Did you promise to teach yourself a new skill during the pandemic and shutdown? Did you succeed? Here’s how far I have come in the last year. #digitalcontent #videoediting #adobepremier I am often asked: what is the difference between what I do as a digital and print content creator versus what an artist does? Yes, […]
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Among my skills: Wordpress Websites, e-commerce, short films, photography, illustration, layout, writing, social activism and project management. I also host a weekly music show that is completely produced, written, researched and engineered by myself.
Sisters of The 70’s
For those of you who may believe that the “Girl Group” sound died in the 1960’s, it didn’t. It decided to evolve and mature in ways that were’t always geared at the Pop chart, and with a newfound freedom that didn’t always include bouffant hairdos, high heels and with new found themes of independence and honesty. #IWD2021 #InternationalWomensDay
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“I’d like to thank the Academy and all the little people…”
For April Fool’s Day, and just weeks from the annual Golden Raspberry Awards (The Razzies), a program featuring some of the worst and sometime unintentionally hilarious film music of the 80’s and 90’s wrapped in an essay of how badly people have ruined the entire award system by truly not challenging it at every level. #razzies #filmmusic #1980s #1990s #razzies #aprilfools #webbys #commuunicatorawards
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More Than Apple Vanity
For this series 100th program, a extended show dedicated to some of the many talented artists of music history’s most amazing experiment in the business, Apple Records, that started off with great promise but crashed and burned amid a bitter divorce among what were once close friends. #beatles #applerecords #apple By 1967, The Beatles had […]
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The Website Mary Celeste
You know these websites: no updates in months, seemingly as if everyone abandoned ship. But things are changing, at least for this site.
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The Lady Day Anthology Poster (Free Download)
Welcome to Spring, which also means, children of the revolution, it is also time for International Jazz Day! #JazzDay #MusicEduction #Jazz #BillieHoliday #LadyDay
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Saying Goodbye to an Everyday Hero (Free Download)
File under: the things we take for granted.
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Janis Forever
Before there was the marketing catchphrase “Women In Rock”, there was Janis Joplin, who set a standard so incredibly high that 50 years after her passing, no one can match her. #bluesrock #womeninmusic #blues #acoustic #rockandroll #rock #counterculture #LGBTQ #bivisibility #guitarrock #janis #janisjoplin I have not come here to bury Janis, but to praise her. […]
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International Podcast Day 2020
Regardless of your political views, there was one unmistakable truth about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Opera was what she loved. #RBG #Opera #Classical
Continue readingMore TagRecent Video Promo Work
Having a blast, but running out of tricks. Will be stepping up my game with more self-study, thanks to materials from my local library. This isn’t all of them, but a nice collection of the one, sometimes two, clips I create weekly to promote my audio program. Enjoy.
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