"Doing something different from other people is not a judgment of their choices.  Just as my being married is no judgment on unmarried couples, the fact that there are multiple organizations and individuals trying to attack the gender parity issue through different means, lenses, frames and efforts does not mean that they are competing with one ( Read more... )

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I have been watching episodes of Bravo's "Work Of Art: The Next Great Artist" on YouTube lately. Without getting out on a tangent about it being the best and worst reality show possible and a total confirmation of why I so seldom watch reality television, I was struck most by how it made me think about Fine Art (or High Art). I think some of the ( Read more... )

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I recently wrote an article on Assumptions, Plays and Hibernation over on the ATL blog, Notes from the Lab. It is worth a quick look and think. Check it out HERE. Here's a quote:

As a small independent theatre, Audacity is under no obligation to do full-scale productions in a certain place for a certain time. We don’t have to do anything in a ( Read more... )

Last week I had beers with my friend Swearingen. We had a great beer-talk that ranged from the future of theatre to apps that guess historical people you're thinking of. At some point, the conversation turned to a project he and I are involved in. It is a new play by a good friend of ours who lives in Chicago. We have done another play by this ( Read more... )

As I continue to draw or create on a daily basis lately, I have been mulling over several questions in my head. What effect do I want my creations to have on the viewer? Am I seeking to engage a conditional response? These questions are part of a bigger thought process of questioning both why I make art and what do I want to achieve by making art ( Read more... )

Scenius... a word coined by Brian Eno. Means collective or communal work of genius. Kevin Kelly expounds on it HERE.

Man, I wish the Dallas Theatre was an honest-to-goodness "Scenius"

"Most people who download the book don't end up buying it, but they wouldn’t have bought it in any event, so I haven’t lost any sales, I’ve just won an audience

~ Cory Doctorow on his "give freely and they will buy" business strategy
This sort of stuff has been on my mind lately. Doctorow was really on to something. It seems ludicrous, but showing ( Read more... )

I am actively trying to discern my "voice" as an artist. How do I stand out? What is my idiosyncratic iconography? What is my unique way of expressing archetypal universals ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about blogging lately. I've been thinking about how my main site BradMcEntire.com works and how I use this LiveJournal. Since I don't use Twitter or a Tumblr (yet?), I use Facebook and this platform to serve those functions. I post stuff I'm thinking of, or cool stuff I've found here and on FB. I use my main site sort of as a ( Read more... )