In The Beginning…
An animated pre-production primer for storytellers.
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Outside the Window - Inside My Mind
It takes willingness to step outside the norm for a stroll onto the wild side, and who knows, maybe even beyond, where human imagination gets ignited.
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Norm is Dull
The norm lavishes in opulence and tranquility, making it difficult to willingly seek out challenging creative endeavors.
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Ugly Muse: Part 3
Final reflections on the power of impartial and broad-minded ideation on dissimilar domains, disciplines or objectives, as well as how such can be inspired by most unlikely Muses.
Ugly Muse: Part 2
Ongoing reflection on the power of impartial and broad-minded ideation on dissimilar domains, disciplines or objectives, as well as how such can be inspired by most unlikely Muses.
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Ugly Muse: Part 1
Dedicated to Colin, my host, who invited me for ideation brainstorming and asking, ‘What if?’
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Virtuality
Imagination and ‘gravity free & reality independent’ ideation are critical to unlocking the true potential of AR and VR.
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Imagination Workshops and the World at Large: Part 6
Final reflections on how society has a critical need for igniting and cultivating imagination as the origin of all ideation, inspiration, invention and innovation.
Imagination Workshops and the World at Large: Part 5
Continuing reflections on how society has a critical need for igniting and cultivating imagination as the origin of all ideation, inspiration, invention and innovation.
Imagination Workshops and the World at Large: Part 4
Ongoing reflections on how society has a critical need for igniting and cultivating imagination as the origin of all ideation, inspiration, invention and innovation.
Imagination Workshops and the World at Large: Part 3
Continued reflections on how society has a critical need for igniting and cultivating imagination as the origin of all ideation, inspiration, invention and innovation.
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Imagination Workshops and the World at Large: Part 2
Further reflections on how society has a critical need for igniting and cultivating imagination as the origin of all ideation, inspiration, invention and innovation.
Imagination Workshops and the World at Large: Part 1
Society has a critical need to ignite and cultivate imagination as the origin of all ideation, inspiration, invention and innovation.
One of the Kind: Part 3 – Farewell
I’m grateful for the journey within my imagination that this tree has inspired.
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One of the Kind: Part 2 – Encounter
I spent a considerable time exploring the tree from all seemingly accessible angles, and I am convinced that it, in return, did no less.
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One of the Kind: Part 1
Are we not all but puppets conceived for someone’s reasons, then delivered onto a stage, on which to learn, evolve, conform or rebel, impact on or be impacted, trampled on and shaped by the others?
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Green Desert: Part 2
Each time I return to New York, my spiritual home, it takes even less time for me to become uptight, tense, stressed and mistrustful towards others.
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Green Desert: Part 1
Feeling famished and deprived in the relative calm of the Green Desert, my journey back to D.C. and New York is a welcome, though not altogether pleasant reprieve.
End of the Year Musing
At times when I become this sweet and mellow, it makes me reflect and wonder whether I am a wishful and naïve dreamer, utopian or simply losing my marbles. I shall let you know in the forthcoming blogs.
Mysteries Entombed within the Redwoods Realm: Part 2
For those of you readers who miss seeing the forest’s creatures, its bouquet of textures and colors, I am truly and deeply sorry.
Mysteries Entombed within the Redwoods Realm: Part 1
Pause, stand still, hold your breath, open your eyes and unleash your imagination to the uninhibited realm of the Redwoods.
Cuba: Part 2
To ignite, liberate and empower imagination to its fullest and most potent we must open our minds and embrace "gravity free & reality independent” thinking.
Cuba: Part 1
Why is it that many live action filmmakers look down upon Animation as a lesser and an inferior medium?
From Behind the Great Wall of China: Part 1
My impressions, after working and living in China, contradict those initial assumptions and reflections from a year ago, when I visited China the first time.
Life vs. Afterlife Part 2
Having traveled and lived in countries representative of truly diverse ideological, political, economic, social, geographic and otherwise distinctive settings, the issuing realities are dawning on me, and in the reflective process also are becoming uncomfortably clear to me.
