Today we’d like to introduce you to Brian Davis.
Brian, let’s start with your story. We’d love to hear how you got started and how the journey has been so far.
I’ve been working in the music industry since I was about 15 years old. I held a couple of internships throughout my teenage years and when I started college, became the music editor at the popular black entertainment blog, ConcreteLoop.com. This really put me in a position to meet artist, songwriters, producers, and record executives.
It was then that I realized that I could put my many talents to use as a creative force in the industry. I did everything from consulting, graphic design, art, and creative direction, and even dabbled in songwriting.
Has it been a smooth road?
Working for yourself is never a smooth road. You just have to find your footing and figure out what works for you. When you’re a fulltime creative and a freelancer, you sacrifice a lot of things to be able to choose the work that you want to do and work with your own schedule. Not only that, there are no manuals for any creative fields. It’s still fairly new. People are trying to find ways to make money off of their talents. It’s just a matter of branding yourself and making yourself stick out. You have to be able to find a happy medium between promoting yourself, but also making sure that you’re all about doing the work.
So, as you know, we’re impressed with Etcetera Production Group – tell our readers more, for example, what you’re most proud of as a company and what sets you apart from others.
We consider ourselves a full-service creative production company. We offer everything from creative concepts, songwriting, and production, to photoshoots and styling, just to name a few services. Our passion for art, music, fashion, and beauty drives us to rise to the challenge of providing superior creative services.
Etcetera Production Group prides itself on being a one-stop-shop for all your artist development, creative direction, and branding needs. From stylists, hair & make-up artists, choreographers, publicists, graphic designers, producers, audio engineers and practically anything that you can think of, a rolodex of working industry professionals are right at our fingertips to help bring your next creative project to life!
With more than ten years of work and friendship between our staff, Etcetera Production Group had humbling beginnings, launching back in 2009 in a two-bedroom loft located in the heart of Atlanta, Georgia.
Etcetera Production Group, simply known as ETC/Etcetera, is a creative direction firm specializing in creative consultation, talent development and brand cultivation. Billed as a creative collective, Etcetera is a conglomerate of talented individuals bound by their artistic ideals and a penchant for generating innovative concepts, creating a feel through sound and producing distinctive, aesthetic philosophies – all while possessing the vision and expertise to implement and execute them.
Etcetera is a working philosophy that promotes themes of synergy, creative independence, and artistic exploration. It is a belief system that provides outlets conducive for astute minds where crafts are honed; an environment where dynamic concepts and dreams are ushered into brilliant realities.
Etcetera is about having all the tools we need to create and more. Housing subsidiary entities, Etcetera serves as a parent company and under its auspice will offer services in the areas of, but not limited to: creative direction & consultation, music production, songwriting, art direction, brand & image consulting, lifestyle management, media training, choreography & movement coaching, public relations and social media strategy.
For its consumer, Etcetera is committed to embedding a service standard of impeccable execution; consistently embellishing details, pushing aesthetic envelopes and challenging the limits of both a polished and conceptual presentation.
At Etcetera, we believe teamwork makes the dream work. That means we immensely depend on collaborations with strong, like-minded individuals. It’s the cornerstone of productivity. Between the lot of us, there are over ten years of friendship and work experience. These bonds have allowed us to trust each other’s judgment and work ethic, enabling each individual to stay in his or her own lane of expertise, before seamlessly bringing each piece of the puzzle together to complete your project.
Let’s touch on your thoughts about our city – what do you like the most and least?
I’m an Atlanta native, which is hard to come by these days. I love that here, you have the best of both worlds. If you want the hustle and bustle of big city life, you can get that, but if you want to just chill-out and vibe, all you have to do is drive a little bit outside of the perimeter and have a calming experience. There’s a duality about Atlanta that I haven’t found in any other place.
My least favorite thing? Let’s face it. The traffic sucks.
Contact Info:
- Website: http://etcprodcutiongroup.com and http://brianpatrickdavis.com
- Email: info@etcproductiongroup.com
- Instagram: http://instagram.com/blacksocialite & http://instagram.com/etcprdgrp
- Twitter: http://twitter.com/blacksocialite
Image Credit:
All photos by Porsha Antalan & Evan Jay.
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