MyÜberLife

Are you a real Artist?

Life in NYC can often be compared to a roller coaster ride of sorts. You ride the ups and downs enthusiastically, buying your time to fulfill new dreams and simultaneously getting passed the temporary road blocks. At its core, NYC is the modern cosmopolitan society of races. A city of cultural taste, artistic expressions and most of all psychological survivors.

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Technopologist?

A phrase coined by the Wall Street Journal that describes an interlocutor [sort of like a translator] between marketing, technology and social interaction.  This person is like the perfect mix of what it truly takes to launch a successful product in the “Info Age.”  A place where information is abundant, markets are crowded, attention is scarce and people want real and authentic connections. #socialmedia

posted by Kwasi Gyasi of MyUberLife

Artists and Gentrification

Whether people like to believe it or not, the artist community is an important catalyst for the gentrification cycle to occur in a specific location.

Gentrification - refers to the socio-cultural displacement that results when wealthier people acquire property in low income and working class communities.

Below is a step-by-step look at how the art community influences gentrification and how gentrification influences the art community.

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Yellow School Bus

A school of thought: is a collection or group of people who share common characteristics of opinion or outlook of a philosophy, discipline, belief, social movement, cultural movement, or art movement. In addition there have been several schools of economic thought throughout history.

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Once Upon a Time… | Marketing As a Story

Stories make it easier to understand the world.  They’re the easiest way to understand and translate an idea to the world. A good story transforms us through its subtle promises……..

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