Category Archives: Life

Artist Business Models 11 / Inversion Effect @ the Luf / Halloween

In our latest entry in the Artist Business Models series, Reesa writes about the True Fans model. The series continues every day on Words Words Words.
Theo Drumsthemoon has recruited my friend Mr. Fang’s band, Inversion Effect, to appear on Halloween at Lufton Runner. Voluptuary Amul Kumar did a great job on the concert poster. I [...]

Artist Business Models 8: Dividing Donations

Today in the Artist Business Model series on Words Words Words, we delve deeper into the topic of accepting donations and how you should divide up the money you receive. It’s a topic which seems simple on the surface but gets more complex the more contributors your project has. Read about Dividing Donations.
I spent most [...]

Busy times

It’s been a busy and exciting week. I spent a long extended weekend in the Austin area with my girlfriend Tea and her network. It was a wonderfully loving, blissful, creative and fun weekend. She’s just gotten great news that her sculptures have been accepted by a Houston gallery, with a Halloween-ish opening. I’ll be [...]

Business Model Post 1

Last night, Reesa published the first entry in our series examining online business models for artists, which serves as an introduction to the rest of the paper:
This series of posts collects in one paper as many different artistic business models which use some aspect of modern technology as we’ve found; there is much information available [...]

Gfire @ Lufton Runner

I spent the day helping my friend Theo Drumsthemoon set up a website for his concert venue, Lufton Runner. I am quite pleased with the results.
The Luf just launched its new Tellurian Music Series with an appearance by my friend (and a fellow Burner) Gfire. Although I couldn’t make the concert in person, the Luf’s [...]

Beginnings

A project Reesa, Steve and I have been working on for months now is in the earliest stages of its launch. It’s been a fascinating, intensive ride for the last 9 months and it’s extremely exciting to be starting to share our work with the world.
But we’re just beginning. We want others to discover our [...]

Made it to SF (barely!)

Reesa and I are in San Francisco, safe and sound. How close we came to being otherwise is anyone’s guess.
The first leg of our flight was on a US Airways flight. Not only was it the single most cramped and uncomfortable plane I’ve ever been on, but the flight was altogether too eventful. First we [...]