If you’re anything like me, you’re probably stressing out because you know your precious creative projects need funding to evolve. Unfortunately, we should be worried. Creative content and their producers are being undervalued more than ever as the Internet has ushered in a new mindset of consuming free content. But don’t let that scare you […]
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January of this year marked a significant change for the future of the Musical Melodyians after my collaborator, Scott Tooby, and I made a consorted intention to develop this project from a transmedia art experiment to a more sustainable creative venture. Thus, we have turned to Patreon — a crowdfunding platform that derives its model
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As an ode to Throwback Thursday #TBT, I am publishing the fifth edition of J+C Magazine – a self-published tabloid magazine that I created with my best friend in the early 2000s. We were snarky to say the least, with a particular bloodlust for Christina Aguilera and a pure reverence for the saintly Britney Spears.
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With the recent release of The Musical Melodyian EP (available on Bandcamp), music producer, Scott Tooby, reflects on how he created the cosmic tunes for this transmedia production as well as his thoughts on the ever-precarious future of music. J. Sayuri: What was the vision behind the sound and music of the Musical Melodyian EP?
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I went to a group painting show at the Tag Gallery at Bergamont Station in Santa Monica, CA last Saturday afternoon (April 10, 2015) for an artist talk with painters: Betty Sheinbaum, Daniel Janotta, and Shelley Lazarus. The conversation was intimate and moreover, it was refreshing to listen to these seasoned artists talk honestly about
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