The Advantage
After a couple of days of self loathing, I have come to this realization: BECAUSE I'm shooting so simply and cheaply; almost any scene I...


I Still Hate Everything right now. But we were finalists in a script competition.
So, I guess there is potential


The Film Journal
Starting today, I'm changing the nature of this blog. I don't know where you are in your filmmaking journey. I don't want to give advice...


I'm On The Clock
I'm on the clock right now. I don't mean that I am sneaking a blog post in when working on someone else's dime. I mean, that I am clocked...


Start With Joy (But please still take your meds)
I was planning on writing more specifically about the business of Art today. I have two blog posts in rough draft form that just need a...


3 ways to get started (or) How to make my art my business
We probably haven't met. I don't know a lot about you. Maybe you have never made a Nickle off your art. Maybe you have made thousands,...


Speed Equals Quality
How many sayings have you heard equating speed with shoddy workmanship? "Haste makes waste" The entire tortoise and hare story "Slow is...


Graduation
I just finished the revised version of The Mercenary Artist's Manifesto. I forced myself to celebrate. I'm polishing my marketing plan....


Goethe
An excerpt from the madness that is "The Mercenary Artist's Manifesto - Revised" "Goethe, in all his superiority; wrote “I would that the...
Why?
*The following is an excerpt from The Mercenary Artist's Manifesto second edition. Why? Why write a book about productive creativity? Do...