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Modernize Your Sound & Mindset with Music Producer Nick Phelps
“A lot of people don’t understand that you can’t just pull out an old Casio keyboard and start making a beat and think that’s gonna compete,” says sync music producer Nick Phelps. “I wanna give people a fighting chance in the sync world. I wanna give people permission to stand out in their own way.”
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Dear Little Bobby: Playing for Pennies
I’m a musician trying to decide how much I can afford to spend on instruments, renting a practice space, going on tour, and the rest. Sometimes it gives me anxiety and causes stress between me and my partner. How much is too much to spend on my art?
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Dear Little Bobby: Stuck In Stupid Side Jobs
I’m stuck in a cycle of jobs I don’t care about and feeling I never have the time to really develop my creative work to the point that I think I could actually make money from it.
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Takin’ the Free Out of Freelance
That Clooney lovin’ asshat is gonna keep underpaying people with talent, people who spend hours and hours thinking and inventing and creating and perfecting, and it’s just not right.
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The Art of Collaboration in Everyday Life
I’ve always envied improvisational musicians and performers for their ability to engage in a spontaneous collaboration.
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A Change in Perception: Making Movies in a City Where Few People Make Movies
Angie Wrangler, Associate Producer of “The Nightrunner,” speaks to making movies in a town that all the other movie makers have moved away from.
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Wouldn’t That Be Interesting? When an idea spirals out of control
With his film, “Neither Shadow of Turning,” Adrian Centoni follows the path of a creative idea. How much trouble can you get in just by asking, “Wouldn’t that be interesting?”
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Self-Employed Happy Hour Podcast: Pyragraph Turns 2!
Little by little we are sharing more advice about pursuing creative careers and developing a stronger voice for creatives. You can listen below, or at iTunes.
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Self-Employed Happy Hour Podcast: Awkward Holiday Office Party & Season Finale Our sloppy free-for-all holiday party to wrap 2014
To close out the year we figured why not throw a party—hell, why not our very own Awkward Holiday Office Party for us creatively self-employed?
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Self-Employed Happy Hour Podcast: Beth Moore-Love, Painter and Documentary Subject We talk with Beth and Keif Henley of The Guild on Beth's art and the film made about her
Beth joins us at the Pyragraph studio to talk about her work, her evolution as an artist, and what it was like to be the subject of a documentary.
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Self-Employed Happy Hour Podcast: Matie Fricker and Molly Adler of Self-Serve Toys and Pornotopia, and Keif Henley of The Guild Cinema
Sex shop talk! Self-Serve Toys/Sexuality Resource Center founders Molly Adler and Matie Fricker chat about their sex-positive adult business in Albuquerque.
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Self-Employed Happy Hour Podcast: Len Romano of Ripe Inc.
Len Romano of branding firm Ripe Inc. takes us into the mind of marketing, how Ripe created Marble Brewery’s new look, his love for Albuquerque, and more!
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Self-Employed Happy Hour Podcast: Sarah Biondi of OAC Gallery
OAC Gallery founder Sarah Biondi talks about starting an online contemporary art gallery, and her background in the film industry and in marketing.
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Self-Employed Happy Hour Podcast: Seed&Spark’s Emily Best
Seed&Spark founder Emily Best shares how she started a crowdfunding and streaming distribution platform for independent filmmakers, and much more!
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Self-Employed Happy Hour Podcast: Stranger Factory’s Kathie Olivas and Brandt Peters
Artists Kathie Olivas and Brandt Peters, founders of Stranger Factory, join us to talk about the art business, their career backgrounds and lots more.
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Self-Employed Happy Hour Podcast: Roundtable Special
Our crew of hosts/editors chat about art-career author Jackie Battenfield, writer Mike Smith, and other people and happenings in our writers’ worlds.
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