Complete Your Magnum Opus

Your Magnum Opus is
your greatest work.

You don't have to

complete it alone.

Email

artrichk@gmail.com

with inquiries.

Collaborating

This network is for bringing visionaries and artists together in order to complete the greatest works possible.

A visionary is anyone who has an artistic idea they dream of completing.

An artist is someone who bears an ability to contribute via writing talent, musical performance, or other honed skillset.

Whether you are a visionary or artist, there is no cost or formal registration. This is an invitation based, grass roots, network.

If the list below feels right, consider reaching out!

List of Intentions

This list is simply to establish like-mindedness to set out on the right foot. Being part of the Figment-to-Finished Collaboration Network means that you intend to:

• Strive for True Collaborations
• Maintain Collaborator Awareness
• Seek and Share Opportunities
• Commit to Artistic Integrity

Strive for True Collaborations: Fairly share ownership of contributions in alignment with long term rewards & outcomes.

Maintain Collaborator Awareness: Try to stay updated with recent news, major milestone achievements, and the general abilities and visions of other Collaborators.

Seek and Share Opportunities: Tell others about leads, especially when it is not aligned to your expertise. Try not to view others as competitors.

Commit to Artistic Integrity: Credit others where due. Do not claim other's work as your own. Be honest about your own contributions and abilities.

Connecting

This is a new network. To get started, email artrichk@gmail.com.

Figment-to-Finished
Collaboration Network

We are visionaries
with a dream project.

And we are artists ready
for new opportunities.

Q&A

What is Figment-to-Finished?

It is the idea that there's a huge amount of unfinished art in the world. And it is waiting for the right combination of vision, drive, persistence, planning, and talent, to reach full fruition.

Why all the emphasis on networks? Why not hire through freelance platforms?

Sure, you can hire someone that way, and the results might be excellent. The connection to raw talent like that is widely available. But there is something missing in that approach.

When there's a combination of relationship and ownership, the sum becomes greater than its parts. That's the magic of a True Collaboration.

What does that mean, a 'True Collaboration'?

True collaboration is when each contributor is invested in the task at hand, the process, and the long-term outcomes, as well.

For example, if you hand a session guitarist some chords and pay them their hourly rate... That is a service for hire, NOT a true collaboration.

A true collaboration is when you say, I've got part of a song, I plan on submitting it to publishing agency, but I could use a bridge and solo created for it, and then that guitarist becomes part song-writer too. They are now invested in the content and also sharing some small portion of royalties or credit later on when it gets distributed.

It's the difference between co-writing vs proofreading, in a matter of speaking.

Yowza. Doesn't that get complicated?

Oh, of course it can. But keep in mind the goal is relationship building as much as it is the artistic and financial outcomes. Every contributer should still protect themselves legally.

Does Figment-to-Finished offer legal services?

Oh hell no! This is a grass roots effort to connect people solely for the sake of completing the best art.

Are you saying service for hire is bad?

No disrespect to those who need to buy bread and make a living. The hustle is respected. But there ought to be additional avenues for talent to work on passion projects together within a growing community.

So who are you?

I'm just some schmoe trying to get a small movement started.

I'm a long-time music maker, writer, and experience designer. Got some poems published as contest winners. Wrote tons of songs and instrumentals. Used to host community drum circles, and did some foley for community theatre. All sorts of stuff. I'm also an experienced project manager with a background in software. Some creative types find obstacles in task coordination and planning, so that is my secret super power.

How can people get involved?

This is a new network in early stages. Visionaries, artists, or anyone with an opportunity or need, are welcome to start a conversation via email at artrichk@gmail.com.

Last question, what about AI?

The Figment-to-Finished approach tries to avoid the use of AI, because it can undermine the blood, sweat, and tears which artists have shed to develop their body of work. AI in its current state tends to be trained on the style and finished products of hard-working artists.

That is not to say an AI prompt engineer can't be part of the network, but we encourage any and all AI use to be cautiously relied on and transparently credited, which is difficult to ensure.

If there ever comes a time where an AI robot is truely self actualized, you know, like DATA or C-3PO, then we would welcome that android entity to the network as an individual!

Agreements

The Figment-to-Finished Collaboration Network strongly encourages True Collaborations, wherein contributors work-out details as early as possible to determine a fair share ownership.

Figment-to-Finished encourages the share of financial gains based on the long-term success of a project. It also encourages clarity in citing artistic credit whereever it is due.

However, it does not prohibit anyone from working out Services for Hire agreements on their own terms.

Referrals

A core tenet of Figment-to-Finished is opportunity sharing without finders fees or barriers.

Seeking and sharing opportunities, especially those outside your area of expertise, is a virtue.

Legal

The Figment-to-Finished Collaboration Network may offer agreement templates or other tips from time to time, but it is not an entity capable of legal adivce or representation.