A Book of Quotes I am Reading

Why We are Friends is Clear I am reading a book by a friend of mine. I have just begun reading it and already am getting a lot out of it. He has written some really wonderful and powerfully simple statements, phrases and insights that are definitely resonating with me and making it clear why […]

What Motivates You Artistically?

If you are a creative person who creates art of some kind, chances are you have asked yourself why it is that you do what you do? Why do you create? Do you enjoy the experience? Do you loath the process but somehow feel that it is urgent that you engage with it? Chances are […]

Cult Movie Actors and Real Life Soap Opera

In 1989 I made a feature length movie that I wrote, directed and acted in. I thought of it as being in a new genre I described at the time as “real life soap opera” in which everyone in a motion picture plays themselves. This real life soap opera was prior to the official genre […]

Is it All in Your Head?

Monday, April 15 was the deadline for taxes here in New York City, as well as was the day that I embarked on another philosophical experiment where I began to look at the question “Is it all in your head?” Each day, leading up to today, April 22, I jotted down what was on my […]

In Our Lives and Work Story is Key

AI Do Good or Human Do Good with Story? Story is powerful. Humans have told humans stories since ancient times. Gathering around the fire to share tales, either make believe ones about magical things or a sharing of the day’s life and work. We as human beings relate to story because we ourselves are living […]

The Creative Process When You Least Expect it

A good friend and I were making each other laugh last night. We were caught up in creating a concept for providing guidelines for a participant to write about an important moment in their lives. But the ideas were completely absurd. I couldn’t tell you exactly why we were chuckling so hard, but it probably […]

Helped by AI: a selection of articles on how to become a “Leader of Community” by not staying “All in Head” and by bringing on the “Art Gush” as well as being an “ArtisticPreneur” through, according to “Ask AI Guy” (who is the bot in the red, white and blue) most important is to “Be a GPT!”

“To Become a “Leader of Community” Live Life Less “All in Head” with the Exception of when Strategizing” The article “To Become a ‘Leader of Community’: Live Life Less ‘All in Head’ with the Exception of when Strategizing” emphasizes the importance of balancing intellectual engagement with emotional intelligence and intuition for professionals like artists, businesspeople, […]

How AI is Helping the Arts, Business, and Education, including AI is Magic and AI is You, Plus AI New Yorker previews the AI Powered Campaigns process, using AI to Market

Helped by AI AI is Magic: Transforming the Arts, Business, and Education and this Post In the modern era, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming three key domains: the arts, business, and education. In the arts, AI facilitates a novel fusion of human creativity and machine intelligence, creating a global platform for artists to collaborate and […]