Control the Way Your Content is Shared with Saga

A new self-hosting framework called Saga is giving artists, musicians, writers, filmmakers and other creatives more control over the way their content is shared. Saga works similarly to YouTube or any other embeddable media viewer, but it also offers a back-end dashboard where project owners can alter or restrict the use of their work if they don’t agree with the context of its use. For …

How Cyborg Moon Ribas Translates Seismic Activity into Dance

In 2013, performance artist Moon Ribas grafted a small computer chip onto her elbow, allowing her to sense every earthquake in the world. She uses this connection as the basis for her latest performance, “Waiting for Earthquakes,” in which she spontaneously choreographs dances to the Earth’s seismic activity. Online publication Hopes&Fears and GIF artist Alex Thebes recently visited Ribas to discuss how life with the …

15 Essential Apps for Freelancers

With digital communication making it possible to work from almost anywhere in the world, many creatives are turning to freelancing to pay the bills. Making the switch can seem daunting, though, since working on your own terms also requires constantly searching for new jobs, keeping everything organized and the will-power to stay focused outside of an office. If you are thinking of venturing into freelancing, …