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"Technology and the Arts" is a podcast hosted by Brian and John, Brian is a communications professional, comic book-style artist, songwriter, and blogger. John is a designer, artist, writer, poet, technologist, consultant, open web advocate, and open source evangelist. Episode 56 has some good apps for you iPad musicians Both Brain and John are from Jersey and haven't been active since Sandy went through…

A fascinating article written by CEO of GrantStation, a company that aims to help non-profit organizations find sources of grant money. The author discusses her experience with her company of moving it all online and into the crowd.

this is one of many sites I use to find auditions, competitions, and other resources for developing a career.

I use this site also, to look for jobs in arts administration...it's an excellent source.

Rick Friedman (almost!) weekly Location Lighting Blog! This is a great source for photography lighting tutorials and workshops. One of my favorite photographers.

I have used GIMP for years. It is a really powerful image program. But it does have a learning curve, that is well worth climbing. From their website: " It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted. GIMP is written and developed under X11 on UNIX platforms. But basically the same code also runs on MS Windows and Mac OS X."

Interesting, I actually have this on my computer and never paid any attention to it...I will now!

An excellent article about using technology and the arts to assist students with learning disabilities grasp concepts and make connections in academic subjects. Several sources of technology applications are also included. This piece is very relevant for me and for the work that I do with students who learn "differently".

Technology and art helping children with disabilities in the classroom.

I recently stumbled upon the University of New Mexico's interdisciplinary program in Art + Technology. They describe it as such. " The program fosters an atmosphere of radical creativity and thoughtful engagement with emergent and established technologies. Students are expected to make work that comments on, engages with, and expands our notions of what technology based art can be through courses that explore high tech immersive environments alongside consumer electronic hacking and simple analog circuit building. Labs are equipped with industry standard software as well as free open source analogous software options. Studio production is coupled with critical inquiry into the relationship between art, technology, politics, society and culture."