Making art into a full-time job—indie or industry—can require years of scraping with no guaranteed payoff. It becomes a much smoother path if you’ve got a phone full of friends from whatever art school, enough spare time to hone and promote your work, and family who can support you and who don’t need to be supported. Social capital is still capital, and in our economic system, an art career is a luxury purchase.
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Shake the Dust: Hip-hop and break-dancing for social good
Last week, LA based filmmaker Adam Sjöberg launched a Kickstarter campaign aiming to fund his latest project about hip-hop and break-dancing in developing countries called Shake the Dust.
Check out the project here.
What Generation Overshare Can Learn From Biggie
I’m part of that generation known as Millennials, and even if we don’t know whether social security will be around when we retire, or if we’ll be able to retire, or if we’ll even have jobs to consider retiring, we know this: We are hustlers. We’re gangsta. We pimp. We grind.
Most of us don’t do any of these things in the literal sense, but my generation has come of age listening to the sounds of hip hop, and we’ve borrowed the language of illegal hustlers to describe our legal hustles. It feels only natural we should also adopt aspects of their code of conduct and apply them to our quest for survival and world domination.
Intermission: Sick Beats Made From Paper and Scissors
- Pete® Karinen wrote in Creativity and Video
Musician-slash-beatmaker-slash-innovator-slash-artist-slash-all-around-badass Andrew Huang gets inventive and makes a hip-hop beat out of a giant piece of paper. And the beat is fly like a paper airplane. He should call it “hip-pulp music.” Now all he needs is a “wrapper.” Okay, I’ll stop.
Where’s Brooklyn At? The Most Awesome 12-Year-Old Metalheads on the Planet Hail From Flatbush
- Liz Dwyer shared in Music, Race and Brooklyn
Who says black kids from Brooklyn only listen to (or create) hip hop? Two talented 12-year-olds, Malcolm Brickhouse and Jarad Dawkins of the band ‘Unlocking the Truth" are absolutely destroying played-out musical stereotypes with their serious heavy metal skills. Sure, they get bullied for rocking guitars and black nail polish, but check 'em out and you’ll see that their skill is undeniable.
Hustlin’: How I Became My Own Mentor in a Freelance Economy
The fact is, freelance is becoming the new 9-to-5, whether we want it to or not. Tom Fisher, writing in the Huffington Post, reports that “contingent workforce,” meaning the self-employed, freelancers, or “accidental entrepreneurs” laid off from full-time positions, will make up between 40 and 45 percent of the workforce by 2020 and become a majority by 2030.
As the “contingent” workforce grows, we need to embrace the freelance hustle.
Hustlin’: Why We Should Stop Obsessing Over What College Majors Make Us Rich
We get it, English majors are poor. But instead of following the money, shouldn’t we be asking why our culture undervalues arts and humanities? College students should certainly know what they’re getting into when they choose to study, say, philosophy or German, especially with tuition costs and student loan interest rates rising. But those figures should be coupled with a few important caveats.
Hustlin’: For Millennials, Chat Rooms Are the New Conference Rooms
Millennials are replacing the meeting in a new (but Internet-old) way: “chats.” We’ve taken what we do socially—Gchat, text, BBM, WhatsApp—and transposed it to the workplace. At GOOD, the edit team runs on a group chat called Campfire and trusty ol’ Gchat.
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