Moments after beginning to chat with Erin Ergenbright in her tastefully decorated home in Portland, I felt I should vacate. That’s because Erin had, after months of struggling, just found herself at a creative high point, ready to launch herself into her work. When an artist is at that point, I’m loathe to stand in [...]

While it will go without saying to readers of this blog that I feel there are many harms that can come from the hacking of a Blu-Ray disc, you can hear me make that case on television by following this link: http://bit.ly/dmpCRF In the interview I point out that it only takes one hacker to [...]

As you can probably tell from the video, Amy Buchheit is fun to be with. She’s also laser-focused on her art and her career as a full-time artist. She shared with me that her parents told her art was a nice hobby but she needed to make money, and artists can’t support themselves. Not knowing [...]

I really found myself inspired by Rochelle Smith. First of all, her music is hauntingly compelling, as you’ll hear in the video or can enjoy on Reverb Nation. She is a skilled technician with sound, from operating a board to welding a microphone wire. She likes buttons, as she put it to me. She also [...]

Classic movies and DVDs are getting the on-demand treatment from Sony Pictures. According to Digital Media Wire, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is launching Screen Classics by Request, a new service that allows consumers to purchase made-to-order DVDs of classic films from the company’s Columbia Film Library. In Syn© is a regular update on innovation in [...]

As you’ll see in this video, Wendy Bradshaw was literally given a second chance at life, and is not holding back. She is working on a new album of healing music inspired in part by her Nez Perce ancestry, is the top jazz vocalist in Salt Lake City on Reverb Nation and has launched a [...]

Cheyenne, Wyoming, native Alan O’Hashi is a busy guy, producing a filmmaking festival in which budding filmmakers have 24 hours to film a seven-minute movie with the scenes consecutively shot (i.e., no editing); working with others to put on an international film festival; and producing his own films. His primary mission, however, is promoting democratization [...]

As a professional writer of more than twenty years, and as someone who has at times worked as an editor, I hold editors in the highest esteem. That’s not true of all writers, but I know a good editor makes me look good; I have stated many times how my biggest dislike of blogging is [...]

Spending time with actress Pippa White is a delight. I’d love to go to one of her live shows, but you can see a taste of her acting because she gave me permission to use some video of her performing in the video I’ve posted today. She has produced more than a dozen one-person shows, [...]

For a town of 80,000 people, Sioux City has a thriving arts community and a populace strongly supportive of the arts, I learned in my time there. Todd Behrens, curator for the Sioux City Art Center, filled me in on the scene. The Center has a gallery of permanent and rotating collections of Sioux City [...]