Dick Dale video on how to succeed in the music business

Dick Dale is the King of Surf Guitar - check out his video on what's happening in the music industry, below - there are a lot of nuggets in here. I do have the feeling he somehow does not like the record labels...;). He does not at all mention the Internet, btw... pretty amazing! Hat tip to Michael Drapkin. 

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Very cool: John Mayer's augmented reality experiment (video)

One of my favorite musicians (and fellow Berklee guitarist) John Mayer has recently launched a new site that makes very interesting use of augmented reality concepts. All you need to do is allow the flash player access to your web-cam, print out a single page with the control icon, and follow the instructions. I liked it so much I made a short video about the experience - this kind of thing will be big, no doubt; in fact, I think it will be one of those key 'new generatives' that could well be offered in premium packages going forward... stay tuned! Wired has a related video that shows how John made the material used for this

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Nice bottom line by Hugh Macleod: "Bleed and Feed” (Gaping Void)

Hugh MacLeod is one of my favorite cartoonists that covers geeky web and technology stuff, over at Gapingvoid.com. Below is a quote from his blog that makes a ton of sense to me, so I wanted to share it with you. 

He says that as a wor­king artist, he divides his day into two parts: “Bleed and Feed”.

"The Bleed Part. Taking care of busi­ness. Doing work for my clients. Wor­king on new Cube Gre­nade ideas etc. Trying to find new clients etc. Trying to get my bills paid etc etc.

The Feed Part. I go and make dra­wings for myself. Com­ple­tely non-commercial. Often no more than dood­ling in my sketch­book. Just me and a pen, trying to feed my well. Often accom­pa­nied by a nice glass of red.

I try to do both every day. “Bleed” gets my mor­ning and after­noons. “Feed” hap­pens mostly after din­ner, before bedtime.

Yeah, I guess this is a varia­tion on The Sex & Cash Theory. It’s all good.

All suc­cess­ful artists “Bleed and Feed”, in their own way. The ones who don’t– who just try to do one or the other– tend to burn out rather quickly. That’s just Reality"

via gapingvoid.com