Starting with my very first personal blog, Filter & Splice (which still exists on Blogger in colors that will make your eyes bleed), I coined a term to describe the mythical meshing of creative people: Frankensteining the Talent Pool (FtTP). I originally described what this term meant to me waaaaaay back in 2006 with this post. During my time with Filter & Splice, I wrote a number of posts with my ideas for Frankensteining the…
I’ve done it. I’ve finally come back to my original Year of Creative Reading list. And with not one book, but two. I read “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles” by Steven Pressfield over the weekend. (Sometimes you’ve just gotta love short books that are a quick read.) Pressfield breaks his book into three main sections. The first is on Resistance, all of the inner conflicts that…
My husband, co-worker and I have had a few conversations recently about how cranky we feel toward the world. We’ve been grousing about situations that aren’t quite working right on the local, state and national level, wanting desperately to help fix some of these situations or put the right people into positions so that they can fix them. “Fixing” them meaning to create situations that allow the majority of people to live in relative peace…