Category: creativity
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Finishing Strong Stories in Avengers Endgame
Finishing strong stories came up over and again in Avengers Endgame. It makes sense considering the question at hand: how do superheroes retire? Morally, it seems, if they plan to end well. For power, money, pleasure, and honor remain insufficient — even now with great power, great money, great pleasure, great honor comes still greater…
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Generational Culture — films, novels, and the rest
My friend Chad wrote a post about generational culture in hopes to pick a film for every generation. As we texted back and forth with our friend Doug, we realized that a single film might not define a generation so much as a bank of films or even a bank of cultural touchstones. So after…
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Tax Psalm
I haven’t been writing my poems, my sonnets, my tax psalms. You know the old saying: might as well blog about it. There are lots of quotes, attributed to many and various writers, about how hard it is not to write when you know you need to. I’ve spent so much time notwriting that…
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तरंग Tarang
Tarang तरंग is a short movie about an Indian poor kid who wants to learn English which has became a statement for standard and class. Movie is entirely made of hand made illustration (ball point pen on paper). ARTIST STATEMENT on तरंग I always have a desire to share my thoughts and contemplation with others.…
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Have We Hit Peak Superhero Cinema?
Today for Myths, Legends, Folklore and Tall Tales, I’m posting a recording of a panel I joined for Heliosphere 2019 that asked the question Have We Reached Peak Superhero Cinema? The panel featured the fabulous Charlie Jane Anders, Kathleen O’Shea David, and Mercy Van Vlack. All of them asked engaging, heartfelt questions from a combined…
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Magic Reveals the Author’s Metaphysics
Today for BOTH Legends, Folklore and Tall Tales, I’m posting a recording of a panel I was on at Heliosphere 2019 on how Magic Reveals the Metaphysics of the Author within fantasy and science fiction novels. The panel featured Carole Ann Moleti, Alex Shvartsman, Ken Altabef, Lorrain Schein. We ventured into philosophy, religion, politics, and…
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Running a Book Club Well
Today for BOTH Western Canonball AND Myths, Legends, Folklore and Tall Tales, I’m posting a recording of a panel I was on at Heliosphere 2019 on Running a Book Club Well (the program called it “Tips for your Kickass Book Club”). The panel featured Carol Gyzander,Philip De Parto, Lauren Paradise,Eric Parmer. It ventured into nearly…
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Schadenfyre Festival
The promotional video of Fyre Festival opens with an overhead shot of a small island surrounded by the blueish swirls of the Caribbean. A voiceover drones, “The actual experience exceeds all expectations.” Come this way, honored Odysseus, great glory of the Achaians, and stay your ship, so that you can listen here to our singing;…
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6 Tools of the Trade — organizational apps for artists
Tools of the trade. We all know those within our craft… the things we wield to create art and product from our skills. For me, it’s a magical black box that hunts and captures light to forge a re-creation of one momentary slice of reality. It’s called a camera. And it’s amazing. For you that…
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Black Mirror’s Bandersnatch is as Bad as Jordan Peele’s Twilight Zone Reboot Will Be
The highly anticipated, recently released full-length interactive film from the makers of the provocative and disturbing British sci-fi television series Black Mirror, Bandersnatch, is a failure in many ways. It’s a confusingly, convolutedly, frustratingly, and unnecessarily complicated plot wrapped up in an innovative but disappointing format, where viewers have to make random and only occasionally…
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Man and Serpent by Aesop
Today for Myths, Legends, Folklore and Tall Tales, we’re reading Man and Serpent by Aesop. Myths, Legends, Folklore and Tall Tales is another one of my podcasts featuring bedtime story readings — in this case the myths, legends, folklore and tall tales of the world. Now and again, I read one of my own stories…
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15 Colorado literary agents looking for new writers
As I’m finishing up my fifth novel, the time has come for me to search once more for literary agents and some of them are Colorado literary agents. It seems kind of pointless for me to put in all of this work to find Colorado literary agents and share it with no one. So I…