The arrangement serves aptly as a metaphor for their relationship: the loom, one of humanity's first machines, is the engine that pays the young couple's bills, unites their interests and propels their creative livelihoods.
The alliance said it rejected the idea of the debate between piracy as a "David and Goliath battle" between individuals and multinationals, and such a characterisation ignored the fact that many creative professionals' livelihoods were at stake.
Meaghan Kent, who worked for Chelsea galleries for many years and recently started a nonprofit program, site95, that organizes shows in temporary urban spaces, said that many curators she knows are as creative about their livelihoods as they are in their work with art and artists.
To Steve Forbes, this destruction "may have hurt some businesses, but it has created opportunities for other entrepreneurs, in addition to lowering costs for consumers" -- except for those millions of American consumers in manufacturing and retail who lost their jobs as a result of Wal-Mart's "creative destruction" of their livelihood.
And it occurred at the very moment that the IT revolution was wrecking the livelihoods of those creative classes – film-makers, musicians and writers of all sorts – who had previously lived on their copyrights.
Ultimately, making records is not just a creative thing either – it's someone's livelihood as well.
The mayor clearly shares the theory, expounded in Richard Florida's 2002 book "The Rise of the Creative Class," that cities must attract people whose livelihoods involve imagination and innovation.
Results from 12 workshops show that participants usually come up with creative solutions that meet the biodiversity conservation and rural livelihood interests of all stakeholders involved.
BurnSilver 2009 found that 31 households from a total sample of 184 (17 %) spatially diversified their livelihood activities in this way, with associated creative divisions of household labor between locations.
By doing that they're harming the livelihoods of people who work in the creative industries".
