The short answer is it depends. If, by valid, we mean always and universally true, then no. By this standard, all design rules are nonsense. The Rule of Thirds is an arbitrary line for amateurs to gaze upon while secretly learning to shift your brain’s natural tendency to center things and create symmetry. A rule…
Let’s listen to a song, watch it expand, and then understand what the artist is doing. Here’s George Benson’s version of Donny Hathaway’s “The Ghetto,” with Joe Sample on piano. Now, here is musician and teacher Rick Beato breaking down George’s work, because if we don’t know how artistry works, we devolve into believing it’s…
Even though few people ever read this blog, and though we’ve stopped regularly posting to it for years, I believe keeping a live conduit to art is more important than ever. Put simply, Earth culture sucks. That being true, I will attempt to reinstate something I was doing years ago: Days of Art. That is…
Another poetry reading. Not sure how the sound became out of synch on YouTube, but oh well. Peace, babies.
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