It was shown at the recent Seattle Film Festival, and is currently making its way around the world, so I don't know when you'll get an opportunity to see it, but keep yours eye peeled.
20,000 Days On Earth is a movie about singer/song-writer (and much more) Nick Cave that was mentioned in our last meeting. It's a movie "that takes us inside Nick’s artistic process and celebrates creativity" and sounds amazing. You can find out more here, on Nick Cave's site.
It was shown at the recent Seattle Film Festival, and is currently making its way around the world, so I don't know when you'll get an opportunity to see it, but keep yours eye peeled.
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Malcolm Gladwell: The Sociology of Success: Culture and Choice
Getting rid of stuff feels great. Living with less stuff feels even better. Sometimes the best way to start something new is to clear out things from the past, and the book Zero Waste Home: The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying Your Life by Reducing Your Waste was brought up in our last meeting as a great book to help you with this.
The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life by Twyla Tharp is a great book and quick read for anyone embarking on a creative endeavor, no matter what your medium. It offers a lot of practical advice, exercises, and activities that can help you with your chosen project or career. Twyla Tharp is one of the world's leading choreographers, but the book applies to any medium: writing, designing, building or making anything. She believes that “greatness is more the product of hard work, habit, and perseverance than it is about talent.”
Click here to see a great write-up on lessons learned from this book. I recently stumbled upon a site called MakersRow.com whose mission is as follows:
"Our mission is to make the manufacturing process simple to understand and easy to access. From large corporations to first time designers, we are providing unparalleled access to industry-specific factories and suppliers across the United States." Check it out. Etsy.com has some great blogs with some really valuable information on setting up your business. For instance:
Here are some good posts from Seth's blog on naming your business:
In it he recommends using Nameboy, a domain name search and generator. In the first lesson of Seth Godin's on-line Skillshare class, The New Business Toolbox: Help Your New Business Do It Right The First Time, he talks about the importance of writing down your business model. What is the process that turns your resources and your effort into value and profit?
A resource he recommends is the book Business Model Generation, and he also provides a link to a free document from the book that you can use to help you define your business model. Click here to download a free copy of the Business Model Canvas PDF. Someone on the Skillshare site also shared a great link on writing a business plan: How to Write a Creative Business Plan In Under an Hour This isn't exactly about starting a new business or project, but was mentioned in our last meeting, and is an incredible resource. It's a website for end of life planning put together by a woman who's husband died suddenly in2009. She was completely unprepared to deal with how many difficult things she'd have to deal with, and now wants to help people avoid those difficulties. Check out her very cool site:
http://getyourshittogether.org/ Check out their website: http://thewla.org
Here's what they say on their about page: "Founded in 1976, Washington Lawyers for the Arts (WLA) is a nonprofit service organization dedicated to supporting the arts in Washington state by creating alliances and making legal resources accessible to artists and arts organizations of all disciplines." They hold regular clinics where artists can make 30-minute appointments to meet with attorneys specializing in arts and entertainment law and are available to discuss things like copyright or trademark and other intellectual property topics, contract review and non-profit issues. Check out their site to get more information about when these clinics are and how to sign up. It's under the 'services' menu. |