The Creative Nexus™ News: blog for 280216 & info on The Nexus Café [Update]

Welcome to the Creative Nexus Café™

Season Two, [Ep005] of the Creative Nexus Café™:
Sunday, February 28, 2016, at 2:00 p.m. ET
(3:00 p.m. AT ~ 1:00 p.m. CT ~ 12:00 p.m. MT
~11:00 a.m. PT)

Link to BTR Player

Call-in to the café during showtime at: 619.924.0981,
or call toll free in the 48 contiguous states at: 877.598.1774

Sit back, relax, have a cup of coffee, tea, or chai and listen-in as Natasha and Roger,
once again, spin some interesting musical tracks that are interspersed with a few friends, 
who will present their written, spoken word, and/or musical creations for you!

 This Episode:

► A View from the Café's Window on the World:
with Roger Allen Baut



► Time to Wake-UP folks!

...along with some contemplative music, and poetic cameos

 ► Something to Consider:
with Natasha Lynn Head

► Interview with Jamie Dedes,
"The Poet by Day," founder of "The Bardo Group,"
founding/managing editor of "The BeZine."

"We are a consolidation of two collaboratives, 'The Bardo Group,'
and 'Beguine Again,' with the shared core values of peace, sustainability and social justice."

Some of the music that is provided
in this episode is from Mevio's Music Alley

If you would like to be interviewed,
perform a live reading of your work on the show,
or submit a SoundCloud track, please let us know!
Guidelines maybe found in our
 Nexus Café™ back room page.

BTR STATS UPDATE:
(as of 280216)

ALL TIME LISTENS: 50,653

ALL TIME LIVE LISTENS: 1,733

PROFILE VIEWS: 43,925

Stay tuned! There's always something 'new'
coming your way from the folks at the Creative Nexus Café!

BTR Creative Nexus Café is:
Natasha Lynn Head & Roger Allen Baut
Founding NWCU Coordinators, and Nexus Café producers/hosts.

Susie Clevenger, coordinator
Matthew Charles Hatt, audio & research specialist

Please note: The views expressed on this show
do not necessarily reflect the views
of the Creative Nexus Café, producers, or its founders.

Creative Nexus Café™ blog for 230815

Welcome to the Creative Nexus Café™

Season Two, [episode 004] of the Creative Nexus Café™:
Sunday, August 23, 2015, at 2:00 p.m. ET
(3:00 p.m. AT ~ 1:00 p.m. CT ~ 12:00 p.m. MT ~ 11:00 p.m. PT)

Link to the BlogTalkRadio player

Call-in to the café during showtime at: 619.924.0981,
or call toll free in the 48 contiguous states at: 877.598.1774

Sit back, relax, have a cup of coffee, tea, or chai and listen-in as internet personalities Natasha, Roger, Susie and Matthew spin some interesting musical tracks that are interspersed with a few friends, who will present their written, spoken word, and/or musical creations for you!

 On this show:

 ► Something to Consider:
with Natasha Lynn Head

• Following the road
 and path to inspiration!


► A View from the Café's Window on the World:
with Roger Allen Baut

• Change Your Mind!
Change Your Future!
Change What YOU Eat!

► Susie Clevenger
"Two Days in Frisco"

with Amber Jerome~Norrgard

and

► Matthew Hatt


...along with some fine music & poetry cameos

and as always a few surprises...


Some of the music that is provided
in this episode is from Mevio's Music Alley

If you would like to be interviewed,
perform a live reading of your work on the show,
or submit a SoundCloud track, please let us know!
Guidelines maybe found in our Nexus Café™ back room page.

Always something 'new' coming your way from the folks at the Creative Nexus Café!

BTR Creative Nexus Café is:
Natasha Lynn Head & Roger Allen Baut
Founding NWCU Coordinators, and Nexus Café producers/hosts.

Susie Clevenger, coordinator
Matthew Charles Hatt, audio & research specialist

Please note: The views expressed on this show
do not necessarily reflect the views
of the Creative Nexus Café, producers, or its founders.

Something to Consider ~Social Networking and the Creative

To Like or Not to Like

Nexus Café – Season Two – Episode 3

July 26, 2015

“Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.”

John Wooden

These days, it is all too easy to sacrifice quality for quantity. Social Networking requires constant content to stay relevant. For the artist, the drive to produce often means their work suffers.  There is no denying that connecting with like minded creators the world over is amazing BUT can all too often be addictive. Relationships fostered, have become much like the work being produced. Again, a question of sacrificing the quality of the relationships we’re building over the quantity of relationships we’ve found ourselves trying to keep alive.

I’ve spent a huge amount of time I could have spent writing, producing crap quotations and sharing and promoting the work of others who are trying to build a name for themselves.  Often, I have found myself sharing work I may find inferior or not to my liking,for the sake of returning a like or a share. Other times, I have promoted others fiercly, in the hopes the action might be returned, never to receive so much as a thank you, let alone  support of my own work.  I was paying very little attention to the quality of the relationships I was building, and my work,not to mention my heart, suffered for it.

It’s important to remember it’s real people on the other end of the connections we are making (no matter the name they give you) Real people are subject to a host of personality types and it is so vital we don’t take their rejections personally.  To quote a popular facebook share…Not everyone has the same heart as you.

No matter the quality of work you’re producing, if you dedicate hours a day to your networking platforms, your numbers are going to grow. Likes will increase. Shares will too. But are you willing to forgo the passion that drives you to create to see something you wouldn’t have dreamed of showing the world a year or two ago? It belittles the purpose of creating. Those divine moments when our passions connect us to a part of the world’s magic that is forgotten in numbers and popularity contests.

“With fame, you can't trust everybody. You can't depend on them being there for you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got and what you can bring to their life. It's not a relationship-it's a leech.”

Chris Brown

Don’t let the leech suck the creativity out of you.  Return to the notebooks, the canvas, the crayons.  Create with integrity and let your work speak for itself. Don’t be manipulated by trends, hashtags, and marketing ploys to snag your hard won dollars in order to be seen. Know the game that’s being played and let your work speak for you.  The rewards of my poetry are so much sweeter when I haven’t pimped the soul out of it. When a stranger who owes me nothing stumbles upon a blog post and is kind enough to share…simply because it spoke to them.

Use the platforms as tools…not life lines. Share your work…don’t sell your soul.

“The definition of success to me is not necessarily a price tag, not fame, but having a good life, and being able to say I did the right thing at the end of the day.”

Jeremy Luke

Natasha Head

AKA: Tashtoo

 Listen to the entire episode here:  The Creative Nexus Cafe - Season 2 - Episode 3

Creative Nexus Café™ ~ Season Two [episode 003]

Welcome to the Creative Nexus Café™

Season Two, episode 003 of the Creative Nexus Café™:
Sunday, July 26, 2015, at 2:00 p.m. ET
(3:00 p.m. AT ~ 1:00 p.m. CT ~ 12:00 p.m. MT ~ 11:00 p.m. PT)

Link to BTR Player

Call-in to the café during showtime at: 619.924.0981,
or call toll free in the 48 contiguous states at: 877.598.1774

Sit back, relax, have a cup of coffee, tea, or chai and listen-in as internet personalities Natasha, Roger, Susie and Matthew spin some interesting musical tracks that are interspersed with a few friends, who will present their written, spoken word, and/or musical creations for you!

 On this show:

 ► Something to Consider:
with Natasha Lynn Head

• Social Networking:
Quality over Quantity


► A View from the Café's Window on the World:
with Roger Allen Baut

• Time to Wake-UP folks

featuring
► Susie Clevenger

and

► Matthew Hatt




...along with some fine music & poetry cameos

and as always a few surprises...


Some of the music that is provided
in this episode is from Mevio's Music Alley

If you would like to be interviewed,
perform a live reading of your work on the show,
or submit a SoundCloud track, please let us know!
Guidelines maybe found in our Nexus Café™ back room page.

Always something 'new' coming your way from the folks at the Creative Nexus Café!

BTR Creative Nexus Café is:
Natasha Lynn Head & Roger Allen Baut
Founding NWCU Coordinators, and Nexus Café producers/hosts.

Susie Clevenger, coordinator
Matthew Charles Hatt, audio & research specialist

Please note: The views expressed on this show
do not necessarily reflect the views
of the Creative Nexus Café, producers, or its founders.

The Creative Nexus™ News: Inside Indie Media Weekly (IIWM) with Kim Williams & more...

Inside Indie Media Weekly (IIMW)

Friday, July 3, 2015

Metro Detroit, Michigan (Global) - The Creative Nexus is pleased to announce that Rhiannon Fionn (Coal Ash Chronicles) and Roger Allen Baut of (The Creative Nexus) both appeared on Kim Williams "Inside Indie Media Weekly" internet radio program, this week. Author and poets Natasha Head and Susie Clevenger were also on the broadcast. To listen to the show, please see below.

Kim Williams, for those of you who may not be aware, is the proprietor of the Indie Media Weekly, Indie Media Weekly Radio, and Inside Indie Media Weekly (IIMW), and features a growing list of creative personalities. Kim is also responsible for dedicating her time, and resources, to the advancement of indiemedia, and social concerns everywhere.

Kim is also a recipient of The New World Creative Union's (NWCU) Silver Phoenix Award for 2015 (See link for further information).

Rhiannon is the Creator/Director of Coal Ash Chronicles, since May, 2009, in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she collects and shares stories about coal ash, which is America's second-largest waste stream.

Roger is the co-founder of the NWCU, along with Natasha Head, since 2012, and is an initiator of several other creative related projects.

Take a few moments to check out the excellent work that Kim is doing, and be sure to follow, comment, and share her efforts in as many places as you can!

Creative Nexus Café™ ~ Season Two [episode 002]

Welcome to the Creative Nexus Café™

Season Two, episode 002 of the Creative Nexus Café™:
Sunday, June 21, 2015, at 2:00 p.m. ET
(3:00 p.m. AT ~ 1:00 p.m. CT ~ 12:00 p.m. MT ~ 11:00 p.m. PT)

Link to BTR player

Call-in to the café during showtime at: 619.924.0981,
or call toll free in the 48 contiguous states at: 877.598.1774

We are hoping you will find this season of the Creative Nexus Café™ to be an intriguing place for you to stop-off and visit, contemplate a few ideas, as well as a place to help stimulate your creative thought and mind, through music, poetry, prose, spoken word and interpretive readings!

Sit back, relax, have a cup of coffee, tea, or chai and a snack, and listen-in as internet personalities Natasha and Roger spin some interesting musical tracks that are interspersed with a few friends of the café, who will present their written, spoken word, musical creations for you!

 On this show:

 ► Something to Consider:
with Natasha Lynn Head

• Plagiarism & Proper Credit


► A View from the Café's Window on the World:
with Roger Allen Baut

• Social Media: We Can Make A Difference

► Art Effects:
with Susie Clevenger

• How Music & Dance affect People with Alzheimer's
 

► Matthew Hatt
• Contributer



...also featuring fine music & poetry cameos

and perhaps a few surprises...


Some of the music that is provided
in this episode is from Mevio's Music Alley

If you would like to be interviewed,
perform a live reading of your work on the show,
or submit a SoundCloud track, please let us know!
Guidelines maybe found in our Nexus Café™ back room page.

Always something 'new' coming your way from the folks at the Creative Nexus Café!

BTR Creative Nexus Café is:
Natasha Lynn Head & Roger Allen Baut
Founding NWCU Coordinators, and Nexus Café producers/hosts.

Susie Clevenger, coordinator
Matthew Charles Hatt, audio & research specialist

Please note: The views expressed on this show
do not necessarily reflect the views
of the Creative Nexus Café, producers, or its founders.

The Nexus Café "News and Views from the Café Window"

As a program feature of the Nexus Café, "News and Views from the Café Window" is a segment by Roger Allen Baut, along with "Something to Consider," by Natasha Head, and "Art Effects," by Susie Clevenger.

During Season 1 the café viewed a broad range of creative, philosophical, and metaphysical topics, as well as societal issues and concerns.

As Season 2 unfolds, we look forward to continuing what we began in Season 1, with regard to the aforementioned subjects, and expanding more on art, creativity and sundry topics that are of relevance to the world we live in.

One of the most prominent and concerning issues, that runs like a thread through the various Season 1 episodes, is how people, in general, interact, treat one another, and how their actions affect the world.

"We can make a positive difference in society, and for the renewal of the planet!
It's not that difficult.We just have to make a concerted  effort to do it!"

BTR Creative Nexus Café™ Update for Saturday - 23.05.2015

Welcome to the Creative Nexus Café™

Season 2, episode 1 of the Creative Nexus Café™:
Sunday, May 24, 2015, at 2:00 p.m. ET
(3:00 p.m. AT ~ 1:00 p.m. CT ~ 12:00 p.m. MT ~ 11:00 p.m. PT)

Link to BTR player

Call-in to the café during showtime at: 619.924.0981,
or call toll few in the 48 contiguous states at: 877.598.1774

We are hoping you will find this new season of the Creative Nexus Café™ to be an intriguing place for you to stop-off and visit, as well as a place to help stimulate your creative thought and mind, through music, poetry, prose, spoken word and interpretive readings!

Simply sit back, relax, have a cup of coffee, tea, or chai and a snack, and listen-in as internet personalities Natasha and Roger spin some interesting musical tracks that are interspersed with a few friends of the café, who will present their written, spoken word, musical creations for you!

 On this show:

• Something to Consider:
with Natasha Lynn Head

• A View from the café's window on the World:
with Roger Allen Baut.

• Art Effects:
with Susie Clevenger

• Matthew Hatt


...and featured fine music & poetry cameos by:

.jack: Summer Salt
Agnew T. Pickens: Children of the G.M.O.
Carey Rose O'Connell: Pacing Iniquity
John Anstie: Elegy for Penny
Junefall: Invisible
Luke Prater: Dust
Moth Rah: Forest
Natasha Head &
Matthew Hatt: Trigger the Shift
O.R.M.E.: In Abeyance
(Experimental Feelings Remix)
Susie Clevenger: Practicality and Fairy Tales
Xe Sands: Lost Girls

along with a few surprises...

Special sneak preview of the upcoming
BSH Season 2, [episode 001],
The Secret Garden

Some of the music that is provided
in this episode is from Mevio's Music Alley

If you would like to be interviewed,
perform a live reading of your work on the show,
or submit a SoundCloud track, please let us know!
Guidelines maybe found in our Nexus Café™ back room page.

Always something 'new' coming along from the Creative Nexus Café!

BTR Creative Nexus Café is:
Natasha Lynn Head & Roger Allen Baut
Founding NWCU Coordinators, and Nexus Café producers/hosts.

Susie Clevenger, coordinator
Matthew Charles Hatt, audio specialist

Please note: The views expressed on this show
do not necessarily reflect the views
of the Creative Nexus Café, producers, or its founders.