A New Golden Age Emerges Independent cinema has never been more alive, more accessible, or more essential than it is right now. The year 2026…
The Death of the Starving Artist: How Independent Creators Are Rewriting the Economics of Art
The End of an Era The romantic notion of the starving artist died quietly sometime in the last decade. Not from starvation, ironically, but from…
The Death of the Professional Studio: How Bedroom Pop Buried the Old Music Industry
The Final Recording Sessions The professional recording studio died quietly in 2024, though few noticed its passing until the numbers arrived. By early 2025, nearly…
The New Independent Cinema: How Film Festivals Navigate a Transformed Landscape in 2026
The Numbers Game: Record Submissions Meet Instant Deals The Sundance Film Festival processed more than 17,000 submissions this year. That number blew my mind when…
What Retrospective and legacy writing Reveals About Independent art and the economics of making work
The standard take misses the more important signal underneath. The topic of independent art and the economics of making work deserves more careful attention than…