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Road blocks, challenges and problems are a norm in the lives of creators. As is evident from several artists and creators who talk about rising to fanfare from the bottom and from scratch, creativity and artistry is no mean feat. It takes a lot of courage to convert artisanship and creativity as a vocation. Although there are a number of examples from film makers to videographers to writers and painters they are of very few…

  Most of us will remember when our parents told us stories, when our grandparents were huddled around a radio waiting to hear a score or some amazing news. When alone we turn on the television while in another room just to hear something we like and already know. With the onset of the visual medium the art of the spoken word may seem dead, but it really isn’t. As a Podcaster not only are…

Social media is the place to be these days. Everyone is tweeting, gramming and facebooking all day every day. FOMO is on an all time high with people joining left, right and centre and while this was a great way to get connected it is no longer such a great way to reach your following. Especially for a creator whose main priority is rise about the noise and be seen by their followers. As of…

Being an illustrator is amazing. Not only can you bring anyone’s imagination to life, you can also create things that don’t exist in the real world, that defy the laws of physics or just anything that takes your fancy. But illustration, like any other artistic skill, is an undervalued and underpaid profession unless you’re at the top. Creating a reputation takes time and effort, so what can you do till then to sustain yourself? Creating…

Several kinds of art, creation and production requires collaborative effort. Although creativity exists in individual isolation, some forms of creativity gets enhanced when combined with other forms of creativity. The perfect example of this is a music production. It takes a collaborative effort from both the instrumental artists and vocal artists to put up a creative music production. Although instrumentals and vocals can subsist in isolation, their combination provides completes to the musical production. To…

The foundation of Tartl is based on art, creation and community. The building that Tartl is would gradually fall even if one of these pillars is taken away. Building a community is more than just an exercise. It is a way of expression which itself is an art. Community building is more worthwhile than its explicit functional benefits. The explicit functional benefits being more supports and more engagements. But apart from that it is very…

Building Tartl was based on two critical reasons. One was that, creativity and art is withering away given how the world has become mechanistic and industrialized. Mechanization leads to slow deterioration of requirement of creativity. Art was and has been in the forefront of completely turning the world order turtle. Revolutions that marked the dawn of liberalism, democracy and republics were brought forth with the power of art. There is never a dearth of art,…

The popular French novelist, playwright and journalist Émile Zola once said, “If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.” This quote exactly captures the emotions that run behind a creator. Living out loud and speaking through art and creativity forms the nerve center of human existence. Creators and arts do not speak or live out loud in vacuum.…

 Passionate creators and artists would never wish to compromise on their creative work. This non-negotiability is one of the most important reasons why the world is reinventing itself each and everyday. New disruptions in every single entity of our world is a creative work of creators and artists world over. However ever since the industrial revolution, artists and creators had to take a back seat owing to the fact that careers were built not based…