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10 Things I Love

10 Things I Love

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Here’s another 10 Things I Love! I hope that you get to digest some of them this weekend and that you start next week freshly inspired! Sally Mann (Revolutionary photographer) Atonement (Beautifully cinematic movie) + the Soundtrack Danielle Da Silva (Activist and photographer) Saladfingers (Creepy web short) Modigliani (Surrealist Painter) Billie Eilish music video – When the Party’s Over Ksenia Anske (Dark Fantasy writer) Stranger Things (Sci-fi TV show) Gillian Gamble (Illustrator, writer, entrepreneur) Neil Gaiman – Coraline (Fantasy children’s…

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The Promoting Passion Tour

The Promoting Passion Tour

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I started Promoting Passion years ago. It was a way of bringing together two seemingly opposed words: promoting, and passion. What if, I thought, we could learn to share our passion confidently, and in doing so inspire others to be confident in their passion? How could that change the world? I started a blog. And then a convention. And now a tour. Because education, inspiration, and community should be accessible. Because without a family of creative weirdos, we too often…

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The Culture of Light

The Culture of Light

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I’m in a small room in India – West Bengal. Outside the horns are blowing like crows, attacking. People are yelling down the street, their voices drowning together, indecipherable. This is a place that envelopes me the moment I step foot outside the airport, but it challenges me, too. The sounds, the people, the food, the smells, the stories. The stories. When I listen closely through the mountainous shouts I hear cross-sections of lives; one man tells another to be…

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Promoting Passion Week 91: Stealing Images

Promoting Passion Week 91: Stealing Images

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I wanted to talk this week about how to protect your art and what to do if someone takes it without permission. To be honest, and as you’ll hear in the video, I’m not very into thinking about these things. I like to put my trust in the goodness of others, but I also stand up for myself when I feel it is absolutely necessary. Everyone has different ideals of how much energy they want to put into protecting what…

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Promoting Passion Week 82: Collaboration Week 2

Promoting Passion Week 82: Collaboration Week 2

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Last week I asked this amazing community to join in a collaboration that we could all be inspired by. The theme was storytelling, and I went through a few storytelling techniques to get us started. I asked everyone to share a story of their own creation, fiction or non-fiction, and roughly one paragraph long. Fifty people posted stories in the comments and I was so thrilled reading them. Even in the tiniest descriptions I found inspiration, and I am so…

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