LIA Cast 35 - Artisanal Entertainment

Should visual artists think of themselves also as entertainers? Can the work speak for itself, allowing the artist to stay behind the scenes? What about a little of both? And what does it even mean to say one is an entertainer?

We walk around these questions this week and examine some well-known entertainers to see what they do to foster engagement with their fans. We also spend some time looking at what benefits such engagement brings, from networking to audience building to having more fun at public events.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Video and Photos of the Roos Roast Drink & Draw
• Dan Mishkin
• Rob's Turning Jokes Into Comics workshop
• Rob Paulsen's Talkin Toons podcast
• Eli Neiburger
• Comics Are Great! 55
• Brandon Dayton
• The Complete Guide to Not Giving a F***

Social Networking

• Lean Into Art Google+ Page
• Jerzy on Twitter
• Rob on Twitter
• Lean Into Art on Twitter

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LIA Cast 35 - Artisanal Entertainment

LIA Cast 34 - Are You Ready To Buy The Car?

Spreadsheets are sometimes the symbol of numbness-inducing number-crunching to creative types, but in this week's audio-only Lean Into Art Cast, Rob walks us through how they can be used to make better choices in our creative lives. As it happens, it's a lot like buying a car!

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Brett Terpstra's comparison of iOS text editors
• Rework
• Dororo
• Logical fallacies
• Mind Mapping

Social Networking

• Lean Into Art Google+ Page
• Jerzy on Twitter
• Rob on Twitter
• Lean Into Art on Twitter

LIA Cast 34 - Are You Ready To Buy The Car?

Polytechnicast - Juggling Part 2, De facto Hiatuses

In this mostly "art journal" style episode of the Polytechnicast I reflect on how I’ve been applying something I learned via juggling to my creative projects. I also share how that relates to which projects are getting my time and attention.

Links Mentioned and Related

• Jerzy Drozd
• Art Geek Zoo
• Guitar Fretter
• Lean Into Art Cast
• Scratch - a visual way to code via building blocks to make interactive games and stories, free and open source
• Squeak Smalltalk - multimedia programming platform, free and open source
• Prezi - tool for making and showing presentations

Follow Rob on Twitter or his blog at Interactive-Storyteller.com and workshops at Lean Into Art

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LIA Cast 33 - The Applause You Deserve

Please RT! Check out and "Like" my FB page! How about a +1? Give my Kickstarter a mention, why don't ya?

The gatekeepers (publishers) have been removed from your path to getting your work seen, but does this then make the public itself the gatekeepers? If so, how do you reach out to them and share your work? If we agree that we all have to do our own marketing and publicity, how do we do it in an effective and pragmatic manner?

Are the social media experts right, and we simply need to cajole the more famous members of our fields to mention us? Remind our constuencies to re-tweet, like, and +1 our stuff? We all want applause for the work we do, but how does our thinking change when we rephrase the question to getting the applause we deserve?

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Back To Work episode 31
• The Oatmeal's comic on how to get more "likes" on Facebook
• Beyond Viral, by Kevin Nalty
• Fast Company's The Dirty Little Secret Of Overnight Successes
• Brandon Dayton's blog on The Two Devils
• Article on Shia LaBeouf's entry into comics
• The Lean Into Art Workshops page

Social Networking

• Lean Into Art Google+ Page
• Jerzy on Twitter
• Rob on Twitter
• Lean Into Art on Twitter

LIA Cast 33 - The Applause You Deserve

Polytechnicast - Juggling Metaphor and Actual Juggling

In this episode of the Polytechnicast I share a few observations about why juggling interests me and a basic overview of how to juggle a three ball cascade.

Links Mentioned and Related

• Juggling for the Complete Klutz (affiliate link)
• Charlie Dancey’s Encyclopaedia of Ball Juggling (affiliate link)

Follow Rob on Twitter or his blog at Interactive-Storyteller.com and workshops at Lean Into Art

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