Artist’s Productivity: Information Processing

You’ve learned to empty your inbox in minutes and shift your focus to the day at hand. But we live in a world where we’re barraged with information, and the term ‘information overload’ is very real and it’s very bad for your mind - its ability to think and consider - and especially for your daily productivity. Read more

The Points of the Creative Artists’ Code: Eleven - The business of art & entertainment is your business

In the eleventh article discussing the points of the Code of a Creative Artist, NDK talks about the artist’s relationship with the business and the people working in it to make the artist a success.
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The Give Away Myth: What They Don’t Want You To Know

In his piece BIG PICTURE: Just what is entertainment worth?, Patrick Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times perpetrated a common mainstream media and music industry myth, throwing the credibility of his entire article into question when he falsely states: “That’s why Prince gave away millions of copies of his latest CD, because the real money for him was in concert tickets.” Read more

Around The Web: The Hollywood Writer’s Strike

Following NDK Creative Artist’s recent series discussing the Hollywood Writer’s Strike, there are a couple of developments and links that you should check out if you’re following the situation.

First off, the WGA convinced the Screen Actor’s Guild to boycott the Golden Globes. Since seeing is believing and you can see an actor on a screen but never a writer, the masses don’t acknowledge their importance. Maybe when the stars they worship as idols don’t show up for some grandiose glitzy award show that only people with nothing better to do watch, people will take notice.

All it’ll take is some kid’s realization spoken aloud… “there’s no more tv!” and we’ll have a world war on our hands. Suckers. Don’t mess with writers, they sure know how to wreak havoc on your life. Ask that guy who hit on me in high school.

Read about the SAG boycott here.

Our favourite sci-fi - sorry, I meant speculative fiction writer, Harlan Ellison, who can normally be found in his lawyer’s office, was actually in front of a camera at some point during the strike and has some good, lucid things to say to those of you who still just don’t get it. So watch it and change your mind, or failing that do us a favor and go back to the Sesame Street website.

The Hollywood Writer’s Strike: Blood, Slaughter and Despair vs. Brains, Laughter and What’s Fair

This is part five of the Hollywood Writer’s Strike series. You can start from the beginning by clicking here. - Joel Falconer, Editor-in-Chief Read more

The Hollywood Writer’s Strike: Society and Sillivization Need to Mature - Fast!

This is part four of the Hollywood Writer’s Strike series. You can start from the beginning by clicking here. - Joel Falconer, Editor-in-Chief

Some of mankind’s greatest thinkers—and writing and creating in any field is very much a thinking, intellectual pursuit—came from men and women who were not supported nor even recognized for their accomplishments until much, much later. We need to change this way of thinking, for it is what puts this civilization in peril. Read more

The Hollywood Writer’s Strike: Why do I want it to go on longer?

This is part three of the Hollywood Writer’s Strike series. You can start from the beginning by clicking here. - Joel Falconer, Editor-in-Chief

Because the longer it goes the more the industry’s character and mafia morality is brought to the light of truth. Additionally, people will begin to realize the importance of writers to their every day lives and will start to look at and respect the important and significant role we play. And not just writers either, but all creative individuals who enrich lives by and through their exercise of a set of unique gifts. Read more

Artist’s Productivity: The Empty Inbox

Artists suck at productivity.

It’s a bitter pill for some of you, and a badge of pride for others. And then there’s the rare artist who gets things done. Read more

The Hollywood Writer’s Strike: The Renaissance that Fizzled

This is part two of the Hollywood Writer’s Strike series. You can start from the beginning by clicking here. - Joel Falconer, Editor-in-Chief

The Sixties was a Renaissance that fizzled in terms of achieving its aims and goals of a more egalitarian society, and it was the Second Renaissance. Read more

The Hollywood Writer’s Strike: It should go on longer

…because the longer it goes on the more it reveals of the conniving, untrustworthy character of the corporate ownership and management of the art & entertainment industry. These guys have to be seen to be believed and you can do that from this article at the Huffington Post: Damning Evidence in their Own Words. Read more