Networking in creative communities is essential for any newbie or aspiring artist. If you’re trying to get into the movie industry it’s of utmost importance. It’s absolutely what you should be doing at any given opportunity. You should be attending screenings, networking mixers, and festivals. You should be talking to people. You should be making […]
Screenplays are strange beasts. They’re one part blue print, one part novel, and one part play. Thanks to this fact, knowing how to read a screenplay can be quite confusing for people who are trying it for the first time. Screenplays or scripts as they’re also called, tend to vacillate wildly from large blocks of […]
When you’re first breaking into the music, film, or other creative industries, forging connections with people in positions of power is your number one goal. Whether you succeed or not and the kind of impression you make is all up to you. Do you shrink from opportunity and hide your head in the sand or […]
Photo credit: Dana Gardner One of the must attend festival destinations in Texas is Austin City Limits. Sprawling over two weekends, the festival features a lineup of some of the biggest and best acts currently working in music today. This year’s diverse 2016 lineup includes such highly acclaimed acts as Kendrick Lamar, Mumford & Sons, […]
Working in any creative industry is always a balancing act. If you want to keep working, you need to be making connections and building a solid reputation among the people you work with. You need to always be aware of who knows whom and how everyone is interconnected. Inevitably, whenever this conversation arises the Six […]
The 1990s are often heralded as the bastion of independent film. With directors like Robert Rodriguez, Kevin Smith, Quentin Tarantino, and Steven Soderbergh bursting onto the scene during the decade, it’s understandable why people still view it as the pinnacle of indie film. Unfortunately, many people don’t understand just how hard it was for these […]
LA’s prized FYF Fest returns to heat up the streets for its 12th annual year, August 27th and 28th! Setting up shop in Exposition Park, the popular music festival boasts a truly stellar lineup. Heavy hitters like Kendrick Lamar, Grimes, Father John Misty and Hot Chip are set to perform, along with indie darlings like […]
Been wanting to check out the thriving music scene, artsy, coffee-drinking, beer-drinking, beard-loving, slightly-granola, slightly-nihilistic (but nice) vibe that is Portland? Get thyself to Project Pabst, occuring the weekend of August 27th. Get there early, stay later in the week and we’re talking a full-fledge vacay in the cleanest, most organically fueled city of the […]
Making things is hard. It’s so much easier to live a life of consumption. Just sitting back and playing video games, reading books, and watching movies. It’s so much easier to let life wash over you. But that’s not satisfying at the end of the day, is it? Do you wake up fulfilled after a […]
As a working audio engineer, and especially as a music producer, it’s commonplace to have to become acquainted with multitude of different types of music. You could go from Cumbia to Zydeco to hip-hop to hardcore in the matter of a few days. Due to the rapid turn over of musical genres inherent in the […]
