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Ten Seventy-Seven

The green eye glows no more;
death in the dimming.

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Let's Cheat the Time Warp Again

Sometimes, you have to cheat a bit to get a theory to conform to reality as we currently understand it.  We love to think of time travel and of warping space — and there are Big Thinkers who are bringing us closer to that total destiny today.

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Acting in Slow Motion Creates Perpetual Momentum

One thing amateur actors lack is technique.  Sometimes trying to embed a foreign technique into a new actor can be a challenge.  One of the most important techniques any actor must have is the innate ability to control time and space.  A good actor can speed up time or slow time to a crawl.  Speeding up is easy; slowing down is hard.

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Never Enough Time, the Time is Now

There’s never enough for anything in the theatre.  Everything is a rush.  Nothing is sacred.  Covenants are daily broken.

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If Your Writing Gets Stuck, Go Somewhere Else

Here is one of the greatest pieces of advice I can offer you when you get stuck with your dramatic writing.  I stumbled upon this solution and it has saved me many times over the years.

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Not Going with the Flow

I am one of those who refuse to “go with the flow” because — I have discovered over the arc of a long life — that “going with the flow” is actually a code phrase for having no schedule, and a cudgel of indecision against ambition, and a smothering blanket of malaise that excuses anyone “in the flow” from having any responsibility for getting anything done at all.

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Li Wei Defies

Artist Li Wei defies gravity in sculpted set ups of inhuman positions in space that redefine the memeing of the craft of the body in situ:

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