{"id":1021,"date":"2007-03-08T08:36:53","date_gmt":"2007-03-08T16:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2007\/03\/experiments_in_distributed_fin\/"},"modified":"2007-03-08T08:36:53","modified_gmt":"2007-03-08T16:36:53","slug":"experiments_in_distributed_fin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/experiments_in_distributed_fin.php","title":{"rendered":"Experiments in distributed financing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artistshare.com\/home\/default.aspx\">ArtistShare<\/a> had an interesting idea that seems to be bearing fruit. The web site connects musicians and their recording\/composition projects with a world of supporters and patrons on the web.<\/p>\n<p>Artists post their projects for possible funding. Fans can browse the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artistshare.com\/artist_project_join.aspx?salesTypeID=6&#038;artistID=23&#038;ProjectID=99&#038;selection=1\">list of offers<\/a> and contribute from $10 to $10,000 to fund their project of choice. Artists can also set up an official project home page on the site (here&#8217;s one for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artistshare.com\/artist_project_index.aspx?salesTypeID=0&#038;artistID=56&#038;ProjectID=94&#038;selection=0\">Simpson&#8217;s composer Alf Clausen<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s not a new idea &#8212; artists have been gathering funds from fans since Beethoven and before &#8212; the web enables a new level of connection for a wider range of artists.<\/p>\n<p>The service recently celebrated its first member Grammy award, with the Brian Lynch\/Eddie Palmieri Project&#8217;s <i>Simpatico<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Kinda cool. Thanks, Derek, for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at ArtistShare had an interesting idea that seems to be bearing fruit. The web site connects musicians and their recording\/composition projects with a world of supporters and patrons on the web. Artists post their projects for possible funding. Fans can browse the list of offers and contribute from $10 to $10,000 to fund [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}