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!

After six months in the making, we are over the moon about the paintastic film for the Let’s Colour campaign. The video is awesome! For those with a fetish for colour you’ll be drooling over your keyboards, your eyeballs kissing the screen! This is a crowdsourced art project that benefits communities worldwide.

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 [...]

The b-uncut store is open for business. Buy art t-shirts, shirts, gadgets, cards, posters and more. This is a critical milestone for b-uncut – the worlds leading artists network. Because money made from selling b-uncut Store products goes direct to the artists and b-uncut’s emerging art programs including grants, shows and sponsorships. b-uncut is redefining [...]

Crowdsourcing has become an increasingly accepted term with examples bandied about such as Google using the analysis of Web links to crowdsource their search engine, Wikipedia crowdsourcing the planet to build the largest encyclopedia and Threadless crowdsourcing approaching a million people to design t-shirts. But what is the future of crowdsourcing? Well, we think it’s [...]

[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.

As blur Group gets more of a following we increasingly get asked why what we are doing is important. It is both a fundamental and complex question to answer. I have spent the last ten years building large communities and marketplaces on the Web – consumer facing, business facing and some that mash both up. [...]

blur Group is a cluster of companies focused on social media, innovation and the arts. blur Group was founded in 2006 by Philip Letts who had the dream of harnessing social media, crowdsourcing, next generation technology platforms and flexible working patterns to build an entirely new breed of business. blur Group has since pioneered revolutionary working [...]