Comedy Hack Day, produced by Cultivated Wit is an event that pairs coders with comics in a 24-ish hour marathon of building something interesting and funny for the web. I haven’t done any hard core coding since programming and Apple IIc in middle school. And I could program that crap out of that little green screen…
With today’s much-hyped IPO of Facebook, U2’s Bono stands to make a couple billion dollars through his investment company Elevation. That will be more money than he’s made with U2 in the last 30 years and, depending on his personal cut, could make him the world’s richest musician. Paul McCartney has had that distinction until…
I recently released a survey to mailing list to get some feedback on possible models for future distribution of my music and comedy. Quite a few other artists were interested in seeing the results as well, so I thought I’d post them here. Now, I would not hold this up to any sort of strict…
I don’t envy the people that have to go through the job interview process. They always seem to demand more acting skill than any audition I’ve ever been on. I never really went through a real interview process like most people do. For one job, working at a Montgomery Ward, painting the place, my interview…
I don’t think it’s any secret that working as a performing artist is not the instant way to riches. And if that is a secret to you, now you know why music and other types of artists prefer you buy their work instead of downloading it for free. 🙂 Most performers I know are debt…
Ooh, it’s been a long day. I’ve spent 19 hours driving over the past two days and I’m getting ready to hit the stage here in Montana in just a couple hours to start a two week tour. I’ve played this room twice before, and the question always is “What will I do different this…
As an independent performing artist, I’m always on the lookout for good business books. The days of being a rock star with a zillion handlers to take care of the day-to-day tasks are long gone in this business. Artists are very involved in their own businesses now. The E-Myth Revisited is not an artist-centered book. …
