Artist Corporations
Why Artist Corporations?
It’s recently dawned on me that I’ve spent most of my life working on the same problem: how
Yancey Strickler
Yancey Strickler is the Cofounder and Director of Metalabel, Cofounder and former CEO of Kickstarter, and Cofounder of the artist resource The Creative Independent.
A revolution that won't be quantified
Hello friends new and old. After the first two weeks of a creative listening tour, a string of thoughts about
Creativity
How to long game
No AI, no lengthy edits, just a single-shot on a Sunday morning.
In a flow state with the void
I’
Embrace the wiggle
The other day I found myself having lunch with a well-known musician and book editor. They were talking about the
Some things are worth the wait: Diary of a TED talk
It's 6:30pm on a Monday and I'm standing off-stage waiting for someone to call my
Entrepreneurship
What we lose when we start with the ending
It’s hard to grasp how uncertain the present feels until you’re in it. Looking back, we compress complex
Creativity
Time and the creator
Time moves at different speeds depending on your creative practice.
As a filmmaker your projects move across many years, each
Writing
The ever-expanding focused life
Hello friends new and old —
It’s been a minute since we last talked, so I felt like saying hi.
Creativity
No permission needed
The faster something grows, the faster it can also die.
That’s a lesson from a book I constantly return
Economics
The economics of self-publishing a book
Last year, a dozen writers (including me) published a book together about how we live online. No publishers, no complex
Creativity
Twenty things I want creatively in 2025
1. Creative people to feel less alone in their work (including me)
2. To see a show that sends me
Ideas
My year of releasing differently
We live in a world that wants things now. An urgency culture that continues to increase in pace and demand.
Creativity
What can Metalabel do for you, really?
Most of us are skeptical of new spaces and things. Do we really need to shift things up? Don’t
Creativity
Next steps towards a New Creative Era
Why does Metalabel exist? What is it here to do?
This project was born out of a loneliness I felt
Creativity
The first release platform for creative work
Today we’re unveiling a big step in establishing a new model for creative people to grow and flourish together:
Creativity
Creation feels like standing in the middle of the ocean and trying to start a wave
When you stand on the precipice of something you’ve worked hard on finally seeing the light of day, the
Scenes
This zine could change your life
Wild theory: the modern world started with a zine. This is not an accepted idea by any stretch, but it’
Creativity
We're not for everyone — and that's the truth
Right now the Metalabel squad is in the throes of the creative process of something you’ll see in the
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