Posts Tagged With "practice makes perfect"

Six Steps of Artistic Creation

photography | writing 

[21 Dec 02011 | 777 views | less than a minute of your time ]

I’ve been reading through Scott McCleod’s Understanding Comics, a kind-of non-fiction graphic-novel-esque work that deconstructs the art of comics in the form of a comic. It is an aging work, originally published in 1993, and thus has little to say about …

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Creative-Gap-Fodder

abstract & thinking | meta & methods | writing 

[5 Aug 02011 | 2,760 views | 5 minutes of your time ]

There has been a lot of buzz over ‘The Gap’ lately. The Creative Gap. Maybe you’ve seen it. I’ve seen hints of it roll through the social networks in the last couple of weeks, getting all inspiring on our feeds …

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Six Million Words

books & reading | meta & methods | writing 

[19 May 02009 | 493 views | 4 minutes of your time ]

I’ve been reading / listening to a book called “Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell. It’s a non-fiction, pop-sociology-type book that seeks to explain the success of successful people through analysis of pre-conditions in environment such as timely access to resources, opportunity, and …

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Lacking Coordination

gamer | travel & holidays | weird & whimsical 

[4 Sep 02008 | 144 views | 2 minutes of your time ]

The chain of events goes something like this:
1) Brad and his family travel to the fine (but chilly) city of Calgary to visit with a handful of folks (of to whom they happen to be related) who choose to live there for …

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checkmate

gamer | watching & listening 

[20 Feb 02008 | 148 views | less than a minute of your time ]

I feel pretty foolish admitting that amidst the flurry of a few years of great games and that steady acquisition of modern entrapments built of cardboard, wood, metal, and plastic bits with which we’ve fallen in love, I’ve neglected picking up so …

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