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May 24, 2015

Hoffman's challenge

May 24, 2015/ Ant Gray
Hoffman's challenge

A short while back past Rabbit Hole contributor Matt Roberts and I dared a friend of ours to make something out of a story he told us about Dustin Hoffman—and he did!

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May 24, 2015/ Ant Gray/
Art and creativity, Music and musicmaking, Writers and writing
"A Rich Tapestry", "Band of the Run" (Album), "Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me)" (Song), Dustin Hoffman, John Lennon, Kurt Vonnegut, Paul McCartney, Picasso, Wings
May 17, 2015

Zombie Projects

May 17, 2015/ Ant Gray
Zombie Projects

I’ve got an apocalypse worth of unfinished projects. But rather than keeping hold of them, I’m wondering if I need to mourn them a little and then put them, and me, out of our misery.

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May 17, 2015/ Ant Gray/
A Radio Show on Paper, Art and creativity, Writers and writing
"Alabama" (Song), "John Dies at the End" (Novel), 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, Arthur Quiller-Couch, David Wong, George Harrison, John Coltrane, John Lennon, Martin Luther King, Max Brooks, R-D- Laing, The Beatles, Writing, Zombies
April 17, 2015

Chicken Hypnosis

April 17, 2015/ Ant Gray
Chicken Hypnosis

About Maurice Sendak, Edgar Allen Poe and, of course, chicken hypnosis. (Sort of.)

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April 17, 2015/ Ant Gray/
Art and creativity, Writers and writing
Bob Dylan, chicken hypnosis, Edgar Allan Poe, Edmund Bergler, John Lennon, Maurice Sendak, Wind in the Willows

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The Pleasure and Pedagogy of Reading with Kids
The Pleasure and Pedagogy of Reading with Kids

Recently, I was looking for something about reading to kids, and I happened across an educational theorist from New Zealand with some really great ideas about teaching and learning, which made a few things fall into place about being a parent too.

Slow down, Stand back, Paint one detail at a time
Slow down, Stand back, Paint one detail at a time

Painter Tracey Read talks about spending four weeks painting and drawing her way around Italy.

Bush-Bathing in the Australian Uncanny
Bush-Bathing in the Australian Uncanny

Lia McKnight is a Perth-based artist who seamlessly moves between drawing, textiles, installation and sculpture. McKnight’s beautifully strange, yet eerily familiar works confuse the boundaries between the ‘natural’ and the ‘personal’—an idea that she and eleven other artists explore in a new group show at the Fremantle Arts Centre.

In praise of dripping taps and other unfinished thi...
In praise of dripping taps and other unfinished thi...

Mum’s recurring complaint is that dad never finishes anything. There’s a half-built brick barbecue at the end of the garden that in twenty years has never seen a hotplate, let alone a sausage or steak. It was the same too with the model train layout he built for me as a kid, which never sported truck nor track. But I didn’t realise till now that not finishing things could be a good thing, a helpful trick to keep your creativity on track.

How to write the perfect ending (that you may have already written)
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More difficult than knowing where to begin is knowing when to stop. Pieces of writing we’re working on. Bad relationships. Eating. But when it comes to finding the best ending for a creative work, the perfect solution might be right under our noses.

A holiday at home: Adventures of a sedentary traveller
A holiday at home: Adventures of a sedentary traveller

Can’t afford an expensive holiday overseas? Take some advice from an eighteen century writer, soldier  and artist under house arrest and go on a magical sight-seeing tour of your very own home.

Artists, private masochism and public shame
Artists, private masochism and public shame

To be an artist, constantly risking your self-esteem by putting things out there in the world, requires a certain level of masochism. But how can that masochism be harnessed for good?

Oblique strategies for artists with acute dilemmas
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Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt developed a series of cards to help artists break through their creative blocks and take risks in their work.

This Mixtape Kills Fascists: Music and Rebellion in the Era of Trump
This Mixtape Kills Fascists: Music and Rebellion in the Era of Trump

We can only hope that the resurgence of the extreme right in America inspires an equally strong counterculture. In the era of Trump, only punk can save us now.

The Teacher as Class Clown
The Teacher as Class Clown

Author H.G. Wells had some great advice for writers, which is equally good advice for teachers too.

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