David a Love Song

David Choi is one of the most successful, prolific, well known self-promoted musicians from you-tube that you have probably never heard of. He is ranked as the 6^th most popular musician on you-tube and has a popular song vocalizing his love affair with you-tube.

David’s trademark gravelly voice that he skillfully weaves into silky smooth tones has made him a master at the art of the love song. If you’re a sucker for a good ballad then you just might want to be one of David Choi’s 600 thousand subscribers. Listen to what David has to say about love

Beyond being a very talented musician David also is quite an accomplished producer and with the assistance of Wong Fu Productions has produced a couple of very nice high quality videos that have gathered over 3 million hits

If you like David Choi then subscribe to his you-tube, buy his songs from David Choi ITUNES and tell your freinds about his Music; or better yet send your friends a link to More w/ Less and let me tell them about great artists I've found on the internet.

You don't know Jack

Straight Jack is an unsigned alternative band based out of Chicago. They excel at taking big band, jazz and blues rhythms and creating new sexy sounds and poetry. I was lucky enough to see them when visiting a friend few years back and was really impressed with their song LUSH

Straight jacket is an 8 member band and usually overflows most of the stages they command. The lead singer is named Amber, but unfortuantly i don't know her full name.  They had there own website but it has been down for about six months hopefully they are still together because when they play they set the stage on fire.

Click on the strightjack link to find out more straightjack If you like straigh jack let your friends know or better yet send them a link to more w/ less.

In The Begininng

So a few weeks ago a friend of mine posted a link on a forum. This link was to a creative show called Journey Quest. This was the inspiration for more w/ less. Journey Quest is created by Zombie Orpheus Entertainment; reading their mission statement and their ideals on self distributed and fan supported content got me to thinking about things that I like to watch and admire on the internet. I had thought about doing a blog for sometime, but the idea of espousing intellectual pontification I found over done, however, the idea of sharing entertainment with people attracted me a great deal. So with my inspiration from Zombie Orpheus Entertainment and the use of their fan supported/ self distributed logo as my new mantra I decided to share hidden works of art I have found. Journey Quest is wonderfully hokey, fun, and outlandish series of short films that are a mixture of the Guild and Monty Python.

If you enjoy Journey Quest you can find the rest of the episodes at http://www.journey-quest.com/

They are completely fan supported so if you would like to see more send them a few dollars and please let your freinds know Journey-Quest or better yet send your freinds a link to more w/ less 

Sam Hart

I have never been musically inclined or followed music much, although for some reason I have always seemed to have very intimate (emotional speaking) friendships throughout my life with extremely musically talented people. I say this as an introduction to my own experience with music or lack there of (I’m not sure which) and to describe my own tastes in music, which tend to be erratic. I like things that I simply find well done.

This rambling has a segue into our next artiest Sam Hart. Sam is a singer, songwriter, musician that is hard to define. He has a beautiful voice and sings songs from quirky Adam Sandlerisk to Irish ballads. What first impressed me about Sam is that he is the first artist that I have know to write a Lullaby, and it impressed the hell out of me. Not only was it quite good, but simply the … well I can’t think of an appropriate word, but I was impressed by him desiring and creating such a piece of art.

I can’t say that his music is ever going to be top 40, indie dance, or to everyone’s liking, but for me at least he’s simply fun to listen to. His most well received song is one he wrote about Mario Kart.

Currently Sam Hart doesn’t have any albums out, although he says he is working on putting one together. You can follow him on Twitter or find his music on you tube. A shout out to the super hero fans, Sam has a funny little song about a villian turning to the side of good.

So if you like Sam Hart tell your friends or better yet send them a link to More w/ Less.

Ana Free

Ana Free is the stage name of Ana Gomes Ferreira, a self distributed singer, musician, songwriter and performer from Portugal who has had a series top 5 hit singles across the pond. You can find some of her songs HERE. Ana calls her fans the Free World, which makes me chuckle as I find it kind of clever. Ana has quite alot of good songs and you can find a lot of her raw acoustic versions on you tube.The one I feature today I chose because of the high quality video (although my quality is not so good)..

This next video isn't on of my favorite songs by Anna but you get a good sense of who Anna Free. She just gives you a sense that she's one of those people that is fun to be around.

Anna gives a great interview where she talks a little about her You-Tube experince and realizing that she could have a career as a performing artist. I think it's a very important interview that can help understand the experience associated with most all the artist that are/will be presented on More-w-Less.





You can find more about Ana Free at Ana Free. If you like her Music then let your friends know, or better yet send them a link to More w/ Less. 

Chose your own adventure.

So this isn’t what I originally intended to begin my blog with, but I decided it was probably more versatile in its appeal. You remember those choose your own adventure books? Well there are a group of guys who created interactive choose you own adventure movies/shows and have posted them on Youtube. This first adventure is called time machine and is pretty nostalgic and fun. You can watch the first one that I watched

These guys have more adventures at chadmattandrob.  There is a variety of quality in their adventure series. The acting is pretty cheesy but it is fitting to the shows humor and there is a surprisingly high quality in its production. Check them out and if you enjoy them share it with your friends or better yet let your friends know about More w/ Less.

Where to start?

 Starting a blog can be difficult. You want to share something that is going to be captivating for your readers. You want to make connections, enrich people’s lives; feel like you’re contributing plus it’s not much fun to share things if you’re just sharing it with your self. That’s like emotional masturbation, it may be fun for awhile, but eventually it looses it’s attraction and you desire someone to share/connect with.

So that being said I decided to start my blog with something that most of you are going to find dry and uninteresting, however, I think it’s necessary in defining what fan supported performance art is and why people choose to do it.

David Choi is a talented musician/songwriter/producer that has over a half a million subscribers on youtube. I’ll be spotlighting some of his work at a later date, but today I want to talk about a piece of work he had done on signing with record labels.

David points out the most obvious reason for being independent, which is of course creative control, other things David points out is that there is little control of money by the artist, that the artists are actually financially responsible for paying back the money that labels invest in them and that labels have the right to drop artiest which can severely stagnate their careers. David also suggests that with the exception of cash advances that most artists never actually see any money from the royalties of their sales.

The advantage of signing with a Label is that they have resources to provide upfront costs of producing music and touring. Being talented often isn’t enough it of course costs a lot of money to become a famous musician and record labels can provide that investment upfront. David does a better job, if not overly casual one, of explaining his experiences with Labels.

Similarly I imagine the same concepts can be true when working with movie and TV producers/companies. The people who choose to be independent do so for a variety of reasons that frankly I could only speculate on, but I’m glad there are people out there who create and want to share and entertain just for the thrill and excitement of doing so. Hopefully together we can spread the word about these entertainers and help gather them more support.