Creating a Blog Business: Digital Art and Animation / Part 4: You're Not Going to Like This and Further Resources

If you're a regular reader of this blog, or at least trying to be if I'd just stick to posting at least one article per week, you may have noticed it's been a few weeks since my last entry.

You may also be wondering, where is the real part 4 in my Creating a Blog Business: Digital Art and Animation series? The truth is, I hit a wall with this series in that, writing about the steps to starting a blog business, whilst trying to actually start a blog business, is more of a commitment than I'm able to make just at the moment.

I've tried to push through and keep the series going but my heart just isn't in it right now. As a result instead of moving forward, the blog business isn't going anywhere at the moment. Resulting in no posts to this blog because I've been trying to keep the series alive instead of writing posts about other things that interest me too... like movie reviews and not even a single post commenting about the US election (for example).

I have every intention of starting a blog business around the domain name, digitalartandanimation.com but I need to be able to work at my own pace, in my own time, without being pressured with keeping up my progress for the sake of writing a public diary of the process.

I realize blogging the process was my own choice, so, if you were looking forward to seeing the whole process unfold, I'm sorry to disappoint you with the news that I've decided to discontinue this series indefinitely. It may come up in a future post or it may not. I don't want to promise anything in the way of possible updates at a future time.

That said, I'm not going to leave all you wanna-be blog business hopefuls high and dry. For even better information on starting your own blog business than I would probably have given visit the ProBlogger web site, started by Darren Rowse. There you'll find not just the information you'll need to create a blog based business but also an entire community of bloggers to swap notes with.

Note that I'm not in any kind of partnership or affiliate with ProBlogger. It's a site I happened across in the course of writing the Creating a Blog Business series. At the time I found it, I thought, why am I even bothering writing a series when there's a whole site and community dedicated to this stuff? It really has some of the best information and you can bet I'll be referring to it with my endeavors on developing digitalartandanimation.com.

Another useful site you may want to frequent is Side Hustle School by Chris Guillebeau. Again, I have no connection to the site and am not getting any benefit from the link other than you're going to be happy I brought the site to your attention.

The key content you're going to want to listen to from Side Hustle School is the daily, ten minute podcasts that each tell a story about someone who successfully started and continue to grow a side business without quitting their day job. I've found it very inspirational for showing how it is possible to fit a side business into an already busy schedule.

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So that's it. If you've been a fan of my more entrepreneurial posts of the last few months, thanks for following along. I hope you'll stick around for whatever I post next, which could be anything from my own personal interests to whatever has captured my attention this week.

China may be only burning rubbish from power lines
with these drones but you know some A.I. somewhere
is stroking a cat and grinning an evil grin.

As well I'll probably need to resume my updates on the status of the inevitable machine uprising now that China is attaching flame throwers to drones... yes, flame throwers! Like that's going to end well.

If you think robots aren't out to get us then you probably should read my post from January 2010 titled, Feral Juicer Plots World Domination. It'll open your eyes as to just how serious this issue is for me... (hint: not very).

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Guest Post: MY SOOPER DOOPER NEW CONSERVATORY/ART STUDIO!

Today's guest post is by Artist, Writer, and Mental Health Advocate, Jo B Creative who writes for her blog, Creating My Oddessey.

You should see our (almost) brand new conservatory, half of which is my art studio. 'Lucky me!' I think to myself. Not every creative bod can boast that. It's HUGE! Like a giant greenhouse.

We first moved to our pleasant cul-de-sac house - great for raising kids - when our son, who's on the cusp of thirty-one, was four. One of the main reasons that we wanted it was that, apart from its location on the fringes of a historic market town in rural Hampshire, UK, it had a sizable conservatory looking onto the back garden. It was brown wood framed and had a corrugated transparent roof sloping down from downstairs ceiling height. On the face of it, it doesn't sound that glamourous, but we loved the idea of a conservatory. Luxury! I even liked the red brick walls which it was built against - the original exterior of the house - and the light …

Finding Time to Skate - Swap a Skateboard Session into Your Weekly Workout Routine

A common problem among skaters dealing with work/life commitments (typically older skaters with families, careers, or both) is finding the time to actually spend on a skateboard. In fact, life in general getting in the way of skateboarding, is what often leads so many to drop out of the sport, only to rediscover it later, once everything else starts to even out.

I'm certainly in that category. Never really giving skateboarding away altogether but only using a skateboard to get from A to B, when I didn't have a vehicle, for many years. In the last couple of years I've been trying to get back into the sport properly, i.e. building up my trick list and skating for fun and not just to get from A to B.

The problem is I have so many interests, projects, paid work, and more, that I would often leave skateboarding to the end of my day. Kind of as something to look forward to. Except I wouldn't be that motivated to really improve because my mind would be fried from everything …

Filming Myself Skateboarding - Finding a Balance and a Reliable Video Editor Phone App

I like filming myself skateboarding. The problem is I'm not interested enough in the filmmaking process to film great shots or tell a compelling story each video to compensate for my lack of ability on a skateboard.

It's not that I'm bad at skateboarding, and I understand there is an audience of people who like to watch how other beginner (or aging relearner) skaters progress. I'm part of that audience.

As much as we love watching pro skaters video parts and competition runs, for many of us that level of skating isn't as relatable as watching someone going through the same struggle we're having with trying to land basic pop shove-its and kickflips.

I recently broke the drought of not making skateboard videos for the past six months by posting a new driveway skateboard session that I filmed, edited, and uploaded from my phone. You can watch it below.

This video would have had a bit more of a story had the bit in the middle, where I gave my initial thoughts on …

The Star Wars Saga: Episode II, Attack of the Clones All Spoilers

Continuing my series of posts, as one of my local TV stations shows every Star Wars movie in order, every Saturday, for the next six weeks leading up to the release of Star Wars, Episode VII, The Force Awakens, here is my response to and thoughts on Star Wars, Episode II, Attack of the Clones.

After The Phantom Menace I just wasn't interested in seeing Episode II in the cinema. I don't think I made any effort to see it or even had any anticipation for it's release.

Embarrassing Yourself with Doof Doof Music

Ever since Spinal Tap popularized the notion of turning an amp up to eleven audio systems have been rising to the challenge of louder, more awesome sound.

In particular, car audio systems have embraced the notion of the bigger the noise the better the sound must surely be. What I'd like to know is, if these sound systems are so good, why do they make all music sound the same... Doof, Doof, Doof?

You've all heard them. Pimped up cars, with audio systems seemingly worth more than gold, volume blasting way past eleven. Sound waves booming long before you make a positive visual on the car... Doof, Doof, Doof.

It has to be the audio system right? Surely all these people can't be playing the same tune? Doof, Doof, Doof.

Could it be that the more money spent on a car sound system the less musical range it will actually play? Maybe these people can't afford to buy music after purchasing the audio system so they all play the same demo track? Doof, doof, doof.

In my own car I have a…

The Star Wars Saga: Episode 1, The Phantom Menace All Spoilers

One of my local TV stations is showing every Star Wars movie in order, every Saturday, for the next six weeks leading up to the release of Star Wars, Episode VII, The Force Awakens in theaters this Christmas.

I plan to watch each film, at least two of which I've never managed to watch all the way through. Then I thought I'd blog about each movie here. Not so much a review but more my thoughts about the film, ranging from what I like, to what I see as a problem and maybe my thoughts on original trilogy re-releases and updates.

This post I'll start with Episode I, The Phantom Menace but first, a little history of my fandom.

The Lego Man - He's got all that!

Who would have thought that owning one of the worlds largest, private Lego collections could take you so far. Tom Lucieer of Angaston, South Australia, not only has met the Queen (of England) but is a frequent guest of her majesty and family when they are in Australia. He's also met Prince Charles, Lady Diana and Camila Parker-Bowles. Not only that, he grew up with TV Vet, Dr Harry, and is a friend of the Irwin family (yes, that's Steve Irwin's family).

Tom will happily tell you all this as part of the guided tour of his collection, which, aside from Lego, includes much railway memorabilia and colourful anecdotes about days gone by, his achievements and more. Frequently he will finish each particular monologue with the phrase, "Have you got that?", just to check that he hasn't confused you because, as he points out, his display and the stories behind it are a lot to take in at once.

In the photo you can see Tom holding a special award, which I think is for bein…

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