There are always new challenges ahead, and those challenges cannot be undertaken blithely. Spectators may look up in wonder, but fellow climbers intimately understand the feelings of endless distance in front of them.
Read MoreTHE INNOVATOR'S DILEMMA
The moment your last success convinces you that your next effort is going to be a hit is the moment you’re doomed.
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Inside even the littlest of seeds we find the structure of an entire galaxy, writ with rules, order, and intention, waiting to grow. Not all seeds will do so, however. Most will simply decompose.
BOTANICALS
Inside even the littlest of seeds we find the structure of an entire galaxy, writ with rules, order, and intention, waiting to grow. Not all seeds will do so, however. Most will simply decompose. It's kind of like the creative process, no?
Read MoreWATCHING THE CREDITS
Even on smaller productions, I can’t help but wonder about the paths that these diverse names took to find themselves digitally immortalized on screen.
Read MoreTHE DINKY JOB
If you care about what you create, every project you undertake has to have a standard of quality on which you can confidently put your name. If you cannot bear to have your name on a creative work, you shouldn't take the gig.
Read MoreTHERE’S NO SUCH THING AS AN IRRELEVANT JOB
There’s no such thing as a meaningless job if you’re doing something germane to a collective effort.
Read MoreWHAT DO 3D MOVIES TEACH US?
The newest techniques, technologies, trends, and styles in any discipline are not necessarily as important as really thinking about the point of what you’re doing in the first place.
Read MoreTHE MAGIC WORDS
To realize that something seemingly ordinary might have embedded notes for something extraordinary, you have to pay attention.
Read MoreTHE NEED
For creative people, the pressures of life are all about finding enough time and resources to create. For other people, the goal is often reversed. For many people the pursuit is often about creating enough time and resources so that they don’t have to work in their free time.
Read MoreRICHARD WAGNER IN TEL AVIV
When we respectfully engage those who philosophically challenge us or even provoke anger, we open the potential for new understanding and a wider middle ground. Perhaps that’s the most profound value of a creative life in the first place.
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