Duos – Scales of Collaboration
Duos may be the most basic form of collaboration, but they demonstrate all of the challenges and beauty of two-heads-are-better.
Creative Insights
Along the way, Stan Stewart has learned a few things about creativity. He shares them with you in the hope that you’ll respond with your confirmation or perhaps that your experience is completely different. Both are welcome.
This is also a place where you’ll find some articles about inspiration. After all, that’s an essential part of artistic creativity, too.
The Importance of In-Person Inspiration
I’ve known how crucial in-person connections are for many years. But nothing polarizes my experience the way the pandemic has. In-Person Gone During the lockdowns of the pandemic, many of us have gone for periods of time without seeing other people. I think we can agree that this gets old really fast. Even if we
Drive Inward – pressing towards hope
“Drive Inward” from the upcoming album “Outward and Inward” is the soundtrack for this music video from Stan Stewart.
Reflection: Nature Is a Mirror – Don’t Miss What It Reflects
Finding my reflection is something I rarely did on purpose… I love our newest housemate. She teaches me so much. Reflecting This new member of our household is a dog. One thing she taught me recently is that nature is a mirror. (I know that I only see things this way because of projection, but
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Composing Detours – How Pauses Help Creativity
Stan Stewart composed a track for a competition and then questioned whether that was a bad idea. Are detours helpful or harmful?
Why Creativity is More Important Than Ever
In a guest post on the muz4now blog, Melanie Allen of Partners in Fire shares her insights about why creativity is more important than ever.
Scenes From An Intuitive Journey
After a brief “intuitive journey”, Stan Stewart shares a little about his experience using words, photos, and a music video.
Forget a birthDAY – Let’s have a birthWEEK
Some people love to celebrate birthdays and others don’t. I fall in that “don’t” camp. Birthday Ponderings Well, let me clarify. I’m fine with honoring the anniversary of being born (AKA a birthday). I’m just not certain that one day is enough. Maybe that’s enough for celebrating it with my friends and family. But for
“May It Be Time” Music Videos
Even while trying to take a holiday from blogging, I’ve continued to create. Two of the creations are music videos from the suite “May It Be Time“. Creativity Calls The call of the muse has no respect for arbitrary human schedules. Even holidays (aka vacations) don’t get special treatment. For the first music video, I
Holiday – Taking Time Away From It All
I need to take time off from the routine. When I lived in Scotland, we called this a holiday. Vacation or Holiday I like that word. Here in the USA, this is called a vacation. I guess there’s a sense in which I want to “vacate” my typical schedule. But I really appreciate the intention