Every art form has a learning curve. When you see these clichés, you don’t have to look any further to know someone is an amateur.
Film & Photography
The 180 Rule – Imagine an invisible line drawn between two actors who are speaking. This is the line of action. Don’t cross it. Keep the camera on [...]
Religious fanatics and Atheists make the same mistake.
Creative inspiration, the paranormal, God — these things can’t be analyzed, systematized, controlled.
They’re faster than light, don’t like eye contact, and our logic is the fence than keeps them safe from us.
(Ah, see what I just did?)
So put away your Monster Manual. Let the mystical [...]
I wish this was a typo by a web designer.
Since it’s not, here are the problems I have with it:
1.) Introversion is already a term widely (often loosely) used for something else, and has been for almost a hundred years. It’s not a Disorder. And it has nothing to do with how “socially-aggressive and [...]
There’s sometimes a town.
In that town, there is a correlation between wealth, altitude, and the direction of psychic energy.
The Upper Class live in the mountains, where it’s clean and quiet. Many of the houses are concealed by complex landscape. No straight roads, lots of contour and curves. Unusual architecture. Surprises around every turn. [...]
I didn’t have time to write one of my brilliant blog posts this morning.
I was busy getting married to a beautiful Argentinian female named Belén. She does complicated things with computers, is an excellent vegan cook, and actually likes my music.
No kidding.
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I have a poor short-term memory.
Tell me a phone number and it’s wiped from existence by the time you reach the last digit. Concepts are my life raft in a sea of splashy facts. I don’t remember names, birthdays, or what I was doing ten minutes ago.
Unless I intentionally commit something to memory, [...]
Standard Definition is no longer Standard. And we’ve already outgrown High Definition. EP is supposed to mean Extended Play. When are we going to stop using relative names for technology?
We only end up looking stupid.
Progressive Rock now means music from the ’70s. In the ’90s, Alternative became more popular than Pop. MTV Unplugged [...]
[Photo from some Russian Website.]
When we are born, each of us is given one, single job on this earth.
At the center of our souls we all have a tiny candle. Becoming an adult is taking over the responsibility for keeping that candle lit. Like a pilot light, it’s the source that all self-esteem, truth, [...]
That’s because it is.
If you look closely enough, everything sucks.
Analogies fail. Equal temperament is inherently dissonant. Rebecca Romijn wears makeup.
Congratulations! Your keen observational skills have made it impossible to enjoy anything.
Here’s a shocker: Art isn’t How To Tell The Truth Through Mathematics.
Why treat it that way? It’s selected, edited, trimmed, [...]
Photo by Sanvean.
When you’re learning how things are made, it’s easy to get caught up in reverse engineering.
A songwriting book can tell you:
The chorus should start on a note that is higher than the last note of the verse, preferably a major third above it.
Your song title should be no more than seven syllables [...]