Creative practices
Guest Essay: The courage to let your guts out
By Paul Waters and Jamie Nami Kim
About Metalabel
In groups we become stronger
Wires are crossing. Scenes are building. Can you feel it?
Q&As
Q&A: Salon Du Monde, Fremont on collaboration
A wildly imaginative new release based on a fictional TV show
About Metalabel
A new model for creative work
Introducing Metalabel
About Metalabel
R.10: Collaboration Cookbook
An online collection of recipes for creative projects, with a companion printed edition
Creative practices
R.09: Lonely Writers Club😢
A peer group for writers providing creative mutual support
Creative practices
Five creative lessons from Factory Records
How world-building, lore-making, and creative releasing helped make a label legendary
Creative practices
What’s after the creator economy?
The current paradigm has worn and burnt us out. Is there another way?
Creative practices
How culture is made
Four stories that span centuries, geographies, and worldviews that reveal how to shape culture and the world around us
About Metalabel
Rethinking labels
A year ago, I hit a wall. I was trying to balance too many projects and struggling to do any of them well: a community I was responsible for; writing commitments I’d made; people and projects I was supporting. A surplus of ideas became too many plates to keep