Artist Tools

I’m trying to work it from all angles these days to get my lady love Indyish up and running in full fledged form. Whatever that means. The woman at the bank told me sympathetically but potentially crushingly the other day that business programs are not made for artist-types and other ‘people like you’. Ah. Le […]

Want to get a great idea of how the arts aspects of open source are evolving? You’ll get a huge dose from the aggregator built on a site called, of course, peace love and happiness. The site might be dizzying at first because it has so much info, but I think you’ll want to check […]

Here’s a cool list of video sites like youtube that we’ve been keeping an eye on over the last few months. All of them let you upload and share video with others. I’m not going to go into detail about each of their distinctive features, but most of them have similar standard tools like […]

Blog for Indyish
There is pretty unlimited potential for those who are interested to be blogging arts events for Indyish. We would love to have more perspectives, and more independent arts scene coverage from Montreal and around the world on the site. Your posts can be submitted to us via email- send to team @ indyish.com- […]

This weekend we did a workshop in a classroom at Puces POP - a co-pro between Indyish and Lulu.com. Katie and Nick came all the way from North Carolina to do Lulu’s first ever Canadian workshop!! explaining to Montrealers just what exactly is print on demand.

(Elran’s not in the pic because he’s helping set […]

Indyish went looking for someone really comfortable with open source recording tools to help us throw a cool Indyish workshop for POP, and we lucked out when we found Mathieu Johnson. Mathieu is a young artsy DIY guy with extensive open source experience, and a great ability to talk about what he does. He founded […]

hey- A new arts website in town is encouraging links specifically between arts and social justice in montreal and vancouver, which is nice. it triggers all kinds of ideas about future traveling shows and simultaneous networked exhibits and hopefully helpful happenings, and thoughts on the useful and layered way connections have of getting made. OneLove […]

Otavo.com calls itself an intention engine. You post your searches as ‘quests’, and other folks bookmark pages for you that contain the answers you seek. That’s the idea, and it’s awesome for various reasons. For one, because Otavo is still kind of small it’s cool to watch the lists of answers and suggested directions growing […]

maybe not so much a cry… maybe more of a tap on the shoulder…I’ve been using stencils to screen for years and I would really like to learn that other process. With the photoemulsion. I need to find a someone that can spend some time teaching me how to photo-emulse (sp?) I’ve tried. And I […]

Indyish attempted its first Open Source for Artists workshop as part of the beta launch(ish) weekend. we are in perpetual launch, as far as we can tell, and we may just continue to call all our events launch parties. currently, the sprouting and next-level-launch prep is happening behind the scenes, where El is experimenting on […]