Read “In Defense of Amateur” by Stan Brakage. Write down one question and one observation you have after reading “In Defense of Amateur”
Question: Why have I never seen, or even heard of a film by Stan Brakage?
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Introduction to Art Making – Week 5 – Reading Assignment.
Read “Art and Fear”. Write down one question and one observation you have after reading “Art and Fear”
Question: And what if one does not have talent?
Creative Writing – #1 – Personal Memoir – “Fugget a-bout It!”
8:00am- Inna meets me in the lobby of a mid-Wilshire office building, known in the legal community as “if the glove don’t fit, you mush acquit” building, due to infamous penthouse neighbor, Johny Cochran…
Creative Writing – #2 – Book Review – “Love at First Sight” N. Sparks
“At First Sight”, by Nicholas Sparks, is a fictionalized love story set in Boone County, North Carolina in 2000, with a Prologue and Epilogue set in 2005.
“At First Sight” picks up several weeks later than Spark’s novel, “True Believer” also set in Boon Creek. Although…
Creative Writing – #4 – Poem / Japanese Tanka – “Morning Star”
[The Japanese Tanka poetic form has five lines, with a syllable count of 5 / 7 / 5 / 7 /7 ]
Creative Writing – #5 – Poem / Dutch Elfie – “Blue”
[The Dutch Elfie poetic form uses 11 words in 5 lines:
Line 1 is a one-word color or quality
Line 2… ]
Creative Writing – #6 – Poem / Spanish Sadorma – “It”
[The Spanish Sadorma poetic form has six lines whose syllable counts are 3 / 5 / 3 / 3 / 7 / 5 ]
Creative Writing – #6 – Poem / Spanish Sadorma – “It”
[The Spanish Sadorma poetic form has six lines whose syllable counts are 3 / 5 / 3 / 3 / 7 / 5 ]
Creative Writing – #7 – Poem / Korean Sijo – “Until”
[The Korean Sijo poetic form has three lines with 12 – 14 syllables each]
Creative Writing – #8 – Poem / Irish Ghairid – “Glass Half-full”
[The Irish Rannaicheacht Ghairid poetic form (pronounced Ron-a-yach-char-rid) has a first line of three syllables, followed by…]