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The whole bloonini gang!!! i wanted to draw them for so long and now theyre out in the world 😥

...MIDiA are making the case that a coming revolution in creator tools will be as impactful to the entire music business as streaming was.

Here are turns that I drew and colored for “Cupcakery of Doom” Cheesebert, Patches and the Mayor are all based on drawings by Trevor Reese. Hypebot is based off of board drawings by Brianne Drouhard and Chris Graham! With art direction by Frank Rocco! 

As musicians we spend nearly countless hours creating music, only to cross our fingers and hope our latest-greatest songs will magically meet the ears of new listeners.

It’s work. It’s all work. Not magic. Yes, a little luck. But mostly: work.

My interview with instrumental guitarist Lance Allen drove this point home for me. He’s been paying off his mortgage with the revenue he earns from streaming activity on Spotify and Pandora. How? Not by magic and not by chance. The dude works his ass off. Not just on his guitar skills, but on research, reaching out to the right people in the right way, following up, setting goals and keeping after them without letting up until he’s explored every possible avenue. He’s not hustling, which for me always implies either an element of swindle or frenzy. He’s working hard AND smart. His efforts are deliberate. read more at hypebot.com

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a few chunks of chapter 12, jammed together to look a bit like an article. please forward to everyone, clicks on this make hypebot like me!