Findingviews
Picture sales and an open notebook of thoughts from Orginal Robart
Using Research to Create Places in Your Mind:
I was reading this article from New Scientist that describes Titan and started coming up with ideas for potential stories.
Then it hit me - reading an article about a place and thinking up fiction for the environment. Its an essential practice for SF authors but valuable to any writer -as we cannot always visit every place that a story demands we talk about.
Yet in order to keep the reader interested we have to make the reader feel that they know the place. So if you want to write great descriptions about any place, practice on some extreme examples from magazines or journals, before putting pen to paper on that new killer description in your latest work.
Giving inanimate objects personality can lead to some interesting ideas and circumstances in fiction. So how would a happy or angry bullet react when being shot from a gun
New Web Site for LARP Group Twilight Realms:
Although Shared Creation focuses extensively on Internet based creativity there is a certain rightness in looking at the real world too. LARP seems to bridge the both the digital and the real.
LARP is consenual group story telling - everyone agrees to a framework of behaviour and uses it to take part in the telling of a story. Its part a very modern idea, part a very ancient idea. The bridge between digital and realworld comes in the way that concepts, stories and characters are often developed online and then played out live.
Twilight Realms is a group that does this. The world is build largely online, and then enacted at events.
Very creative, very modern, and very retro.
Why Pirating Creative Software is not a good idea:
Stealing creative software may bring you more problems than solutions, worse still it may not help you be more creative
This Call of Duty video comes from a young man who wants to get somewhere in the IT industry. The reason I’m posting this is that if you watch the video and listen to the commentary then it really is very well done. He’s into the technicalities of the game, but managing to explain what you are seeing in an engaging way. There is potential here for a great future in the game industry - or as a TV or web presenter on the subject of games.
I’ve seen adults do what is doing with far less skill.
He’s already doing the right thing - using Twitter and YouTube to give himself a platform and audience.
Fantastic Image Colourisations:
Are you ready for a WOW moment? The type that occurs when you look at something and your mouth just hangs open and you go Wow!
That’s what happened with these skillful and beautifully imagines colourised photographs. I remember bad attempts at this back in the 80’s, but this work takes colourising a photograph to a whole new level
First SF Film Shot in Space:
Apart from being a world first - it also shows off the importance of agreeing deals before using other peoples stuff. Something of massive importance to independent film makers. Its great to be a guerilla film maker, but unfortunately there is a time and place for it.
Lets hope this film comes out soon. Over 3 years is a long time in limbo and its sure to be a hit on the Internet.
Creative 366 Project:
A nicely done photo a day project. A good use of Google+ too. Combining a good many of Google+’s features to create a really nice project blog.
“But again, truth be told, if you’re looking for the guilty you need only look into a mirror.”
I’m not sure exactly what’s going on in this photo, but it is packed full of mood and atmosphere. Is feeling more important than knowing?