Curiouser and curiouser… This is very intriguing. Actors, I would love to hear your thoughts
I talked about a visioning process in my last post. I’m gonna spill the beans on that now. If you’re up for a creative experiment, you may want to play too. This is a process. An experiment. A game. It’s play, but it’s real. It’s about how to be the creator/author/maker of your life – deliberately and purposefully – without sacrificing the present moment. How to hold a vision of the future while living happily and effectively in the here and now. First, I want to give credit to Mark Forster for teaching this process in his book, How to Make Your Dreams Come True. These ideas are his. I believe he is still offering How to Make Your Dreams Come True for free on his website: Get Everything Done. You can grab a copy here
And suddenly – or not so suddenly, perhaps drudgingly – it’s 2012. I’ve read a lot of blog posts lately about planning for the new year, how to make resolutions stick, or how to avoid resolutionizing all together. Points of view on the good, bad and ugly of resolution making are all over the map. Personally, I find it difficult to refrain from thoughts that sound something like: “This year I’m going to finally lose that extra weight. This year I’m going to get my business in high gear. This is the year I’m gonna make it all happen!” Yet, in my heart I know these thoughts aren’t real. Wait. Okay, the thoughts are real. I AM thinking them so they’re ‘real’. But I also know these thoughts are fantasies. I would even go so far as to call them self-indulgent fabrications full of hooey. They are something I say to myself to make myself feel better about not being all that I said I wanted to be in
Love this. I think it’s very encouraging for creative folks who want to explore the outer limits of the extraordinary art they can make out of the ordinary. And I do love me some Tchaikovsky this time of year
Embrace the Gift!
Wisdom: The Greatest Gift One Generation Can Give to Another (a) film(s) by Andrew Zuckerman
Bless you Sunni! To all my students, actors, bosses, classmates, teachers and colleagues: I am paying attention to you. Truly, I am
I wrote this post two years ago a month before my husband and I moved into our home and two months before we married. It still applies directly to the issues of inspiration. Particularly the inspiration to revise your life at will. I continue to surf the wave of change that is sweeping through my life. Status Report: My daughter and I (and the goldfish and the guinea pig) have moved into our temporary home with my fiancé, my mother has moved into her new apartment (and is STILL waiting for her cable hook-up – AAAARGH!), my dog has moved into her temporary home with a friend of mine, we had the house inspection last Thursday and we are waiting for the seller’s response to our requests, my belongings are stored away in a truck that is parked in a secured area in some unknown location, my fiancé and I are learning how to co-habitate (practice makes perfect) and all of us are negotiating these new territories on a moment by moment basis
Get Yourself Back in the Creative Zone Grab a copy of this free e-book from Mark McGuinness of Lateral Action. I do appreciate Marks’s helpful and generous work. This book is a collection of articles he wrote in response to submissions from readers of his Lateral Action blog when asked to submit the creative blocks that keep them struggling. Mark is a poet who earns a living as a coach and trainer for creative professionals. He has no clue who I am, but he is one of my heroes on the horizon. Please grab a copy of this book and check out Mark’s blog too. Enjoy!
This is beautiful, disturbing, strange and familiar. I posted this on FB, but I wanted to share it here to because it is a very clear example of “doing truthfully in imaginary circumstances”. She is so precise and committed to the action (the doing) that you don’t see the dancer dancing the dance, you see the character living the dance. Look at the precise and clear beats – there is no general overall wash of emotion – no “performer” in the performance. The fact that she is a superb dancer is a given. I am agog at her commitment to and precision with the action from moment to moment and movement to movement. You see only the life. My acting students will understand this question: Do you see the OVARIOS!?!
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