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The Creative Beat

Your gateway to art, design, nerdy insights and exhortations of beauty.

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Secrets of Great Portraits

Some Ideas About Investing

A Guide to Collecting

The Nugget Test

Is This Art? – Baruch Torgeman and the Language of Books Whenever we ask ‘Is this art?’ we test it against three things: Novelty, Nuance, and Narrative. Novelty – how original is the work? Artists have been working with books for a long time. Dada and collage movements played with text. Alicia Martin, the Spanish artist, imagined waves
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Home Video Tips – Pro

Most of us think of home video as a chore. We’re obliged to do it, it’ll be rubbish anyway, and our energy reflects this expectation. But we love a good film!

Home Video Tips – Intermediate

Most of us think of home video as a chore. We’re obliged to do it, it’ll be rubbish anyway, and our energy reflects this expectation. But we love a good film!
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Home Video Tips – Beginner

Most of us think of home video as a chore. We’re obliged to do it, it’ll be rubbish anyway, and our energy reflects this expectation. But we love a good film!
Meaningful Art

Meaningful Art

Why do you buy art? Many purchase art purely as an investment. Sometimes it might be entirely aesthetic. Others look at art as a personal expression of sentimentality hanging on their walls. Sometimes it’s all three. Whatever the case, each piece of art has a significant meaning to each of us. Many people are attracted
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The way each child sees the world is unique and magical. The ideas they formulate have the capacity to surprise, amuse and provoke thought.
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The Value of Memorabilia

People tend to keep things that are important to them. A silly trinket, or an old postcard, can rehash a thousand memories. The value of such memorabilia lies not in the objects themselves, but in the associated memories of a person, place or event. Salvaging and preserving such treasured memorabilia, allows these emotional connections, along
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We were sitting on a gold mine and never knew. We found on old projector and some cine reels in the attic. We couldn’t believe the wonderful footage that we found from the 60s and 70s – birthday parties, skiing trips, and images of long lost family members and friends. So if you’ve got an
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