Guest Post: Boost Your Creativity!

- By Maria Gatling of Austin-Artists.com

For the past five years or so, my interest in the subject of creativity and how to nurture it has led me to speaking and writing on the subject. I have been reading about it, collecting tips, quotes and exercises to boost people’s creative process. The following quote conveys how I feel about this subject!

“You keep the creative power alive by using it. The more you use this creative power, the more you have! Art, music, literature is sharing a live, alternating current; passing swiftly between teller and listener. There is something necessary and life giving about creative work (a state of excitement). It is like a faucet – nothing comes unless you turn it on, and the more you turn it on, the more it comes.” – Brenda Ueland, author of “If You Want To Write”

Welcome Creative Alliance Interns!

Interns make everything more fun. Welcome to our three new New Media Summer Interns, helping with Content, A-Team Blogging and Now Playing Austin Promotion. You’ll see them out and about Austin this summer, so be sure to say hi. Also a shout out to our original Arts Associate Intern, Xaq Webb (President Rock Us Entertainment.)

Laura Romer

I’ve lived in the Austin area for over 13 years, and I’m currently a senior communication studies major at Southwestern University.  During the school year, my activities include working for the university’s newspaper, volunteering with Circle K International, and making late night Whataburger runs in search of brain power/french fries in the name of productivity/procrastination.  Anytime of the year I love story time with friends and $2 margaritas at Applebee’s, live music shows at the Mohawk and Stubb’s, scarves, mix CDs, and impromptu rhythmically challenged dance-offs.

Mitchell Mazurek

Mitchell is a rambunctious whipper-snapper born and bred outside of Austin, graduated in English from Texas State and, on the side, writes for Austin’s branch of The Deli Magazine. He loves grammar and diction and long walks on the beach and syntax and punctuation and playing with language, has favorite writers, enjoys a good beard, and is just a delight to be around.  Mitchell fights crime, does creative things, and has been to the moon and back a few times.  He says it’s “Okay if you’re into that sort of thing.”

Hannah Masius

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Hannah migrated over to Austin after long journeys traveling overseas in order to experience the mystic “live music capitol” and couldn’t be happier. When she’s not looking up new music and festivals to attend and volunteer at she can often be found drumming on her Kanjira, DJing, firespinning, hiking, swimming and exploring. An audiophile at heart, artist by craft and empath by nature, she looks forward to fully immersing herself in the people and sights and sounds that make up this great Texas city!

Welcome All!

NowPlayingAustin.com Partners with NowAustin!

Austin’s Best New Local Entertainment & Lifestyle Guide

For Immediate Release                                                     Contact: Deirdre Conley (512) 703-5312

Austin, TX – May 5, 2010 – KXAN Austin News, KNVA The CW Austin and KBVO My Austin TV today announced the launch of http://www.nowaustin.com, a new local web site designed for “Austinites” who want the latest information, news and reviews on music, theater, dining, nightlife and outdoor events occurring throughout the city, all on one easy-to-use, interactive web site.

NowAUSTIN.com will deliver more up-to-date local entertainment and lifestyle information than any other web site in central Texas. Utilizing a “rich content partner approach”, NowAUSTIN.com combines exclusive content from the best local businesses in Austin, covers music, festivals and the arts from all angles, reports on fashion, health and exercise, and lifestyle trends, as well as provides important local news and weather from KXAN-TV.

“Austin is a city rich with first-class music, arts, food, and outdoor activities,” said Eric Lassberg, President and General Manager, KXAN-TV, KNVA-TV and KBVO-TV. “We are excited to partner with local businesses and content providers to offer residents the first of its kind resource that showcases the best that our city has to offer.”

A key partner, do512.com, offers up-to-the minute access to information about events, artists, music, local specials, festivals and nightlife.

“We are excited about our partnership with NowAUSTIN.com, because it provides an opportunity for Do512′s event listings to reach a broad new audience,” said Jimmy Stewart, Do512. “ KXAN Austin News, and its sister stations, have done a great job building strategic partnerships with some of the city’s best web sites and blogs, and we believe this site has the potential to become the ultimate lifestyle/entertainment-guide for Austin.”

Content partners who are working with NowAUSTIN.com to provide an extensive variety of Austin information include:

• • Greater Austin Creative Alliance(NowPlayingAustin.com)
  • Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
  • Do512
  • FoodHawk
  • Rogue Ventures
  • Austin Eavesdropper
  • Edible Austin
  • BookPeople
  • Holland Racing
  • Tribeza
  • Party Ends
  • TheStyleKing

Keep Austin Artsy Podcast: Frontera Fest Begins!

Keep Austin Weird Podcast was produced by Beth Cortez-Neavel, copy by Susie Gidseg. Keep Austin Weird Podcast is a project of the Greater Austin Creative Alliance and NowPlayingAustin.com. Check out more about FronteraFest here! Also, check out an in depth article about FronteraFest, “The FronteraFest Way” by Robert Faires of the Austin Chronicle.

Wanna Have Your Event Featured on TV? Austin Arts Minute Makes Ongoing Appearance on News 8.

 

All About Austin Arts Minute

Press Release, Amy Layton, Hook ‘Em Marketing

News 8 Austin premiered the Austin Arts Minute, highlighting what’s happening in local arts, on September 9, 2009.