The Links Round-Up today has opportunities for you to get involved in new artistic collaboration, get a loan, get a job, display your work and more. Loans in the Creative Quarter When the Creative Quarter was launched, there were many initiatives promised, and we are now starting to see them happen. Here is one: the… Read More
Three links this morning, all centred on film, animation, media art. Fancy your short film or animation being seen by over 400,000 people in a month? That is what is on offer in Mansfield, as the County Council explained in their press release: Mansfield’s new £9 million bus station opens its doors to the public… Read More
Helene Hanff, American author of 84 Charing Cross Road and lover of English literature, visited London and was taken to a pub called The George by a friend. As they walked through the door her friend said: “Shakespeare used to come here.” She was, of course, thrilled and suitably reverent to have walked through a… Read More
“Illegitimi non carborundum” , in literati Latin, or “Don’t let the bastards grind you down”, as Arthur Seaton, the anti-hero of “Saturday Night Sunday Morning” would translate into more local tones. Arthur, the ‘angry young man’ of local author Alan Sillitoe’s 1958 era-defining novel, and his modern counterparts wildly roaming the streets of inner-Nottingham, was the… Read More
It’s that time of year again, the time when the nights draw in, the air gets chilly, and we all sit in the dark with the TV off so we don’t have to answer the door to trick-or-treaters. Or maybe that last one’s just me… Anyway, Hallowe’en is upon us once again, and Nottingham has… Read More
“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” Douglas Adams. Here’s a quick links round-up….. some imminent opportunities so don’t leave it until you hear the whooshing noises….. Paul Martin’s Handmade Revolution is a new TV show on the look out for “the brightest and best British designer makers.“ that’s probably… Read More
In terms of qualities for being creative and producing great work (whatever your discipline) there are few more valuable than persistence. When I first started making films, I read a book about the craft of writing and directing – one of the first lines of the text was: “A professional filmmaker is just an amateur… Read More
My last couple of posts have been on rather heavy and psychological subjects (humility/ego in creativity and avoiding fear of success and self sabotaging), so I decided that this post should focus on something more practical. In a world that is continuously go-go-go, where deadlines loom large and people are always seeking that edge, it’s… Read More
In this blog, I’d like to talk about something that can really stunt creativity: That familiar old monster- fear. Have you ever stood at the foot of a mountain, looked up and been frozen by the sheer task ahead of you? Of course, few of us have really… Read More
