Diana Rivera
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Call for Research Participants
The Co-Creator Series is committed to the critical issues facing creative professionals. My intention is to present vital information to those who follow the series. I am wondering if you can help with something important: I am conducting psychological research for my Master’s thesis at Saybrook University, focusing on the impact of economic recession on … Read more
CREATIVE REVOLUTIONS: a 1.5/hr consult w/ Diana
CREATIVE REVOLUTIONS: a 1.5/hr consult w/ Diana Are you itching for 2013 to be a full force year of personal and professional success? Are you looking to shake up the old and reinvent the new? If you said yes to one of these, this powerful 1.5/hr consultation facilitated by me, Diana Rivera, will solidify your personal and professional … Read more
Tele-interview: From Outcast to Being Cast: How to Be Eccentric and Still Book Work
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO INTERVIEW Dallas Travers Bio: The leading expert on business strategy for actors, Dallas Travers teaches actors the career and life skills often left out of traditional training programs. Her groundbreaking book, The Tao of Show Business, garnered five awards including first prizes at The Hollywood Book Festival, the London Festival … Read more
UPCOMING: Toolbox, Lightning, Ladder: Creating a Roadmap for Your Creative Goals
Upcoming Workshop LIVE in L.A. with Diana Rivera: Toolbox, Lightning, Ladder: Creating a Roadmap for Your Creative Goals Are you feeling the intensity of your dreams yet desire a creative way to plan? Do you believe its time to up your game by clarifying your vision? This powerful and dynamic 3-hour long workshop led by … Read more
Art, Performance and Media: Why? How? And Why Again? with Lars Jan
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN: Interview with LARS JAN Lars Jan is a director, designer, writer and media artist. His original film performance and film works have been commissioned and presented by Symphony Space (NYC), REDCAT (LA), PianoSpheres (LA), The Edinburgh Fringe, The Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and the Whitney Museum of American Art (NYC). He … Read more
Roads to Yore: the Years Before Fame, Money and Success for the Creative Professional
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN: Interview about the Years Before Fame, $ and Success with the Days of Yore The Days of Yore was founded by Astri von Arbin Ahlander and Lucas Kavner in May 2010, but Evan Dumouchel soon joined the team as the technical mastermind behind the project. Interviews are mainly conducted by Astri … Read more
Toolbox, Lightning, Ladder: Creating a Roadmap for Your Creative Goals
Upcoming Workshop LIVE in L.A. & S.F. with Diana Rivera: Toolbox, Lightning, Ladder: Creating a Roadmap for Your Creative Goals Are you feeling the intensity of your dreams yet desire a creative way to plan? Do you believe its time to up your game by clarifying your vision? This powerful and dynamic 3-hour long … Read more
Art of Touch and Food: How Your Life Story Becomes Your Artful Purpose
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN:Tiberio Simone and Matt Freedman of La Figa Project http://www.lafigaproject.com/ CHEF TIBERIO SIMONE LaFigaCatering.com Born in Neviano, a small town in the “boot heel” of Southern Italy, chef-author and cultural provocateur Tiberio Simone is also an award-winning food artist. After a stint as an elite paratrooper in the Italian Special Forces, love … Read more
John Jacobsen of the Artist’s Toolbox
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN: Interview with John Jacobsen Director and host of The Artist Toolbox, Jacobsen is the director of the recent short films “Arthur,” winner of the Best of Fest Award, and “Spinning.” Jacobsen also directed the feature film “Around the Fire” which premiered at The Seattle International Film Festival where it was nominated … Read more
Power of Play in Creativity with Steve Dahlberg
Click here for interview: the Power of Play in Creativity with Steve Dahlberg Steven Dahlberg is the director of the International Centre for Creativity and Imagination, which is dedicated to applying creativity to improve the well-being of individuals, organizations and communities. He has 20 years of experience collaborating with artists, scientists, business people, educators, nonprofit … Read more
Creativity Today Series with Diana Rivera- Creative Empowerment Blog by Diana Rivera
- I Have Tried: Peter Broderick and These Walls of Mine by Diana Rivera October 28, 2012I got walls in me. People watching in Los Angeles, I see that guy strolling his child with a cup of Starbuck’s and flip-flops. He got his in him. That woman in Hollywood with the silky long hair flip-curled to the exact angle as Kim Kardashian, she got hers in her. What am I talking [...]
- Aesthete-Spy and Diana Vreeland by Diana Rivera October 24, 2012As an ongoing practice in creativity, I investigate the world with magnified eyes. I have been using my iPhone as a lens to capture the rare moments where something strikes me as evidence of creativity, that is, symbols of the imagination unfettered by logic, stamped in the visual landscape. I click on that moment as [...]
- Being an Artist, Being Twenty-Something Years Old and the Roaring 1920s by Diana Rivera May 23, 2012“Chance is the one thing you can’t buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time.” –Robert Doisneau There are always access points on the grid of [...]
- The Walking Shoes of Quotes May 9, 2012Below is an assemblage of quotes that have provided me walking shoes for the creative endeavors I take on. I hope that it will offer you inspiration for the ongoing journey inherent in creative process: “As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a [...]
- The 2012 of Creativity: Parisian Back Streets to the Imagination and Yann Tiersen by Diana Rivera January 1, 2012I have never met anyone with a developed sensitivity for films that abhorred the film Amelie. Sure there are people with gripes, but down right hate. No way. You’d have to be somehow cold-blooded, or at least luke warm, to not appreciate the capricious main character played by Audrey Tautou, the luminous Parisian cafes, and [...]
- I Have Tried: Peter Broderick and These Walls of Mine by Diana Rivera October 28, 2012
