2019 June 13 This is a story for small and mid-size businesses. The ones who have been around for at least 2 years. Why? The strategy for startups is significantly different. I’ll cover that area in a future series of stories. “This story isn’t for Fortune 500 companies.” Who Is…
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Tom Libertiny is an award-winning composer, author, photographer, and director. He creates stories with intention across words, visuals, and music.
2019 | Words | Funding for the Arts
2019 May 21 Many industries use The 3-Legged Stool metaphor to describe the foundation of success. The metaphor is based on the minimum number of points needed to define a 2-dimensional plane in 3-dimensional space. This lead to the development of the actual 3-legged stool, having the minimum number of…
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2019 May 12 How To decide your Artistic Identity and Business Focus | Part 4 Business Focus | Today vs. Tomorrow In my previous story, we looked at comparing where you are Today with where you want to be Tomorrow from both an artistic and business perspective. In the example Strategy…
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2019 May 9 How To decide your Artistic Identity and Business Focus | Part 3 Business Focus | Entrepreneur There’s an element of being an entrepreneur in all of these choices | editorial photoshoots commercial photoshoots something new (entrepreneur) That’s where we left off in Part 2 of this series. …
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2019 May 2 How To decide your Artistic Identity and Business Focus | Part 2 Artistic Identity | Follow-up Thank you for all of your questions and suggestions from Part 1 of this story series. The majority of questions related to how and why I came up with 50 weeks…
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2019 April 28 How To decide your Artistic Identity and Business Focus | Part 1 Artistic Identity It was bumpy. Below 2,000 feet we were getting hit by a lot of turbulence. And with only two of us in the Cessna 172, our plane was light which made things worse. …
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2019 April 25 The concept that a person’s legacy is to be judged within the context of the era during which they lived is nonsense. That’s the opening salvo in my recent story Alt HerStory | Madame Curie for Elusive Story. It’s About Storytelling Regardless of the channel used to…
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2019 April 20 Occasionally, we all need some time away from–all of it. Since my last post during June 2018 I’ve rethought what it means to be an artist and also the business of art. Art From the artistic perspective, I’ve also done a lot of experimenting by participating in a…
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2018 June 8 With our ongoing work on Garden Moxie, I’ve taken time during our travels to look at minimalism in nature. What struck me was while nature could appear to be simple from a distance, up close it’s amazingly complex. Here’s a series of three photographs that compares the…
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2018 May 21 Back in 2015, I began research for a movie about Ayrton Senna, one of the finest racing drivers the world has ever witnessed. There’s been several excellent documentary movies about Senna, including this one from 2011. Our movie is different. It’s based on Aryton’s life but is fictionalized. …
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