Commonplace Books is, among other things, you.
We are here to help express the global arts community that has formed over the last few years on the Internet.
We are about finding interesting and talented people, wherever they are in the world and in their careers, and helping them find a larger audience through communal projects and playful challenges.
Here is a simple fact: it is a better time to be an artist than any other time in history. Whether you are a writer or a painter or a musician or a filmmaker, you were born at a lucky time. Thanks to the Internet, global distribution and organization is now available to everyone.
The exact model for how all this should work isn’t settled yet. But that is why it is up to us, the artists of this generation, the generation living in the best time in history to be an artist, to create the world that we want to live in. To create the models to function in that world.
This is the world of Kickstarter and WikiLeaks. It is a world full of risk, but with the possibility for rewards unlike any that have existed before. And Commonplace Books was made for exactly that world.
I can’t wait to see what we all do next.
Joseph Fink
Editor
