Posts Tagged “creativity”

A Few Things I Know To Be True

by Eric on January 29, 2012

Three weeks ago I celebrated my 44th birthday. It’s been more than half-a-lifetime since that afternoon in high school when I realized with the clarity of a bell that I wanted a life filled with books and music and movies; (…)

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Four Great Books on Creativity

by Eric on January 1, 2012

Art & Fear: Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking by David Bayles and Ted Orland The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life by Twyla Tharp Do the Work by Steven Pressfield The War of Art:Break (…)

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Fear & Art

by Eric on November 21, 2011

I’m hardly a stranger to uncertainty and self-doubt. So picking up a copy of David Bayles and Ted Orland’s slim volume Art & Fear wasn’t a difficult choice. I’ve just started but already the author’s have begun to catalogue many (…)

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What Now?

by Eric on June 14, 2010

Two weeks ago, my short film Three Women premiered on MediaStorm. It was the culmination of three year’s work and I can’t think of a better home for it. But now, I’m feeling just a little lost. The intensity of (…)

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