The Niche Beat
The Secret Paintings of Clementine Hunter
Garden Cinderella Goes to the Smithsonian Celebrated southern folk artist (Clemen-teen) Hunter loved Zinnias, so maybe it is fitting that she also be known as the name of her favorite flower…Garden Cinderella. A fitting name perhaps as the details of her life unfolds… Born sometime in the late 1880s, the self-taught painter worked as a servant […]
MusicBiz Notes: Quiz
4 Questions About the Music Business Back in 2009, I took a course from Foothill College called Music Business and one of the assignments involved listening to a song I’d never heard before. The link had no pictures. I did know who the musician featured was and groaned… In general, my favorite category of music […]
MusicBiz Notes
Music Biz Notes: A Beginner’s Guide to Overlooked Tips, Facts & Lessons about the Music Business and the Music Industry… 38-pages, more than 85 links with 19 questions, including three video-based activities, pdf, print enabled. Irreverent, entertaining, and educational bits about selected men, women, and groups, including Les Paul, Lloyd Price, Aretha Franklin, Adele, and […]
Birth Order & the Inner Child
Cristela Alonzo Comedian Cristela Alonzo is the first Latina to write and produce a TV show. And she recently recounted her life story on ABC TV’s the View: Alonzo left home at age 18 despite her mother’s tears and pleading for her not to go. They didn’t speak for more than a year after, […]
Name Game Puzzle
Choosing the Right Name Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from a new worksheet set available in Pdf later this month. Note: Do not Use Goggle to answer the questions that follow. Apart from my own searches for a great title or name, back in 2004, I once earned a two-hundred-dollar consulting fee by correctly […]
Bread, Cookies & Popsicles
Finding the Hidden Theme The three examples that follow share an interesting theme not apparent at first glance. Can you figure out what it is? Update next week Otis Spunkmeyer Views: 182
How An 8-Year Old Discovered Her Talent for Design
The Start of the Fish Flops Company Madison Nicole Robinson was a third grader when she came up with the idea for what is now a million-dollar company. Last month, Robinson, now 16, visited the Steve Harvey Show and shared the early design sketch that launched her company. It’s a three minute segment [humor included]: […]
Rose O’Neill
The Case of the Telltale Trademark Kewpie & the Little Browns, July 1912, Rose O’Neill Many art or business students have never heard of Rose O’Neill. A child prodigy, multi-talented artist, and advocate for women rights and racial equality, O’Neill amassed great wealth only to see her work plagiarized by countless others, including a […]
Tech Update: Hard Drive Replaced
This is Going to Be Fun! After more than a month offline, my XP laptop had a hard drive overhaul and arrived late yesterday. Now I must work with Mozy to reconstruct all my files. Eeep! But I hate to think what would have happened without my Mozy Pro subscription. Meanwhile, I plan to complete […]