Beauty and Imagination
August 8, 2012“Beauty awakens the soul to act.” Dante Alighieri This quote came to mind when I watched this music video of a violinist dancing along the…
Category: Miscellaneous
A Small Change
June 29, 2012I’m about to enact a bit of a change here on the blog, so I thought I should let you know why. Some of you…
The World of E-books: Booktracks
June 27, 2012As the world of books and publishing evolves, perhaps it’s natural that people began to consider the fusion of books and music. For some time,…
Day of Remembrance
May 28, 2012“I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales. We’re in one, of course; but I mean: put into words, you know,…
Dreamers of Dreams
May 23, 2012In 1874, British poet Arthur O’Shaughnessy penned a poem about the impact of storytellers and other creative individuals–poets, musicians, and the like. Through his verse,…
Fantasy Title Trends
May 18, 2012In 2010, Orbit did an interesting study on fantasy cover art and titles from 2009 fantasy novels (graphic below). Although this data is several years…
DaVinci and the Creative Mind
May 9, 2012Recently, I’ve begun to familiarize myself a little with the life of Leonardo DaVinci, an inventor, artist, dreamer of dreams…and so much more. He accomplished…
Trailer for Upcoming Season of Dr. Who
April 23, 2012This trailer came out almost a month ago, but somehow I didn’t stumble across it until just now. On the chance some of you haven’t…
Inspiration from Sleep
March 16, 2012When I was in college, one of my professors shared a story about Benjamin Franklin. It seems that Franklin observed that his times of heightened…
The Tolkien Professor
January 25, 2012Would you be interested in listening to a PhD in medieval literature lecture on Tolkien? Most of us don’t have time (or perhaps finances) to…