Neal and I made this. Well Neal made it and I ponced around in purple rubber gloves stretching it pathetically and needing a lot of lot of help. it was great fun. Then Neal hung it up in his smokehouse (a big wooden chimney next to the barn – yeah a wooden chimney, go figure)…
On the first day I was in San Francisco I was advised “You need to give people more time to help you”. One of the key bits of character building in this trip has been letting go of impatience, allowing things to happen in their own time. Allowing the route to unfold in its…
Over the weekend I really enjoyed watching @sizemore and some chums making a sci-fi short in 48 hours for the Sci Fi London Film Festival 48 hours competition. I was even more impressed when I saw what they came up with. [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/21914737 w=500&h=283] Mike opened up to questions on his blog and I asked about…
One of my most consistent creative blocks is thinking about how what I’m making is going to be received. I can go round and round in circles in my head for ages worrying about this or that. (Btw it’s one of the reasons I try to write longhand and then type-up rather than type straight…
Michael Dila picks up Tara’s “Unclear Path” and riffs on it, adding in a couple of important points about this journey/traveler metaphor: “What kind of people would rather take the hard way than the easy way? People who are looking for something, but don’t know what it is. There is a lesson in the historical/mythical…
Sorry, this was supposed to be a “bonus link” for that last post but I got carried away with my own rhetoric. Here, have some of Tara’s rhetoric instead. “where is this road taking me? Well, that’s the craziest part of all…I’m not entirely sure. However, I was heartened to learn recently that this is…
Why is the idea of a journey important right now? How can we use the ideas about a journey to help us understand things that are changing or confusing or just too complicated in our everyday lives? That’s what I’m trying to do here. Although I enjoy travelling and telling stories about what happened,…
Why do people buy stories? Why do people pay story-tellers to tell them the stories that they’ve gathered out in the world? I’m not talking about the bulk of book & movie purchases, which seems to be fiction: made-up, complicated and modernised versions of ancient themes. They’re generally reassurances that all is well –…
Here’s me in my Learning Pool t-shirt while I was in New Orleans. Ray Nichols kindly took me along to an event called “Be The Change: A Celebration of New Orleans Social Entrepreneurs”. It was great – a few hundred energetic people, all full of big ideas about how to change their bit of the…
The one thing I want to learn from The American Trip is that asking for help in this way really works. Also that sticking with the process, no matter what, is what makes for the most amazing experiences. So here are the elements of today’s conundrum. On the debit side: I have no paid…