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 [...]
Over the course of an election season, presidential candidates must get their hair cut at least, what, a handful of times.
Working backward:
American popular opinion is driven by the media.
The media is dominated by image.
A candidate’s appearance is their primary image.
A candidate’s appearance is, briefly, under the complete control of the person who cuts their hair.
Somewhere [...]
You must have recognized a moment in your life when you were positioned within easy reach of a compulsive lie. Not a lie for gain. Not a lie for defense. A lie for the sake of lying. A lie for the thrill. A thrill proportional to the size of the [...]
I usually use (pardon, “borrow”) the yellow bag. I didn’t know about the carts. More specifically, I didn’t know about the finely engineered, high-performance wheels on the carts. These carts are to grocery store carts what Ferraris are to Ugos. These carts are capable, even under the load of curtain, ottoman, [...]