by Nick | Dec 6, 2015 | Ramblings
Hi folks, I was going to start a podcast about a year go, wherein I would regularly chat to self-employed creative types about the pitfalls & peaks of that lifestyle. Jem Godfrey (Frost*, various pop stuff, lots of BBC station idents and whatnot) was kind enough...
by Nick | Apr 6, 2015 | Ramblings
Leo Schofield has left the building. With his beloved baroque festival on the rocks, the “cultural advocate and arts champion on retainer”, as Bradley Trevor Grieve dubbed him over the weekend, has been spirited away to the safe, bogan-free haven of Potts Point with...
by Nick | Nov 27, 2014 | Ramblings
Dirty Dancing is a great little film, but it has one massive huge annoying flaw that bothered me a great deal until I was able to put it behind me. But I’m getting ahead of myself… I was listening to episode #98 of TOFOP the other day. For the uninitiated,...
by Nick | Sep 5, 2014 | Ramblings
I had a bit of a weird week. I shouldn’t go into too much detail as it involves contracts and negotiations that are not really mine to share. To cut a long story short I almost lost out on a really fun & lucrative gig for reasons that had nothing to do with...
by Nick | Jun 3, 2014 | Ramblings
I just had the somewhat unpleasant experience of abandoning a quote for a job. It was a confidential quote, so I’m going to have to be very vague on the details, but I will say that it was only tangentially related to my current professional work, and on a much...
by Nick | May 30, 2014 | Ramblings
I once met with an industry veteran who advised me that I should pick a specialty and promote myself exclusively as that. People want to hire the VERY best person for the task, not somebody who has a foot in two – or even more – camps. I was a bit...