I'm an American composer for film, television and video games, and a session and live drummer for radio and records.
As an international speaker and author, I'm passionate about talking to Creatives about the convergence of art and business and the strategies behind building a thriving and profitable creative enterprise as an artist.
I'm the founder and editor-in-chief of SCOREcast, the popular online consortium of worldwide film music and post-production professionals.
I author the creative resource The Conversation, which is distributed monthly to more than 550 subscribers across all disciplines of the creative arts space.
My company, Deane Ogden Creative, Inc., is a global organization that handles my music projects and advocacy endeavors, and also administers my Imaginator Music production library throughout the United States, Europe, Australia, and Asia.
So... don't you hate when everything is going amazingly and then some supreme Butt Hole decides to randomly ruin it all for you because he doesn't have a girlfriend, lives in Turkey, and needs something to do with his Thursday night? I do. That's basically what happened. I got hacked. The server that hosts and runs DeaneOgden.com and The Conversation project was introduced to something called the "8lice" worm at approximately 3:14am EET last Friday by someone in Ankara named "MalaM" (which, ironically, means "night" in Bahasa Indonesia, for those of you who give a damn). As far as hacker names go, though, I thought that was pretty on the money, and that this guy must have done some research of his own on me. After my own exhaustive research, however, it turns out that his name is just a mere coincidence. These things are rarely ever aimed specifically towards a...
Awhile ago, the team and I redesigned [DeaneOgden.com] to appear as it did yesterday—the deep gray, the electric blue, the minimalist goodness. Well, as I told you originally, things change on a fairly regular basis around here. You get antsy. I get demanding. Nothing that can't be remedied with obscene amounts of chocolate. Turns out, some of the jQuery stuff we were using on the site didn't jive well with the latest releases of Chrome or Safari, which essentially means that our stuff didn't jive with Apple's newest release of WebKit. Both of those browsers use WebKit to render images and do other highly technical and confusing stuff. The result was that some people weren't getting updates, a few folks in The Conversation community missed last month's issue—that sort of thing. So... you will see a few new updates around here this week. I will continue to push out helpful...
First of all, welcome to the new DeaneOgden.com. I'm really excited about how this new website came together and I would like to thank the people who put up with my crappy CSS skills and vast lack of Pantone knowledge: Amy George, Mike Petrie, Jai Meghan, and "Silkboi". You guys all reign supreme! The New Website Redesign I liked my old site. My team liked my old site, too. It did everything it was supposed to do to effectively market my business as a film composer. It was written in the third-person (because that's what all SEO "experts" say you should do). It was packed with graphics of my projects, images of me doing my thing. It contained a lot of slick headers that quickly grabbed your attention. It was pretty, it was fresh, it was professional, it was black, white, and cobalt blue (my favorite colors), and... ...It just wasn't me. What is...
It is only April, but for me, the busy season has already begun. For those of you not familiar with how LA behaves this time of year, television pilots are finishing up in hopes for a summer pick-up, and for me that means ALL SYSTEMS GO! My team and I are hard at work on a slew of new projects that have hit the Musicave early, and I’ll be able to talk about them all VERY soon. Speaking of “my team”—I’m happy to have Duncan Kirk Bohannon join me as my assistant in the Musicave this summer, as well as Seth Kaplan and Elisa C. Rice, both students at Berklee College of Music, as our interns for this year. Suffice it to say that I couldn’t be happier with how things are taking shape for Q3 and Q4 2010!
