support your artist
10:58 | 04-08-2013 | Censorship, Copyright, Economics | No Comments
замечательный Джек Конте об изыскании средств:
So, how did artists make a living before the 1700s and 1800s? Basically, all great art — Michaelangelo’s David, Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa — has been because of patronage.
Нил Стивенсон в интервью Slashdot когда-то говорил ровно о том же:
The great artists of the Italian Renaissance were accountable to wealthy entities who became their patrons or gave them commissions. In many cases there was no other way to arrange it. There is only one Sistine Chapel. Not just anyone could walk in and start daubing paint on the ceiling. Someone had to be the gatekeeper—to hire an artist and give him a set of more or less restrictive limits within which he was allowed to be creative. So the artist was, in the end, accountable to the Church. The Church’s goal was to build a magnificent structure that would stand there forever and provide inspiration to the Christians who walked into it, and they had to make sure that Michelangelo would carry out his work accordingly.
Similar arrangements were made by writers. After Dante was banished from Florence he found a patron in the Prince of Verona, for example. And if you look at many old books of the Baroque period you find the opening pages filled with florid expressions of gratitude from the authors to their patrons. It’s the same as in a modern book when it says “this work was supported by a grant from the XYZ Foundation.”
Nowadays we have different ways of supporting artists. Some painters, for example, make a living selling their work to wealthy collectors. In other cases, musicians or artists will find appointments at universities or other cultural institutions.
и, пожалуйста, это работает:
Since launching in May, Conte’s Patreon has attracted 2,300 creators, starting with him and his friends, like his Pomplamoose bandmate Nataly Dawn and ukulele player Julia Nunes.
Many Patreon creators come from YouTube, where they collectively have more than eight million subscribers with more than 1.25 billion video views. But there’s also a pod of indie gamers who make paper games and physical games, and a graphic novelist releasing his latest work page by page. Together, they are making more than $100,000 per month, with Patreon taking a five percent cut.
On the back of that early positive momentum, Patreon has now raised $2.1 million from tech investors SV Angel, Charles River Ventures, Freestyle Capital, Alexis Ohanian, Garry Tan, Atlas Ventures, Rothenberg Ventures and Tyler Willis.
потому что иначе мы снова упремся в цензуру:
There was this weird hundred-year period where content was distributable but not digitized, from the 1900s, when the phonograph was invented and sound recording was first released. It was the age of physical media with artificial scarcity. But now that recorded media as a product is basically worthless, the idea of paywalls and charging for content is just starting to seem outdated and old fashioned.