I had breakfast this morning at Dusty’s on Parc with Risa, Elran, Sarah, Marilis, Tristan, and Tyler. We talked about the upcoming Indyish 2nd Birthday Mega Mess and schemed about other projects, like having a perma-space to do interviews with artists (Risa is continuing her Tete a Tete video series with a few interviews tomorrow [...]
Yesterday, Risa and I took the bus up to the garment warehouses of Chabanel in north Montreal to pick up 2 boxes of Matt and Nat bags for the team. It was the first day of Matt and Nat’s Sample Sale and (mainly young and female) folks were lined up along the street and all [...]
Blog to the Future is the name of a new column I’m starting on Indyish. With nearly 2000 posts published on the Indyish blog over 2 years, I thought it made sense to start pulling some buried gold back to the top in case you missed it the first time round, and also because it’s [...]
I grabbed a quick snip of video at the Indyish meeting we had here at our apartment… I mean office… on Tuesday of this week, Feb 5. This tiny window into the wild world of “independent arts network” is from after CTV had come and gone, shooting interviews for a piece which will air Feb [...]
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’ [...]
Some of you may be wondering this - Where are the new Indyish artists? - some of you may know (or be) folks who sent us a super nice query email about joining Indyish and haven’t heard back yet. Some may be wondering WTF. Well here’s W: we are trying to make our house ready, [...]
So here’s a little update from the Indyish: We’ve instated a bimonthly meetin… heads up. This meet has been, thus far, for the core team, and has been a way for us to ferment a bit and turn our youthful grapejuice workings into finer wines (officially we’re only 1, remember). We had our third team [...]
Allow us to introduce ourselves:
Risa Dickens, Indyish Founder.
Risa is an author / arts producer / web publisher with a masters degree in Communications from Concordia University. Her thesis will be released as a book internationally in spring 2008 under the title No One Knows Everything. Currently, she is writing on topics related to open source [...]