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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 17:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[. What&#8217;s Your Story? . Many years ago, when the Earth was still young and we were crawling out of the primordial sludge, I was a high school art teacher. That was my first adult job. But that is another story. I had a student who always used the expression &#8216;What&#8217;s the story?&#8217; as a [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Many years ago, when the Earth was still young and we were crawling out of the primordial sludge, I was a high school art  teacher. That was my first adult job. But that is another story. I had a  student who always used the expression &#8216;What&#8217;s the story?&#8217; as a kind of  greeting. I thought he was interested in hearing my story, so I usually  made some time to share stories that were sometimes real and sometimes  fiction. &#8216;What&#8217;s the story?&#8217; means &#8216;Wassup?&#8217; in today&#8217;s vernacular.<br />
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I have written many articles about the value of storytelling in the creative process. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">With the impending death of interruption advertising, consumers will be choosing when and how they receive information.Storytelling will help brands stand out and differentiate products and  services to specific prospects. Agencies such as<a href="http://storyworldwide.com"> <span style="color: #ff0000;">http://storyworldwide.com</span></a> are hip to this and are helping their clients  tell their brands&#8217; stories.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sometimes  stories are found in our early childhood experiences. These stories  often herald the person we have become. This story by the great writer  Stephen King is such a story.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I  invite all of my readers to contribute stories and.or photographs that  represent how your earliest childhood experience may enhance an  understanding of who you are and what makes you different. Your brand.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><em>How to Tell A Story</em></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><em>Mark Twain</em><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #ffffff;">.</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p><em>The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty</em><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><em> </em></span></span></p>
<p><em>story is French. The humorous story depends upon the manner of the</em></p>
<p><em>telling; the comic story and the witty story upon the matter&#8230; the humorous</em></p>
<p><em>story is strictly a work of art &#8212; high and delicate art &#8212; and only an artist can</em></p>
<p><em>tell it&#8230; the humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal</em></p>
<p><em>the fact that he dimly suspects there is something funny about it.</em></p>
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<p><em>Multimedia is Not a Panacea!</em><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">My concern is that so many still photographers believe they &#8216;should&#8217; learn multimedia as a survival action rather than having heard the calling.</span><span style="color: #000000;"> </span></p>
<p>Vision is a calling. A calling is an inner urge or a strong impulse, a passion, some believe a calling may be divinely inspired. How will the world</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">be a different place as a result of your visit on the planet? What is your calling? What is it that you feel the urge and passion to bring into being no matter what?</span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></span></p>
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<p>Stalking in Camden ME</p>
<p>We might have been arrested for this, but it built character.</p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: large;">William Kentridge &#8211; Storyteller</span></span></p>
<p>Artist&#8217;s Statement and Autobiographical Animated Video</p>
<p>Idea Stimulator &#8211; How to Tell an Infinite Number of Stories</p>
<p>I invented a device that force fits story elements through juxtapositions that invite innovative storytelling. This tool is revealed in its entirety. Feel free to use it whenever you desire.<br />
Graphic Novels:</p>
<p>The Power of Words and Pictures</p>
<p>Isness &#8211; The Making of a Photographic Novel</p>
<p>How Stavit Allweis used Kickstarter to fund her photographic novel</p>
<p>How Messing with Mr. In-Between Makes Gutter Talk More Interesting</p>
<p>How to structure a graphic novel</p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2011 13:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
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It is Not About You

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On May 30th, 2011, NY Times columnist David Brooks wrote a piece that is completely contrary to everything I believe in and teach. Here are some highlights, I suggest that you read the column in its entirety and then read Anna Quindlin's advice to graduates from 1999. Brooks delivers an Op Ed piece that supports problem solving at the expense of creativity, experimentation, learning, and passion. I believe that there are enough of us on the planet to allow many different points of view. However, to profess that following passion and seeking to do what you love is hogwash may be damaging to the souls of young people. It will discourage them from creating: causing what they love or what matters to come into being. This point of view not only discourages young people from becoming artists or entrepreneurs and defines doing what one loves as selfish. ]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><em><span style="color: #800000;">It is </span></em></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><em><span style="color: #800000;">Not About You</span></em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800000;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On May 30th, 2011, NY Times columnist David Brooks wrote a piece that is completely contrary to everything I believe in and teach.</span> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="color: #800000;"> Here are some highlights, I suggest that you<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/31/opinion/31brooks.html"> read the column</a> in its entirety and then read Anna Quindlin&#8217;s advice to graduates from 1999. Brooks delivers an Op Ed piece that supports problem solving at the expense of creativity, experimentation, learning, and passion. I believe that there are enough of us on the planet to allow many different points of view. However, to profess that following passion and seeking to do what you love is hogwash may be damaging to the souls of young people. It will discourage them from creating: causing what they love or what matters to come into being. This point of view not only discourages young people from becoming artists or entrepreneurs and defines doing what one loves as selfish.</span> </span><br />
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<p style="text-align: left; padding-left: 90px;"><em><span style="font-size: medium;">&#8230;Worst of all, they are sent off into this world with the whole  baby-boomer theology ringing in their ears. If you sample some of the  commencement addresses being broadcast on C-Span these days, you see  that many graduates are told to: Follow your passion, chart your own course, march to the beat of your own drummer, follow your dreams and find yourself. This is the litany of expressive individualism, which is still the dominant note in American culture.</span></em></p>
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<p style="text-align: left; padding-left: 90px;"><em><span style="font-size: medium;">But, of course, this mantra misleads on nearly every front.</span></em></p>
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<p style="text-align: left; padding-left: 90px;"><em><span style="font-size: medium;">College grads are often sent out into the world amid rapturous talk of  limitless possibilities. But this talk is of no help to the central  business of adulthood, finding serious things to tie yourself down to.  The successful young adult is beginning to make sacred commitments — to a  spouse, a community and calling — yet mostly hears about freedom and  autonomy.</span></em></p>
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<p style="text-align: left; padding-left: 90px;"><em><span style="font-size: medium;">Today’s graduates are also told to find their passion and then pursue  their dreams. The implication is that they should find themselves first  and then go off and live their quest. But, of course, very few people at  age 22 or 24 can take an inward journey and come out having discovered a  developed self.</span></em></p>
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<p style="text-align: left; padding-left: 90px;"><em><span style="font-size: medium;">Most successful young people don’t look inside and then plan a life.  They look outside and find a problem, which summons their life. A  relative suffers from Alzheimer’s and a young woman feels called to help  cure that disease. A young man works under a miserable boss and must  develop management skills so his department can function. Another young  woman finds herself confronted by an opportunity she never thought of in  a job category she never imagined. This wasn’t in her plans, but this  is where she can make her contribution.</span></em></p>
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<p style="text-align: left; padding-left: 90px;"><em><span style="font-size: medium;">Most people don’t form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a  problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling.</span></em></p>
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<p style="text-align: left; padding-left: 90px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The graduates are also told to pursue happiness and joy. But, of course,  when you read a biography of someone you admire, it’s rarely the things  that made them happy that compel your admiration. It’s the things they  did to court unhappiness — the things they did that were arduous and  miserable, which sometimes cost them friends and aroused hatred. It’s  excellence, not happiness, that we admire most.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800000;"><em><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Anna Quindlan&#8217;s Commencement Address</span></span></em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #800000;"><em><span style="font-size: x-large;">Mount Holyoke College &#8211; 1999</span></em></span><br />
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<p style="text-align: left; padding-left: 60px;"><span style="color: #000000;"><em><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">A </span>look at all of you today and I cannot help but see myself twenty-five years ago, at my own Barnard commencement. I sometimes seem, in my mind, to have as much in common with that girl as I do with any stranger I might pass in the doorway of a Starbucks or in the aisle of an airplane. I cannot remember what she wore or how she felt that day. But I can tell you this about her without question: she was perfect.</span></em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; padding-left: 60px;"><span style="color: #000000;"><em><span style="font-size: medium;">Let me be very clear what I mean by that. I mean that I got up every day and tried to be perfect in every possible way. If there was a test to be had, I had studied for it; if there was a paper to be written, it was done. I smiled at everyone in the dorm hallways, because it was important to be friendly, and I made fun of them behind their backs because it was important to be witty. And I worked as a residence counselor and sat on housing council. If anyone had ever stopped and asked me why I did those things&#8211;well, I&#8217;m not sure what I would have said. But I can tell you, today, that I did them to be perfect, in every possible way&#8230;</span></em></span></p>
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Being perfect was hard work, and the hell of it was, the rules of it changed. So that while I arrived at college in 1970 with a trunk full of perfect pleated kilts and perfect monogrammed sweaters, by Christmas vacation I had another perfect uniform: overalls, turtlenecks, Doc Martens, and the perfect New York City Barnard College affect&#8211;part hyperintellectual, part ennui. This was very hard work indeed. I had read neither Sartre nor Sappho, and the closest I ever came to being bored and above it all was falling asleep. Finally, it was harder to become perfect because I realized, at Barnard, that I was not the smartest girl in the world. Eventually being perfect day after day, year after year, became like always carrying a backpack filled with bricks on my back. And oh, how I secretly longed to lay my burden down.</span></em></span></p>
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So what I want to say to you today is this: if this sounds, in any way, familiar to you, if you have been trying to be perfect in one way or another, too, then make today, when for a moment there are no more grades to be gotten, classmates to be met, terrain to be scouted, positioning to be arranged&#8211;make today the day to put down the backpack. Trying to be perfect may be sort of inevitable for people like us, who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and in its good opinion. But at one level it&#8217;s too hard, and at another, it&#8217;s too cheap and easy. Because it really requires you mainly to read the zeitgeist of wherever and whenever you happen to be, and to assume the masks necessary to be the best of whatever the zeitgeist dictates or requires. Those requirements shapeshift, sure, but when you&#8217;re clever you can read them and do the imitation required.</span></em></span></p>
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But nothing important, or meaningful, or beautiful, or interesting, or great ever came out of imitations. The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.</span></em></span></p>
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This is more difficult, because there is no zeitgeist to read, no template to follow, no mask to wear. Set aside what your friends expect, what your parents demand, what your acquaintances require. Set aside the messages this culture sends, through its advertising, its entertainment, its disdain and its disapproval, about how you should behave. Set aside the old traditional notion of female as nurturer and male as leader; set aside, too, the new traditional notions of female as superwoman and male as oppressor. Begin with that most terrifying of all things, a clean slate. Then look, every day, at the choices you are making, and when you ask yourself why you are making them, find this answer: for me, for me. Because they are who and what I am, and mean to be.</span></em></span></p>
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This is the hard work of your life in the world, to make it all up as you go along, to acknowledge the introvert, the clown, the artist, the reserved, the distraught, the goofball, the thinker. You will have to bend all your will not to march to the music that all of those great &#8220;theys&#8221; out there pipe on their flutes. They want you to go to professional school, to wear khakis, to pierce your navel, to bare your soul. These are the fashionable ways. The music is tinny, if you listen close enough. Look inside. That way lies dancing to the melodies spun out by your own heart. This is a symphony. All the rest are jingles.</span></em></span></p>
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This will always be your struggle whether you are twenty-one or fifty-one. I know this from experience. When I quit the New York Timesto be a full-time mother, the voices of the world said that I was nuts. When I quit it again to be a full-time novelist, they said I was nuts again. But I am not nuts. I am happy. I am successful on my own terms. Because if your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all. Remember the words of Lily Tomlin: If you win the rat race, you&#8217;re still a rat.</span></em></span></p>
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Look at your fingers. Hold them in front of your face. Each one is crowned by an abstract design that is completely different than those of anyone in this crowd, in this country, in this world. They are a metaphor for you. Each of you is as different as your fingerprints. Why in the world should you march to any lockstep?</span></em></span></p>
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The lockstep is easier, but here is why you cannot march to it. Because nothing great or even good ever came of it. When young writers write to me about following in the footsteps of those of us who string together nouns and verbs for a living, I tell them this: every story has already been told. Once you&#8217;ve read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbirdand A Wrinkle in Time,you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever had. And that is herself, her own personality, her own voice. If she is doing Faulkner imitations, she can stay home. If she is giving readers what she thinks they want instead of what she is, she should stop typing.</span></em></span></p>
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But if her books reflect her character, who she really is, then she is giving them a new and wonderful gift. Giving it to herself, too. And that is true of music and art and teaching and medicine. Someone sent me a T-shirt not long ago that read &#8220;Well-Behaved Women Don&#8217;t Make History.&#8221; They don&#8217;t make good lawyers, either, or doctors or businesswomen. Imitations are redundant. Yourself is what is wanted.</span></em></span></p>
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You already know this. I just need to remind you. Think back. Think back to first or second grade, when you could still hear the sound of your own voice in your head, when you were too young, too unformed, too fantastic to understand that you were supposed to take on the protective coloration of the expectations of those around you. Think of what the writer Catherine Drinker Bowen once wrote, more than half a century ago: &#8220;Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.&#8221; Many a woman, too.</span></em></span></p>
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You are not alone in this. We parents have forgotten our way sometimes, too. I say this as the deeply committed, often flawed mother of three. When you were first born, each of you, our great glory was in thinking you absolutely distinct from every baby who had ever been born before. You were a miracle of singularity, and we knew it in every fiber of our being.</span></em></span></p>
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But we are only human, and being a parent is a very difficult job, more difficult than any other, because it requires the shaping of other people, which is an act of extraordinary hubris. Over the years we learned to want for you things that you did not want for yourself. We learned to want the lead in the play, the acceptance to our own college, the straight and narrow path that often leads absolutely nowhere. Sometimes we wanted those things because we were convinced it would make life better, or at least easier for you. Sometimes we had a hard time distinguishing between where you ended and we began.</span></em></span></p>
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So that another reason that you must give up on being perfect and take hold of being yourself is because sometime, in the distant future, you may want to be parents, too. If you can bring to your children the self that you truly are, as opposed to some amalgam of manners and mannerisms, expectations and fears that you have acquired as a carapace along the way, you will give them, too, a great gift. You will teach them by example not to be terrorized by the narrow and parsimonious expectations of the world, a world that often likes to color within the lines when a spray of paint, a scrawl of crayon, is what is truly wanted.</span></em></span></p>
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Remember yourself, from the days when you were younger and rougher and wilder, more scrawl than straight line. Remember all of yourself, the flaws and faults as well as the many strengths. Carl Jung once said, &#8220;If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance toward oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbors, for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.&#8221;</span></em></span></p>
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Most commencement speeches suggest you take up something or other: the challenge of the future, a vision of the twenty-first century. Instead I&#8217;d like you to give up. Give up the backpack. Give up the nonsensical and punishing quest for perfection that dogs too many of us through too much of our lives. It is a quest that causes us to doubt and denigrate ourselves, our true selves, our quirks and foibles and great leaps into the unknown, and that is bad enough.   But this is worse: that someday, sometime, you will be somewhere, maybe on a day like today&#8211;a berm overlooking a pond in Vermont, the lip of the Grand Canyon at sunset. Maybe something bad will have happened: you will have lost someone you loved, or failed at something you wanted to succeed at very much.   And sitting there, you will fall into the center of yourself. You will look for that core to sustain you. If you have been perfect all your life, and have managed to meet all the expectations of your family, your friends, your community, your society, chances are excellent that there will be a black hole where your core ought to be.  Don&#8217;t take that chance. Begin to say no to the Greek chorus that thinks it knows the parameters of a happy life when all it knows is the homogenization of human experience. Listen to that small voice from inside you, that tells you to go another way. George Eliot wrote, &#8220;It is never too late to be what you might have been.&#8221; It is never too early, either. And it will make all the difference in the world. Take it from someone who has left the backpack full of bricks far behind. Every day feels light as a feather.</span></em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #808080;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><em>From 1001 More Quotes Collected, Questioned and Pondered </em></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">&#8220;We grow up believing that what counts most in our lives is that which will occur in the future. Parents teach children that if they learn good habits now, they will be better off as adults. Teachers assure pupils that the boring classes will benefit them later, when the students are going to be looking for jobs. The company vice president tells junior employees to have patience and work hard, because one of these days they will be promoted to the executive ranks.&#8221;</span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (b. 1934 Hungarian emigrated to United States in 1956)</span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Professor Csikszanmihalyi believes creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives. A leading researcher in positive psychology, he has devoted his life to studying what makes people truly happy: &#8220;When we are involved in [creativity], we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.&#8221; He is the architect of the notion of &#8220;flow&#8221; &#8212; the creative moment when a person is completely involved in an activity for its own sake.</span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Csikszentmihalyi teaches psychology and management at Claremont Graduate University, focusing on human strengths such as optimism, motivation and responsibility. He&#8217;s the director the the Quality of Life Research Center there. He has written numerous books and papers about the search for joy and fulfillment.</span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Csikszentmihaly says,  “Practically every desire that has become part of human nature, from sexuality to aggression, from a longing for security to a receptivity to change, has been exploited as a source of social control by politicians, churches, corporations, and advertisers.”</span></span></p>
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<h1><em><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Bethlehem Steel Brownfield Site Becomes a New Performing Arts Center</span></span></em></h1>
<p><em><a href="http://www.archdaily.com/127605/bethlehem-steel-brownfield-site-becomes-a-new-performing-arts-center/"><span style="font-size: large;">As Reported in Arch Daily</span></a></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-size: medium;">The amazing Artsquest Center opened at Steel Stacks April 14th with a dedication ceremony.</span></em></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In 2006, I participated in the last official photo safari to the remains  of Bethlehem Steel in Pennsylvania&#8217;s Lehigh Valley. 4 years, 11 months  later, I joined a few hundred people for the dedication of the Artsquest  Center on the grounds now known as Steel Stacks. From the ruins sprang  one of the most remarkable reclamations in the world. I am proud to be  on the Visual Arts Board of Directors and to have done my small part to  help bring the arts to the Lehigh Valley.</span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://artsquest.org"><span style="font-size: medium;"><em><span style="color: #993300;"><span style="font-size: large;">Visit Artsquest Site and celebrate the arts.</span></span></em></span></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><em><span style="color: #993300;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://bananafactory.org">Visit our visual arts center the Banana Factory</a><br />
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #808080;"><em><span style="font-size: large;">Home to over 25 resident artists, galleries, classes and more.</span></em></span></p>
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		<title>HEARTSTORMING CREATIVITY WORKSHOP HAS A NEW SIBLING</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 00:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><span style="color: #000000;"><em><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Imagine redirecting your career, embracing change, and maintaining your passions.</span></span></em></span></p>
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		<title>Rain Forest Love &#8211; It Works</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 21:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[. . I hear from Nancy Santullo every year or so and each time she nourishes my heart as she does with all the people she touches. Nan makes the world a better place. I want to share Nan and her worthy labor of love with you. Please give generously. . Hi Ian, How are [...]]]></description>
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<p>I hear from Nancy Santullo every year or so and each time she nourishes my heart as she does with all the people she touches. Nan makes the world a better place. I want to share Nan and her worthy labor of love with you. Please give generously.</p>
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<p><span style="color: #993300;">Hi Ian, How are you? I wanted to share a 5 min film on my work here in the Amazon&#8211; Interesting when we did my two days workshop together back in the early 90&#8242;s, some of my loves were, clouds, water to name a few&#8230; Ya just never know where your workshops will lead people. Know I&#8217;d be grateful if you share the film with colleagues and friends, help me raise awareness and funds for this labor of love in union with humanity. I hope you&#8217;re well, Lots of love, Nan</span></p>
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<span style="color: #993300;"><em><span style="font-size: x-large;">Founder</span></em><span style="font-size: x-large;"><em>, Nancy Santullo, Manifests Love!</em></span></span><br />
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Nancy Santullo, Founder and Executive Director of House of the Children, first visited Peru in 1999 because of her interest in the medicinal healing properties indigenous to the region.</p>
<p>&#8220;What interested me about Peru, was that the indigenous people there still lived so connected to nature. I wanted to gain a deeper understanding of their natural medicines and traditions.&#8221; Nancy, a successful freelance fashion and advertising photographer for over fifteen years in Los Angeles, has shot national print campaigns for corporations such as Levi Strauss, Warner Brother Records, Toyota, NBC Television, and Walt Disney Pictures.</p>
<p>Touched by the needs of the children of Peru, Nancy returned three months later with family donations and began working with a small group of homeless street children in Cusco and, later, with a group of native children in the village of Huacaria in the Manu Rain Forest.</p>
<p>As she was helping them Nancy realized, she was no longer looking at these children as poor. Their spirits were rich and their wills strong. She became inspired to support these children from their place of strength.</p>
<p>Nancy&#8217;s love of the rainforest drew her back to spend more and more time with the children of Huacaria. Working with the village teacher, she established trust among the children and the villagers. She helped teach basic hygiene practices, and created an art workshop for creative activities, supplying art materials, as well as needed school supplies. The pencil sharpener was a big hit, because the children no longer needed to use their teeth to sharpen their pencil.</p>
<p>The children&#8217;s response was immediate and enthusiastic and she soon came to be known by them as &#8220;Senorita Nancy!&#8221;</p>
<p>Nancy observed that children were drinking contaminated water, suffering from chronic health problems and extremely limited educational opportunities. She also learned there were no organizations in Manu dedicated to creating opportunity for children.</p>
<p>Nancy knew in her heart that she had the capacity to do more and made the decision to focus her efforts on the children of Huacaria. With a small group of supporters, she established House of the Children (HOTC.) HOTC is a grassroots 501(c) 3 organization dedicated to creating support, inspiration and opportunity for indigenous children in the Manu Rain Forest of Southeastern Peru.</p>
<p>Nancy is often asked, &#8220;Why Peru, when there are children in America who need our love and attention?&#8221; She responds, &#8220;When I was guided to work with the children in the rainforest I didn&#8217;t really ask &#8216;Why?&#8217;. The children, native cultures, and the rainforest have offered me an opportunity to grow and contribute to life beyond all that I could have ever imagined. &#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I believe that our lives are interconnected, and that as I help one child, I help all children.&#8221;</p>
<p>This is the beginning&#8230;<br />
PLEASE join us for the next chapter&#8230;</p>
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<p><span style="color: #993300;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://houseofthechildren.org/index.html">Visit the House of the Children Website<br />
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		<title>Make a Positive Difference in the World by Helping Gail Mooney and Erin Kelly Open Your Eyes</title>
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Here is a worthy Kickstarter cause that makes the world a better place. This project is by Gail Mooney and her daughter Erin Kelly wo set out on an admirable quest together. Please watch this video. Then go to Kickstarter and make a pledge of $1 or more to help fund the next phase of <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gailmooney/opening-our-eyes-a-film-about-people-making-a-posi">Opening Our Eye</a>s.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I know Gail Mooney and her husband Tom Kelly for over 25 years. We met at the Creative Black Book where I was Creative Director back in the mid-80s. Tom and Gail invited me to present a two day personal intensive Heartstorming Workshop about 23 years ago. I recall the dates because Gail was pregnant with their daughter Erin. During that workshop there was much discussion about their desire to make a difference in the world. This project is the evidence of making dreams come true.<br />
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">For More about this project visit Gail and Erin&#8217;s blog:<a href="http://openingoureyes.wordpress.com/"> </a></span><a href="http://openingoureyes.wordpress.com/"><span style="font-size: medium;">http://openingoureyes.wordpress.com/.</span></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My daughter and I circled the globe on a 99-day journey to six continents, shooting a film about people who are making a positive difference in the world. We were inspired to make this film by Maggie Doyne, a young woman who my daughter went to high school with. Maggie is 23 years old, has built a home in Nepal for over 30 children and herself, and has recently completed the construction of a primary school for over 200 students. These children will have a better chance at a brighter future because of Maggie.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I knew that there had to be thousands of people like Maggie around the world who were creating positive change, and my daughter and I set out to tell their stories through film and photographs. We made the trip financially possible by cashing in all our airline miles, hotel awards and Amex points, along with some bartering &#8211; accommodations for video services.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In total, we filmed ten extraordinary people in Uganda, Poland, Russia, Nepal, Thailand, Australia, Peru and Argentina. We have one more story to tell in North America. Our intent is to create short videos on each subject for their foundations&#8217; websites, as well as a feature length documentary that will include all ten of these incredible people.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Our trip was the journey of a lifetime. Not only did we witness the power of the individual and what one can do to &#8220;make a difference,&#8221; but we experienced this together. In the process of making this film and this journey, we learned about each other as the people we are &#8211; not just as a mother or a daughter. We formed a bond that will last a lifetime, and that in itself was perhaps the most rewarding part of the journey.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Our ultimate goal for the film is that it is seen by as many people as possible in the hopes that they too will be inspired and motivated to create positive change in their own communities.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Please note: Any additional funds received after our goal is met, we will use 50% of the overage to promote the film (the more people that see it, the more change-makers we can create), and the other 50% of the overage will be donated to our subjects&#8217; foundations.<br />
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		<title>Artists&#8217; Statements</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[. . David Hockney said: It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work. . Collect some artists&#8217; staterments from the Internet or some other source. Compare the statement to the work. Have you ever written your own artist&#8217;s statement? Is it congruent with [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #993300;"><em><span style="font-size: medium;">It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.</span></em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Collect some artists&#8217; staterments from the Internet or some other source. Compare the statement to the work. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Have you ever written your own artist&#8217;s statement? Is it congruent with your work?</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Here&#8217;s mine. It was written to accompany a solo show at the Stewart-Leshe Gallery.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I am for an art of memories; chipped and fragmented, but not nostalgia. Life lived gathering experiences that are searching for meaning and connections. faces conjured forming associations with persons living and dead; with those who may have lived nowhere but my mind. I am for faces buried for fifty years or more and guessing how I know them. They haunt me in my sleep and when I am awake.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I am for the seas of people on the streets of New York. I am for remembering everyone I have ever met and inviting them to a party in Central Park guessing who they have become. I am for the rags and bones of my childhood &#8212; encountering legends and myths from the moment I broke my first Crayola to the last drip of enamel paint splashing on my sandals and pealing it from my toenails. I am for spontaneity and mistakes. I am for not knowing where I am going until the painting wheezes and whines unless I change the course. I may resist but I go there anyway.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I am for an art on tar paper that bleeds and bubbles and smells and ghosts and is unpredictable.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I am for projects that respond ot life like when I spent three months &#8212; mesmerized &#8212; watching the aftermath of 9/11. Faces flashed for nanoseconds. I tried to paint everyone of them. Gestures. Expressions. Pundits. Soldiers. Police officers. Politicians. Anyone. Even the actors on disconnected television commercials. Working faster. Faster. At record speed. Over one thousand monotypes made from plates no bigger than an index card eventually congregating pinned to walls making installations twelve feet wide and six feet deep.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Faces. More faces. I am for art commencing from high school yearbooks. I am for painting high school seniors who are now in their sixties. I am for emailing people who have not heard from me &#8212; their high school art teacher &#8212; in 45 years, finding them on the Internet, sending them JPGs of the art. I hope they find this website.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Faces imagined in Sunday school Bible classes of members of a huge dysfunctional family beginning in the Garden of Eden and painted in the nineties. Moses. Ezekiel. Sara and Ruth for openers.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I was the kid who drew faces on blue canvas 3 ring binders. I wish I still had a few of those. I think they would look as if they were drawn by this seasoned artist.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #993300;"><em><span style="font-size: x-large;">Post your statements, links to your artwork, and we will discuss them.</span></em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #993300;"><em><span style="font-size: x-large;">Link to a vision statement by <a href="http://heartstorming.com/2010/04/pithy-quote-robert-motherwell-on-vision/">Robert Motherwell</a></span></em></span></p>
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