About

“Our goal is to combine various art forms into one site, showcasing an eclectic group of talented individuals, thus making use of the uniqueness on the Internet and providing a resourceful guide for all readers.”-Scene360 Team

About the Magazine

What is Scene 360?
Scene 360 was founded in 2000, as an online film and arts magazine. A bi-monthly publication, which profiles and interviews artists, photographers, web designers, filmmakers, musicians, and poets with a focus on their career and analysis of the driving forces behind their work.

Our Team
View member list on right-side of this page, or click here. By clicking each member’s name, you will be able to read their bio.

Do you want to join our Team?
Contact us to find out how to become a guest writer or news author at Scene 360.

Connecting with Scene 360

RSS
• Scene 360 Magazine – Full News and Articles
• Scene 360 Magazine Articles Articles Only
• Scene 360 Illusion

Social Networks
• Twitter
• Video Channel
• Behance Network
• Facebook
• MySpace
• Technorati

Widgets
• News
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FAQs

• Can I republish your articles and images?
• How do I contact an author from your site?
• How do I contact an actor or filmmaker?
• Can I submit my portfolio for a 360 Feature?
• What are the terms for submissions?
• Can I submit my site to Scene 360?
• How can I promote a give-away on your site?
• How to obtain an Event Media Sponsor exchange?

Can I republish your articles and images?
Any downloading, re-publishing, or other copying or modification of copyright contents herein may be a violation of copyright laws. For permission to republish our articles, please contact our editor Adriana de Barros. If you are looking to request use of a photograph, artwork, or film still, please contact the photographers or their agents directly to obtain permission.

How do I contact an writer from your site?
On the article that you selected, the writer’s name is linked. Click the link to go to their bio page. View the writer website URL, and attempt to contact directly through his/her site. Or please contact us and we will forward your message to the writer.

How do I contact an actor or filmmaker?
We do not give out contact information, unless explicit permission is provided by the particular person. Our suggestion is for you to find fan sites or official film sites that may contain: contact info, US or EU Networks, or a database such as Imdb.com.

Can I submit my portfolio for a 360 feature?
Most of our features are invitation basis. However, every now and then we put up calls for submissions. Check to see if we’re looking for submissions within your field of expertise.

What are the terms for submissions?
All submissions to our magazine are reviewed and evaluated before publishing. All participants/contributors whose work has been selected will notified via email. Please read Terms of Submission, before sending your work.

Do you have widgets?
Yes, we have widgets for our news and video channel. It is very simple to customize and install to your site. Click here.

How can I promote a give-away on your site?
Give-aways are a great way to attract viewers to your product. If you are a company, online store, someone with something interesting to offer. We’re open to proposals for give-aways, please contact us.

How to obtain an event media sponsor exchange?
We have sponsored art, design, film, and technology are looking for events that are promising in education, innovation,and entertainment. Please contact us to check availability for an exchange.

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Contact Us

Please send emails through our Contact page.

Press: Awards

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  Pixel Awards, Winner, “Best Magazine,” 2008.
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  The SXSW Web Awards, Nominee, Classic, 2008.
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  Portuguese Multimedia II Award, Winner, Numero Festival, Portugal, 2005.
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  SXSW Interactive, Nominee, Redesign/Relaunch, 2003.
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  Creative Public Award, Designers of the month Top 10, 2003.
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  AIGA Cincinnati, Selected as Top Site in the “Design” section.
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  MSN.com, Site of the Week, October 2002.
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  HOW Magazine, Top Ten Links, January 2002.
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  Yahoo.com, New and Notable, issue titled “Around the world in art and back again,” August 28th 2002.
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  Radio Comercial,Broadcast on radio show “Internet Comercial”
  Top Radio Station in Portugal, “Site of the Day,” Sept 16th 2002.

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Press: Publications

“Scene 360: Impressive range of topics, delivered with decidedly European accent. ” -STEP Inside Design

Communication Arts
“Great design. Great content. What’s not to like?” July 31st, 2008

OP magazine
August 2005

Website 100% Loaded
by Feierabend; Feierabend Verlag, Ohg, September 2004.

STEP – Inside Design
featured in article “Top 10 Design Sites,” May/June 2004.

Tashen’s 1000 Favorite Websites
by Julius Wiedemann, 2003.

Shift Japan Magazine
featured the Everyday Life Competition, April Issue 2003.

Web Design Index 3
a paper back published by Pepin Press, 2002.
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Press: Advertise

Scene 360 magazine offers multiple ways to build your brand and get your message across to a large and loyal readership. Most ads are sold on a per month period using PayPal subscription service through us or via BuyandSellAds. Ads will auto renew every month unless you cancel the subscription for the following month. If you don’t want to purchase by month, we also have another option: Bid per day. Find out more about our advertising packages.

Precious Partners

(mt) Media Temple, Inc. is an industry-leading web hosting and software application services company based in Los Angeles, California.Scene 360 is powered by (mt) Media Temple’s (gs) Grid-Server. It is a completely new hosting service that replaces yesterday’s obsolete shared server technology. Eliminating roadblocks and single points of failure by using hundreds of servers working in tandem for our website, applications, and email. The (gs) Grid-Server’s on-demand scalability means Scene 360 will always be ready for intense bursts of traffic, hopefully as a result of our growing audience. All of this power, can be controlled through MT’s brand new AccountCenter—a very simple and elegant interface, that we truly appreciate every time we login. Thank you (mt)! For more information about (gs) Grid-Server, please read here.

MailChimp, a leading do-it-yourself email marketing service, provides tools to over 10,000 small businesses, design agencies, non-profits, restaurants, and e-Commerce organizations worldwide. Customers can create professional, eye-catching HTML emails in minutes with easy-to-use web based tools. Scene 360’s newsletters are sent through MailChimp, we simply loved the smiley monkey hanging around their site. A big surprise is how delighted we are for changing from our old newsletter system to MailChimp’s, because now, there aren’t worries about security or spam. Their interface is easy to use, our newsletters are now sent out in text or HTML—you can choose what you prefer. And lastly, the monkey won us over at first and the interface, but the customer service has been great—prompt and friendly—you actually talk to humans. Thanks MailChimp!

Media Sponsors

The Best Designs recognizes the top websites from around the world. On a weekly basis, sites are awarded and showcased for their excellence in Flash or/and CSS. The Best Designs is a great design resource for finding new websites and web design firms.

The aim of the Hire an Illustrator is to provide art directors and commissioners with an easy to use point of contact for job seeking or available freelancers, along with a quick and simple interface for freelancers to update their profiles. Hai! is not just a portfolio portal, their mission is to contact directly agents and companies to promote the creative individuals on website.

Lovely Package®, the leading source for the very best that package design has to offer.

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Terms, Policies, Copyrights

• Terms of Submission to Scene 360
• Copyrights, and Creative Commons License
• Publication Abuse
• Republishing Content
• Newsletter Email, Privacy Note
  
• How did I get on the mailing list?
• Disclaimer

(Last Updated: September 25th, 2008)

Terms of Submission to Scene 360
All posted content/submitted material and unless indicated otherwise, are accepted on the basis that the author grants Scene 360 a non-exclusive license, royalty-free, perpetual, to edit, adapt, publish, translate, and display such content within Scene360.com, or/and its affiliated and partner projects, publications in any form of media. All submissions are credited to their creator(s).

All submitted images, artwork—individual projects created outside of Scene 360, are credited and remain property of their individual creators. All submissions must be reviewed before they are published on Scene 360. They must follow our criteria of unique, outstanding art. If your post does not meet our criteria, we will automatically delete it without further notice.

All news submission to Scene 360 Illusion should be written in your own words. If you are posting content of a third party, please obtain authorization from copyright holder, and apply appropriate credits to your post (E.g. Image Title © Copyright Holder’s Name). Each post should not surpass 5 text lines, a small paragraph (max. 75 words) We are looking for short and descriptive posts. And upload a image to go with your text. Please remember to optimize images in Photoshop, Fireworks, or other imagery program.

Read about our Criteria and Guidelines for Posting.

Copyrights, and Creative Commons License
News column posts: All photographic or illustrative material displayed in our news column are © of their respective owners. We showcase artwork at Scene 360 and our affiliated websites and publications under the context of journalistic articles, reviews, and artist features. Credits to the artist are present under each post as well as a link to their website.These news posts can be shared under the Creative Commons License of Attribution-Share Alike.

Articles and Interviews: All editorial, original sourced writing of our articles and interviews published at www.Scene360.com are copyright © Scene 360. All rights reserved. To obtain permission to republish our articles, please contact us.

Website layout: “Scene 360 Illusion” website design/layout is Copyright © 2009 Scene 360. All rights reserved.

Publication Abuse
Although our best interest is to feature great content, if you have found a publication that contains: 1) your copyright image without authorization or appropriate credits, or 2) displeased with a post published on this site. Please contact Scene 360 .

Republishing Content
Any downloading, re-publishing, or other copying or modification of copyright contents herein may be a violation of copyright laws. We are open to the “share-a-like” method for news column posts ONLY, republishing by adding credits and link to Scene 360 Illusion (e.g. Post by Scene 360 illusion [www.illusion.scene360.com], or Via Scene 360 Illusion).

For permission to republish our articles for personal or commercial use, please contact us.

If you are looking to request permission for image use (photographic or illustrative), please contact the photographers or their agents directly to obtain permission.

Newsletter Email, Privacy Note
The information you give to subscribe to our newsletter remains confidential, and used only for such purposes as sending our bi-weekly or monthly Scene 360 Newsletter. We are entitled to use submitted information for responding to your requests and inviting you to new Scene 360 related projects/websites. We do not share or sell any information to third parties.

How did I get on the mailing list?
You have received our newsletter email because you have requested Scene 360 Newsletter subscription at www.scene360.com, or its affiliate projects such as Scene 360 Illusion. Other options are you could have participated in one of our competitions, surveys, projects—or even been a sponsor or guest on one of our website(s). You may unsubscribe at any time, on each newsletter there is an “unsubscribe” option at the bottom of the page.

Disclaimer
This site of art, design, photography, music, and literature information is compiled by Scene 360 (Scene360.com) and Scene 360 Illusion (Illusion.Scene360.com). While every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of our database, Scene 360 reserves the right to withdraw or delete information at any time.

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