Category: creativity
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writing and living
While plowing back through some of the old voice memos, I found a quote from a dear friend of mine, writer and musician Michael Winn. We were talking about writing and developing characters and he explained why he’d had such trouble capturing human life on the page: “Living your life…
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art school
Another gem from Ilse Crawford’s episode of Abstract: The Art of Design. When I moved to Michigan to apprentice at a theater company, a friend of mine expressed his jealousy: “Man, I wish I could just move away to the great white north for a year and do nothing but…
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the importance of contrast
I’ve been watching Abstract: The Art of Design on Netflix recently and I can’t get enough. In an episode on interior design, Ilse Crawford talks about the importance of contrast in material texture to evoke sensory experience: We actually understand materials best by contrast. Our senses are actually wired in…
joshua chamberlain 