http://www.ockhammedia.com Defining My Creative Process Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:52:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en “Believe me, the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is – to live dangerously.” – Nietzsche I found this quote the other day and loved it. I wanted to post it on my FaceBook. But I suddenly realized, "Why would I do that? I'm not living ... http://www.ockhammedia.com/living-in-the-face-of-danger/ Time is a strange concept. I love thinking about time because it takes my relentless mind on some rather crazy journeys. I get to the point where I can no longer fathom time as a concept and all its relative weirdness. I've had the theory for several years now that ... http://www.ockhammedia.com/thoughts-on-the-false-notion-of-linear-time/ A creative idea can be like a child. It whimpers when it needs attention. It follows you around the house tugging at your skirt, looking up at you with big irresistible eyes. At times it can be very demanding, especially when it's not getting your deserved attention. PHASE I: DENIAL I have ... http://www.ockhammedia.com/this-child-wont-leave-me-alone/ Good Lord...I don't know the solution for boredom. If I did, I'd be the one philosopher that had the cure for living! But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull and unnecessarily dull, as ever admit it; and I do believe that if ... http://www.ockhammedia.com/sinclair-says-it-just-right/ I kicked some serious hiney on the novel this week. It was the not-so-fun stuff. Revisions, corrections, switching the order of pages, re-writing certain sections that no longer make sense. Holy Cow. Three days of this and my mind is all mushed up. I started creating this novel 8 months ... http://www.ockhammedia.com/the-problem-with-the-writing-of-novels/ Blogs are a pain. After a week or so I start to feel this pressure that I need to write something here. The last few days I've been trying to come up with something profound to say. Therein lies the problem..."trying". Anytime I start "trying" I am in big trouble ... http://www.ockhammedia.com/the-wanderings-of-a-ceaseless-mind/ http://www.ockhammedia.com/mail-art-piece-2/ Several months ago I wrote about Music Video #1. It was entered into a contest in which the musician would pick out his favorite submissions and these would be shown at the album release party. Well, the release party is this Saturday and I was recently informed that my piece ... http://www.ockhammedia.com/music-video-1-and-other-random-notes/ What better way to kick off the New Decade than by attending a VisionBoard Party? I needed to update mine so I was excited to go. So there I was with 40 other people. We were quietly going through magazines looking for photos to define our hopes and dreams for ... http://www.ockhammedia.com/shifting-from-a-guy-b-perspective/ For years I have loved the idea of mail correspondence as an art form. The Griffin and Sabine book series made me love it even more and eventually lead me to the idea behind the novel I'm currently writing. Anyway, I am so smitten with the idea of sending tiny ... http://www.ockhammedia.com/first-piece-of-mail-art/