You can be creative, held to a deadline and produce some great music. Thank you Jonathan Coulton (JoCo)
SMART - Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time Bound
Background-
"Thing a Week" is the name that Coulton gave to a creative experiment which ran from September 16, 2005 to September 30, 2006. In this project, Coulton undertook to record 52 musical pieces in the course of a year, one each week. This target was achieved. The objectives were:
(a) to push the artist's creative envelope by adopting what Coulton describes as a "forced-march approach to writing and recording";
(b) to prove to himself that he was capable of producing creative output to a deadline;
(c) to test the viability of the Internet and Creative Commons as a platform capable of supporting a professional artist financially." - Wikipedia
Did he achieve his goals:
"The success of the financial objective is more difficult to judge, but Coulton was quoted in a September 2006 interview as stating that "in some parts of the country, I’d be making a decent living".[14] In a February 25, 2008, interview with This Week in Tech, he stated that he made more money in 2007 than he did in his last year of working as a programmer, 40% of it from digital downloads and 40% from merchandise and performances." - Wikipedia
Millions of downloads can't be wrong-
Since JoCo released his songs into Creative Commons a large number of videos have been created using his music. These continue to be viewed on you tube and have millions of hits.
Jonathan Coulton's music is humurous, geeky and very enjoyable. I love it, my wife loves it and my 2.7 yr old loves the beat of the music.
IKEA and Code Monkey are some of my favorites but for the holidays, nothing beats robot overlords and human captives on "Chiron Beta Prime" which I've embedded below.
Enjoy and Merry X-mas from Me
Thing a Week (Week 21) – Chiron Beta Prime
