Culture, Career, How-To | Grassroots Media for Artists & Indies | AI-Free
Culture, Career, How-To | Grassroots Media for Artists & Indies | AI-Free
Jennifer Kes Remington is a composer for film, television, and video games. She studied piano at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, and worked for a short stint as a radio deejay before attending the University of Michigan’s Music School in Ann Arbor.
Her music credits include the animation “Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends” for which she won two Annie awards, the film Scary Movie 4 and most recently, the video games “Raving Rabbids: Travel In Time,” “Raving Rabbids: Alive and Kicking,” and “Rabbids Land.” Her four-year foray into documentary filmmaking with her project Hollywood, 90038 also garnered her a few awards at film festivals.
Jennifer currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband, two cats and a never-ending supply of 4 pound jars of Hellmann’s mayo.
Scope out the fair beforehand to see if your items would fit in there, and to see if the event itself is well attended. And where exactly is it? Is it easily accessible to the public and well marketed? You don’t want to end up sitting in a back parking lot of a strip mall somewhere where you are unseen and no one browses the tents.
Although it’s a long list, it can be just a starting point for you. You can tailor this to whatever you find you need over time or depending on what exactly you are selling, be it clothing, jewelry or art.
What would being a musician be worth in a post-apocalyptic world, if pre-apocalypse you made your living playing gigs or creating computer-based music as I do? Would you be able to survive playing guitar in this dark future?
If the term “side job” is unclear, what I’m referring to is the non-creative type of work (be it three hours a week or 40) that we as artists sometimes must take to stay afloat financially while waiting for our next big gig or while working on our projects that have not sold or gotten paid for yet.
This is a prime example of something asked of an artist to be good and cheap—it is not going to be finished fast.
I always hope that some freaking day that will be me there, wearing some fancy get-up, nominated for Best Original Score in a pimp-ass movie.
Getting admitted to the Performing Arts Technology degree program at the Music School at University of Michigan was a huge deal.
If I had taken one or two classes on basic stuff like oil changing, I could have saved my own ass so much time, plus about a billion dollars, at this point.
If you realize after a big life event that, then and only then, you appreciate who your friends are, you are a shitty friend.
I would not be where I am today without asking for help, and my whole life is a domino effect of the positive outcome of this.
I don’t want you in my face every day. Do you even know what’s going on in Syria? I bet no one else does when you clog up the news with your crap.
The entire time I’ve been in LA, I’ve had a huge fear of getting fired. It’s like an opposing army blowing up the bridge on your road to success.
If you tell people you are working side jobs, does it give the impression that you are hurting for money, and/or willing to work for less than you’re worth?
Lately I’ve been working on two small projects at once: music for an iPhone game and an indie movie trailer. In both, I’m returning to a mainstay in my music writing: layers.
I’ve got some fantastic tips which are way better so you should probably print this list out and paste it on your fridge right now.
“You Americans! You always have to push so many events into a little time period!”
