Archive for March, 2006
How to Watch the Academy Awards
I have finally found a reason to watch the Academy Awards. Usually I avoid the program because every year it becomes more about fame, fashion and popularity. At least that is the set of values the TV folks choose. But, this year, it occurs to me there is a much bigger reason to watch, particularly if you’re working on creating something big and bold for yourself and others.
The Academy Awards allow us a rare look into what happens in the creative process. We get a glimpse at how an idea goes from the firing of synapses in brain cells to a complete set of contiguous images and sounds - a movie - viewed with the eyes and listened to with the ears so it evokes intellectual and emotional responses.…
