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Taking creative risks in storytelling and community building


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Nate Baker

I'm a storyteller and a chronic creative. Belmont pinned a journalism badge on me in 2008. I work at Internet marketing platform, Raven.

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There's an easter egg hidden somewhere on this site. Can you find it?

It's a throwback to a hidden message I included in my first few websites. In 5th grade my dad handed me a copy of some website editing software. Web design has been a creative outlet since.

One of the reasons why I blog and keep this site up is to collaborate with folks.

I regularly publish poems and random things with a creative commons license in the spirit of creative collaboration. If you see something that you want to work with, run with it. Let's create something.

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Dixie Downturn: New Nashville Blog For Broke 20-Somethings



There’s a new Nashville blog in town by and for broke 20-somethings called Dixie Downturn. The broke 20-somethings are Lance Conzett and Michelle Korn.

I’m excited to have more eyes on the side streets of Nashville. So far, they’ve been urban art crawling to local graffiti spots and sharing the art of drinking free beer.

If you’re a devote reader of my blog, you may remember me describing Lance as one of two kids who’ll change the Nashville music scene, or leave it. (He’s the guy running in an indie-cool way to the right there.)

In the same post I created an award and gave it away (in true Generation Y guru style) and also said “he’s a critic living in the sweaty, loud basement venues of our city and he knows things.”

Looking back, I’m a bit ashamed by how Gen Y my post was, but I stand by my words about Lance, who also helped launch The Week At Belmont, an amazing and often-satirical Belmont video news show.

So, I’ll be supporting this blogging venture as much as I can, because of The History Of Awesome Rule. (THOAR).

Won’t you give Dixie Downturn some love with me? We need more bloggers who say pithy and local things like the following:

“Have you ever contemplated getting the Exit/In stamp tattooed on your hand so you’d get into shows for free? We’re right there with you.”

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EDIT: Dixie Downturn is by Lance Conzett and Michelle Korn (Not Kendra Krantz, who took the awesome bio photo).

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