Today I met with my corporate lawyer, Darci Poloni at Poloni and Associates.
I have hired Darci to file my S-Corp paper work for me. With this service comes trade mark licensing, State ID registration, S-Corp submission and paper work, but most importantly Darci has sat with me and walked me through every step.
Darci explained the Bi-Laws and what is expected of me legally each year. She even gave me this wonderful leather book organizer to place all my corporate papers. She explained that I need to have a meeting with my share holders each year and what needs to take place in this meeting. She explained the rights I have compared to the rights that my share holder has. I actually think I'm starting to understand this business stuff.
Now onto the next steps. Once the papers that were submitted today are processed, I'm a C-Corp. A C-corp is not appropiate for what I do because I'll be taxed twice. So I will need to send back some paper work that my other share holder signs and Darci will be submitting that all for a Tax ID number. Once the tax ID number goes through than I will be considered an S-Corp and I can apply for the business licensing. Once that is complete I start the banking process and become complete and legitimately separate than my company.
In a few hours I will also be meeting with my insurance agent and all my corporate insurance will be submitted. This includes corporate insurance for my equipment as well as liability so if anyone hurts themselves on location or during an event with me than that person can't sue me personally. I've have been waiting to have this for over a year now, but needed to wait due process.
This is all very exciting. Its only been about 6 years since I first worked under Nicky Watts Studios. Its like a dream come true to have it becoming a full blown business. There's still a lot of work to do, but its in the right direction. I just can't wait until I can focus most of my time on making and creating rather than all this paper work business.
You can find Darci at:
Poloni & Associates
780 Coronado Center Dr, Suite 110 J
Henderson, NV 89052
702-616-9240
I hope she can help you as much as she helped me.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
HBRC
Wow!
I am excited that today I turned in my work for the Henderson Business Resource Center. It was a job that I had a lot of anxiety over because the organization has been detrimental in my growth as a business owner and I wanted to give them my best work.
Rebecca with HBRC enjoyed the photos a lot. She is incredibly nice and encouraging and I felt both proud and a sense of relief giving her the cd of images.
Here are a few examples of the work I did. Its nothing terribly exciting compared to some of my other projects, but its a great strive in my development as a photographer.
Everything takes one step at a time. This is one more step!
I am excited that today I turned in my work for the Henderson Business Resource Center. It was a job that I had a lot of anxiety over because the organization has been detrimental in my growth as a business owner and I wanted to give them my best work.
Rebecca with HBRC enjoyed the photos a lot. She is incredibly nice and encouraging and I felt both proud and a sense of relief giving her the cd of images.
Here are a few examples of the work I did. Its nothing terribly exciting compared to some of my other projects, but its a great strive in my development as a photographer.
Everything takes one step at a time. This is one more step!
Monday, January 5, 2009
Hawaii
Oh yeah!
I am going to Hawaii on Friday to make some casts....and explore of course.
Dan Schultz is going to talk to the administration at his school to see if I can cast them.
I'm hoping to get a full large group. Maybe everyone who works at one restaurant or something. Or a really large family. I don't know, we'll see how it goes.
Its getting crazy. I have casted 16 people now, shot 5 and have almost finished 1 more sculpture. I am in desperate need of recycled paper to continue. There are about 25 people on the list of future castees.
This is all exciting. I wish I could just do this all the time and not have to focus on starting my business too. Oh well, soon the beginning paper work and developing systems will be all set up and I will be able to focus more on making.
I hope Tricia will move here to help too. That would be great. Lets all send Tricia some warm thoughts about moving here.
I am going to Hawaii on Friday to make some casts....and explore of course.
Dan Schultz is going to talk to the administration at his school to see if I can cast them.
I'm hoping to get a full large group. Maybe everyone who works at one restaurant or something. Or a really large family. I don't know, we'll see how it goes.
Its getting crazy. I have casted 16 people now, shot 5 and have almost finished 1 more sculpture. I am in desperate need of recycled paper to continue. There are about 25 people on the list of future castees.
This is all exciting. I wish I could just do this all the time and not have to focus on starting my business too. Oh well, soon the beginning paper work and developing systems will be all set up and I will be able to focus more on making.
I hope Tricia will move here to help too. That would be great. Lets all send Tricia some warm thoughts about moving here.
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Wear Recycle in the newspaper
Las Vegas Sun (Home news, Henderson) published the article front page!
Congrats everyone involved in the project.
If you are interested, here are the links to the newspaper story and the slide show:
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/dec/30/reusing-arts-sake
www.lasvegassun.com/photos/galleries/2008/dec/30/reusing-arts-sake
Here's the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEL_k_n5XCo
Go to the Las Vegas Sun's YouTube site and comment on the video....so they know how much we love it!
Thanks to everyone involved, this is wonderful, thanks.
Congrats everyone involved in the project.
If you are interested, here are the links to the newspaper story and the slide show:
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/dec/30/reusing-arts-sake
www.lasvegassun.com/photos/galleries/2008/dec/30/reusing-arts-sake
Here's the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEL_k_n5XCo
Go to the Las Vegas Sun's YouTube site and comment on the video....so they know how much we love it!
Thanks to everyone involved, this is wonderful, thanks.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Gay yellow pages
I just put a half page add in the Vegas gay yellow pages so keep a look out. I think the new issue comes out in Feb or something like that. Its hot!
Wear Recycle in the news, Toni Thorburn, and what Wear Recycle is developing into.
I was interviewed from a reporter: Becky Bosshart with the Home News of Henderson. It was a riot. I want to thank Toni Thorburn who really put her neck out on the line to help me. There was a videographer named Evelio Contreras from the newspaper and a photographer whose card I happen to either loose or not get.....coincidence....jk. I don't think I got it and she was very nice.
Toni is the owner of Aspen Communications: IT work. It was a riot to see her engulfed in messy art materials, surprised by the process, and completely confused on why she agreed to do it in the first place other than just to help me. It was a riot.
Looking back it also allowed me to understand the project and why it is moving into a totally different direction than I originally thought with the fashion idea. Toni identified it perfectly when she told Evelio that she wasn't attached to the cast. That she was only doing it to help me.
Wear Recycle is about the relationship and curiosity that brings people together. While the actual casting process is taking place, a spark, closeness and connection happens. Its not about fashion, its about art, but more in the end. Its really about community and risk. About connection and collaboration. Its about what all the contributors/models/artists bring to it. This is an art project, but its as much of an outreach to people as it is about art. The process is art, the drive is art, but the experience is human. That's why the name will be changing. Wear Recycle doesn't define its purpose, it only defines its beginning. Toni was what developed this understanding; this idea that the people who I'm casting don't necessarily know what the point is, but something told them to become involved.....often me....but really I only ask and the model chooses to be intrigued or not. Toni's sarcasm and wonderful bluntness allowed for me to thoroughly know where to go and what she means in the project.
The model doesn't understand the relationship between the paper and these relationships that are made. They're not suppose to because they are not working with it. The models are left out of the fragility and development of the sculpture. In both processes I'm building something that starts, continues, and ends fragile and in the end I will have to communicate this to the models, and the viewers.
Toni's company deals with business technology solutions. Just like Toni didn't hide her lack of connection and understanding in art, I will be honest, I really have no idea what IT people do other than its a complicate job.
I know some of her services are:
protective back ups
wireless networking
Web hosting
really you should give her a call to find out more information about how to utilize her services. Then you get to experience her very wonderful personality...always a plus when hiring someone for a service or product. The company is local too!
Aspen Communications
Toni Thorburn
aspenbts.com
toni@aspenbts.com
Lets show Toni some support....I know that most of us businesses can utilize her services. I just remembered that she had mentioned something about a new law that fines businesses if they send any credit card info over the web without correct encoding. She can prevent this fine from happening!
To get on with the newspaper. It will be published in the Home News newspaper the first week of Jan...that's the hope, and they will try to plan it so that the video interview will also be online at the same time.
Becky found me through the Henderson Art Association blog
hendersonartassociation.blogspot.com
This is a new thing that HAA is doing to help promote artistic community here in the Las Vegas area. Go check it out, if you have anything to share speak up.
Did I forget to mention that Becky, the reporter is going to let me cast her. The list of people who want to do it has grown a lot. There are now 23 people who still need to get casted, 10 sculptures that need to be built or finished, and 5 people who have been photographed. YEAH.
Some bad news is that the 8x10 darkroom I was using closed down so I'm having problems developing the film now. I am two shoots backed up. It will all come together, but if anyone knows any Vegas darkroom available, please let me know.
Thanks for reading :) I'll publish the newspaper article when its available. Hopefully the video too.
Nicky
Toni is the owner of Aspen Communications: IT work. It was a riot to see her engulfed in messy art materials, surprised by the process, and completely confused on why she agreed to do it in the first place other than just to help me. It was a riot.
Looking back it also allowed me to understand the project and why it is moving into a totally different direction than I originally thought with the fashion idea. Toni identified it perfectly when she told Evelio that she wasn't attached to the cast. That she was only doing it to help me.
Wear Recycle is about the relationship and curiosity that brings people together. While the actual casting process is taking place, a spark, closeness and connection happens. Its not about fashion, its about art, but more in the end. Its really about community and risk. About connection and collaboration. Its about what all the contributors/models/artists bring to it. This is an art project, but its as much of an outreach to people as it is about art. The process is art, the drive is art, but the experience is human. That's why the name will be changing. Wear Recycle doesn't define its purpose, it only defines its beginning. Toni was what developed this understanding; this idea that the people who I'm casting don't necessarily know what the point is, but something told them to become involved.....often me....but really I only ask and the model chooses to be intrigued or not. Toni's sarcasm and wonderful bluntness allowed for me to thoroughly know where to go and what she means in the project.
The model doesn't understand the relationship between the paper and these relationships that are made. They're not suppose to because they are not working with it. The models are left out of the fragility and development of the sculpture. In both processes I'm building something that starts, continues, and ends fragile and in the end I will have to communicate this to the models, and the viewers.
Toni's company deals with business technology solutions. Just like Toni didn't hide her lack of connection and understanding in art, I will be honest, I really have no idea what IT people do other than its a complicate job.
I know some of her services are:
protective back ups
wireless networking
Web hosting
really you should give her a call to find out more information about how to utilize her services. Then you get to experience her very wonderful personality...always a plus when hiring someone for a service or product. The company is local too!
Aspen Communications
Toni Thorburn
aspenbts.com
toni@aspenbts.com
Lets show Toni some support....I know that most of us businesses can utilize her services. I just remembered that she had mentioned something about a new law that fines businesses if they send any credit card info over the web without correct encoding. She can prevent this fine from happening!
To get on with the newspaper. It will be published in the Home News newspaper the first week of Jan...that's the hope, and they will try to plan it so that the video interview will also be online at the same time.
Becky found me through the Henderson Art Association blog
hendersonartassociation.blogspot.com
This is a new thing that HAA is doing to help promote artistic community here in the Las Vegas area. Go check it out, if you have anything to share speak up.
Did I forget to mention that Becky, the reporter is going to let me cast her. The list of people who want to do it has grown a lot. There are now 23 people who still need to get casted, 10 sculptures that need to be built or finished, and 5 people who have been photographed. YEAH.
Some bad news is that the 8x10 darkroom I was using closed down so I'm having problems developing the film now. I am two shoots backed up. It will all come together, but if anyone knows any Vegas darkroom available, please let me know.
Thanks for reading :) I'll publish the newspaper article when its available. Hopefully the video too.
Nicky
Casting Malbec
To move on.
Last weekend Rich, our old roommate Tim from Chicago, and I drove to LA where we attended a Christmas party with a band named Malbec. Malbec is great. They have wicked hip music and are so creative when it comes to their videos and photos. I photographed them before when I went to LA with Rich. You might have seen it, the photo where the 5 people are wrapped with netting.
This time the whole Malbec crew, excluding their manager let me cast them. It is huge because they are the first people that did not have their heads casted.
Nick's upper back/shoulders
Mark's whole back while he was bending down touching his toes
Sam's shoulder to her elbow but she had it extended back and inverting and flexing
Sid's shoulders but more in the front and separate
Pablos two forearm tops held in fists.
They came out great and I'm really excited both to have alternative body parts other than heads, and 5 people. That's the most so far in one shoot. Exciting!
I just want to mention that I wore a crazy hootchie tight bright red jump suit with a candy cane print belt to their Christmas party. It was treacherous. Certainly a good laugh. I never meant to really wear that thing...Rich wore a bright red button up shirt and and crayon green suit type jacket that was huge. It was so funny. We looked like awkward elves.
Check them out. They are really good and fun. Refreshing.
Last weekend Rich, our old roommate Tim from Chicago, and I drove to LA where we attended a Christmas party with a band named Malbec. Malbec is great. They have wicked hip music and are so creative when it comes to their videos and photos. I photographed them before when I went to LA with Rich. You might have seen it, the photo where the 5 people are wrapped with netting.
This time the whole Malbec crew, excluding their manager let me cast them. It is huge because they are the first people that did not have their heads casted.
Nick's upper back/shoulders
Mark's whole back while he was bending down touching his toes
Sam's shoulder to her elbow but she had it extended back and inverting and flexing
Sid's shoulders but more in the front and separate
Pablos two forearm tops held in fists.
They came out great and I'm really excited both to have alternative body parts other than heads, and 5 people. That's the most so far in one shoot. Exciting!
I just want to mention that I wore a crazy hootchie tight bright red jump suit with a candy cane print belt to their Christmas party. It was treacherous. Certainly a good laugh. I never meant to really wear that thing...Rich wore a bright red button up shirt and and crayon green suit type jacket that was huge. It was so funny. We looked like awkward elves.
Check them out. They are really good and fun. Refreshing.
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