Archive for November, 2011
Tell Us and Share: What Creativity are YOU Thankful For?
Last year, we asked you to share your comments about what creativity you’re thankful for.
We’re keeping the Thanks going. We’ve kept everything you wrote last year, to inspire you this year.
What artist do you want to thank? What creative work has made a difference in your life?
I’ll start. I’m thankful for you, our reade More...
Thank you, Octavia Butler, for “Kindred”
by Ulli K. Ryder
Your novel Kindred shows us how inter-connected we are, despite the distance imposed by history and racism. By time-traveling between antebellum south and 1976 California, the protagonist, Dana, not only demonstrates the horrors of slavery but continued struggles in contemporary America. Of even greater importance, the novel provides a window More...
Thank you, Jascha Heifetz, for your Music
by Campbell Britton
You set the virtuosic standard for violinists, wore your soul in your instrument and informed my entire lifetime of musical sensibility. I appreciate your mother’s courage in venturing outside the Jewish Pale in (Russian) Lithuania to give you training and performance opportunities in the early part of the twentieth century. And her legac More...
Thank you for the Pottery and the Fiber
I am thankful for the porn star J. D. Long. Thirty years ago, while I still felt like a displaced New Yorker, J. D. - at the time my neighbor in Beverly Hills Adjacent - was moving to his sugar daddy's ranch in Texas and he sold me a luncheon set of solid-color dishes - green, orange, cobalt blue, yellow - that had been made by Vernon Kilns in Ve More...
Thank you Thornton, Peter and Rainer, for the Words
I am eternally thankful for the work of Thornton Wilder, who was in my view our greatest playwright. In Our Town and Skin of Our Teeth, Wilder widened the American family drama to universal and spiritual dimensions. His integration of the everyday and the cosmic represented a triumph of playwriting craft. And his risky and innovative approach to th More...
Thank you my friend, Tareque Masud, for your Films
by Charity Hume
Tareque Masud, the director of The Clay Bird, was tragically killed this past summer in a car accident that cut short a filmmaker’s career at the height of his powers, and was a terrible loss to his native Bangladesh, his family, and his international circle of friends. As one privileged to have known Tareque as a friend over the course of his More...
Thank you Grandpa, Rafael Matos, Sr., for This Poem
by Marcia Alesan Dawkins
Grandpa, your work reminds me that there is so much for which to be thankful even if we can’t see it. For the world around us and the beauty that thrives in the face of ugliness. For the fact that we are empowered even though so much that happens to us really is out of our control. For both the gentle breeze that ushers in peace and the vio More...
10 Insights Creative People Have Already Learned From Entrepreneurs
by Adam Leipzig
This week I had coffee with two filmmakers who made their first movie and discovered, surprise, they’d have to distribute it themselves. They leapt to the challenge – and had such a good time they are already starting their next project. Their experience is becoming more common.
We have passed beyond the moment when creative people need to More...
