Tag: artists
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Royalty Exchange :: Are Artists Commodities?
Many of you already know this, but a new site opened up recently called Royalty Exchange which allows professional investors to bid on – and win – percentages of creative and commodity-generating estates. Think “Sinatra’s discography” for the former and “the mineral rights to Joplin” for the latter. Royalty Exchange is great news for investors,…
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Sacrament of Fiction: On Becoming a Writer and Not a Priest
Nick Ripatrazone, author of Good People (a book of stories) and the novella We Will Listen For You, wrote a piece for The Millions back in April entitled “Sacrament of Fiction: On Becoming a Writer and Not a Priest.” I bring it up because it fits right into our goal here of encouraging artists and there are a ton of you…
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Artists Thriving and Recovering Imagination
I’m busy helping people who have lost something magical and are desperate to find their way back: artists who have lost the art and non-artists who have tied their imaginations up with crappy plastic cuffs, shoved them into the basement of lost souls, and stuffed their ears to the whimpers.