I often touch a piano with little idea that a new song is going to come out.It's usually a pleasant surprise, and here's another. From an improvisation into GarageBand iOS via midi. it ended up on my Bandcamp page! Click for a free listen. In the production process I ended up tripping on the echoing... Continue Reading →
Click To Listen: Slept In - improvisation by David Watson Slept In by David Watson Sort of a reverse lullabye, for those times when you want to be awake, but not very, and the tendrils of almost-forgotten dreams are floating around you and you don't want to turn on any lights or move fast or grab... Continue Reading →
Saw this recently in a teacher lounge. It gave me A New Hope. And a bad pun. What inspires you to make things, even silly ones? Does it come naturally or do you cultivate opportunities to improve your productivity? I used to have some concerns with that, perhaps thinking if it wasn't organic it might... Continue Reading →
One more thing on that last post about caution and special events, this was on my Tumblr the other day. Keep left! Or don't, I mean, just barrel straight through if that's what you want.... http://megawatson.tumblr.com/post/171568663575/keep-left-or-dont-i-mean-just-barrel-straight/embed Now there's some useful advice for creativity and production! I either think too much while I am driving, or... Continue Reading →
Came across a blog post today from Stage 32 featuring a couple of videos that might be of interest to creative types that might want to download them into their brain (see what I did there? A truly terrible attempt at a joke. That's what you call a first draft, and would cut in editing.)... Continue Reading →
So one of the difference between successful people and -- let's say less successful people? -- isn't the ideas. It's sharing them. It takes a lot of work, but we can take the first step very easily. If your goal is producing creative content, jokes, stories, music, art, whatever.... the trick is to capture the... Continue Reading →
Taken during the downtown Phoenix Festival For The Arts. The featured image is a portrait rather than a wide angle, and gives a great example how framing can create a different mood and feeling with the same subjects. Here he seems empty and alone, maybe even ignored. In the portrait there is height, perhaps something... Continue Reading →
Sometimes you're just not excited to do a post, or you pretend to yourself that you don't have the energy, when really you have energy but you want to do something else with it; for example, sit on the couch and watch television and read your iPad. And sometimes your phone battery is just dead... Continue Reading →
Sometimes you just take a picture. It's a snap. It takes a second and maybe you doubt even give out a lot of thought when you do it. But does it reflect things you've learned and forgotten from the thousands of pictures you've taken before, whether loved or ignored? Is it an innate skill grown... Continue Reading →
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