rstevens ([info]rstevens) wrote,
@ 2007-12-20 13:14:00
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Current music:Tue, December 18th, 2007 Hour 3 - Coast to Coast AM

David Byrne is a hero
This link is all over this week, but worth reading if you're an independent musician or cartoonist: David Byrne's Survival Strategies for Emerging Artists — and Megastars

My friends and I are mostly the #6 combo meal deal: self-distributors. I've been trying to bang this into older cartoonists' heads for years now. He sums it all up far better than I ever could.

Freedom versus pragmatism? Pragmatism IS freedom.


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[info]relaxatorium
2007-12-20 06:46 pm UTC (link)
The audio interview clips in that article and the attached one with Byrne interviewing Thom Yorke almost made me sprout a tail for the sole purpose of wagging it, because I was just that excited to listen. I am a pretty huge nerd like that.

It is an exciting time to be an artist. I gotta get on that.

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[info]bigtimes
2007-12-20 06:47 pm UTC (link)
What's audio this year will be video in the next 5 years. I'm a videographer and video editor, and I'm very excited about this, though not all of my video editing friends feel the same way.

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[info]timemachinego
2007-12-20 07:10 pm UTC (link)
I, too, am a video editor. Why do you think this model isn't valid for video now? Bandwidth?

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[info]bigtimes
2007-12-20 08:46 pm UTC (link)
If you're talking about distribution, yes.

If you're talking about production, I feel like computing power is the only thing left in the barriers between blockbuster-size effects and home production.

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[info]timemachinego
2007-12-20 08:51 pm UTC (link)
Hey, if you're willing to deal with long render times you can do pretty much anything you want, effects-wise, with Maya and Combustion (or After Effects, if you prefer) on your Octocore MacPro. :)

But okay, yeah, maybe the model isn't ready for the Blockbuster Hollywood Feature, but there's a vast world of cinema out there that doesn't require 1,200 effects shots over 90 minutes.

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Speaking of David Byrne
[info]rspeed
2007-12-20 06:59 pm UTC (link)
The best comment I've ever seen on Digg was on the story about discovering a mass of water-saturated rocks deep under China (the "underground ocean"). Someone replied with "Wow! David Byrne was right!"

Obscure, vague, yet instantly obvious. Fucking genius.

Edited at 2007-12-20 07:00 pm UTC

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[info]darksydeavenger
2007-12-20 07:10 pm UTC (link)
Self-Distribution definitely seems to be my calling. Now if only I could get the ball rolling faster, and figure things out for myself, I'd be set! :)

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[info]videocrime
2007-12-20 07:34 pm UTC (link)
there's no reason not to distribute and promote and do everything yourself.

yes, it's more work. yes, sometimes you'll be ignorned. yes, sometimes the shows will suck and the cds won't sell and you'll feel like killing yourself.

but, you won't owe a label $500,000 and you (most likely) won't go broke doing it.

musicians : DIY is coming back in a big way. believe that.

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[info]itto
2007-12-20 08:08 pm UTC (link)
david byrne is on the cover of some magazine this month, too.

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[info]rstevens
2007-12-20 08:09 pm UTC (link)
I thought that was Putin!

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[info]itto
2007-12-20 08:17 pm UTC (link)
not that magazine! dang it. i can't remember which one, and i can't find it after a cursory search, but i saw it at the bookstore this week.

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[info]p_x_l
2007-12-20 09:09 pm UTC (link)
thank you for posting this, if for no other reason because i got to listen to brian eno & david byrne have soup and discuss online advertising. "you like joy division? have this tent."

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[info]threeboy
2007-12-20 10:44 pm UTC (link)
Good article. If the creative content distribution terrain changes enough McCloud may write a sequel to reinventing comics.

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[info]smccloud
2007-12-22 07:12 pm UTC (link)
Coincidentally (Ironically?), Byrne's greatest album is finally on CD after 20 years in Limbo. I love, love, love this music.

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