“Creativity is simply connecting issues.” Over the previous 16 years, by means of our stay occasions and training observe, my spouse (Angel) and I’ve spoken with lots of of entrepreneurs, artists, and inventive varieties about their each day rituals and routines. And the reality is that we frequently be taught as a lot from our…
Let’s welcome again Laurel Osterkamp as she shares with us “Literary Tropes Are Like French Fries.” Take pleasure in! *** Literary tropes. We all know they’re recurring patterns or themes in literature, serving as a shorthand for sure concepts or feelings. However how will we use them to our benefit? Consider it like this: literary…
There is a vital reality about life that’s useful to grasp: generally, the issues we expect will make us pleased truly preserve us from it. For many of my life, I believed the ‘American Dream’ was the trail to a greater life—a much bigger home, a fuller closet, the most recent devices, and all of…
Deadline: Could 10, 2025 | Prize: ₦100,000 The Idumaese Alao Basis (IAF) invitations entries for the 2025 Idumaese Alao Prize for Literature, a poetry award established in reminiscence of Idumaese Alao to have fun daring, artistic voices and honor excellence in literary craft. This 12 months’s prize shall be judged by Osieka Osinimu Alao…
In my earlier article, I wrote in regards to the fundamentals of aperture. After you have received to grips with that, there’s extra data that is actually helpful to know. Like my first article, I’ve been simplistic when explaining the totally different elements under. Sure, I might delve a lot deeper by offering the formulation…
Commencement is an enormous milestone in life. A second of celebration and nice delight for folks, family and friends. And for you, it’s an ending but in addition a brand new and thrilling starting full of hope and pleasure. In at this time’s submit I’d prefer to share 160 of the most effective, most considerate…
Elevating your portrait pictures includes exploring lighting past standard strategies. Superior lighting setups can infuse your portraits with higher depth, emotional resonance, and creative aptitude, permitting you to inform richer visible tales. Right here’s how one can push inventive boundaries utilizing subtle lighting strategies. Exploring the World of Artistic Lighting Conventional three-point lighting has its…
Inform me, is your jaw clenched as you’re studying this? Are your shoulders hunched? Do you’re feeling rigidity all through your physique that mirrors the fixed buzz of stress inside your thoughts? I believe all of us really feel like this way more typically than we might even understand as a result of, for many…
2025 CINTAS Basis Fellowship in Artistic Writing Deadline: Could 1, 2025 | Award: $25,000 USD The CINTAS Basis Fellowship helps early- and mid-career Cuban writers working in inventive writing, together with fiction, nonfiction, and different literary varieties. Since 1963, the Basis has uplifted lots of of Cuban artists and authors throughout disciplines and constructed a…
Let’s face it, studying methods to direct portrait topics isn’t straightforward. Like something, it takes a bit of research, plenty of observe, and a dose of confidence. Working with skilled fashions could make issues simpler, however what about once you’re capturing somebody who’s not used to being in entrance of the digicam? These individuals really…