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Tag Archives: Happiness
Arting Shapes You
I’m going to suggest that by far the most significant and dominant thing that comes out of maintaining a creative practice is that it defines and refines you. It teaches you better habits, improves your resilience, hones your fine motor … Continue reading
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Imposed Expectations
Ever notice how many people want to impose their idea of how you ought to make your art? They’re adamant they know better and that you ought to comply. They’re sure of it. I find it annoying and highly offensive. … Continue reading
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Tagged Aesthetics, Appreciation, Arrangement, Art, Artist, Artists, Authenticity, Authority, Confidence, Control, Courage, Creativity, Criticism, Culture, Destruction, Encouragement, Failure, Fear, Happiness, Honesty, Humanity, Joy, Learning, Love, Manipulation, Motivation, Music, Music Producer, Music Production, Musician, Musicians, Painting, Passion, Play, Power, Quality, Recording, society, Technique, Time, Value, Violence
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Nesting Behaviour
When expectant mothers are nearly due, they often begin fussing excessively about preparations for the soon to be newborn. The decor of the nursery will take on a heightened urgency. Everything has to be just so, or the mother-to-be will … Continue reading
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If You Want…
If you want to be a better Composer Song writer Music producer Rhythm guitarist Bass player Band member Drum machine programmer Dancer Drum machine designer Musician Empathic human being then takes some drum lessons. I’ve started taking drum lessons and … Continue reading
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Making Art While Everything Burns
I have a schedule that is supposed to help me build positive work habits, so that I get my priority projects done. You know the theory: just make sure you put one foot in front of the other every day … Continue reading
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Tagged Anarchy, Art, Artist, Artists, arts, Authority, Change, Control, Courage, Creativity, Culture, Deception, Depression, Despair, Destruction, Distraction, Economics, Emotions, Encouragement, Evolution, Fear, Feelings, Focus, Freedom, Frustration, Greed, Happiness, Health, Honesty, Humanity, Ideas, Integrity, Joy, Learning, Manipulation, Mental Health, Money, Motivation, Music, Music Producer, Music Production, Musician, Musicians, Peace, Politics, Power, Privilege, Procrastination, Profit, Propaganda, Reality, Recording, society, Stress, Struggle, Success, Survival, Technology, Truth, Underemployment, Violence, Writers, Writing
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Lonely Robots and Hungry Ghosts
How do you make art in a world that is so atomised and fragmented; where every human being behaves like an automaton, programmed to consume, but not to interact with anybody else at a deep, meaningful level? When every member … Continue reading
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The Corporate Takeover of Humanity
Humanity suffers from many anxieties – both real and imagined. Perhaps one of the most foreboding is the rise of the machines, whereby a combination of artificial intelligence, machine learning and automation renders humans obsolete. This thought generally terrifies us, … Continue reading
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Impasse
Occasionally, you lose sight of your own future – the one you envision for yourself and strive toward. It’s very disorienting when that happens. That ideal life you’d like to lead becomes a diffuse and obscure cloud of confusion. When … Continue reading
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On Not Doing the Work You Love
It might seem strange to be writing about underemployment, when the executive branch of the most militarised and powerful nation on Earth is, through its legions of official goons and flunkies, bureaucratically, permanently orphaning jailed small children and babies, just … Continue reading
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Ethical Erosion
What if every problem that besets humanity could be traced to a single root cause? We may be the authors of our own misery for one very simple reason – we behave badly. We behave badly, because we think we … Continue reading
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Creative Ideas for Starving Artists 