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BBC – Culture – The monsters hidden beneath the sea

Okay, I admit it. I’m a sucker for underwater monsters. Give me a giant squid, a Kraken, an octopus of unusual size, hell, even an overgrown shark and I’m there. For me, America said it best – “The ocean is a desert with its life underground and the perfect disguise up above.” It’s that “perfect disguise” […]

The Iceberg Illusion

How To Create Monsters & Mythological Creatures

So one day my friend Ian Rowland directed me to the site of his friend Gianni Sarcone, a designer of optical illusions. Specifically, the post on How To Create Monsters & Mythological Creatures. That’s an example over there to the left.  Once you see the method, like a number of magic tricks, it is deceptively simple. And […]

The 30 Best Movies About The Theater

There’s nothing like a good theatre experience. And if you can’t make it out to see something live, then a film is the next best thing. And if you can watch a movie about the theatre? Heaven! Source: The 30 Best Movies About The Theater « Taste of Cinema

Women Who Pretended to Be Men to Publish Scifi Books

“In 1980, science fiction writer and editor Ben Bova told a group of women writers, ‘Neither as writers nor as readers have you raised the level of science fiction a notch. Women have written a lot of books about dragons and unicorns, but damned few about future worlds in which adult problems are addressed’.”  In Women […]

Periodic Table of Storytelling

I love learning about writing. I love how there’s “theory” for creative processes. Makes me laugh when it all gets winnowed down to a base formula. That said, the TV Trope website is great for looking up things which have been done to death as well as learning new phrases for old ideas. Here, a designer […]

DAVID: Father’s Day

Happy Father’s Day!! As this is my last year of NOT being a father, we decided to take a little time and seek some advice from the best father I know – mine! This short interview is a condensed form of a conversation we had (and I assume we will continue to have). Thanks, Pop! You mean […]

DAVID: Sense – The Impresario of Vegas

This month, we take a look at Troy Heard, creative director of Table 8 Productions and The Onyx Theatre. He’s doing amazing stuff in the world of Vegas theatre, helping to build our scene and culture. Remember, there’s more to live performance than the Strip and the Smith Center. Impresario of Vegas Edited with BlogPad Pro

Thinking in and about English on a Sunday Morning

You know, Shakespeare didn’t always sound like Shakespeare. Sometimes he sounded like a pirate. And in fact, just for good measure, English didn’t always sound like English. Anyway, here’s a couple of videos to get your brain working.

Books for and about Magicians

So… as you may (or may not, no judgement on my part) know, I like magic. Now, to be specific, I like magic with a “c” not magik, with a “k.” There’s nothing wrong with the latter, but the spiritual side, the part that says magik is a mystical, real thing just doesn’t interest my skeptical […]