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| My way-too-comfortable beanbag chair courtesy of Sumo Lounge (sumolounge.com). |
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of my favorite things about the Bay Area is that creative people seem to
converge here. Just about everyone I know has a job that pays (at least
most of) the rent, but they also have a creative side project that really
feeds them. Whether it’s photography, painting, writing, filmmaking,
acting, or making music, clothes, accessories or jam, it seems like everyone’s
got some creative/artistic/crafty thing they love that they wish they could
do full-time. But no matter how talented we are or how successful our thing is, it often has to take a backseat to the paying gig with benefits. Ask Carolina Braunschweig, whose runaway jam business (“CMB Sweets: A Get-Rich Quick Scheme Comes to Fruition” p. 13) has become quite successful in a very short time, though she, like most of us, still works additional jobs in order to have a secure income and health insurance. Will we always have to rely on “real jobs” in order to continue doing what we really want to do? On the other hand, would the thing be as fulfilling if we did it for a living? Yes, according to the members of Persephone’s Bees (“The Buzz Begins,” p. 10), who’ve been signed to a major label and are now making a living writing and playing music. Are we jealous? Totally. But maybe someday we’ll all get paid to do what we love. |
Speaking
of being creative for a living, we have to congratulate David and Xandra
from Grottofilms (“Grottofilms:
The Little Production Company That Could,” Summer 2005), whose
first feature film/labor of love, Full Grown Men, premiered April
27 at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York; and Brian Copeland (“Brian
Copeland Will Make You Laugh, Right After He Makes You Cry,”
Summer 2005), whose record-setting one-man show, Not a Genuine Black
Man, ended its two-year San Francisco run on April 29 and will open
off-Broadway (on its way to Broadway!) on May 23.
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