In previous posts, I’ve talked about art’s connection to our 5 senses. For the past two years, I’ve taught a Fine Arts Survey class. In my research and prep work for the class, I have come up with a workable definition for art. I say workable because in all honesty, there are many ways to…
A bird’s eye view from one of the many rooms in the large floating ANOMALY found in my adventure map Anomalous Ruins. Download the adventure map here. PC only for now. Right click the file/ unzip it/ Search on your computer’s start menu for the desktop app “run”/ Run “appdata”/ Click “Roaming”/ Click “.minecraft”/ Drag…
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…
Hello world. It’s me— Representation —a nerd enraged. It’s been a while since my last rant. That’s because I couldn’t find anything worth ranting about. Our little Earth is oh, so perfect. And here was perfect, little ‘ol, six-foot-five-inches me, going to the movies to watch the newest sci-fi flick Lock Out. It’s about this…
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 55,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 20 sold-out performances for that many…
~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…
An egregious example of how one must not compose a book cover The evolution of my cover has been a rocky path. This is, after all, the first thing readers will see before diving head long into the thrilling story. All of it can be undone by a poorly drawn picture. In traditional publishing, writers have…
They’re inventing the driverless car; they’re inventing the internet contact lens; they’re inventing the human body shop, whereby we can grow any organ of the body; they’re beginning to tease apart the aging process. All of us will have this technology. All of us will live longer. All of us will know exactly what’s happening…
Three cheers for all! My second edit is finished! Now on to demo-reading! In celebration of this, I bring to you an exploration into every successful author’s second-hand human. Jesus longs to bless his people with men and women of like-mind and skill to bring creative ideas to pass. Such is the case when I…
Deepwell Bridge 