Bigelow and Belly Skating
With the Academy Awards quickly coming up this Sunday, I thought it timely to post this link to Kathryn Bigelow’s creative process. I think she should get Best Director award. The Hurt Locker was wonderfully directed but a disturbing film that explores the persona and emotional toll of a wartime bomb diffuser, staring Jeremy Renner, who’s performance is excellent. We’ve liked his previous acting in 28 Weeks Later and other movies. However, I don’t think this is the best movie. Peter and I are partial to District 9 because it was so unexpected — an odd mix of a documentary format and parody to change your sympathies by the end…
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Monsters in your Mind
Since I did my incredibly long post on the basic how to’s of Internet Networking and how Social Media can benefit your business, I’ll just do add a transitional link to another interesting article. This one discusses: the computer age technology (“Big Design”); how, “the digital revolution has expanded the universe of design;” and art vs. design in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Businesswoman. Fitting since my business group is all women. Also, since I’m working overtime this week on a backlog of commissions due to the snow lag, here’s another link to a very interesting blog/ book by James Gurney, the author of Dinotopia, regarding Imaginative Realism…
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Social Media
Social Media is related to art for me because it is how I discover new avenues in which to write about things in my blogs, meet others, and in doing so, help promote my business. I hosted the EWES (Enterprising Women Entrepreneurs) — my business group last week. It had been rescheduled due to the snow. The fact that we had a large group despite the inconvenient travel means (the snow pile up is still limiting parking on my street) is a testament to how traditional networking is important and maybe folks were just going stir crazy being housebound. I didn’t fully count but there was a large group (for…
