If artists are still starving in the digital age, they’re not trying hard enough. At DIY Days on Saturday, March 3, filmmakers, writers, performers, hackers, and other artists from 12 countries and 20 states gathered at The New School in New York City to brainstorm ideas on how to achieve a sustainable creative industry. The results were not large-scale solutions, but small steps individual artists can take to get their own projects off the ground.
Launch a social media campaign that will build your brand and deliver results in our online Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting June 7. Speakers include Abigail Cusick (Bravo Digital), Gregory Galant (Sawhorse Media), Alex Leo (Thomson Reuters Digital), Jim Tobin (Ignite Social Media), and many more. Read the reviews. 
YouTube is chock-full of amazingly fun and crafty How To channels that can help you get your creative juices flowing. Check out ten of our favorite How To YouTube channels after the jump.
There are a ton of great DIY and How To videos on YouTube that take you through the process of creating original and affordable gifts, perfect for holidays, birthdays, anniversaries, or just for fun! Here are 7 ideas to get you started.
Happy October, ghosts and ghouls. Have you decided what you’re going to be for Halloween yet? If not, YouTube is a great place to go for inspiration and how to videos showing you how to create your own awesome Halloween getup. Check out some of our favorite DIY Halloween costume videos after the jump and get ready to make your friends green with envy when they see your awesome costume.
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If you’ve got a home-improvement problem, yo, Vanilla Ice will solve it. The Vanilla Ice Project launches on DIY Network Thursday, Oct. 14, and the Scripps Networks-owned cable channel launched a companion app on its Facebook page, Ice Yourself.
Ice Yourself allows fans to use their Webcams to take a picture with Vanilla Ice, and then create mini slide shows to the tune of his “Ice Ice Baby.” Slide shows include “Cool as Ice,” “Just Chill,” “Rollin,” and “Flip that House.”
