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Tag Archives: gaming
Rock Stars and CEOs
Ever noticed how absurd product launches have become? I’m sure there are very creative people behind the launch of high tech gadgets. There is the stage, the lights, the music, the video, the pizzazz and the amplification. Those are all … Continue reading
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Tagged apple, Art, Artists, Authenticity, Collaboration, Creativity, Criticism, Ego, Entertainment, gaming, high tech gadgets, Hubris, Ideas, Innovation, Integrity, Money, Music, Musician, Musicians, Success, Technology, Vanity, videogames
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Reaping What You Sow
I read an interesting blog post the other day about online abuse and trolling. It was somebody from the game industry bemoaning the fact that whenever the slightest element of game play was changed (e.g. a weapon’s response time), the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aesthetics, Art, Artists, Beauty, Courage, Depression, Fear, game developers, game industry, games developers, gaming, Happiness, Humanity, insouciant, Learning, Money, Music, Musician, Musicians, Song Writing, Songwriting, videogames, Writers, Writing
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Tedious, Insidious Premises in Computer Games
People who like computer games are probably not going to like this. I don’t really like computer games all that much. For me, they don’t take me on the imaginative journeys I like to go on, when I have free … Continue reading
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Tagged Aesthetics, Art, Artists, Beauty, Collaboration, Courage, Creativity, Criticism, Fear, Frustration, gaming, going through the motions, guitar hero, Humanity, Ideas, Imagination, imaginative journeys, Learning, Money, moral compass, Passion, Play, videogames, Writers, Writing
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The Number One Creative Idea for Starving Artists – Don’t Work for Free
It’s all about respect. If people ask you to work for free, you have a choice. You can do it, if you support the goal of those asking, you believe in their project passionately and you want to donate your … Continue reading
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Tagged Advantage, Art, Artists, arts, Authenticity, Collaboration, Confidence, Courage, Entertainment, Fear, gaming, illustration, Integrity, Learning, Love, Money, Music, Musician, Musicians, oscars, Painters, Painting, Quality, Recording, Respect, Song Writing, Stress, Success, Writers, Writing
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The Dawn of Yawn
I must be getting old, crusty and cranky. With apologies to my composer and sound library friends, there is something that is getting my goat. For those artists that don’t work in audio, in the sound design community, there are … Continue reading
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Tagged Aesthetics, Arrangement, Art, Artists, Authenticity, Beauty, Cinematic Sound Libraries, Creativity, Criticism, Emotion, Entertainment, Frustration, gaming, Ideas, Imagination, Impact, Innovation, Movie Sound Tracks, Music, Musician, Musicians, Originality, Passion, Play, Quality, Recording, Song Writing, Songwriting, Sound Design, videogames
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Why Would Anyone Pay Money to Spend Time With You?
It’s an interesting question, for an artist, I think. What makes it worth anybody’s time to pay attention to you and having paid attention to you, what’s going to make them pay you, or spend money to make the journey … Continue reading
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Treasure Unearthed
It was only three quid, so I bought it for old time’s sake. I have a fondness for music of this era. Maybe I could refresh my memory and learn (or re-learn) a few things about what made this music … Continue reading
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