{"id":913,"date":"2009-09-18T17:30:50","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T17:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hip97.com\/wp\/?p=913"},"modified":"2012-10-31T23:28:17","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T15:28:17","slug":"giveaway-do-you-need-qualifications-to-be-an-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2009\/09\/18\/giveaway-do-you-need-qualifications-to-be-an-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you need qualifications to be an artist?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/1722.jpg\" class=\"image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.e-junkie.com\/ecom\/gb.php?i=332717&#038;c=cart&#038;cl=68716\" onClick=\"javascript:ejw=window.open(this.href,'paypal','width=850,height=600,toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,menubar=no,status=1,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes');ejw.focus();this.blur();return false;\" target=\"paypal\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/1726.jpg\" border=\"0\"  alt=\"Add to Cart\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&#38;hosted_button_id=8295869\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/1727.jpg\" class=\"image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; And that&#8217;s the topic for the fifth issue of the <a href=\"http:\/\/pikaland.com\/staging\/goodtoknow\">Good to Know zine<\/a>! It&#8217;s our biggest issue ever too \u2013 68 pages filled with shared experiences and thoughts by 51 artists, illustrators and designers. There&#8217;s also a special segment that&#8217;s generously shared by Melanie Maddison of <a href=\"http:\/\/myspace.com\/colouringoutsidethelines\">Colouring Outside the Lines zine<\/a>, and features snippets of previous 10 interviews with artists that relates to the topic at hand. <\/p>\n<p><strong>++GIVEAWAY <span class=\"caps\">TIME<\/span>!++<\/strong><br \/>\nTo celebrate the launch, we&#8217;re giving away <strong><span class=\"caps\">TWO<\/span><\/strong> issues of this zine; one each to lucky commentors who share with us their thoughts: Is it necessary to have a degree\/qualification to be an artist? Do you have experiences or thoughts to share?<\/p>\n<p>Giveaway ends on 25th September, and if you can&#8217;t wait, well you can always get your own copy at the <a href=\"http:\/\/pikaland.com\/staging\/goodtoknow\">Good to Know project page<\/a> where you&#8217;ll also find <a href=\"http:\/\/pikaland.com\/staging\/2009\/05\/28\/past-issues\">past issues<\/a> of the zine! <\/p>\n<p>Pssst, also, if you want new updates every now and then, you might be interested in signing up for our <a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/bYhy\">mailing list?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>{The pattern for the cover of issue #5 was designed by <a href=\"http:\/\/vickysmithisnice.co.uk\">Vicky Smith<\/a>}<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"caps\">UPDATE<\/span>: Commenting has now closed, thanks for participating!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230; <a title=\"Do you need qualifications to be an artist?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2009\/09\/18\/giveaway-do-you-need-qualifications-to-be-an-artist\/\" aria-label=\"More on Do you need qualifications to be an artist?\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_generate-full-width-content":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913"}],"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=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29625,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions\/29625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}