Tag Archive for the term: diy

This Saturday in Montreal head on over to Interstice (which as far as I know is a venue in the vein of the Friendship Cove: a living space for artists and musicians that also doubles as a jam space and concert venue) to experience SoU nd E<s> 12/12.
Billed as a celebration of the divergent forms [...]

This weekend I am giving a full weekend ‘bootcamp’ series of workshops on making products for natural beauty and wellness. There are still spots available! If you are interested in attending, or would like to send your Mom for mother’s day, please let me know. You can register for both days or [...]

Stumbled onto some more stop motion stuff! Check out this great series of tips from Javan Ivey for Indie Mogul, includes a few good terms, and advice on how to make movement look more real. And then a commercial, no problem with that, and then the commercial ends at 5:00, and the video tips continue:

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Last week I got together at Atelier Wooden Apples with Geeta Nadkarni from the CBC. We shot 2 segments for her feature Be Green, which airs twice a week on the six o’clock news. Geeta also has a blog for Be Green on the CBC website, with additional information and access to archived video segments. [...]

I just got back from a great interview with Patti Schmidt, who is intense and awesome, for a piece that will air on CBC on Saturday April 12, sometime between 5 and 6. She asked me about the name Indyish and I got all wordy rambly as I do, and brought up Jim Munroe’s question: [...]

We’re busy making CDs and tapes in preparation for our label showcase on Thursday (in two days). Here are some photos of us putting together the cases. We’re waiting for a shipment of 200 blank printable CDs (from a company that, turns out, has bad customer reviews and may have taken our money and run. [...]

Well, since No Media Kings, seemed to dig my last Indie Intern posts on how to get and keep ‘em, I felt inspired to hammer our another set of How To thoughts that occurred to me yesterday – this time it’s about time, and how to get more of it.
I started to jot down [...]

Mmm New York, if you live within, I dunno, 300 miles of the town you feel it’s pull; it’s probably the magnetic energy of all those living thinking things and their massive moving systems. New York at Christmas is spectacular, but if the Macy’s glow has worn off for you a bit this year, if [...]

A few days back my good friend Risa and I were having a conversation about receiving assistance from the business community for our projects. Yep, we were talking about “corporate sponsorship” – something usually frowned upon in the DIY and indie communities (Or is it? – I’m not sure… maybe I frowned upon it at [...]

You can’t literally do everything yourself. Many recognized achievers attribute their success to the strength of their team. Balance and the concept of enough for everyone rules nature, yet in the concrete jungle it is every man for himself. ‘They’ say that if you want something done right, you need to do it yourself. ‘They’ [...]