Have you ever wanted to see your photograph on the cover a globally released CD?.. Well now is your chance.

Electric Violin prodigy, Caitlin Moe, has recently exploded on the music scene and has teamed up with us to provide a fantastic opportunity for all of our talented photographers out there in Talenthouse land. Caitlin is looking for a photographer to shoot the cover for her soon to be globally released album. She’s looking for a photo that is mysterious and dramatic like her songs as well as fun and loud like her personality. It should also push the boundaries, like her violin playing.

This Creative Invite is open to all photographers and we ask that you submit two of your best artistic shots that encompass the mysterious, dramatic and fun qualities that Caitlin is looking for.

You better hurry, there are only 10 days left to submit! Good luck!

Fewdio be premiering ‘Firsts‘ at their Comic-Con booth (#4116) this week on July 22nd through July 25th. So if you’re attending, make sure to check it out! They will also share it on their Internet sites shortly afterward. You can check out some more stills and learn more about the script at DeadCentral.com!

Congratulations Ashley! We can’t wait to view the film!

Introducing Dunder B. Louie! Isn’t he adorable?! Our graphic designer, Byron, picked up this handsome little guy on Wednesday at 8 weeks old. We’re all very excited to meet him, congratulations Byron! You know you are already giving in to that cute face of his!

In this Creative Invite hosted by LuckyMag.com, Florence Welch, lead singer of Florence + the Machine, invites Talenthouse fashion designers to design a stage outfit for her. The winning design will be worn by Florence at a performance at Terminal 5 in New York!

Deadline for submissions is Oct. 4, 2010 with voting taking place Oct. 5-8, 2010. The selected designer will be announced Oct. 14, 2010. The submissions will be judged by Florence, her stylist Aldene Johnson, and Lucky Magazine’s Creative Director Andrea Linett. And there are plenty of rewards to go around:

- The winning designer will receive $500 in cash, transportation to New York, a 2-nights’ accommodation at Soho House NY and will also meet Florence and the band backstage.
- The People’s Choice winner (top vote-getter) will receive a special edition jewel box designed by Florence and Faye Sawyer. This jewel box will contain the band’s new album Lungs, and an envelope with hand-drawn artwork by Florence containing a personal handwritten letter.
- The top 10 runners-up will each receive a signed copy of Florence + the Machine’s new album, Lungs.
- The top 5 ‘judges choice’ designers, will be mentioned on Luckymag.com.

So exciting, right?! To learn more about Florence + the Machine and find inspiration for your design, please visit http://florenceandthemachine.net/

Good luck and happy designing!

Check out the newest episode of Rik Cordero’s Deranged Fan series directed by our very own David Bruce Bates Jr AKA “davidjr.com” – winner of the Rik Cordero Invite!! It is truly amazing to see our artists receiving such great honors.

“It was awesome working on an episode of Deranged Fan for Rik Cordero who gave me total creative freedom to do whatever I wanted,” says David about his experience working with Rik. “This was a super opportunity to get feedback on my directing, shooting and editing from Rick who is a leading talent in the field I’d like to break into.”

Now, this is what Talenthouse is all about! We couldn’t be more proud of you, David! Thanks again to Rik Cordero and Three/21 Media for all of your support!

Check out some behind the scenes footage from the making of this episode:

The Art Department partnered with Talenthouse earlier this year to offer select artists TAD scholarships for the July 2010 Semester! The artists were asked to submit up to 3 pieces of their artwork to be considered.

The winner of the full scholarship ($45,000) is Alexandra Maramite from Romania. Her heavy use of lines and shapes in her submission pieces “try to reveal the essence of humanity and simplify it all together”. Alexandra has yet to decide whether she will study from her home in Romania, or on-site in one of the The Art Department’s locations worldwide.

The following artists will also be receiving scholarships —

Half scholarships at $22,500 each are awarded to:
Miguel Cabrera from Costa Rica
Tibor Pogonyi from Germany
Mathias Kollros from Austria
Timothy Rodriguez from France

Partial scholarships at $11,500 each are awarded to:
Manuel Larino from Spain
Tiffany England from Los Angeles, CA
Elizaveta Reich from Germany
Daavid Mörtl from Germany
Ken Khoo from Canada
Amrei Fiedler from Germany
Irina Troitskaya from Russia
Winnie Wyrm from Germany
Ryan Landry from New Mexico
Aneta Kordala from Austria

Congratulations to all of the Artists that were selected by The Art Department to receive these various scholarship opportunities!!! As a scholarship winner, each of these artists are invited to attend TAD’s online instructional courses, to give them an opportunity to hone their skills and network with other creatives from all over the world!

Designed and taught by more award-winning faculty than any other art school, TAD develops artists into their greatest potential and prepares them for successful careers. Options are available to learn exclusively online, in-person or a hybrid of both. TAD has schools in Austin, Berkeley, Kansas City, Richmond, and San Francisco for those interested in on-site study. For more information on TAD, visit www.theartdepartment.org

Metal-core band, The Devil Wears Prada, teamed up with us and invited all designers, graphic artists, painters and fans to design a new band T-shirt to be sold exclusively on their online store. They asked these artists and fans to come up with a design that best interprets what the band means to them. And they chose André Trindade’s Three-Eyed Wolf as the winning design!

André is very excited to be the chosen winner for this Invite.  He currently works as a freelance illustrator in Portugal and mostly designs t-shirts, posters and album covers for bands and clothing brands.

Be sure to check out The Devil Wears Prada at some major festivals this year like, Warped Tour, Rockstar Taste of Chaos and their highly anticipated “Back to the Roots” tour!

In honor of the release of “Stranger”, the latest track from Dr. Dog’s new album “Shame, Shame,” Dr. Dog launched a search for the world’s top film student talent to create their own video renditions of the new track.  The incentive? $2000 USD toward tuition cost and school supplies or in cash!

The band was extremely impressed with the quality of the submissions which made it difficult to come to a decision on the winner. After quite a deliberation, they chose Mark Wiitanen as the winner! Check out Mark’s winning video submission below:

Congratulations to Mark on winning this Invite and thank you to the rest of you who submitted!  We welcome you, and all filmmakers, to check out the following opportunities:

This summer the Soho House Group will launch the Electric Shorts film competition and they invite you to pitch your film proposal themed on “Desire” in no more than 400 words for your chance to win the opportunity to shoot the film at a Soho House property. Submit by July 1st, 2010!

International fashion icon Diane Pernet and superstar fashion blogger Tavi Gevinson have created a once in a life time opportunity for you! They are looking for a fashion film feature or short to be screened as a part of the next edition of ASVOFF opening in Paris. Submit your film by July 19th, 2010!

Steven E. de Souza is an accomplished producer and screenwriter of films such as Die Hard, 48 Hours, Tomb Raider and he invites aspiring filmmakers to produce their own take on the Web’s first suspense anthology, UNKNOWN SENDER. The winning short film will be showcased on StrikeTV and you will receive full credits and ad revenue. Submit by August 16th, 2010!

American progressive/alternative rock band, dredg, teamed up with Talenthouse months ago to find a musician to remix their track “Mourning This Morning” from their current album.  The mix with the most votes would be featured on the dredg MySpace page and the winning re-mixer would also receive 2 tickets to an upcoming dredg show of their choice.

After taking some time to review all of the submissions, they were very impressed with Matt Johnson‘s submission and named him the winner — Congratulations, Matt!!

Matt is a musician who was born and raised in Detroit and now currently resides in Michigan. He’s been employed with a family entertainment company since 2006 and spends 8-9 months out of the year on tour as management for the merchandising crew. He likes to play drums and guitar and also enjoys experimenting with different varieties of electronic music from hip hop beats to rock remixes.

“Talenthouse is a great outlet for someone like myself to participate in creative collaborations with artists whom i respect and admire,” says Matt.

Thank you to all who participated in this Creative Invite!! Don’t forget to find out how you could have the chance to collaborate with a Grammy Award Winning musician!

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Universal Music and progressive, classical music act Era were in search of an aspiring filmmaker to come up with a “treatment” for a music video to be premiered at a central London cinema, aired on MTV and Vh1, as well as through Era’s online networks. The selected filmmaker would receive up to $10,000 of filmmaking equipment and the honor of working with the world’s largest record company. Additionally, $5000 is being distributed between the rest of the filmmakers who submitted.

After a successful voting period and deliberation by Era and Universal Music, the chosen winner of this filmmaker search is Adrian Picardi. Check out his mind-blowing submission below:

Adrian graduated from the Los Angeles Film School at the age of 19. His first student film, ‘His Day to Remember,’ won the Cinematic Flim2Music competition and was also screed at Sundance that same year!

He is best known for securing a spot as one of the young, up and coming filmmakers the industry has seen and for winning a series of online short film contests, now including this one! Adrian works with extremely low budgets but his films are always commercially appealing and visually stunning!

We featured Adrian on our website a while back and could not be more proud of him! Congratulations, Adrian and thank you to all of the filmmakers for your hard work! It does not go unnoticed!