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Creative Dissent

August 20, 2017Categories art, books, disruption, history, innovation, inspiration, life, music, open mind, photography, risk, writingLeave a Comment on Creative Dissent

There may be no more important effort than to contribute a voice to the vital issues of our time.

Paris from the Arc de Triomphe

Multiple Directions, One Journey

July 2, 2017July 4, 2017Categories art, business, career, entrepreneurship, life, photography, writingLeave a Comment on Multiple Directions, One Journey

Multiple directions might, over the course of time, be an integral part of the same journey.

Cells inside Alcatraz in San Francisco, California

Creative Control

June 7, 2017June 8, 2017Categories art, control, entrepreneurship, music, photography, risk4 Comments on Creative Control

Too much creative control can become a kind of prison.

The Risk of Creative Exposure

May 14, 2017Categories art, books, business, entrepreneurship, history, inspiration, photography, risk, tools and techniquesLeave a Comment on The Risk of Creative Exposure

What's a little humiliation if it makes you a better artist?

When is the Work Complete?

April 28, 2017May 7, 2017Categories art, digital media, life, music, photography, tools and techniques1 Comment on When is the Work Complete?

How do we select a "final" version of a work? Do we even need to?

Creativity and Age

April 20, 2017Categories academia, age, art, books, business, entrepreneurship, innovation, open mindLeave a Comment on Creativity and Age

Keep learning, keep trying, keep experimenting

Brian Wilson and the Foundation of A Song

April 4, 2017April 5, 2017Categories art, books, inspiration, life, musicLeave a Comment on Brian Wilson and the Foundation of A Song

"What is a song, exactly? It's something that starts as an idea and becomes more than that."

Paul Klee and Making Secret Visions Visible

March 21, 2017March 21, 2017Categories art, inspirationLeave a Comment on Paul Klee and Making Secret Visions Visible

We sometimes wonder at the "source" of creativity...

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Picasso and the Bull

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Creative use of metaphors is another powerful technique in art

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  • Home
  • Books
    • Paradise West
    • Moral Compass
    • Buddy and Thomas
    • The Little Book of Big Business Ideas
  • Photography
    • Urban Photography: The Big Picture
    • Urban Photography: The Details
    • Urban Photography: The Middle Distance
    • Urban Photography: People
    • Reflections on Time and Place: 2000 – 2018
  • Star Trek Essays
    • Star Trek: The Original Series
    • Season 1
      • Season 1: Episodes 1-10
        • The Man Trap
        • Charlie X
        • Where No Man Has Gone Before
        • The Naked Time
        • The Enemy Within
        • Mudd’s Women
        • What Are Little Girls Made Of?
        • Miri
        • Dagger of the Mind
        • The Corbomite Maneuver
      • Season 1: Episodes 11-20
        • The Menagerie
        • The Conscience of the King
        • Balance of Terror
        • Shore Leave
        • The Galileo Seven
        • The Squire of Gothos
        • Arena
        • Tomorrow is Yesterday
        • Court Martial
        • The Return of the Archons
      • Season 1: Episodes 21-28
        • Space Seed
        • A Taste of Armageddon
        • This Side of Paradise
        • The Devil in the Dark
        • Errand of Mercy
        • The Alternative Factor
        • The City On the Edge of Forever
        • Operation – Annihilate!
    • Season 2
      • Season 2: Episodes 1-10
        • Amok Time
        • Who Mourns for Adonais?
        • The Changeling
        • Mirror, Mirror
        • The Apple
        • The Doomsday Machine
        • Catspaw
        • I, Mudd
        • Metamorphosis
        • Journey to Babel
      • Season 2: Episodes 11-20
        • Friday’s Child
        • The Deadly Years
        • Obsession
        • Wolf in the Fold
        • The Trouble with Tribbles
        • The Gamesters of Triskelion
        • A Piece of the Action
        • The Immunity Syndrome
        • A Private Little War
        • Return to Tomorrow
      • Season 2: Episodes 21-26
        • Patterns of Force
        • By Any Other Name
        • The Omega Glory
        • The Ultimate Computer
        • Bread and Circuses
        • Assignment: Earth
    • Season 3
      • Season 3: Episodes 1-8
        • Spock’s Brain
        • The Enterprise Incident
        • The Paradise Syndrome
        • And the Children Shall Lead
        • Is There in Truth No Beauty?
        • Spectre of the Gun
        • Day of the Dove
        • For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
      • Season 3: Episodes 9-17
        • The Tholian Web
        • Plato’s Stepchildren
        • Wink of an Eye
        • The Empath
        • Elaan of Troyius
        • Whom Gods Destroy
        • Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
        • The Mark of Gideon
        • That Which Survives
      • Season 3: Episodes 18-24
        • The Lights of Zetar
        • Requiem for Methuselah
        • The Way to Eden
        • The Cloud Minders
        • The Savage Curtain
        • All Our Yesterdays
        • Turnabout Intruder
  • Selected Writings
    • The Spy Who Read Me: Thoughts and Notes on Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale (1953)
    • A Walk by the Lake
    • Our Brother’s Keeper: The Existential Angst of Miami Vice, Seasons 1 and 2
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