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The Creative Life Adventure

Living a creative life

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You Might as Well Try

November 5, 2017Categories age, books, inspiration, life, music, writing1 Comment on You Might as Well Try

"A life should try whatever it is it wants to try."

Eyes Wide Open display in 2007 in St. Petersburg, Florida

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.

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Quiet, Please

August 13, 2017Categories control, disruption, life, open mind, tools and techniques, work practices2 Comments on Quiet, Please

It's hard to understand the value of silence if we never experience it.

Montgomery Street, San Francisco, California

Step in to Your Comfort Zone

July 16, 2017July 17, 2017Categories career, disruption, inspiration, life, music, open mind, risk1 Comment on Step in to Your Comfort Zone

Whether you're acting in a play or starting a business, turning away from your own needs rarely helps anyone.

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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.

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Disruption

May 21, 2017Categories business, career, digital media, disruption, entrepreneurship, innovation, journalism, life, open mind, tools and techniquesLeave a Comment on Disruption

What are some ways you can disrupt your own life or career?

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?

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Chuck Berry and the Inevitability of Rock and Roll

May 4, 2017May 7, 2017Categories books, history, inspiration, life, musicLeave a Comment on Chuck Berry and the Inevitability of Rock and Roll

The drive to integrate different influences in one's life and take them in a new direction; that's what Chuck Berry and others like him had.

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?

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."

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  • Books
    • Paradise West
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    • 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
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