Category: Creativity

In the Q & A session after the screening of his upcoming movie, I Am, Tom Shadyac said he was enjoying living in his 1000 square foot double wide trailer instead of his 17,000 square foot house. . . that it’s about “simplicity, simplicity, simplicity”!

As I watched him, I thought, wow, he is truly living out his artist’s life. He survived an accident, and his recovery energized him to be zealous about spreading the word about the most powerful force on earth: loving kindness. For more see: www.iamthedoc.com. Have you ever had a personal revolution like this?

Tom Shadyac (director of movies including Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Nutty Professor and Bruce Almighty) teaches a film class at Pepperdine University. He says he has his students answer three questions:
1) what do you love to do?
2) what do you want to do for your career / occuption?
3) what’s the theme of your life?
And he goes on to say “Those three things should line up – that’s what we call integrity.”
To see Shadyac’s Youtube interview go to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKvL_ETEZIk).
What’s the theme of your life?

Check out the fantastical moving art produced by Carl Pisaturo in this short video. Music by Mariko Miyakawa on cello and Jeremy Reinhold on electronics and glockenspiel.

Photo District News Magazine (www.pdnonline.com) and Artists Wanted (www.artistswanted.org) are sponsoring One Life, an international photography contest. For full info on how to enter, prize, rules and judging info go to http://www.onelifephotos.com/?f=pdn2. Could you handle the award of $25,000 or around the world travel, plus a feature about you in Photo District News Magazine?