail - Blockbuster versus Netflix, and the art/craft world.

  
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  On October 24, 2009 (my birthday) I posted a review of the panel discussion at the ACC Conference titled, "Riding the Long Tail: Marketing Craft on the Internet." That post offered this definition: The "long tail" is a catchphrase about...
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• Interview With James Watt Of BrewDog

  
  thefullpint.com - Beer News, Beer Reviews, Event Coverage. — Authority: 525
  In a sea of traditional, session ale in the United Kingdom, comes BrewDog out of Scotland. Rather than another brewery making boring milds, bitters and brown ales, BrewDog has taken a fresh approach of making ...
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• American Crafts Merrymint Collection!

  
  Embellish It Scrapbooking-See What's New! — Authority: 419
  I dont know if youve all had time to browse in our awesome gallery ...but there are so many fun projects there, from cards to great gift-giving ideas, that you dont want to miss it! I pulled some of It-Girl Dannis cards featuring the fun papers from American Crafts Merrymint Collection! Get Free ...
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• ACC Conference - Why the ACC is more famous for football than craft?

  
  Ask Harriete — Authority: 422
  The Devil Inside Brooch, Recycled tin cans, Harriete Estel Berman A rude awakening. When I told a distant relative that I was blogging for the ACC Conference she was blown-away impressed, shocked, surprised!!!!!.....until she found out it was not THE...
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• ACC Conference - An Opinion from Wendy Rosen

  
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  Only one person has taken me up on the offer to use my blog to continue a conversation started at the 2009 ACC Conference. Wendy Rosen requested that her response to Garth Clark’s lecture be posted here for your review...
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• ACC Conference: An INDEX to the lectures from ASK Harriete

  
  Ask Harriete — Authority: 422
  The organization of the ACC Conference 2009 was like going to a concert. Each lecture progressed to the next like a rising crescendo. The sequence resonated from beginning to end. Each day began with a book author opening the conversation...
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• ACC Conference: Sonya Clark - “Craft as Subject, Verb and Object”

  
  Ask Harriete — Authority: 422
  BACKGROUND: I have been familiar with Sonya Clarks work since being in a show with her at the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, Oregon titled, Manufractured: The Conspicuous Transformation of Everyday Objects. We each also have a chapter about...
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• ACC Conference: Garth Clark - “The Case for Conservativism”

  
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  BACKGROUND: Whenever I see Garth Clark, I cant help but think of his controversial and thought-provoking presentation that he gave for the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, Oregon titled, “How Envy Killed the Crafts,”. You can find a link...
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• ACC Conference: Lydia Matthews -"New Models in the Marketplace"

  
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  The description of Lydia Matthews lecture in the ACC Conference catalog sounds like a collection of "fun to hear phrases" that leaves the listener impressed that something important will be said, but you sure cant figure out what it will...
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• ACC Conference: Robin Petravic - “Good Design + Good Craft = Good Sense: The Story of Heath Ceramics”

  
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  The last lecture on Saturday morning was by Robin Petravic titled, “Good Design + Good Craft = Good Sense: The Story of Heath Ceramics”. The previous lecture about the industrial design profession was the perfect preface as Robin Petravic and...
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• ACC Conference: Julie Lasky - “Men in White”

  
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  Julie Lasky did a great job with the technical aspects of her presentation using film clips and wonderful images of the design industry to illustrate her program, Men in White. She showed numerous symbols and metaphors that were quite interesting...
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• Puff Paint and Prada

  
  Mind Over Mullis — Authority: 108
  I have two teenaged sons and a husband who think Dungeons and Dragons should be an integral part of the American educational system and the Vulcan salute a worldwide gesture of solidarity. For some peace of mind and a chance to chase the boy cooties from our personal space, several of us girlie types have been ...
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• ACC Conference: Riding the ‘Long Tail’: Marketing Craft on the Internet

  
  Ask Harriete — Authority: 422
  Do you know what the "long tail" is? The "long tail" is a catchphrase about how the Internet enables consumers to easily find and connect with relatively obscure and widely dispersed suppliers. It allows anyone, anywhere, with unusual interests or...
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• ACC Conf.: Rob Walker - “Handmade 2.0”

  
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  Imagine my astonishment, WOW!, to see an image of this pin up on the big screen as people walked into the lecture room on Saturday morning. Actually I made this pin a year ago as a present for Rob Walker...
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• Natalie Chanin - “Marketplace and the Personal – A Story of Thread”

  
  Ask Harriete — Authority: 422
  Friday afternoon at the ACC Conference .... so far our brains are filled to the brim with dedication and commitment to craft as both lifestyle and livelihood. Natalie Chanin continued the conversation with her lecture, “Marketplace and the Personal –...
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• Adam Lerner - "Mixed Taste: Tag Team Lectures": Prairie School Architecture & Clanceys Meat and Fish.

  
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  Adam Lerner "Mixed Taste: Tag Team Lectures": The premise of the lecture format called, "Mixed Taste" (developed by Adam Lerner) was an unusual combination of two seemingly unrelated topics that sound good together. Examples of previous programs offered by Lerner...
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• ACC Roundtable Discussion round-up

  
  the view from rubistudios — Authority: 413
  Or “A Shortened Version of What I Really Wanted to Say” discussion occurred 11am Friday October16, 2009 Craft in the 21 st Century: Identity, Choice, Meaning Moderator: Sandra Alfoldy, PhD is both a professor and curator in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She has also written three books on the theory of craft, ...
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• thinking craft

  
  hilary pfeifer — Authority: 106
  Ive been enjoying reading about the American Craft Councils Creating a New Craft Culture conference since I couldnt make the trek myself. Thanks to the generosity of bloggers like Harriete Estel Berman , Emiko Oye , Rubi McGrory and Garth Johnson , I could vicariously be in two places at once last week. ...
  3 weeks ago

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