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027 / I Don't Know How To Be Older Than This

How I lost my way and some advice for creative folk in their 30s.


July 2019 • 4 minute read

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026 / Your Questions, Answered

A Q&A session with Third Something Readers - I answer questions about filmmaking and my creative process.


June 2019 • 8 minute read

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025 / The Threshold Of Awareness

This diagram helps me tell visual stories that make the audience both think and feel. Here’s how to use it.


June 2019 • 2 minute read

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024 / The Sacred Stage

Are you feeling creatively blocked? You might be thinking about your ideas all wrong.


June 2019 • 4 minute read

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023 / A Vague Haze of Malaise

I’ve been feeling depressed lately and I wonder if it’s connected to how much time I make for myself to create.


June 2019 • 2 minute read

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022 / Looking and Seeing

Here’s a useful exercise in using drawing as a form of meditation and awareness. Try it out!


June 2019 • 3 minute read

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021 / My Storyboarding Process

A step-by-step look at my previsualisation process for making a video for The New York Times.


May 2019 • 4 minute read

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020 / You're Weird

Exceed algorithmic description - make art the computer cannot categorise!


May 2019 • 4 minute read

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019 / Five Miscellaneous Things

There’s a lot in this one! Poetry, filmmaking, graphic novels and visual storytelling - take your pick!


May 2019 • 6 minute read

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018 / Planned Improv

Notes on the balance between preparation and improv in the creative process, while shooting a film for The New York Times.


May 2019 • 4 minute read

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017 / Practicing Scales

Some practical advice on how filmmakers can build a daily practice habit that improves their craft.


April 2019 • 6 minute read

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016 / Keep Hanging On, Kid

Remembering Lyra McKee, a fellow journeyman who lost her life too soon in Northern Ireland.


April 2019 • 2 minute read

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015 / The Gift

A quick note on Patreon and the power of generosity in the Creator Economy.


April 2019 • 4 minute read

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014 / Outsider's Luck

Do people who aren’t trying so hard have some kind of outsider’s advantage?


April 2019 • 2 minute read

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013 / Three Thoughts on Visual Storytelling

On Spiderman Into The Spider-Verse, the nature of juxtaposition and writing screenplay dialogue.


March 2019 • 4 minute read

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