Tag Archives: art
Create Every Day
Do you try to create every day, even if only for a short amount of time? Share your experiences!
Script Frenzy
April is wrapping up, and so is Script Frenzy. Never heard of Script Frenzy? It’s a screenwriting version of NanoWriMo. Never heard of NaNoWriMo? It’s National Novel Writing Month, where people from around the globe write a 50,000-word novel in a month. Put them on your calendar! April = Script Frenzy; November = NaNoWriMo. For […]
Seinfeld’s “X”-Method Really Works…
Almost didn’t write today, but then looked at my long list of X’s for each day that I wrote. Can’t break the chain! I read in Steal Like An Artist that Jerry Seinfeld writes a joke a day, and puts a big black “X” on his yearly calendar for each day that he successfully writes […]
My Sacred Texts as an Artist
Creativity War of Art, Steven Pressfield Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon Dramatic Writing Poetics, Aristotle The Art of Dramatic Writing, Lajos Egri No-Budget Filmmaking Rebel Without a Crew, Robert Rodriguez On Pressfield and Kleon: For me, Pressfield and Kleon are the “Ari and Egri” of Creativity. (Aristotle and Egri are considered by many, including […]
Be Yourself.
So today I read War of Art for a little while. I’m about halfway through. After reading it, I realized I had been avoiding writing new material in my novel for a while. I got excited about just doing it. So I started writing. I wrote about six pages. It felt good. I like what […]
FanCulture Documentary + 1,000 True Fans = Win
1,000 true Fans I’ve recently been doing some studying on fans. Here’s what it boils down to: for you to make a living as an artist, you really only need 1,000 true fans. What is a true fan, you ask? Someone who, every time you come out with a new work of art, purchases it. […]
Hiroshima Mon Amour
You must watch the 1959 French film Hiroshima Mon Amour before you die. That is a direct order. A masterpiece by Alain Resnais, who also directed Night and Fog (1955), Hiroshima Mon Amour helped kick off the French New Wave, and was also famous for being the first film to explore the use of mini-flashbacks, […]
Waste Land: How a film about junk is making the world a better place
You know a movie is really, really good when your first thought after watching it is “The world would be a better place if everyone watched this movie.” Watching Waste Land (a Lucy Walker film starring Brazilian artist Vik Muniz) was an extremely educational, inspiring, and insightful experience for me. Waste Land documents an artistic […]