Improvisation is all about noticing things you couldn’t possibly have seen until you got started, and realizing that your evolving insight is the compass needle you should be following.
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ALL PERFORMANCE IS LIVE
All media jobs are about live performance.
Read MoreThe Value Proposition
How much are you worth? If you’re trying to project a sentiment designed to entice someone to open his or her wallet for your services, it’s essential that you’re honest with yourself first.
Read MoreFINDING THE RIGHT COLOR
When a creative person or team will only accept the absolute best, the one-and-only solution for solving an aesthetic problem, the project is destined or a bumpy ride and the chances of overall success go down.
Read MoreSHOSHIN
Beginners mind facilitates clarity of vision because the viewer makes observations with a clear field of sight. It’s the ability to let go of what you know, to trust that it will still be there when you need it, but to not let it get in the way of seeing something as if it were the first time.
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THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION
Fitness of various sorts can come in many forms, and as your idea tries to stand on its hind legs its vital to balance your needs to overcome external pressures with your willingness to experiment with structural modifications.
Read MoreIN DIALOGUE
What fascinates me, and sometimes torments me, is the recognition of all the many different ways I see people create things, ways that sometimes elude me and make me envy their facility.
Read MoreSPELUNKING YOUR ENTERPRISE
The only way to experience the place is to prepare, and the only way to descend after those preparations is to give yourself over to the experience. There is no middle ground if the journey is going to be successful; there is no way to enter the Earth without getting covered in mud.
Read MoreACTING WITHOUT THINKING
The process of successful creation is intangible. I know there is sky above me and I know there is air all around me and I know that the air around me connects directly to the sky above me. Somewhere the two meet, but the dividing line is a fiction of language, a function of our senses being given over to words. There is no dividing line between air and sky, but we describe the expanse of blue overhead as something different than the wind moving leaves on the trees.
Read MoreTHE BIG DISTRACTORS
There are many ways to lose yourself to uselessness. To outwit the demons, tell yourself that your goals matter, and that no matter what they may be whispering in your ear, those demonic distractors really aren’t as interesting in learning how to live intentionally in the first place
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