And so I'm proud to announce one of our newest ventures together- Stay tuned!
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
motivate Art- Co producing with celebrity makeup artist D'angelo Thompson
I've known celebrity makeup artist D'angelo Thompson for several years. Always such a pleasure and a giver, I find myself sharing my Self with him. I am a reticent person most times, choosing to share information guardedly but there is something about this person, his energy, his spirit that seems open and without judgement. And so to go into business for myself and have the opportunity to work together with him, co producing his seminars and events is a pleasure. His willingness to give business advice and to mentor inevitably encourages me to be better, smarter. He also reminds me to stay in line with positivity, that there are many ways to win but HOW you win matters even more.
Thursday, December 8, 2011
The Creative Process- a motivator
This past Sunday, 12.04.2011, motivateArt was behind the scenes of the Jock Hall The Agency shoot.
www.jockhalltheagency.com. The shoot was all about their 2012 lookbook of amazingly talented cool people from varied industries and social perspectives. Makeup artist Kavita Kaul rocked it out, working on 2 beautiful women for the shoot- celebrity, fashion and lifestyle publicist Mashiriki Williamson and retail development director Sharifa Cudjoe. Beautiful skin, beautiful energy, photographer Khary Septh took to the Fort Greene streets to shoot.
Surrounded by creative energy always serves to confirm that I'm doing what I'm meant to do, what I want to do. The high that I felt in that environment inspires me to keep seeking...connecting..creating.
www.motivateArt.com...the movement.
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Pushing through- social media networking at its best
Yeah, I'm pushing through. It's really great to have found my Purpose, truly the thing, the quality and characteristics I've had all my life is now MY PURPOSE, MY PASSION. I just finally realized that what I do so naturally is what I'm SUPPOSED to be doing all he time. There is no turning back now. Free time is spent gathering contacts, researching possibilities, tweeting,blogging, facebooking.
For some of my younger clients who are born into this age of media networking and use it only to speak of what they're going to do with their partners or occasional smart commentary on politics or the news, they are not using this tool to their business advantage. I tell them that there was a time you would have to pay thousands of dollars to equal the amount of free exposure you can get on the internet.
Whooo, it is tiring though. Every moment spent to reinvent and be included and be seen and noticed. Hell I'm hoping to be "followed"lol I work all of my free time wanting to be followed. Wow.
Yet a pool of like minded people/fans/friends following me is cool but I want to generate ideas, be titillated by their posts, be stimulated to action. In the meantime, I have to try my hardest to do the same!
Did Facebook start this phenomenon of obsessive connectivity or Twitter? I am obsessed with having you think I'm interesting enough to read my blog, find my tweet cute and appealing and most of all I want you to buy my services. Isn't this whole thing about selling yourself?
For those who are not trying to drive traffic to their website or to inform about their business, what is it all about? I guess we're all deciding to be relevant for however it serves us best. Maybe I don't have 400 facebook "friends" but I'm praying for 400 "followers"!! I'm relevant, I swear!!!!
For some of my younger clients who are born into this age of media networking and use it only to speak of what they're going to do with their partners or occasional smart commentary on politics or the news, they are not using this tool to their business advantage. I tell them that there was a time you would have to pay thousands of dollars to equal the amount of free exposure you can get on the internet.
Whooo, it is tiring though. Every moment spent to reinvent and be included and be seen and noticed. Hell I'm hoping to be "followed"lol I work all of my free time wanting to be followed. Wow.
Yet a pool of like minded people/fans/friends following me is cool but I want to generate ideas, be titillated by their posts, be stimulated to action. In the meantime, I have to try my hardest to do the same!
Did Facebook start this phenomenon of obsessive connectivity or Twitter? I am obsessed with having you think I'm interesting enough to read my blog, find my tweet cute and appealing and most of all I want you to buy my services. Isn't this whole thing about selling yourself?
For those who are not trying to drive traffic to their website or to inform about their business, what is it all about? I guess we're all deciding to be relevant for however it serves us best. Maybe I don't have 400 facebook "friends" but I'm praying for 400 "followers"!! I'm relevant, I swear!!!!
Monday, October 24, 2011
The Game
I am enjoying choosing the Light, choosing Positive Energy, choosing Purpose.
"Employee"! I've always had an adverse reaction to being defined as "an employee'. Mostly I cant stand that the word even accompanies my name, like a tag stitched into my Life Jacket. I have enjoyed freelancing for so many years and liked the freedom that is self imposed whenever I chose a job understanding that there would be a beginning, a middle and an end. Still an employee but without the demands of having to engage in office politics or laughing at the boss's corny jokes. I felt that my work spoke for me and I was being hired because of my reputation of being a hard worker, able to stay unnerved during chaos and confident in my ability to deliver.
So funny that now I coach creatives who freelance that laughing at the boss's corny joke, hanging out with the crew after the shoot and occasional banter with the crew is necessary probably even more necessary than being a hard worker who can deliver. Yes, you have to be able to "bring it", no matter what but in these times where many are jobless accepting short term employment and "freelancing", we are all in a competitive market , all squirrels trying to get that nut. No one is really "free" in the "freelance" game anymore.
So I stand in the place of being grateful to be an Employee, while I build this business, motivateArt. Still crawling but working hard to stand to running, I appreciate and am motivated by my need to create and develop and grow but I am also grateful for the support my job brings, (aka that cheese that pays the bills)lol.
Cheers
motivateArt.com
"Employee"! I've always had an adverse reaction to being defined as "an employee'. Mostly I cant stand that the word even accompanies my name, like a tag stitched into my Life Jacket. I have enjoyed freelancing for so many years and liked the freedom that is self imposed whenever I chose a job understanding that there would be a beginning, a middle and an end. Still an employee but without the demands of having to engage in office politics or laughing at the boss's corny jokes. I felt that my work spoke for me and I was being hired because of my reputation of being a hard worker, able to stay unnerved during chaos and confident in my ability to deliver.
So funny that now I coach creatives who freelance that laughing at the boss's corny joke, hanging out with the crew after the shoot and occasional banter with the crew is necessary probably even more necessary than being a hard worker who can deliver. Yes, you have to be able to "bring it", no matter what but in these times where many are jobless accepting short term employment and "freelancing", we are all in a competitive market , all squirrels trying to get that nut. No one is really "free" in the "freelance" game anymore.
So I stand in the place of being grateful to be an Employee, while I build this business, motivateArt. Still crawling but working hard to stand to running, I appreciate and am motivated by my need to create and develop and grow but I am also grateful for the support my job brings, (aka that cheese that pays the bills)lol.
Cheers
motivateArt.com
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
FEAR- debilitates or MOTIVATES?
Do you allow your fear to stop you or move you? Does your fear make you worry about what you might lose or does it make you scared about what you may never gain? Does it take something or someone pushing you out of the "nest" to make you have to move forward or does your fear that that something or someone will push you out before you are ready motivate you to move faster than the pusher?
I am most afraid of losing, being stuck, having regret. I am most afraid of living under someone else's design. I am most afraid of not living out the Purpose I believe has been divined for me.
I am most afraid of losing, being stuck, having regret. I am most afraid of living under someone else's design. I am most afraid of not living out the Purpose I believe has been divined for me.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
What motivates the Artist?
What motivates you? What makes you get up everyday to pursue your "calling"? I consider myself creative, a creative person. I understand indulging the "the calling". The calling to create, the craving to express art through many forms.
I have designed clothing, written published articles on everything from natural and herbal beautifiers to interviewing singers, started a promotion company representing a musician I never met but wrote an amazing bio and press release on and had the editor of Billboard Magazine write an article on him. I have started a t-shirt line but never sold one t-shirt, I have worked in television and radio production, worked for a renown world music club as a publicist, am an amateur photographer, whose amateur pics have ended up in 2 hip hop magazines....there's more but this is about you :) .
I'm just trying to say I understand the unsettled feeling, when you know you have more to do, more to be but you're not quite sure if what you're doing is IT. So you just keep expressing your art.
What motivates you? The feeling. The craving. The desire. The calling. You motivate You. Creative people cant help it. You are driven to indulge and express. The key is remembering that every medium you've chosen to express your creative self has led you to the next. That even though you may be waiting for that BIG BOOM letting you know you've hid the jackpot, your life's calling; that every pursuit contributes to the next. You bring every experience to the table all the time. Your last creative experience influences and impacts the next. Radio engineering prepared me for television production, writing articles for neighborhood urban magazines, prepared me to write press releases for musicians.
I didn't realize that I was on one track, learning all along the way. I just jumped from one thing to the other indulging the creative in me. Now I know that every indulgence has prepared me for this moment.
I still have other creative pursuits. But now I look at how the next pursuit will enhance my current pursuit.
So get up and go create, be motivated by that crazy feeling in the pit of your stomach!
I have designed clothing, written published articles on everything from natural and herbal beautifiers to interviewing singers, started a promotion company representing a musician I never met but wrote an amazing bio and press release on and had the editor of Billboard Magazine write an article on him. I have started a t-shirt line but never sold one t-shirt, I have worked in television and radio production, worked for a renown world music club as a publicist, am an amateur photographer, whose amateur pics have ended up in 2 hip hop magazines....there's more but this is about you :) .
I'm just trying to say I understand the unsettled feeling, when you know you have more to do, more to be but you're not quite sure if what you're doing is IT. So you just keep expressing your art.
What motivates you? The feeling. The craving. The desire. The calling. You motivate You. Creative people cant help it. You are driven to indulge and express. The key is remembering that every medium you've chosen to express your creative self has led you to the next. That even though you may be waiting for that BIG BOOM letting you know you've hid the jackpot, your life's calling; that every pursuit contributes to the next. You bring every experience to the table all the time. Your last creative experience influences and impacts the next. Radio engineering prepared me for television production, writing articles for neighborhood urban magazines, prepared me to write press releases for musicians.
I didn't realize that I was on one track, learning all along the way. I just jumped from one thing to the other indulging the creative in me. Now I know that every indulgence has prepared me for this moment.
I still have other creative pursuits. But now I look at how the next pursuit will enhance my current pursuit.
So get up and go create, be motivated by that crazy feeling in the pit of your stomach!
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