About Russell C. Smith and Michael Foster

The writing team of Smith and Foster comes from an extensive background of new media content creation. They are both established professionals with careers in literature, design and fine arts each with unique generational perspectives on mass media and global culture.

Talking With a Top Curator at Amazon Art, on the Fine Art of Reinventing Art Buying

By |2018-01-27T19:43:18+00:00March 31st, 2016|Huffington Post|

Even though Amazon is a big name, and a brand known throughout the world, Amazon Art is still not on the radar of many people, and just now becoming known. Even internally at Amazon, many people haven't heard of Amazon Art.

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Reinvent You: The Third Manifesto.

By |2018-01-27T22:18:54+00:00October 6th, 2015|Huffington Post, Psychology Today|

Just about everyone is trying to change their life. Reinventing yourself is becoming essential. The world wants minds and lives to be changed. Reinvention is as necessary as breathing, clean water, and staying healthy.

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Exploring the Psychology of Fine Artists in the Digital Age with Yanina Gomez

By |2018-01-27T22:18:21+00:00August 15th, 2015|Huffington Post, Psychology Today|

We are saturated by the media, in the form of advertisements and the Internet selling us unlimited number of programs, supplements, systems, and medications to address this triad. But, what about exposure to the fine arts? Can art influence our psychol...

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An Artist Has to Reinvent Themselves Each Day: The Creative Life of John Andro Avendańo

By |2018-01-27T19:58:45+00:00July 29th, 2015|Huffington Post|

Contemporary artist, John Andro Avendańo is continually working on making art, and showing his work in art festivals and galleries in Miami, Los Angeles, Paris, Seattle, New York City, and selling to collectors around the world who have connected with his unique vision.

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Taming the Negative Voices in our Heads

By |2018-01-27T22:17:46+00:00May 12th, 2015|Huffington Post, Psychology Today|

When we get stuck in patterns that hold us back, the root cause is often the absurd negative voices nattering in the background of our minds. The ones that seems to be stuck in a loop of repeating negative ideas that we’ve long outgrown. We know better, but time and distance hasn’t taken us far away enough to outrun habits learned long ago.

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What makes Seattle so sexy?

By |2018-01-27T22:17:09+00:00April 10th, 2015|Huffington Post, Psychology Today|

The city of Seattle is surrounded by water on all sides, and the topography forms a natural hourglass figure that in the autumn, winter, and spring months is perpetually moist from rain. The lush green landscape creates a feeling of love for and enjoym...

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Notes on the War Against Freedom of Expression

By |2018-01-27T19:58:45+00:00March 12th, 2015|Huffington Post|

The world has never needed free thought and free speech more than now. When free thinkers, cartoonists, satirists, and cultural instigators of every type are gunned down in one of the world's cultural centers, minds need to be drastically changed.

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Technology As an Extension of Fundamental Humanity: An Interview With CEO Dave Sabey

By |2018-01-27T19:58:45+00:00February 13th, 2015|Huffington Post|

In short, the sooner we can adopt new technological tools the better it will be for all of us. Nothing has ever improved human life like advances in technology.

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