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Video and interesting backgrounds

by Bill Wren on August 10, 2011

икониMy last video was kind of awful mainly because it was a mash-up stitched together from a webcam, a Canon ZR850 and a Canon PowerShot. The first third probably could have been scrapped. Still, the tip about avoiding “the furtive glance” was valid, I think. I have another video tip, this time about backgrounds, and [...]

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Canada, singular and plural

by Bill Wren on July 1, 2011

(Originally published July 1, 2010 on Thoughtwrestling as “The Canadas.”) Canada is both problem and solution. It’s an ongoing exercise in creativity and problem solving. Sometimes it works out well; sometimes not. And it’s really, really big! Its lessons are big too. When it comes to solving problems and being creative, it provides the biggest [...]

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Impractical pursuits and other questions

by Bill Wren on November 18, 2010

I have a post on Thoughtwrestling today called Nothing more to say – the secret brain. In it I mention something I call The Impractical Pursuits Project and I’m deliberately vague because I’ve not fully formed the idea in my own head yet. Part of it, however, is counter-intuitive – which is why I call [...]

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The Flying Tree

by Bill Wren on October 16, 2010

Yesterday I wandered into some old files. It was both entertaining and embarrassing. That is how it goes with old files that contain old writing. I did find something I always kind of liked, however. It may be a bit silly and not have the serious, furrowed brow of great poetry … mais, c’est la [...]

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Intersection: I reveal what it is I do

by Bill Wren on October 1, 2010

холови гарнитуриYou never know where ideas and help are going to come from or when. Yesterday I paused from working and found two posts that helped me discover something I’d been looking for a long time. What was I looking for? What it is I do. For me the most painful, almost unbearable kind of [...]

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