Category Archives: Projects
Three Stages of an Artist’s Career
1) You make No Money. You keep the credit, but no one gets paid. 2) You make Other People Money You don’t keep the credit, other people get paid. 3) You Make Money. You keep the credit, AND you get … Continue reading
Filed under excellence to the point of profanity, music business, Nashville, Projects
100 Rejections
I forget sometimes that no one believed the famous people, either. How many “no’s” does it take before you relent? I wrote a piece of music for orchestra in 2007 and it won the college composition contest. [ladies, and gentlemen, … Continue reading
Filed under Art with a capital A, creativity, Projects
Me and George Lucas
We recently watched the original Star Wars trilogy at our house, while I was preparing Soundcrawl, and thanks to my friend Kevin, I know have the most exhaustive history of how Star Wars IV (and really the whole franchise) came … Continue reading
Filed under art music, Art with a capital A, music, Nashville, Projects, Uncategorized
What I’m learning this year
About this time every year I post about what I’m learning from Soundcrawl; this post, however is a mashup between Dream Year and Soundcrawl. What got you here, won’t get you there. AND If you keep doing what … Continue reading
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So you wanna move to Nashville…
So I had a very pleasant conversation with a potential-Nashvillian, and it got me thinking. Like every other “music pro” (quotes intentional) in Nashville, I have my list of advice, and I started to give it and then I realized… … Continue reading
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Poster Series: Ship
Poster series #2! I’m a fan, curator, and promoter of Beautiful Ideas. I’ve begun to encapsulate many of them in posters that I envision hanging in the offices and “war rooms” of the people and organizations that share my convictions. … Continue reading
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Poster Series: Make a Decision
I think I’ve decided to have my blog series be monthly (like a church series!). This month, it will be a bit self-promotional… I’m a fan, curator, and promoter of Beautiful Ideas. I’ve begun to encapsulate many of them in … Continue reading
New Client: The Redding Bros.
I’m pleased to announce that I will be working with rock trio The Redding Brothers as producer on their upcoming EP. There’s some black-magic-technical wizardry that will take place that is sure to make this a notable album, but if I told … Continue reading
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Dream Year, day 1
So today was the first phone call with Ben. He led off with “is this a good time?” (very ironic given that the call has been scheduled for today at 1pm for about 4 weeks.) Is this a good time? … Continue reading
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The death of evangelicalism?
Today I went into a meeting to design our January series. To prep for the meeting I sketched out a breakdown of who attends our church. I thought I’d share it with you: At our church, there are 3.5 distinct … Continue reading
Filed under church, creativity, evangelicalism, God, leadership, organizations, postmodernism, Projects, Theology of Culture
