Release strategies
Sell out without selling out
A '90s and '20s counterculture clash
Creative practices
Practices and cathedrals
Exploring modes of creative effort
Release strategies
How to use New Media to revive existing work
Embed the past in the present and the present in the past
Q&As
Q&A: YACHT on what it means to release
A beloved indie dance-rock duo changes the game again
New media
Formulary for New Media
New Media does not exist. New Media must be built.
Creative practices
Small is more meaningful than big
Imagine it’s your birthday party. It’s the start of the night. You and your closest friends are there. It’s great, but you’re hoping more people will come. Your mind races with the list of all the people who haven’t shown up yet. As the minutes
Creative practices
How to talk about your creative work at a party
Plus a charming new artist book from Japan
Creative practices
The artist and the inner retreat
After recent reflections on the challenges we feel about needing to promote our work (here and here), we’ve come to better understand the pressure many of us feel. We’re stuck between modern ways and ancient wisdom. The modern world tells us to get out there and promote ourselves.
Creative practices
Promotional principles for creative people
Plus the Creative Independent reissues “On making a living as an artist”
Creative practices
Rethinking the unbearable weight of self-promotion
In the past thirty years what it means to be an artist has dramatically changed. Before the internet being an artist meant operating in a very specific area where the gatekeepers, critics, and ways of doing things were well-structured and defined. You as the artist plugged into this system if
Q&As
Q&A: Salon Du Monde, Fremont on collaboration
A wildly imaginative new release based on a fictional TV show
Release strategies
Context is queen
If content is king, then context is queen. We can all enjoy creative work as a pure sensory experience. YES. But it’s when we get context for that work — who made it, how it was made, what ideas, scenes, and history surround it — that joy turns into a deeper