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Old Memories Murmured in Dreams: Young Love Poetry

An old joke claims that thirty years of marriage is when she wonders what happened to the guy she married, while he wonders what happened to the girl he didn’t marry. There’s something special about young love, and poetry themed around this concept has certain unique features as well. The most important element is of […]

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Review of A Naked Woman in the Snow by Dariush Beritan

A Naked Woman in the Snow is a short-story collection by Dariush Beritan. Indeed, it’s a… short short-story collection, at about 80 pages and containing five stories. In other words, although (as you will see in this review) it’s not a collection for everyone, it also doesn’t require much of your time. That makes it […]

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Let’s Make a JavaScript Poetry Assistant

I’ll be honest with you: This JavaScript poetry assistant began as something meant entirely for my own use. I’m in the middle of a creative project (sneak preview: it’s relevant to Medēn), and I wanted something that would produce rhymes in real time. Indeed, the first name of this program was “Real Time Rhymer”. Somewhere […]

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The Importance of Enjoying Your Art

Have you ever noticed those ruthlessly competitive parents who live their own dreams through their children? Don’t you hate it when they approach 7-year-olds’ soccer practice like it’s the World Cup? It’s the same with art: Enjoying your art is the only way to truly become creatively good at it. You might recall an old […]

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Letteract: a Free Card Game with Words

It’s been a while since I made a game. In fact, if I’m not mistaken, the previous effort was about a year ago, with The Clock Village. This time I thought to make something far simpler, so here’s Letteract, a card game with words. Like all my games and programs, it’s free and ad-free. The […]

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Selfish Artists: Dynamics of A Peculiar Concept

All people are selfish, artists or not. This might sound like a hot take, but it’s actually trite: When all are something, nobody is. In other words, all people are selfish because that’s human nature – we are the center of the universe because that’s how we perceive everything – but the fact that there […]

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What Is Fiction? The Problem of Defining Reality

I love deceptively simple questions. “What is fiction?” definitely counts because, on the surface, it appears childishly obvious. One might say “Fiction is writing stories that aren’t real”, or something of the sort. Probably you couldn’t even entirely disagree with that. And yet, this is only the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Obviously enough, if […]

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Confidence and Creativity: What the Drumeo Sessions Reveal

I recently had an interesting, eye-opening experience regarding the connection between confidence and creativity. I was watching a video of a drummer trying to play along to a song she hadn’t heard before. It was clear she was way outside her comfort zone. There was neither confidence not creativity in her playing. Eventually she managed […]

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Review of A Trick of the Light by Brandt Ryan

A Trick of the Light is a short film by Brandt Ryan. If the name is familiar, you’ve also read my review of his play Restitution. If the name of the film itself rings a bell, perhaps you’ve noticed it on my Bandcamp page. You see – and this should also serve as a disclaimer […]

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Pornography or Erotica? On Art’s Function, Purpose, and Essence

The topic might sound unusual and, ironically enough, this too is part of the theme. Namely, we should be able to explore a topic as ubiquitous as human sexuality. The differentiation between pornography and erotica (erotic art, that is) is problematic. United States Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart notoriously said he couldn’t define it but […]

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