Tag Archive for the term: artist

Todays photo of the day comes from the FLickr stream of an artist who just contacted me with a few friendly words about Indyish, she is one half of a maker couple who will hopefully be joining us here on the ole dot com shortly. This photo struck me for it’s weird tumbly sense of [...]

Here’s the last episode of the interview series Hot Potato @ Spring Puces Pop 2008. We started by passing Walter Scott a pierogie and asking him the following questions:
1) Who are you? What do you do?
2) What are the best and worst things about this event?
3) What is the biggest challenge to being an [...]

Let’s continue along in our interview series Hot Potato @ Spring Puces Pop.
Or first, catch Episode One and Two.

Luckily, our host, Marilis Cardinal is bilingual so we were able to interview in English and in French depending on each vendor’s preference. Here are the next four interviews, which were done en francais. We last [...]

When we last left Spring Puces Pop, we were interviewing Marc Simard of Broundoor for the Hot Potato series.
In Episode Two, we’ve got 5 more folks answering the four big questions:
1) Who are you? What do you do?
2) What are the best and worst things about this event?
3) What is the biggest challenge [...]

We’re getting excited for the Pomme Pomme Craft and Zine Fair this weekend. In that spirit, I finally had a chance to upload the interviews we did at Puces Pop last month. Here goes the first installment of Hot Potato!
Hot Potato is an interview game where we ask artists 3 quick questions then get them [...]

Independent music labels around the world are being brought together by a non-profit collective called Merlin, and now, together, they are starting to shape the music industry.

This from a quick article on ArsTechnica:

Merlin is trying to pull off a magic act: unite the world’s indie labels into a single negotiating force that can fight [...]

Joining us today for the Indyish Mess at the Fringe (co-produced with Suoni per il Popolo in the park on the corner of St Laurent and Rachelle here in Montreal from 2:30 - 9:30!) are the incredible Urban Preacher!
Urban Preacher was born in Montreal in 2007 from a collective group of musicians who had the [...]

Everyone has one, and if you are looking for love, or trying to keep it, you’re negotiating 2 egos at the very least, so I think it’s worth thinking on. If you’re an indie artist, all the more so - focusing on your own creation all the time, scrounging hard to make a living from [...]

This annual event is put on by PWAC – the Professional Writers Association of Canada, Quebec Chapter – and as always, was chock full of interesting information useful for anybody who does it indie-style, or just would like to. This year’s incarnation, on April 5, was an intense afternoon workshop that covered ergonomics, tax tidbits, [...]

Hey guys — the Montrealler artist of Therefore Repent!, my graphic novel, is going to be giving a projected dramatic presentation of the book at the next Geek OUT! in Montreal on Sat. Feb 23.
Location: MUCS Dining Coop, 2000 Northcliffe, suite 218 (corner De Maisoneuve, near Vendome metro)
The Mirror did this nice article [...]