What’s up Blogiverse? My name is Jon “Ditty” Didier. I’m a Rapper, Songwriter, Artist, slowly becoming full-blown Musician, Nerd, Workaholic, obsessive-compulsive Human Being, or a hodgepodge of bones and tissues;… Read More
Becoming a Rapper (Pt.1)
Archives: Articles
Entries for the Arts Coast Magazine
The Art of Juggling – Motherhood and Careers
It was the fall of 2017, my only child was 10 years old and I had no plans for more. I decided to make the plunge. I carefully outlined a… Read More
The Many Façades of Florida at Fairgrounds St. Pete
By Amanda Sieradzki . . . I feel a bit off-kilter as I’m listening to the man in the pink vest give me his welcome spiel. The Factory building that… Read More
Arts In Podcast – Douglas Kornfeld
Public artist Douglas Kornfeld tells the fascinating tale of how he created vibrant public artworks in New Orleans that became symbols of the city, part of parades – and… Read More
Books that Sparked You as a Kid
The Books that Sparked You as a Kid . . . Some books stay with us, and which ones do is very personal. You may not know why you love… Read More
Connecting Through Art
I started teaching the year my daughter left for college. I needed something to focus all of my nurturing tendencies on and teaching others my passion for art seemed the… Read More
A brutal but honest origin story — to understand the art, you must understand the artist.
As a kid in the early 60s, there was a blue carbon-copy page that would travel with my mom and I as we bounced from apartment to apartment and school… Read More
Judging Other People’s Writing
By Yuly Restrepo . . . On a few occasions, I’ve had the opportunity to act as a judge for other people’s writing. One of them is for the Tampa… Read More
Some of my work. . .
By David Manson . . . This is an energetic orchestral fanfare that I composed on a flight to San Francisco. The thematic material came to me during a nap… Read More
On Writing and Failure
By Chelsea Catherine . . . I found out that a book I had been working on for two years was not going to be published. After a slew of… Read More
