{"id":683,"date":"2009-04-14T00:54:06","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T00:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hip97.com\/wp\/?p=683"},"modified":"2009-04-14T00:54:06","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T00:54:06","slug":"pikaland-etsy-virtual-labs-inspiring-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2009\/04\/14\/pikaland-etsy-virtual-labs-inspiring-creativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Pikaland + Etsy Virtual Labs: Inspiring Creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m getting butterflies in my stomach lately, and have been reduced to a disorganized wreck, all because of one event. <\/p>\n<p>You see, I&#8217;ve been invited to talk at Etsy&#8217;s Virtual Labs (http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/virtual_labs.php) on Tuesday, 14th April 8pm, New York time about a topic I feel very strongly about &#8212; creativity, and I feel as if my mind has suddenly emptied itself. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m supposed to share my opinions on what fuels creativity, what I think of competition,  trend spotting and what an artist can and offer to the marketplace, and while I do have many thoughts about this, but I fear that I may somehow turn up an absolute blank tomorrow. <\/p>\n<p>There will be a videocam, and you&#8217;ll be able to hear me talk, and underneath it all I&#8217;ll probably be sweating bucketloads (but thank goodness you and your readers won&#8217;t be able to see <span class=\"caps\">THAT<\/span>.)<\/p>\n<p>So if you have some readers who would be able to talk me up and to hold my hand a little (and of course those who would like to chat about the topic at hand!), I would be so happy if you could send them over with a towelette or two.<\/p>\n<p>And of course I would be over the moon if you could come! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>xo<br \/>\nAmy<\/p>\n<p>blogged: http:\/\/pikaland.com\/staging\/2009\/04\/14\/pikaland-presents-inspiring-creativity<\/p>\n<p>p\/s&#8212; if you&#8217;d like it to be on your Facebook calendar for reminder purposes, then this is the event page for you to see: http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/event.php?eid=64076143882&#38;ref=nf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230; <a title=\"Pikaland + Etsy Virtual Labs: Inspiring Creativity\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2009\/04\/14\/pikaland-etsy-virtual-labs-inspiring-creativity\/\" aria-label=\"More on Pikaland + Etsy Virtual Labs: Inspiring Creativity\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_generate-full-width-content":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}