Everyone knows the basic travel tips: roll your clothes when packing, use curbside check-in, but do you know how to travel the SpeakEasy way? When I am not obsessed with cocktails and the arts, I am working in film production as a Cinematographer. I travel a lot. Especially overseas. Add these simple tips to your [...]

My father, Bob Martin (more appropriately known as Auntie Carrie’s nephew) is an excellent painter. I’ve grown up watching him paint and over the years, I have made attempts to approach my own paintings in a similar way. Long story short, it never happened. He’s trained. I am not. He is patient. I’m far from [...]

One of my all time favorite Super Star Hustlers, Rich Williams, has started an excellent opportunity for NYC artists, called “Collective Art”. As he explains, “Artists will receive between 8 and 10 feet of space to hang their work for $50. Artist can choose simply to display or sell their art. The individual artist keeps [...]

My dear friend, Todd Rowe, and his wife started The Cupcake Truck in New Haven, CT. I must say their vegan chocolate cupcake is so moist, yummy that if I didn’t already know Todd and how much he honors his word (and he does), I’d swear they were bs’ing me. Todd and I are actually [...]

Blurb. Blurb. Blurb. See how easy that was? I sent out an email recently called “Let’s Be Selfish” asking my friends to consider supporting self-published, self-distribution or self-promoting artists for the holidays. It was a fun email to create, I found the title “Selfish for the Holidays” entertaining (and really all I want in life [...]

(yes, sung like “food glorious food”). One of my absolute favorite books of all time is “Secrets of the Millionaire Mind” by T Harv Eker where I solidified how important it is to promote oneself. I’ve always said “no one will ever believe in your career more than you do”. So it’s always been my [...]

Being a Gemini and with a name uncomfortably close to the name of a schizophrenic movie character has alas, also made me paranoid. I’d like to think that what you see is what you get, 24/7. But nope. The mention earlier of writing 5 blogs is true. I have just started working for this site, [...]

Until I complete my Silent Auction & Fundraising for my newest love, Fed Artist, I’ll post sections from my upcoming book, “Art Rules” on this blog. What’s most important is that I get the information out there. People have often asked me, how have I survived freelance? The lessons that I have learned as a [...]