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.