Culture Is Not a Luxury
Russell C. Smith and Michael Foster2018-01-27T19:58:44+00:00The history of humanity is known and understood through the arts and artifacts left behind.
Reinvent You: The Third Manifesto.
Russell C. Smith and Michael Foster2018-01-27T22:18:54+00:00Just 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.
The Reinvention of Telling the Truth
Russell C. Smith and Michael Foster2018-01-27T19:58:44+00:00In everyday communications, we prefer that someone tell us the truth. But why has it become so difficult in the digital age?
Exploring the Psychology of Fine Artists in the Digital Age with Yanina Gomez
Russell C. Smith and Michael Foster2018-01-27T22:18:21+00:00We 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...
An Artist Has to Reinvent Themselves Each Day: The Creative Life of John Andro Avendańo
Russell C. Smith and Michael Foster2018-01-27T19:58:45+00:00Contemporary 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.
Taming the Negative Voices in our Heads
Russell C. Smith and Michael Foster2018-01-27T22:17:46+00:00When 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.
What makes Seattle so sexy?
Russell C. Smith and Michael Foster2018-01-27T22:17:09+00:00The 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...
Notes on the War Against Freedom of Expression
Russell C. Smith and Michael Foster2018-01-27T19:58:45+00:00The 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.
Technology As an Extension of Fundamental Humanity: An Interview With CEO Dave Sabey
Russell C. Smith and Michael Foster2018-01-27T19:58:45+00:00In 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.
A Free Speech Fairy Tale
Russell C. Smith and Michael Foster2018-01-27T22:16:43+00:00Humor and satire were viewed as the rightful modes of expression they always had been, and always would be. The sharing of humor is one of the main ways people rise above adversity, and bond, and become better people.