The world of artist management is amazing. It is like being in backstage in a beautiful theatre in New York watching the play of Macbeth. What is right behind the curtain is the most wonderful sight that a student might be able to watch and enjoy. This is exactly what happened with this class in Product and Artist Management. It is that opportunity to see closely how things are done in all the aspects involved in the promotion and making of an artist.
In the light of that, we learn in the course how to plan, because “the difference between success and failure in the promotion of an artist is planning”. Consequently the plan cannot go forward if there is no “organization” to assemble all the necessary resources to achieve that particular plan designed for the artist.
Also, we need to lead and direct people towards the goal and use all those resources at hand to achieve their success.
As the artist's manager, our responsibility is to get the artist to the top of his or her career. In order to do that, we need to follow the plan by controlling the whole process, such as time, people, resources and finances. It is important to do a reality check and see if everything is going according to the plan. If it is not, we need to make some decisions. Do we fire some employees and look for new people that can do the job or change the plan? Would it be worth it? Would it be better to find a new person? How that is going to help us to achieve success?
All these lessons are learned from Paul Allen in his book “Artist Management for the Music Business” that covers all of the aspects in the promotion of an artist.
Personally, I have already applied some of these lessons in real world. We started a project with a couple of friends, and most of those lessons have been applied into this project. We are going step by step, little by little trying to give some shape to this adventure to see it through and successful. For this reason, this project in particular plus the lessons from that book, open our eyes and provide us with the knowledge to deal with these cases at hand at the present time, and indeed will be of great help in the future.
Muchas veces, la gente no sabe lo que quiere hasta que se lo muestras.
Steve Jobs (via elcielosobremi)
Haz lo que te apasiona.
Pinta cuadros de belleza en lugares solitarios
Rehúsate a seguir pintando lo mismo
Estableciendo lo mismo,
Porque lo mismo, aburre.
No da sentido!.
Rehúsate a seguir recorriendo las misma calles todos los días
Bajo los mismos impulsos, bajo las mismas emociones y
Abrete a la vida!
Cambia los parámetros,
cambia los colores,
cambia las lluvias del corazón por carcajadas de colores,
pero no dejes que tu canto sea el canto de otros en su pesar, y en su penar.
Que la vida es Maddona, Britney Spears o Nicki Minaj,
que la vida es Ariana Grande, o SuperArchireColobombo
What the fuck!
La vida es lo que yo la quiera hacer
en mi libertad
con mis propias palabras
Con mis propios gustos
Con mis propias manos
Con mis propias tonalidades
De pintor a creador.
Y da besos a la vida
Por la oportunidad de pintar
Como te place!
Como te nace!
Porque puedo
Porque soy!
Porque es mi santísima voluntad de hacerlo!
Y para muestra...
Mil botones!
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Writing Tips
Story Endings
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↣ readers invested their time into your publication ; make it worth it!
↣ the conclusion turns readers into fans
↣ endings should be memorable & satisfying ; this will make the readers want to indulge in more of your work
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↣ know your genre ; different genres can get away with different endings
↣ a thriller novel ending unexpectedly or ambiguously would be more satisfying to readers than a romance novel ending that way ; and vise vera, a romance novel ending emotionally and with happily ever after would be more satisfying than a thriller ending that way
↣ make it unpredictable but fair ; readers should feel like they could have seen it coming
↣ find a happy medium between what your readers want and what is unexpected
↣ be careful with unresolved or ambiguous endings ; regardless of the ending, the readers need to feel satisfied or they won’t come back
↣ be careful with expanded endings ; most editors frown upon relying on epilogues to reach a satisfying resolution
↣ have your ending in mind from the beginning ; this isn’t always plausible, but it’s very helpful — you’ll end up having hints to the resolution you may not even realize, & readers want that
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⤷ ambiguous
→ an ending open to interpretation ; allows readers to come to their own conclusions
⤷ dialogue
→ ending with a quote from one of the characters
⤷ emotional
→ leaving the readers feeling some intense emotion ; negative, positive, or bittersweet
⤷ expanded
→ expands past the events of the narrative to resolve aspects that may not be explained in the main chapters ; usually takes form of an epilogue with a time skip
⤷ happily ever after
→ type of resolved ending where everything works out in the end
⤷ humorous
→ ends with a joke or in an ironic way
⤷ lesson learned
→ ends with clear, profound character development
⤷ reflection
→ ends with characters looking back on their choices, achievements, and experiences
⤷ resolved
→ leaves reader with no questions or loose ends ; all aspects have been clearly & satisfyingly resolved
⤷ tied
→ brings the story full-circle so it ends where it began
⤷ unexpected
→ a twist the readers did not see coming but also makes sense
⤷ unresolved
→ leaves readers with unanswered questions ; usually to lead into the next book
“Nos pasamos día a día viendo cómo podemos triunfar, cómo podemos hacer para conseguir mejores notas, cómo caerle bien a alguien, cómo conquistar a esa persona que tanto nos atrae… Nos pasamos persiguiendo cosas con la esperanza de que una vez que las tengamos todas vamos a ser verdaderamente felices. Nos angustiamos cuando nos va mal en el colegio, nos deprimimos cuando la persona que nos gusta no nos quiere, nos odiamos cuando no nos vemos de la manera que queremos… Pero, Ustedes creen que si la vida fuese como queremos, que si tuviésemos todo lo que queremos, seríamos felices ¿o sólo encontraríamos más cosas para odiar? Está en la naturaleza del hombre ser ambicioso, querer crecer y seguir creciendo. Pero creo que tenemos muy desordenadas las prioridades.
¿Por qué permitimos que esa mala nota en matemática nos arruine el día? Si al fin y al cabo es sólo eso. Un puntaje. Y tal vez tengo un nueve en literatura, pero yo quería el diez. Entonces no sonrío. En un año esa nota no va a existir, va a haber sido para nada. ¿Por qué quiero conquistar a esa persona que no me quiere? ¿Por qué quiero forzar a alguien a que me ame, cuando seguramente lo hagan mal? ¿Por qué me odio cuando veo que peso más de lo que establece la sociedad como perfección? ¿Por qué quiero el pelo lacio si lo tengo lleno de rulos salvajes?
¿Por qué perseguimos todas esas cosas? Si eso no es crecer, no es triunfar. Nos llenamos la cabeza de preocupaciones, permitimos que los estándares nos convenzan de que no estamos acá para ser felices, sino para trabajar y ser el mejor. Y ascender, y ascender y seguir ascendiendo hasta que las ojeras ya sean parte de nuestras caras, que las sonrisas naturales dejen de existir y que nuestros sueños queden en último lugar. Hasta que, de pronto, abrimos los ojos y nos damos cuenta de cuán equivocados estábamos. Que la felicidad está en las cosas más simples; en los árboles, en el viento cálido, en las luces de la ciudad y en la risa de los niños, en las sonrisas de los adultos y el brillo en los ojos de una persona cuando cumple un objetivo. Así que, a vos que estás leyendo, te pido por favor que no creas que por ese desaprobado en la materia que sea vas a fracasar en todo lo que te propongas, no creas nunca que no sos lo suficientemente bueno/a para cumplir tus sueños. No creas que tenés que seguir una carrera universitaria sí o sí, si tal vez tu pasión es bailar. Nunca dejes de hacer lo que te hace feliz, no importa qué pase. Nunca te pongas en último lugar por nadie, éste es TU juego, y lo podés jugar como vos quieras. Despreocupate, corré, paseá, reíte, saltá, juga, escucha música al volumen que quieras, hace todo lo que quieras y nunca te arrepientas de haberlo hecho si te hizo bien aunque sea por dos segundos. Cumplí tus sueños, lucha por ellos, con paciencia. Seguí creciendo, pero más importante… Sé feliz.”
Te estoy diciendo que seras feliz! Sueltala! tienes que soltarla, y le dio un trancazo en la cabeza! Tu no entiendes! No estas apto para comprenderlo ahora, tienes que dejarla ir porque el futuro se avista mejor si la dejas ir hoy, y le solto con injundia otro punetazo en el ojo. Hay veces que las cosas son asi! Vienen Asi y tienen que ser asi!, y le solto otro golpe en el otro ojo para que entendiera la cruda realidad. Tu no lo entiendes! Y tienes que entenderlo, hay veces que tenemos que entender como la realidad se presenta! Y le solto otra patada en la boca, y ya tirado en el suelo, y con los labios viscozos llenos de ketchup que parecia malviciado. No lo entiendes? Replica ella, no lo entiendes? que para tener la felicidad necesitas perder la vision y la facultad de hablar?
No estoy seguro de lo que voy a hacer, pero bueno, quiero ir a lugares y ver personas. Quiero que mi mente crezca. Quiero vivir donde las cosas suceden a gran escala.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (via elcielosobremi)
2.-Seems to me you are thinking in a broader audience, and it knock my head “Why not"?”. Why should you submit your writings into a reduced web space, when you can think in a broader audience, so that is a yes.
3.- I’m not afraid to go that road. I got no fear to go into that road. I got no lack mentality in the sense that I’m not able to do it in an awesome way. I’m confident in that respect, and I know that I can kick some ass
4.- The problem is going into the web where you don’t know, who is evaluating what, under what rules, who are the participants, who are the judges. Judges dressed in the web as bartenders, or drunken people, or people that do not really know about writing stories?
Secondly, it seems to me that writing sometimes is related to a culture, and every culture is different. “Ciudades Desiertas” de Enrique Aviles Fabila has that concept, a Mexican looking into the American culture, and taking a look at the USA from his perspective that he call those cities “Ciudades Desiertas”, y después miras a Ernest Hemingway “For whom the Bells Tolls” and there you see a gringo looking at the Spanish culture, in a very deep social transformation.
What does that means? Who is going to judge, under what rules, under what concept? and good luck there!
However, if there is a real one chance, like hispanic literature with hispanic judges, there might be a chance.
Why?
Because those perspectives varies depending on the culture, as I proved in the paragraph above. And talking about culture, “women” are not seen seemingly the same in the American culture than in the Mexican culture. In the Mexican culture, women are a token, vital icon of society expecting to have some roles into the family that varies differently from the American society, more liberated, and mixed in the supposedly “equality gender”. (And man arrested for supposedly beat a wife with no evidence, but for the sake of this night, let’s put him in jail. Child support for the husband in a cheating wife? What the heck? ) Those issues might be a wonderful topic to explore. Are we in an equal society in every aspect of life?
“One thousand And One Night with Miss Beautiful” still has some doubts about that role, between the Mexican and the American way of life.
5.- To submit, an article, into a web site, where there is a lack of rules, clear rules, real names, leads into fake polls, that’s why I have been insisting into going real, because real, counts, and there is no cheating audiences, no cheating surveys, no cheating counts, etc etc etc. (Do you agree with me?, do I lie in that sense?)
6.- On this end of the rope, there’s a man trying to go for a line of honor and respect doing wonderful things with my own hands, and I said “wonderful” because my hands and my body and my soul are connected into creating wonderful never seen, nor done, nor expected things (I said trying becauseI don't do things perfectly all the time); and on the other side of the rope, cheating games, fake people, fake statistics responding in a cheated way to a man that is giving the opposite, the best?
7.- P.D : I never work against me. My strengths I develop more, and my other skills are my strengths in a developing circle. We are humans, not binary human beings as computers going for yes as “1″, and “no” for 0. We are only humans, not R2D2 lifting the hand according to a command “1″, and “0″ for No (Do not do it!) We are humans may friend!
Hey and DO NOT DO those #$%^&^ ID’s. I HATE them! Me caen USURA! (Mexican slang referring to the most hated issue, in a mouth of a well being raised highly educated human being of the Mexican upper class).
* Ms Therapist? Can we go for a session into how I started to hate fake ID?
Here you will find some of the things that I really like. I like writing, music, poems, and producing any idea that comes to my mind. I hope you like it!
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