Freelancing: 5 Hacks to make life easier
This week I thought I'd write about my experience with trying to make my job easier as a freelancer. This includes a number of little tips and tricks that have worked for me to stay on track, get things done
Marketing and Sales for Indies
Let's talk about marketing for Indie Developers of all stripes. I'm going to tell you a secret a lot of fledgling entrepreneurs don't think about enough; Everything begins and ends with sales.This is the same whether you are a coffee
Freelancing: Tips for Surviving the Ebb and Flow
Freelancing is a roller coaster, anyone who's done it for long enough will tell you this. Your bank account balance will fluctuate wildly, and in order to weather the inevitable downtimes, you need to develop some coping skills and do
What do Monoculture and Artists have in common?
Today I thought I'd write about something that's been on my mind a lot lately. I have spent the last few months studying something called Permaculture. If you know what that is, awesome, you're ahead of the curve. If not
Public School Super Hero – Episode 1
I'm now able to show one of the projects I've been working on this month along with Bent Image Lab in Portland Oregon. It's a short three episode web series about a new Super Hero by the name is Stainlezz
Soft skills in the creative field
I thought I'd write today about my early experiences as an artist fresh out of college. I felt like a new, bright, shiny puppy who was ready to take on the world. But I've learned over the years that enthusiasm
Technical Skills and Efficiency
Pretty soon my contract with my current employer will be over. I'm using this opportunity to reflect on the experience of being apart of Convergence Training's media team for exactly one year today. There is a lot I have learned
10 Reflections on 2014
Another cheesy blogpost about what I learned this year.Be open to doing things with your skills you're turned off by or don't find interesting: This last year I learned a very valuable lesson in basically not trusting my gut at times
The Future of Visual Storytelling for Marketing
I'm one of those people who likes being abreast of what's happening in markets you wouldn't think of who are using motion graphics, animation and design to get their message across and how affective it can be if it's done