Visual Arts

Sock It To Me: Design a sock and win some cash

02.24.2012

I’m always looking for a pair of out-there shoes or socks to jazz up my outfits.

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Wednesday Writers Workshop: Writing Practice with Photography

02.22.2012

Have the aliens landed?  Is this a strange, deformed child appearing in our midst?   Or is she some mutant species, like us and yet not? Here is another view, taken on that same evening when she was first sighted. Is that evil in her eyes? Are those holes even her eyes?  What can we [...]

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Wednesday Writers Workshop: Writing Practice

02.01.2012

What do you see in this photo? Where does it take you?

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The Louise Log: A Filmmaker’s Career is Reborn on the Internet

07.28.2011

She wrote of her move from film to video in an essay called “How the Internet Revamped My Filmmaking Career” for Internet Evolution.

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The Four Quadrant Movie: Secretariat

10.06.2010

The hero is a stallion, the heroine is a housewife with four kids and the villain is a mouthy man who gets his comeupance. If that’s not a Four Quadrant movie, I don’t know what is.

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Calling It Quits: the making of a movie

09.07.2010

I now had a character, that’s me. I had a premise, the search for happiness. And I had a character arc, unhappy to happy (or lets call a sense of well being). In short, I had my film. And I was off — with the enthusiasm of a kid.

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The Creative Process Revealed: The Conclusion

06.14.2010

If you caught my first posting about my inspiration for this project, you’ll see from the pictures that I made some changes along the way.

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The Creative Process Revealed

06.01.2010

I’ve been gathering my thoughts for a new project. The ideas started coming together after I started playing with what I call collage samplers…

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Playing with iPhone Photo Apps

04.02.2010

If  you can remember–I sorta do–I used to love taking photos.  Why did I stop?  For one, my camera is sooo ollllld and infirm that it’s no longer fun.  And I guess my creative wherewithal was going toward MidLifeBloggers.  Or maybe I just developed a squint in my viewfinder eye.  Whatever, I’m lovvvvving playing with [...]

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Fifty: What Taylor Swift might be singing in 35 years…

03.01.2010

One day it struck me, as I was listening to Swift’s song how well the word “fifty” fit in the title spot. I decided to write the rest of the song.

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