The past couple weeks I've been trying an exploration exercise entitled Ten Things, where whatever room you are in, whatever you may be doing, you look around and you note ten different things about the room you are sitting in. I will only share a handful of my lists, to give you an idea, but this exercise is to help you keep your eyes out for what's interesting. 10 Things-Blackbox: 1. Black curtains around the outskirts of the room. 2. Overhead walkways - could this be for crew or observers? 3. Stadium seating on one side of the room, metal stands -who sits there? 4. Onlookers 5. Group being watched 6. The teacher's horn 7. Skateboard hidden under the risers 8. Young students, older teacher 9. A language you can't understand (Improv game, Lost in Translation) 10, Old tape on the floor There are several things you can do with this information. What came to my mind is a group of young scientists being lead by an older gentleman, as they observe and note th...
How do you find inspiration? There are several different ways people find inspiration, whether it just comes to them when they're walking to class or work, or they wait hours and hours, digging through endless scraps of writing prompts, hoping to find something worthy of being immortalized. The rare 'immortalized'-worthy pieces are so few and far between that we end up having nothing to write about, or that's what we think. Inspiration can be found anywhere at anytime-while walking, watching a movie, fishing, or anything-and we can find it if we look for it. The problem is, we sometimes forget to look, or don't know how to look. We're always told to look, but how? What we need to do, is learn how to be an explorer. To explore what's around us: the world, and everything in it. But there are some rules in being an explorer. Looking We must be looking, looking at everything and everyone, noticing what we're walking on and who's surrounding us...