supporting the tribe (how to make a living making art, part four)

Yes, still thinking about the metaphor. I like “circle” because it’s an association of equals—hurrah, knights of the round table!—and circles overlap. But “tribe” is one syllable, and it acknowledges that some tribes are egalitarian and some aren’t. So I’ll keep using it until I find something better.
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sharing in the circle of art (how to make a living making art, part three)

I’m still thinking about The live music talk, but I won’t use Godin’s “managing the tribe” anymore. “Manage” can mean “manipulate,” and while a tribe is a voluntary association, the word suggests there’s a leader. From now on, I’ll talk of the circle of art, because every creator is a fan of someone else’s work, [...]

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should you milk your fans?

Consider this a sidebar to my “how to make a living making art” posts. I wasn’t going to post again until I finished my short story, but I have no will power saw boingboing pimping Kevin Kelly’s 1,000 True Fans. It’s very good and very troubling. Here’s why:
Assume conservatively that your True Fans will each [...]

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how to make a living making art, part two

In yesterday’s post, I used “manage” because that was Seth Godin’s term in The live music talk. Godin appears to have been addressing a range of people in the music business who could be called old-school managers, the people who promote artists. But he includes indie artists who intentionally or accidentally created tribes, the Grateful [...]

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how to make a living making art

Warning: I’m 52 years old. If I claim to have figured something out, it may be passé. But this time, I’m stealing from the cool kids, so maybe they figured it out. Via Cory Doctorow, Seth Godin’s “the live music talk”:
I want to argue that the next model is tribal management. That the next model [...]

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