Tom Libertiny is an award-winning composer, author, photographer, and director. He creates stories with intention across words, visuals, and music.
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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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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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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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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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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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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2017 December 7 We’ve recently completed a two-month long process of interviewing people for a job. Over 300 hundred people applied and, as usual, it was as much of a learning process for us as it was for the people who we interviewed. Over the last 10 years, we’ve developed…
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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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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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2017 September 14 “What if you could make a movie that cut out studios entirely, allowing the filmmaker to do as he or she pleased?” Steven Soderbergh’s upcoming movie Logan Lucky puts into place a system that is designed to end the way most visual artists work with traditional studios,…
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