Thursday's Thought: A better way for artists to raise money
Crowd-funding sites like Kickstarter require fundraisers to meet their stated goals or risk not getting anything. Here's a much better way to raise - and keep - money to fund your artistic pursuits.
Patreon describes itself as a "Internet tip jar" for fans to support their favorite artists, a few dollars at a time. Despite recent news of the site being hacked, I still think this is a resource that artists should seriously consider setting up for themselves. Key things will be to create a good promotional video and to be consistent with either creating content or keeping in touch with your fans.
Do you have a Patreon account? Let me know and I'd be more than happy to spread the word for you!
Well, it’s about time!
My last website design lasted for nearly 6 years. Back in 2014, responsive websites were the hot issue - with the rise of mobile screens and tablets predicted to overshadow desktop and laptop computer browsers, Google was putting a heavy emphasis on websites that could adapt their designs to accommodate smaller screens legibly. To that end, and with a desire to try to maintain a unique “artsy” design, I created a landing page based off of a brand new publicity photo shot by the brand new online school I had just joined, ArtistWorks. I sliced the image into blocks so that all of the text could be shuffled accordingly on smaller screens as clickable links. At the time, I thought it looked pretty cool, and it highlighted the main areas of my life as a pianist, author of a book on digital sheet music, passion for technology, my online popular piano school at ArtistWorks, and my podcast show, A Musical Life. Needless to say, it was a pretty big improvement from my previous website design, which had been around for probably close to 10 years: