#creative_class

Jacques Lévy : Paris (Monde) : géographies du 13 novembre 2015.
►http://www.espacestemps.net/articles/paris-geographies-13-novembre-2015

Les morts du 13 novembre constituent une sorte d’échantillon de la creative class, cette notion proposée par Richard Florida pour repenser les catégories de la sociologie, notamment celle des grandes villes. Dans ce Paris des créateurs, souvent au chômage ou réduits à des gagne-pain précaires, s’inventent les bases du PIB de demain. L’Île-de-France est à cet égard singulière car, avec moins de 20 % de population française, elle concentre environ la moitié des professions de l’innovation (sciences, arts, presse, communication, graphisme, création numérique, etc.). L’un des points-clés de la créativité se trouve dans l’exposition à d’autres perceptions, d’autres images, d’autres idées, et cela ne se passe pas toujours devant un écran, mais aussi dans des rencontres avec d’autres personnes et d’autres registres. L’espace public des grandes villes joue aussi ce rôle.

En somme, les terroristes du #13novembre ont frappé un espace cognitif et une éthique de l’habiter typique de la société-Monde des individus.

#Pomplamoose 2014 Tour Profits — Medium
▻https://medium.com/@jackconte/pomplamoose-2014-tour-profits-67435851ba37

We lost $11,819 [on the tour].

But this isn’t a sob story. We knew it would be an expensive endeavor, and we still chose to make the investment. We could have played a duo show instead of hiring six people to tour with us. That would have saved us over $50,000, but it was important at this stage in Pomplamoose’s career to put on a wild and crazy rock show. We wanted to be invited back to every venue, and we wanted our fans to bring their friends next time. The loss was an investment in future tours.
Crowdsurfing somewhere in the middle of the country.
Rock and Roll.

At the end of the day, Pomplamoose is just fine: our #patrons give us $6,326 per video through our #Patreon page. We sell about $5,000 of music per month through #iTunes and #Loudr. After all of our expenses (yes, making music videos professionally is expensive), Nataly and I each draw a #salary of about #$2500 per #month from Pomplamoose. What’s left gets reinvested in the band

We’re entering a new era in history: the space between “starving artist” and “rich and famous” is beginning to collapse. #YouTube has signed up over a million partners (people who agree to run ads over their videos to make money from their content). The “#creative_class” is no longer emerging: it’s here, now.

We, the creative class, are finding ways to make a living making #music, drawing webcomics, writing articles, coding games, recording podcasts. Most people don’t know our names or faces. We are not on magazine covers at the grocery store. We are not rich, and we are not famous.

We are the mom and pop corner store version of “the dream.” If Lady Gaga is McDonald’s, we’re Betty’s Diner. And we’re open 24/7.

We have not “made it.” We’re making it.

Jack Conte

#financement #creation #musique #internet

TED talks are lying to you: The creative class has never been more screwed. Books about creativity have never been more popular. What gives?

It is the story of brilliant people, often in the arts or humanities, who are studied by other brilliant people, often in the sciences, finance, or marketing. The readership is made up of us — members of the professional-managerial class — each of whom harbors a powerful suspicion that he or she is pretty brilliant as well. What your correspondent realized, relaxing there in his tub one day, was that the real subject of this literature was the professional-managerial audience itself, whose members hear clear, sweet reason when they listen to NPR and think they’re in the presence of something profound when they watch some billionaire give a TED talk. And what this complacent literature purrs into their ears is that creativity is their property, their competitive advantage, their class virtue. Creativity is what they bring to the national economic effort, these books reassure them — and it’s also the benevolent doctrine under which they rightly rule the world.

Full article : ▻http://www.salon.com/2013/10/13/ted_talks_are_lying_to_you

#creative_class #TED