Back in June, b-uncut reported on the early stages of the Crowdsourced art scheme- ‘The Johnny Cash Project.’- and as it’s now up and running, we thought we’d bring the story over to our loyal blur Group audience!

This weekend marks the moment where the people of Britain put their clocks back one hour to welcome the beginning of darker and colder evenings… That’s a bit negative, so we thought we’d turn the clocks back and give you a flavour of what has been happening at blur Group  over the past fortnight!

Where were we? Ah, yes, autumn. It’s been a busy few weeks folks. Two London Underground tube strikes, a couple of working briefs with our friends at Paddy Power, a visit from the Pope and we gained a number seven placing in the Campaigns 2010 Agency rankings!

Well that’s it then. The summer is over. The kids are going back to school, work outfits are in transition and we’re all bracing ourselves for colder, windier, rainier and generally darker days. So not a lot has changed then really- in Britain at least.

It’s Friday- and hopefully you know the drill by now. Our blur Group writers post blogs on Crowdsourcing, marketing, art, creatives, innovation and such forth. You read and hopefully enjoy them. Here are some of the week’s highlights.

b-uncut is fast emerging as the worlds leading artist Crowdsourcing platform. The beginning of Art Market 2.0. Here are some examples. Find more photos like this on b-uncut.net

People have been commissioning artists for a thousand years. It is one of the earliest forms of trade. Kings, Queens, Lords then industrialists, pioneers, even pirates took artists in and fed, housed and paid them to make great art. The artist commission is as old as time.

A quiet revolution is under way in the art world. One that few expected and most missed. Because it’s on the Web; called b-uncut. It was started in 2007 by a group of contemporary artists, led by Philip Letts, as a new kind of collective. One without borders. One bound by the Web. They’re vision [...]

The b-uncut Store is doing for the art world what Loudclothing.com does for the music industry (which is why EMI bought them yesterday!). And art lovers are buying in, snapping up the latest contemporary art accessories – t-shirts, posters, coasters, mousepads and more. Here’s a few we like. Go to the b-uncut Store today and [...]

Museum shops at Moma and the Tate do a roaring trade – even in the current climate. People just love having a nifty product with cool art on it. After all who can afford that original Van Gogh these days. The problem is that Museums are hard to get to and only promote dead or [...]

In 2007 a handful of pioneering artists had an idea. They thought that if they could use the Internet to unite and organize artists from around the world then together they could redefine the concept of art market. You see, they understood that world artists had had enough. Enough of making no money. Enough of [...]

blur Group’s crowd of artists at b-uncut keeps breaking new ground. Today it surpassed 10,000 artworks loaded. b-uncut.net, where the artists hang, attracts over 5,500 unique visitors per month and over 40,000 page views making it by far the most ‘active’ artist site on the Web. In the mean time b-uncut.com, aimed at art buyers [...]

Ricardo Cinalli, arguably the worlds greatest living painter has joined b-uncut. Leading art critics, including Brian Sewell, have called him the 21st Century Matisse. He’s a little shy – so we just recognize him as another cool artist that has joined the b-uncut movement. One of the reasons Ricardo joined b-uncut is to support the [...]

Your art, our store – a preview. The b-uncut Store opens its doors next week. Shhhh…

b-uncut, the leading crowdsourcing platform for artists, today launched a revolutionary artists’ store. It takes the already popular concept of a museum shop to a whole new dimension by offering hundreds of popular consumer goods products such as clothing, housewares, gadgets, cards, posters and more each designed with original art from b-uncut’s crowd of emerging, [...]

blur Group’s crowdsourcing platform for the art world has just launched a programme of art tours. Initially to Italy, these tours are for artists and art lovers and set in Rome, Florence and Le Marche. blur Group has spent the last 2 years building a sizable crowd of quality, emerging artists from around the world [...]

[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/O1x5ujsIHEw" width="440" height="270" allowfullscreen="true" fvars="fs=1" /] The worlds leading artist community has just become the Webs hottest art market. Join us if you dare – www.b-uncut.com. FAIRTRADE for Artists.

[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/jzLR4ibG4ug" width="440" height="270" allowfullscreen="true" fvars="fs=1" /] b-uncut – where the worlds living artists hang online. Join us if you dare. www.b-uncut.net.