How the Corporate Approach Made Creators Lazy – and Killed Mainstream Creativity
There is intense debate on the internet these days about the quality of storytelling and media that is available, especially in the mainstream. On the one hand, you have the generational argument: that everybody grows up thinking their generation’s music and movies are better than what the “young kids” are listening to nowadays. But on […]
3 Terribly Underrated Disney Movies
As I said last week, I wanted to take on a few lighter topics recently, just for fun. Over the past couple of years, I’ve been working my way through all the Disney animated movies in chronological order. This task started after my wife and I returned from Walt Disney World and my wife had […]
Fixing the Dark Side of Our Society
The Dark Knight was a massive success – critically, financially, and artistically. It was a fantastic movie, though a touch long. The characters (Joker, in particular) became iconic. It took what was already an excellent film in Batman Begins, turned the sucker to 11 and broke the knob clean off. Everyone saw it. People who […]
The Cost of Quality
As I was making dinner the other night, I could hear Christopher Lloyd in the other room, where my wife was sitting on the couch. He was not, however, yelling “GREAT SCOTT!” at everything, so it took me a second to figure out what she was watching. After checking on whatever it was that I […]
The Top Everything of 2012
It’s review time for me today, which I think is one of those exercises that everybody would benefit from. I’ll be going over how I did on my annual goals and setting myself up for 2013, but first I want to look at some of the good things that went on this year. What better […]
5 Places to Get Book Ideas
It’s a very proud week here for me as a writer. I’m pretty pleased with how Reading Week has gone, and maybe it’s just because I’m happy I stuck with a topic for 5 days straight. It’s the little things… Anyway, we’ve covered losing the desire to read, as well as getting back into it. […]