This week John T Unger invited me on his podcast Art Heroes Radio, a place where John tries to help artists and entrepreneurs become “heroes on their own terms.”
I dig that.
Anyway, here’s the page for our conversation:
The competitive advantage of hiring artists, A conversation with Chris Ashworth
Despite the specificity of the title, we hit a [...]
Until very recently, I’ve been able to write this blog in the comfortable confidence that no one was reading it.
It is therefore with mild horror that I now realize at least a handful of people are actually, um, reading this blog. I remain (intentionally) ignorant as to exactly how many times the server is [...]
I know this guy from college, name of Robi Mookerjee. I hope that in some way I can claim he’s my friend, although I’m not sure I deserve that honor for the small ways I’ve been connected to him over the years.
Robi is a unique human being. It’s really hard to describe the [...]
Since my recent post arguing that artists should not receive public funds for the purpose of making art, I’ve been thinking a lot about how theater artists earn money.
You know, in terms of business models, just about anything beats theater:
The product can not be mass-produced.
At best, you can replicate it a few hundred seats at [...]
Congratulations! You’ve had a brilliant idea. Now you’d like to share it!
But how? The answer is probably: words. The marketplace of ideas has shown strong year-over-year growth in the “musical” and “visual arts” mediums, but let’s face it, friend: Written and spoken language remains the number 1 preferred method to transfer [...]