Look, I been in this business a while, and lemme tell ya… most people who wanna be an artist don’t know how to trim, to edit, to slice an’ dice an’ cook their work so it’s palatable to their industry. They overdo it, they under-do it, they end up covered in carnage and throwin’ the whole thing out. It’s okay, I’m here to guide ya through the three basic things you need to know before startin’ your meaty journey.

To artists and arts institutions, equity is defined roughly as creating a world that is “fair.” And fairness and justice are wonderful things to strive for. However, in business and finance, equity isn’t defined as “fairness” at all. In business and finance, equity means ownership.

To most of the world, an asset concretely means an item or an agreement that is likely to make money. I have been asking artists this question for six years now—“what is your greatest asset?”—and never once has an artist has an artist said to me, “My work is my greatest asset.”

I wasn’t saving any money for retirement and I certainly wasn’t anywhere close to buying a house or thinking about having children. All I was thinking about is how do I survive this month so I can continue to march towards the financial sustainability on the horizon.

On March 11th, agents, editors, and other employees of the publishing world watched as more and more people in their industry posted very public statements saying it was their last day on the job. Some left the Big Names for indie presses. Others left to spend time in a quieter, more nature-filled environment — and not because Thoreau’s lifestyle started trending.

Academics, who are traditionally white and male, like to cite other white males as their sources, creating a quietly insular perspective that masquerades as gospel truth.

On August 4th, news broke that conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery plans to merge HBO Max with Discovery+ to create a new streaming Megazord that will launch in Summer 2023. The scuttlebutt surrounding this announcement has a tone of confusion. HBO Max seems like a giant, having built its brand largely on works about people on top of the world like “Succession” and “Game of Thrones.” So how were they being quietly subsumed by Warner Bros Discovery and merged with Discovery+, a streaming service that had a meager 24 million subscribers as of last April?

After years on both sides of traditional music education, I’m ready to start serving students better.

On November 22, 2021, podcast juggernaut “WTF with Marc Maron” released an interview between Marc and esteemed filmmaker, Ridley Scott, whose resume includes brilliant films such as “Thelma & Louise” and “Blade Runner.”

Part 3 in Keith Hamilton Cobb’s ongoing series of essays about examining the works of Shakespeare through a modern lens.

Our core tenets — the reasons we founded our ambitious venture studio — are still being challenged on a large scale, played out in the media, and we couldn’t help but notice. Here are some examples.

Part 2 in Keith Hamilton Cobb’s ongoing series of essays about examining the works of Shakespeare through a modern lens.

Remember that new production of West Side Story that premiered on February 20, 2020?

I was playing Capulet in a production of Romeo and Juliet at a theater that shall remain nameless.

Creator Attachment Disorder (CAD) is a condition in which a Creator exchanges natural, healthy creative attachments for unhealthy institutional relationships.

“Hey, this reminds me of that thing you wrote!”