This post is a very focused exploration of art and should not be taken as an exhaustive history, thus I will be ignoring some of the rather unusual and fascinating styles out there such as Impressionism, Cubism, Expressionism, Surrealism, and other such avant garde tangents. I’ll do a post on those at a later time. …
The first form of art was likely a simple story. We don’t know what the story was about, nor can we say who told it. I imagine it began naturally as a response to that age old question, “how was your day?” This would have been the first time one dared to ask the…
Over the last few years, the cities of Shreveport and Bossier have experienced an influx of families moving in from India, East Asia, and the Middle East. As a piano teacher, I can attest to this fact. Many of my students are from India, and one family is Kurdish immigrants from Iraq. All of…
Check other great works of art by Sam Spratt Back in my time, gaming was a guy thing, like G-I-Joes or Transformers. Females had their Barbie doll games, and males had their first person shooters, real time strategy, and roll playing games. Girls don’t fight wars, control armies, or save fantastical realms from destruction. They…
~Get it at Amazon for your Kindle. ~Get it at Barnes and Noble for your nook. ~Get it at Smashwords and read it on your computer. Prelude The dark-haired spacer opened his mind to the musical instrument. Black and white patterns came alive at his bidding, dancing off the dark gray jumpsuit and forming a…
Edit: read at the end for a follow up to this concept. I never planned on teaching piano. Such a joy fell into my lap three years ago, two years after graduation with a BM in Music Theory and Composition. It was my old high school piano teacher that gave me the opportunity. She…
I took a quick break from editing through Void Voyage 1 to enjoy Valve’s next gem of a game. For those whose only encounter with games extend to the length a bird can be slung at a house of pigs, the first Portal was a gem in its own right. It’s a unique, non-violent game,…
The Evening Swan by Akiane Kramarik (age 9) I’m just going to lay it all out there… I’m a Christian author-man who refuses to write Christian books. Blunt sermons don’t make powerful fiction. This is why I choose instead, to write a good story. This does not mean I will ignore my faith. It will…
Photo by Mike Hulsebus Remember, chords are made of intervals stacked on top of each other. Most beautiful chords are intervals of thirds. Last lesson we learned of what makes a C Major chord. Now we will learn how to play it properly. Pesky little 4 finger Unless you’ve been practicing the C Major scale…
The last real book I read was Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. Protagonist, Guy Montag, fights against a dystopian world gone mad: firemen using flamethrowers, robot dogs chasing the innocent, and books burnt to a crisp by an ignorant public going the way of underrated film, Idiocracy. A chilling look into Idiocracy‘s dumbstopian future. Bradbury’s story…
