Ohio Theater interior
Next time on Craft: Cary Grant, Steve McQueen, and Alfred Hitchcock visit. It’s my talk with Rich Corsi, CAPA VP of Programming about the 2014 summer movie series. Tune in to find out what will be on the big screen this summer and which film will feature the machine that goes “ping!”
Check it out on YouTube
Making a living as an artist has often been a challenge. I recall one smart and talented art student I knew who also earned a business degree. Why? “Because people are going to pay me for my art,” she replied.
Author and accountant Elaine Grogan Luttrall would approve of that attitude, I think, because she helps artists and member of the creative class achieve financial success to go along with artistic success. We talked about how to do this after she left a comment on this blog following my interview with author Chang Rae Lee, who doesn’t talk to his students much about finances.
Listen in to my talk with Elaine Grogran Luttrall about how to do the work you love and make a living at it.
Ohioana Book Festival featured author Laura Bickle has a serious investment in crime, since she has a dual background in criminology and library science (hey, library fees are serious in my house).
Her novel, The Hallowed Ones, follows an Amish heroine during a zombie apocalypse, great reading while The Walking Dead is on a break. Tune in to find out why she set the series in Amish country.
Pleased to Meet Me the movie had its Columbus, Ohio, premiere last Saturday and I talked with director/cowriter Archie Borders and director of photography Michael Fitzer afterwards. Check it out on Youtube to learn about how the movie was made and what joke one young member of our audience didn’t get.
Singer-songwriter Patty Larkin is renowned for her guitar work as well as songwriting. She is touring in support of the release of her 14th recording, Still Green, the writing and recording of which we discussed on Craft.
CAPA presents Patty Larkin at the Lincoln Theatre (769 E. Long St.) on Friday, April 25, at 8 pm.
Charlene Fix
How can you tell when a poet is getting ready to do a lot of writing? Like birds nesting in the spring, he or she will start to gather paper. Or so it was with Columbus College of Art and Design professor
English and featured author at the 2014 Ohioana book festival, Charlene Fix.
Check out other habits of poets in my interview with Charlene Fix.
The Wand of Power given to me by JK Rowling’s publishing company
I’ll interview JK Rowling next week about her new book, Wizarding for Dummies! This will be her first non-fiction book and the first to lay bare the physics and real-world applications of many of the events within her books. Harry Potter will join us via three-way connection near the end to discuss the Afterlife.
Years ago, I interviewed John Green, whose excellent novel The Fault in Our Stars has been made into the proverbial “Major Motion Picture.” Yesterday, I successfully resisted the urge to steal the signed copy of TFIOS that I borrowed from my local library.
Image of the Fault in Our Stars and John Green’s signature
If you haven’t read the book, do it. And if you haven’t watched John Green and his brother Hank on YouTube as the Vlog Brothers, give that a try as well. Sadly, I’m most fond of the rapid jokes posts.
Cable Green received his doctorate in educational psychology from Ohio State and started its first online doctoral program. He is now the Director of Global Learning at Creative Commons, a nonprofit for open access. He will deliver the keynote address at Ohio State University’s Innovate 2014 conference.
We discussed what Creative Commons does and what benefits it has for education.
What’s REALLY March Madness? WCBE giving me a full hour on March 22 at 3 pm (daytime, even) to delve into the nature of humor and humor writing with an array of great writers:
