Culture, Career, How-To | Grassroots Media for Artists & Indies | AI-Free
Culture, Career, How-To | Grassroots Media for Artists & Indies | AI-Free
Music boxes were first created hundred of years ago when watchmakers (as in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Artist of the Beautiful {also at The Literature Network}) would painstakingly handcraft each one. Now, that…
How do you run a good YouTube channel? Industry insider Jon Baltz will tell you: it’ll take planning and dedication, among other things–it’s more than just uploading videos. I think…
Musicians: posting songs on the web free of charge can lead to income, if you’ve got a good strategy. LOSS LEADER: Definition: “a pricing strategy where a product is sold…
Independent musicians seem not to care too much about award shows, the Grammys included. Why is this, when this year “independents scored 50% of nominations and last year independents took…
There’s a point you may have reached in your progression as an artist: you’ve become so familiar with your craft that you may find yourself coasting. When you’ve reached that…
Art restorers know what to do when physical pieces of art are damaged or show signs of age, but what are the guidelines for restoring digital art? This is new…
With its new collaborative series, Heart of the City, 516 ARTS addresses many of the problems that Downtown Albuquerque, along with many other urban environments, face: fragmentation, broken-up communities, and…
How can you use postcards to promote your art? Let us count the ways. Here are 25 ideas to help you make postcards work hard for you in growing your…
Alexandra Thom created and edited a number of art history articles on Wikipedia. Why? Partly because she sees Wikipedia as an important resource. In her work she encountered gaps in…
Along with all the great songs, The Beatles have taught us a lot about love, superstardom, and building a global music empire. Here’s an article we found that focuses on…
Some large corporations seem to have a habit of stealing artists’ work. Seems like this is the best you could hope for as a ripped-off artist: if you take legal…
First of all, what is the middle eight, exactly? (The internet is split on this. Just check out Google.) Some people refer to this section as the “bridge,” but not…
When author Kelly McClymer asked her number-savvy scientist husband to help her make sense of the confusing world of ebook royalty rates, he did. Here he is, crunching the numbers in…
BusinessNewsDaily published a list of five unusual crowdfunding/crowdsourcing sites that go beyond the standard Kickstarter model. With these sites, you won’t necessarily be able to ask for money. Instead, you’re mining your…
Sometimes it may seem like the man is out to get you (shine on, you crazy free-spirited artist-folk, you) but in this case, the law is actually on your side….
Be as newborn babes, ye writers of 2013. Resolve, as writer Chuck Wendig has done, to do more, be better, and write in 2014. Last year, I did 25 writer resolutions for…