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Sans Souci Statue
https://www.midisparksartsales.com/resources/uploads/2015/02/sanssouci-music-for-art-danke-audio-sparks-for-art1.mp3 Sanssouci Park is a large park surrounding Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam, Germany. Included in the park is a baroque flower garden with lawns, flower beds, hedges and trees. It is within this park that we find the Sanssouci Statue, the subject of artist ViVaDa’s ghostly watercolor.…
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Fish Still Life
https://www.midisparksartsales.com/resources/uploads/2015/11/fish-still-life-music-for-art-midisparks-art-sales.mp3 In this fish still life by Mexican artist Uriel Agustin, a pair of carp float upside down next to a ganglion of kelp. The wide open eye which each fish presents defies our supposition that the creatures are dead. Anyway, it is much more fun to ascribe some playful characteristics to…
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The Face of Psychological Deterioration
The Face of Psychological Deterioration
https://www.midisparksartsales.com/resources/uploads/2014/11/human-melt-monster-with-multiple-eyes.mp3 There is a sense of wonder, amazement, when 2 artists make contributions to a common project and discover that the final product is something quantitatively and qualitatively greater than the sum of parts. There is awe, great joy, deep humility, in a powerful and generous revelation of your…
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Ice Covered Tree
https://www.midisparksartsales.com/resources/uploads/2016/12/Stohgs-E.-Tree-IV-Music4Art.mp3 An ice covered tree in winter seems ablaze in radiant light. Artist Jerry Langell does an amazing job with the color blue in his digital treatment of an Oroville, California tree in winter. That we do not see the base of the tree, but rather that it emerges from blackness, sets a mysterious tone to the…
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Working Multiple Projects
An artist once told me that she always had several projects in process at any given time. How many is several? I think she said 12. She certainly was talking about more than 2 or 3. Juggling multiple projects might seem at odds with our notion of a creative process and the kinds of mindsets and emotions associated with that process. The creative process has been described, in summary, as…
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Of Self-Esteem and Phone Addiction
Of Self-Esteem and Phone Addiction
I am addicted to phone notifications. I crave those sounds and lights like drags from a cigarette, or worse. My Facebook Messenger notifies with a service bell, then beckons with a slow green blink. The text alert consists of two notes, then slow white flashes. For emails, the flashes are faster. These rings and blinks and notes and flashes are my validation drugs. Like drugs, these shout outs…
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Accepting The Day
Daily wins and losses provide opportunities for personal growth. Even as the new day brings both blessing and hardship, so does the day challenge us to find appropriate responses to success and adversity which fuel that personal growth. Accepting this daily challenge is what we mean by ‘accepting the day’. It is accepting responsibility for tipping the scales each day to the positive.…
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Perseverance Should Not Be A Yoke Around Your Neck
Perseverance Should Not Be A Yoke Around Your Neck
Yolks and Yokes (but no Jokes) For those that rightly associate yolks with egg whites, they once also referred to wooden harnesses (yokes) that held oxen in place for ploughing and other farming chores. As long as those oxen were plodding along on the right path, those yokes were helpful. The oxen were disciplined to persevere in the task at hand and not to stray. What if, unlike the properly…
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The Perfect Progression
Lolita Vampiress, as some may know, is a dedicated composer. Until recently, she has produced in an eclectic, dissonant style which defies genre classification. A few weeks ago she discovered an unaccompanied vocal loop which has inspired a foray into the dance/trance category. Our reformed vampiress has found over the centuries that her best results come from a creative process that is…
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Artists Feeding (gross?)
Our own growth as artists is dependent on the growth of all artists across all disciplines. For there is a critical common denominator to all our creative efforts. Cutting through all of our work, really validating all our production as creative work, is the element of renewal. For to create, by definition, is to bring into existence something new. Even the photographer of realistic subjects,…
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Great potential here for a winter abstract If this image is cropped to bottom 2/3, it is a great example of abstraction in nature. morse code of winter dots and dash of ice arctic opus written in cold via Iddy-umpty — leaf and twig
Building Foundations
Building a good foundation is essential to the stability and durability of a structure. We use the analogy of building a good foundation to understand the importance of mastering fundamentals in a discipline. We build on fundamentals to achieve mastery. My weight training program is an example of striving to build a good foundation. In my weight training program, the fundamentals are focus, form…
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Creation and Learning
In order to create something new, learn something new. If creation is the process of bringing something new into the universe, then there must by definition be certain elements, either in the physical work, or in the creative process, that are new. To introduce elements we have not used before into our work, or to approach our work in some untried way inevitably requires some learning. This…
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How Blind Monk Stopped Whoring
How Blind Monk Stopped Whoring
Blind Monk, as readers of old posts may recall, grew up in the alleys of Bangkok, Thailand. Of course he was not a monk then, just a poor, abandoned blind kid, pre-occupied with survival. He became a trusted figure on the street, and found income as a fence. Mostly he moved watches and jewelry. The young man’s blindness and social condition precluded him from any sort of “normal” dating. He…
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Marketing as Therapy for Artists
Marketing as Therapy for Artists
Artists must spend time creating and selling. It can be difficult to strike a balance. If we spend too much time on one activity or the other, either creative work suffers or the audience falls off. Marketing can refresh us by connecting us with people and reaping some ego satisfaction from the acknowledgment of artistic work. Likewise, our creative endeavor is the recharge from within. Creative…
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Lolita's Victorian Track
Lolita’s Victorian Track
Hoping to inspire participation in the current Midisparks Art Sales composers contest ‘Old School Victorian Tracks’, Lolita submitted a contest entry. Her composition is presented with an image from the Carney’s collection, ‘Victorian Ball Gown‘. Lolita is best known as the vampire host and principal blogger contributor to Lolita’s Music for Art Blog. But she has also composed since she was a…
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