June 19, 2013

How to Become Famous in 3 Shockingly Easy Steps

How to Become Famous in 3 Shockingly Easy Steps

  Let’s face it, you’ve probably been working way too hard. Forget about all of those years toiling away in obscurity Forget about putting in your 10,000 hours of practice to master your craft. In fact, forget about creating any creative work at all, now it’s all about becoming famous for the sake of being [...]

Waxing the Golden Rule

"Brushes" by Mae Chevrette on Flickr

    Waxing the Golden Rule by: Kara Brook   The road to hell & litigation is often paved with good intentions I’m an encaustic painter who enjoys sharing what I have learned as I develop my own skills. I’ve found there’s a lot of information on the web, specifically video trailers often linked to [...]

Does Your Website Suck?

Does your Website Suck?!

    Let’s be honest for a moment. . .   Does your current website suck? Do you frequently suffer from website shame and embarrassment? Do you sometimes avoid telling people where to find your website because you haven’t updated in over 6 months? Does it seem like everyone else online has these really cool [...]

There Are No Artists

Matrix Spoon Bending

 You win, I lose! As creative artists we have been trained to see things in a particular way which is if you win, then I lose. We either get the publishing or recording contract or we get rejected. We either get the gallery show or it goes to some other artist We either get the [...]

Copyright is Not the Problem, You Are!

Copyright Puzzle by Horia Varlan

Copyright is Not the Problem, You Are! by: Cory Huff   Pinterest is upon us! For some reason, the Internet decided to throw a giant fit over copyright over the last few weeks. It started (sort’ve) with this interesting blog post by a lawyer who tearfully deleted her Pinterest inspiration boards. Her post spread like [...]