The Polymath Photographer: An Interview With Wendy Purcell
Do Renaissance (wo)men still exist? Talenthouse can now confirm that yes, they do, for how else do we describe Wendy Purcell and her incredible talents? Wendy is the recent winner of the Catalpa Festival invite, for which she submitted one ... Continue Reading
Friday Blog Roundup for July 6
As the week is coming to a close, we have a new gathering of features, invites, and success stories from the last seven days. First off, though, we were struck with an outage caused by a huge storm that hit ... Continue Reading
The Remarkable Patterns of Zulekha Lakeca
When you look at Zulekha Lakeca’s portfolio on Talenthouse, you will see a variety of fanciful and complicated designs in an Art Nouveau style. It’s easy to see why she became one of the top-voted entrants in the Design for ... Continue Reading
Playing With Light: Artists Manipulate Space
Part of what makes projection mapping so compelling as an art form is the precision and effect it gives. It can create the illusion of altered environments, warping the surface of a building or making an entire backdrop disappear into ... Continue Reading
Protecting Skulls in Style: Antonio Cotos, HardnutZ Winner
Here at Talenthouse we love reminders of what participating in an Invite can do for an artist’s career, especially when it comes to removing obstacles to letting creativity flow. Members agree about the difficulties in making one’s art known to audiences, ... Continue Reading
Wabi-Sabi: The Perfection Of Imperfection
Tired of air-brushed beauty? Fed up with Photoshop excess? Bored with bland flawlessness? If the answers are yes, yes, yes, perhaps an introduction to wabi-sabi will be the key to renewed inspiration. Wabi-sabi, not to be confused with wasabi, is ... Continue Reading
Avicii Winner John Mattisson “Stocks” Up on Talent and Heart
It wasn’t for glory. Nor was it for fame. No, John Mattisson entered the “Design for Avicii” invite out of love for his girlfriend, who happens to be a “bit crazy” over the Swedish DJ/producer extraordinaire. Faint heart never won ... Continue Reading
Neil Young Blesses Profane Sass’s “Wayfaring Stranger”
Neil Young is an enduring musician who has traveled the roads of song far and wide, on his own as well as while part of grand acts such as Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. His and Crazy ... Continue Reading
Why You Should Plug Into Multiple Creative Outlets
Turns out one is the loneliest number when it comes to creative outlets, and graphic designer Dylan C. Lathrop of Good Design backs that notion in his article about why creating outside of his main craft lets his inner artist ... Continue Reading
The Mister Behind Mr. Limo
Who is Jean Pigozzi? Based on some handy media research, we know, in summary, the following: He’s hung out with Cate Blanchett, Martha Stewart and Diane von Furstenberg. Oh, and Steve Jobs, Jann Wenner, Arki Busson, Rupert Murdoch and Bono. ... Continue Reading
Talenthouse Will Return Shortly
Greetings, We are sorry to report that an earlier storm in North Virginia has caused power issues in Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud. As a result, our website is currently down. This outage has affected sites like Netflix, Pinterest and Instagram ... Continue Reading
Photographer Stephanie Magallanes Dances To Beat Of Her Heart
Once upon a time, Stephanie Magallanes was marketing manager for a nightclub. Although she led a fulfilling life, her artistic intuition persisted in drawing her towards photography, and eventually, equipped with an invaluable trust in herself and the well-honed sense ... Continue Reading
Musician Takes Another Step Toward Independence with Kickstarter
We’ve written plenty about Kickstarter, Youtube and the role that social media is playing in musicians’ quest for independence from record labels. Now Cobus Potgieter has walked a little further on that proverbial tightrope by using Kickstarter to raise money with which ... Continue Reading
Winner Announcement: Instagram Street Art Contest!
We’re big fans of social media and street art, so back in May we decided to hold a street art contest utilizing Instagram, Pinterest, and Twitter! We had quite the turn out which made the task of choosing three winners ... Continue Reading
Talenthouse Blog Roundup for June 29th
Gathering all the posts from the last Saturday, June 29th to this Friday, June 30th, it’s the Friday Blog Roundup! Yeehaw! Creative invites Just in case it passed you by, here are the Creative Invite opportunities that came up this ... Continue Reading
