Entries Tagged as 'creative class'

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

website workshop for artists, musicians, & indie entrepreneurs

work with an event creations company, and you too will end up producing an event: it is a pleasure to announce that i will be leading a workshop on february 9th in los angeles to help creative professionals make more effective websites. musicians, artists, and creative entreprenuers in general tend to share the same requirements [...]

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Friday, December 28th, 2007

the medium of stories

“We read to know we are not alone.” – C.S. Lewis in retrospect, it’s not so surprising that while i was studying film in college i was also producing art and music events as an extra-curricular activity. i joke that producing a movie and producing an event are pretty much exactly the same process, except [...]

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Saturday, December 8th, 2007

does your music have a stock symbol?

If you ain’t never been to the ghetto Don’t ever come to the ghetto ‘Cause you wouldn’t understand the ghetto ~ Naughty By Nature, “Ghetto Bastard” used to be that if you were a musician the only way you could get ANY kind of significant distribution for your music was through a record label. cassettes [...]

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Friday, November 16th, 2007

a dynamic sponsorship opportunity for green brands

we are now skeeing sponsors for the Lightning in a Bottle Music & Arts Festival 2008: Over the past two years The Do LaB’s Lightning in a Bottle Music & Arts Festival has become one of the most beloved, exceptional events within the West Coast’s young, active, environmentally and health conscious, creative community. Powered almost [...]

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Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

whatever, internet

cut it out, internet. everyday there’s some kind of new technology hoopla vying for my attention with the sordid insidiousness of a tabloid magazine at the checkout counter. and i don’t even buy that shit, but for some reason i can never resist trying to get the latest download on what’s going on in brad [...]

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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

my so-called quarterlife

marshall herskovitz & edward zick + the quarterlife crisis + the rise of the creative class + myspace = marshall herskovitz and edward zwick aren’t simply geniuses, they are CONSISTENTLY the only ones creating television programming that reflects the real struggles of an entire generation. thirtysomething was before my time, (though i do know it [...]

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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

who are you calling a diva?

united divas is a nonprofit organization with a mission to empower women to be artistic leaders, professionals, innovators, and role models for both aspiring and practicing artists. among many other initiatives the organization also offers scholarships to aspiring female artists and creatives, and every month they choose a different featured “diva” to spotlight to their [...]

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Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

effective identity marketing

photo by: danny newman are YOU thinking about how your brand can let people express their sense of identity? you SHOULD be. BONUS POINTS: to anyone who found themselves wondering: “what brand of kicks is that he’s wearing?” Like this? Share it: Tweet

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Monday, August 13th, 2007

what does a web entrepreneur have in common with a fashion designer?

when i worked at house of blues, every so often we’d have social events with all the other people working in l.a.’s concert marketing industry. people from goldenvoice, livenation (at the time this was a separate company from house of blues), nederlander, etc. lots of people in attendance had even worked at one of the [...]

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