Archive - December, 2011

Kill the Passive Beast

December 29, 2011 3 Comments


If you want to unlock your creativity then your must  kill your passive beast. You must wrestle to the ground that slimy awful beast who is trying to convince you that the safest thing you can do is… nothing.

Passivity puts the first nail in your creativity coffin.

One of the reasons I started out on my own crazy filmmaking journey was I that I didn’t want to be sixty years old and still have my dreams un-chased and unloved. I would rather try and completely fail than to never try at all.

Choose something, anything, there is no right choice and begin creating something today. Your options are as limitless as the stars.

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Muhammad Ali Chuck Wepner – The Boxer who inspired Rocky

December 27, 2011 1 Comment


Possibly the best way for any creative to be inspired is to simply take a look at the lives of the real people in the real world. Let me introduce to you to Chuck Wepner – the real Rocky!

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Get Inspired – Chuck Wepner Knocks Down “The Greatest”

Chuck Wepner was the journeyman fighter who knocked down Muhammad Ali in 1975 and took the greatest fighter of all time to 15 rounds.

Sitting in a cinema watching the fight on a big screen was an unheralded young actor named Sylvester Stallone. So inspired by Wepner’s performance a young Stallone went home and wrote the screenplay for Rocky in 3 days.

Not many people know who Chuck Wepner was, but his life and his courage became the catalyst for one of the most popular and universally appreciated cinema stories of all time.

My point is this, look around you there are stories everywhere,  find the people who inspire you and begin writing their stories through your own lens.

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Creative Collaboration

December 23, 2011 3 Comments


To do anything great you are going to have to collaborate.

Do you have an innate fear that collaboration is somehow going to divide your measure of creativity? I have this tendency, although in practice I have nearly always found the opposite to be true.

Healthy creative collaboration multiplies creativity and magnifies your combined imaginative powers.

This kind of creativity synergy (read) has to be fought for; we must battle against our own pride and insecurities to achieve anything greater than ourselves.

The very nature of creative collaboration is surrender and trust.

Loosening our grip on our own imaginations, allowing others to see what we see and looking at the same project or idea through their eyes.

 

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7 things NOT to worry about as you pursue your dream

December 22, 2011 62 Comments


Your Age – it’s just a number in a head; the world is full of people of all ages who have followed their dreams.

Other Peoples Opinions – the world is full of cynical people too afraid to follow their own dreams.

Success & Failure – it is the pursuit of the dream and not the final outcome that makes your life a success.

If You are Talented Enough - it is the brave who succeed, and not necessarily the talented.

Financial Wealth & Security – nothing will inhibit your adventures like your love of comfort.

Bad Days & Rough Seasons - your motivation will come and go, persist on even the toughest of days.

Your Sanity - the world will say that you’re crazy until you succeed.

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Words of Encouragement

December 21, 2011 6 Comments


I used to think it was lame and insecure to require words of encouragement.

But anyone who has pursued a big dream for long enough understands that “courage” is not a permanent thing. In the face of great opposition even the strongest men or women can grow weary and faint.

Courage seeps out of every human orifice; we leak and that is why we are in constant state of being refilled.

No one can do anything on their own, we all need the help and support of others. Find encouragement where-ever you can.

If you are looking for courage, be encouraging and the wind will most likely blow some back.

 

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Where does my story come from?

December 20, 2011 10 Comments


Stories live inside you? You are like a hunk of stone and the stories inside you are fighting, kicking, sleeping, breathing, waiting to be born.

Storytelling is much like childbirth and every single person is pregnant with a story in one way or another.

For your story to be pure in its origin, you have to chip off all the layers of worthless rubble and debris to get to the heart of the story inside.

Why must your story live? Why must your story be told?

A story in its purest form is not a screenplay, a novel, a song, a treatment, a nine sentence pitch or a tag-line; a story in all its magnificent unadulterated glory is a primal sound.

2011 Seven Sentences – Storytelling Tips

Even the criminal is lovely

December 19, 2011 3 Comments


True artistry doesn’t judge. Empathy and understanding comes from the knowledge that everyone, no matter how vile and demonized they may seem… is lovable in some way.

Not that this kind of  love is easy.

Do you agree?

The thing that prevents us from entering into this pure and sacred artistic temple is pride. This is the most vile of human traits for it creates in us a sense of superiority, like our genes are better, that we are infallible where others have fallen.

Are you interested in being a true artist?

 

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