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By: DIY’s Great, But WHO Are We Doing it For? | Free Verse Media

Sat, 11 Jun 2011 21:34:06 +0000

[...] Hope was one of the highlights of last year’s DIY Days NYC conference, and his conversation with fellow film producer, Christine Vachon, was among this year’s [...]

By: The iPad, Transmedia, and the Future of Publishers | Digital Book World

The iPad, Transmedia, and the Future of Publishers | Digital Book World — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 08:36:06 +0000

[...] focuses on the storyworld first, distribution channels second, with the latter determined via a collaborative process that puts the author’s creative vision at the center. Most so-called transmedia projects are [...]

By: Dan Holloway

Dan Holloway — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:12:03 +0000

Guy, it's great to see you blogging again, and making such great sense as ever. For me, this and your previous post go together. I spent most of last year evangelising the collaborative and DIY cause, and then, come the end of last year, all of us at Year Zero realised at the same time that we'd spent so much time (and it was very useful time, getting to meet incredible people and form new bonds and friendships) doing the preaching that we'd stopped doing the doing. So we set up our website with a blog so we could post free, original fiction every day, and set about DOING. We've spent less time on line, but we've written an anthology together we're incredibly proud of, and taken it on tour, performing with musicians at venues like London's Rough Trade Records. That's hooked us up with other creatives, and out of it we are now working on an album with some incredible musicians, and our tour culminates with an amazing night we're putting on together with the New York based outfit Knickerbocker Circus that will combine art, music and writing.

It's very easy for creatives to spend time talking and contributing to the debate – and in one way it is IMMENSELY rewarding because of the fantastic people (like you!) you meet, in another it's great because you get lots of attention and traffic. On the other hand, for DIYers,at some point you have to create, and the way to go isn't to talk about how you are doing it differently from “the mainstream”, but to go out there and do it – to turn those friendships you formed at the talking phase into creative partnerships. Inevitably the process will have phases and cycles, but it's so exciting to feel like part of creating something new.

BTW, have you come across Solidad Da Costa's great FastSlowFast poetry site?

Oh, and we'll be holding a gig in NYC in the summer with Jenn giving it full throttle

By: Will Hindmarch

Will Hindmarch — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:02:54 +0000

Great, motivating post here, Guy. Thanks for taking me on a tour of the DIY Days. I'm sorry I had to miss it. The new site looks great, by the way!

By: Once Upon A Playtime

Once Upon A Playtime — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 04:06:36 +0000

[...] So. You terribleminds peeps (teeps? tmeeps? terriblemeeps?) were here for the formative discussions that built to the workshop I gave this past weekend. (Part One, Part Two, and then Part Three.) You can also see Guy’s kick-ass recap of this and the whole event right over here (“Collaboration Is The Killer App“). [...]

By: It Takes a Community « DIY Days

It Takes a Community « DIY Days — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 03:55:33 +0000

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By: Guy LeCharles Gonzalez

Guy LeCharles Gonzalez — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 00:05:19 +0000

Your magic wizard fingers insisted on being shared widely!

By: Chuck

Chuck — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:37:54 +0000

I am of course disturbed that somehow my picture lurks at the top of this post.

Other than that fearful visage, great post.

– c.

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