Independent Coffee Network News
The Good News:
Seven more coffee shops have been added to the network feed. The coffee shops are located in Pasadena, Burbank, Alhambra, Monterey Park, Redondo Beach, San Dimas, Hollywood and Ventura (2) and the network is growing rapidly. ICN has also struck a deal with Aardvark Records, check it out:
"Aardvark Records and World Wide Arts' Independent Coffee Network have announced a licensing deal . which sees the British record label supplying the US-based music video entertainment provider with its promotional music videos. The video licensing deal will see popular videos broadcast in independent American coffee houses from coast to coast."…
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If there is any one thing that can bring your creativity to a halt, it's a negative attitude. If you think everything is bad, then it will be. The news media has the power of negative thinking and will only report the worst. It's catchy, all that doom and gloom and it's easy to get stuck in their quicksand. …
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...and you House Beautiful, Real Simple and Martha Stewart Living and all you other home decorating and lifestyle magazines.
I dare you to do a feature or series on buying art for the home on the Internet. Readers are ready for some new ideas. They are sick of you featuring what is the newest cool thing at Target. Design tips like wrapping fabric around a stretcher frame ala Merimekko has been done and done and done. So has finding some object in the junkyard, spray painting it and hanging it on the wall as art. Readers regularly buy everyday home goods from the Internet, why not art? Because you don't tell them to.…
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What if Oprah bought a painting on line, or Martha Stewart or Ty Pennington? All it would take, for online art sales to become less intimidating is for one celebrity, one television show, one main stream media giving their endorsement of buying art online and it would change the tide dramatically. If Oprah showed a piece of art on her show that she bought online, people wouldn't be able to get to art sites fast enough. If one HGTV decorating show included buying original art online for a project, it would break the barrier wide open. …
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