Do you get defensive when your creative vision is criticized after days of painstaking work? So did Mike Shinoda, who isn’t just a super-successful musician but also an exciting artist. He was kind enough to talk exclusively to SUBvert about his own personal and sometimes painful experiences in the early days of Linkin Park. Read on to discover how you can use Mike’s hard-learned lessons to boost YOUR career…

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Photo by Guillaume Kayacan

Do you ever wonder why other people have more luck than you? Maybe it’s because of what they’re doing behind the scenes. Come back stage and learn about luck from a man whose experienced success in music and art. Discover how role models can help you cut through the crap and what to do to create your own luck.

Goldie has worked with David Bowie, Noel Gallagher and KRS1 plus he has his own record label called “Metalheadz” which has released numerous pioneering tracks. He also starred in the James bond film “The World Is Not Enough” and Guy Ritchie’s “Snatch”. As well as being a much sought after graffiti artist whose artwork is coveted by top DJs.

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Billy performing with Steven Tyler, photo by Mike D

Billy Morrison has performed with legendary musicians….. Slash, Ronnie Wood, Steven Tyler, Lou Reed…. to name drop just a few. He is a principle member of the supergroup Camp Freddy who keep appearing on US television shows including Jimmy Kimmel, Jay Leno, Sharon Osbourne and Carson Daly. But being in one band is not enough for Billy. He is also red hot band Circus Diablo. And some background info. He was a former member of the internationally successful rock band The Cult.

He currently writes, produces and records music for various television shows. And if that isn’t enough he also hosts a weekly radio show, as well as being an artist and an actor. And did we mention he produces video blogs and runs and manages three websites. This was one successful person we wanted to talk to….if he stood still long enough.

He’s a busy guy but we tracked Billy down to talk to him about his career, over coming fear, and getting his work out to the world. His candid response and advice make inspiring reading for anyone with ambition.

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Photo by Timmy Hwang

Artist, animator and master of the weird and wonderful. Chet has designed and created prosthetic effects for top movies like, The Grinch, X Men 3, Fantastic 4, The Ring, Hellboy, Men In Black II, Planet Of The Apes and Batman An Robin. Often working intense schedules, he knows what it takes to come up with world class work on demand.

We pinned down the LA artist who not only taught us his visualization technique, but told us how to obtain advice from the top person within your industry and if you want to be successful you need a good plan, he had one from the age of 12.

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Sam emailed us to say he hopes to be touring with his band and making a living from his creativity soon.

Now, following your creative dreams certainly gets our applause, he’s half way to success already.

But the second paragraph of his email set off the money alarm. (In the last readers letter I pointed out how frequently we often hold conflicting beliefs about money that can really limit our success.)

Here’s what Sam said;

I know musicians are the new starving artist, but I don’t care. This is what I love and I would be more than happy to be playing music in bars for the rest of my life, rather than be rich and famous. But of course the riches would be nice to have, for a rainy day.

This will upset a few people

Now I’m going to tell you something that will upset some people and it will upset them because deep down they know it’s true.

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If you’ve ever read our About us page, you might already know that Angel is a big Incubus fan or rather a big Brandon Boyd fan!

I won’t repeat the story, other than to say great music and great art really can change people’s lives and Brandon’s music changed the direction of Angel’s life.

We’re lucky at SUBvert that we only interview people we really like and of course Brandon was at the top of Angels list for some time. When the opportunity arose, we jumped at the chance.

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That’s exactly what Magda Sayeg did when she tied a piece of knitting around a parking meter. A crew of knitters, bombing the inner city with vibrant, stitched works of art was born. We caught up with Magda the founder of “Knittaplease” a graffiti knitting crew, to find out all about her latest project in Mexico.

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The songwriters of Mahumodo, Eden Maine, Fireapple Red and Sea of The Dying Dhow have joined forces again to bring you their latest offering “Laurentian’s Atoll” due out December 3rd.

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Part One:

Jeff Soto is an illustrator and fine artist whose futuristic paintings have dazzled and captivated audiences all over the world.
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Gary Baseman illustrator, fine art painter, toy designer and creator of the award winning animated series and Disney film “Teachers Pet”

Every time I opened an art magazine I saw these beautiful Gary Baseman paintings which reminded me of the classic early cartoons in style. But they were more crazy looking in vivid colors. They were totally unconventional with themes which shocked and made me laugh at the same time. This was an artist with something interesting to say and I couldn’t wait to ask him about Urban Vinyl.

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