Tom Libertiny, 2018 Entertainment Survey, Men

2018 | Words | Entertainment Survey | Men

2018 April 12 Results and observations from my 2018 entertainment survey about men and their entertainment choices. Observations This year, men started showing signs of attending events on a weekly basis (Reference | Chart 3) which is a complete change from the results of in 2016.  On the other hand, from…

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Tom Libertiny, 2018 Entertainment Survey, Women

2018 | Words | Entertainment Survey | Women

2018 April 6 Results and observations from my 2018 entertainment survey about women and their entertainment choices. Observations 1. For women who watch movies at theaters, pricing was a major consideration. In most markets, $10 to $20 was the new acceptable range. This was a pricing increase from the results…

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Tom Libertiny, Null Paradox, Grace

2018 | Movie | Photoshoot Planning

2018 April 4 As a photographer, I receive the usual amount of questions related to the types of equipment I use and the fees I charge for my services.  But, the other half of questions I receive are about how I plan for a photoshoot. It’s About Storytelling While the…

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Tom Libertiny, Null Paradox, Gertrude and Grace

2018 | Words | Scheming

2018 March 23 I recently learned a new word from my friend Charlee HM:  scheming. Sounds Ominous But the context in which she used it was her observation of the planning that AJ Martina and I were doing while on the recent Gothic Girl Art Magazine photoshoot with Charlee.  And in…

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Tom Libertiny, UK, Gravetye Manor

2018 | Words | One-Person Listening Tour

2018 January 8 Let’s just get this out-of-the-way:  regardless of your political affiliation, the 2016 U.S. presidential election was ugly. I’m all for being scrappy, but not in the traditional Webster’s dictionary sense.  I am all about being scrappy in the sense of being the underdog and working to achieve…

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Tom Libertiny, Colorado, Vail

2017 | Images | Aspen Tree’s Life

2017 November 17 Aspen trees are beautiful. But there’s much more happening underground with them that leads to their remarkable life. One of the unusual things about Aspen trees is that the “tree” part that we view is actually equivalent to an air root.  Simply put, the actual tree lives underground…

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Tom Libertiny, Garden Moxie

2017 | Images | New Gardening Magazine

2017 October 27 Following our 4,500 mile road trip from Detroit to Mukuntuweap National Monument in Utah, Susan and I had decided:  it was time to combine our love for gardens, art, and travel into a new magazine. Our conversation had started during a photoshoot in 2017 October issue of which was…

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Tom Libertiny, Steampunk Art Magazine

2017 | Images | H.R. Giger’s Steampunk

2017 September 13 Back in 2015 I launched a magazine with some friends to look at the genre of Steampunk from an avant garde perspective–particularly from the unorthodox niche encompassed in the phrase avant garde. And then I did nothing with what became Steampunk Art Magazine for two years.  During…

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Tom Libertiny, Michigan, Traverse City

2017 | Images | Quiet

2017 July 4 Fire your bombs, blast them into the hot night Death’s a brief transition, gruesome he’d say; Dissolve your fears, in the misty dawn’s light Long years he schemed, a learned man sans delight Before living for two taught him the way Fire your bombs, blast them into…

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Tom Libertiny, Viewpoint

2017 | Movies | Viewpoint

2017 June 26 One of the interesting things about writing a book or music and then making the work available to everyone is the reader’s or listener’s feedback. A particular professor hated when I used “interesting” to discuss art. He claimed it didn’t tell him much about my viewpoint, which…

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