I love epic music! For me it is a perfect combination of the classic orchestral scoring, chorales and electronica music that I have enjoyed for decades. This stuff inspires me, and is a great companion as I write away on an exiting piece of fiction. Therefore, on Mondays I share a new piece by various... Continue Reading →
Photo Finish Friday: ‘The Alps in Moleson, Switzerland’, by Hansi Kiessner
Click the picture below for full-size. On Photo Finish Fridays, I feature a selected piece of landscape photography that I have come across. I find that real-world photography can be just as inspirational to my imagination for crafting story settings as any piece of fantastic artwork that I might share on a Tuesday. I present... Continue Reading →
Throwback Thursday: Odysseus, by Norman Lindsay (1925)
Norman Lindsay (1879 – 1969) is considered by many to be one of Australia's greatest artists. He worked in a bewildering number of mediums and produced a vast amount of work including drawings, etchings, watercolors, oil paintings and sculptures. Many of these had fantastical and classical elements. Lindsay was also not shy with the use of... Continue Reading →
Art-Tastic Tuesday: Orc, by Romain Flamand
Click the picture below for full-size. On Art-Tastic Tuesdays I feature a selected piece of visual art that I have come across. These are pieces that have inspired my writing or beautifully frame some concept or another that I have already written or want to write about. I present them without commentary so they may... Continue Reading →
Epic Music Monday: Superhuman – 1982
I love epic music! For me it is a perfect combination of the classic orchestral scoring, chorales and electronica music that I have enjoyed for decades. This stuff inspires me, and is a great companion as I write away on an exiting piece of fiction. Therefore, on Mondays I share a new piece by various... Continue Reading →
Photo Finish Friday: Wanaka Tree in Autumn, by Daniel C. McGee
Click the picture below for full-size. On Photo Finish Fridays, I feature a selected piece of landscape photography that I have come across. I find that real-world photography can be just as inspirational to my imagination for crafting story settings as any piece of fantastic artwork that I might share on a Tuesday. I present... Continue Reading →
Throwback Thursday: ‘Lucky Catch’, by Norman Rockwell (1955)
Norman Rockwell is an iconic American illustrator, and I love this piece because my father is a Lobsterman and known to be a teller of tall-tales. This reminds me of how I visualized some of those tales as a child. ;-) On this piece, The Saturday Evening Post website has the following to say: Rockwell... Continue Reading →
Art-Tastic Tuesday: Steel Patriot, by Vladimir Manyukhin
Click the picture below for full-size. On Art-Tastic Tuesdays I feature a selected piece of visual art that I have come across. These are pieces that have inspired my writing or beautifully frame some concept or another that I have already written or want to write about. I present them without commentary so they may... Continue Reading →
I Fight Not Because America Is Great, but Because It Is Fragile!
Listen to me — all of you out there! You were told by this man — your hero — that America is the greatest country in the world! He told you that Americans were the greatest people — that America could be refined like silver, could have the impurities hammered out of it, and shine... Continue Reading →
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