Origin Story
My late father was born in the U.S. to Greek immigrant parents who worked hard to get ahead. On my mother’s side, her mother was a classical pianist and her father was a western writer. When I was 8 years old I decided my career was going to be that of a magic entertainer and I was a performer until age 18.
Los Angeles Calls
Shortly after turning 18 and based on a feature length Super 8 movie I had made about a nerd magician who becomes a rock superstar, I got a job offer from a movie studio.
So I moved from the small hippie town in California that had a population of about 100 people where I was living, and relocated to the City of Angels, Hollywood.
Heading East
I later transitioned to Manhattan, NYC in 1988 and have lived here ever since. Shortly after arriving in New York, NY, I made a 16mm feature film ‘real life’ experiment.
The movie inspired the creation of a weekly half hour reality show that ran for about ten years, starting to broadcast over a year before “The Real World” which is generally thought as being the first official reality show.
Artisticpreneur Update
2024 has been a very special year for me. I have jumped back into being an artisticpreneur in a way that I could never have anticipated.
And funny enough, it happened as a direct result of my method how blogging hobby.
Method How Blogger
If you’re a friend of mine, you most likely know about my passion project which is being what I call a method how blogger.
I started doing this around 2011, the year I began the blog you are reading right now.
And creating one blog after another on a continual basis has ultimately resulted in my now having approximately 60 blogs in all.
Why?
Why do I do this? I am really not quite sure, but for one thing I enjoy the process of coming up with a ‘method how’ oriented topic and then making it into a blog.
And then when time permits, it’s fun writing for the blog.
Also, there is the hope those who stumble upon one of my blogs online is able to come away with something that is useful to them.
How My Method How Blogging Led to Me Becoming an Artisticpreneur Again
In 2018 I had started a blog called Celebify because, as a result of having been around a lot of well known actors, I have become increasingly fascinated the concept of celebrity which ultimately led to the creation of the celebify process.
Though, my interest in understanding how people become famous dates back to age 8 when I would read every biography on Houdini I could get my hands on, hoping to gain insight into how he was able to so effectively celebify himself.
And now in the present, the idea of celebify is taking center stage, because being able to help you, the industry celeb, build your visibility within your industry, whether you are a small business owner in any sector or a member of the industry of entertainment, turns out to be what I do best.
Celebify for Good.
Yianni