Procrastination. Wasting time on unimportant things instead of doing something meaningful. The infamous enemy of every creative person. At least mine. For a long time I was fighting it. I lost many times.
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Behind the scenes of book covers and board game design
Once I saw a great and simple infographic about what a personal style is in the context of artistic expression. If I remember it correctly, here it is:
Your style is where your expectations for the work meet your abilities.
In the beginning of the year 2020 I started an ambitious project of creating a picture book for my son about the adventures of a cute little t-rex.
With a second draft of the story and a whole book in the scribble form I came to the most challenging part: drawing.
How come that a children’s book is on the list of great dystopian literature? Technology suppressing the nature is a recurring theme in many environmental dystopias. „Lorax“ made it very visual. This short picture book showed simply and categorically the consequences of our mass consumption society exploiting the nature.
You as a totalitarian state based on money and wealth do not need to choose between controlling your people by oppression or by giving them pleasures to forget reality. You can have both… Welcome to the world of 2100.
The dystopian nature of the novel is hidden behind the use of the funny language and depiction of sheer brutality. Where american version of a novel and Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation is a grim place to be, the original british publication has a chapter that gives some hope for humanity.
One of the first dystopias, “the time machine” brings us in the far future, where social inequality changed our nature unrecognizably.
Dystopian book is a mirror of its time.
Great dystopian book remains relevant for generations.
Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit as an answer on tendencies of people being willingly obeyed by media. Today we see its relevance like never before.
Great dystopian book remains relevant for generations.
Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit as an answer on tendencies of people being willingly obeyed by media. Today we see its relevance like never before.
If in „brave new world“ it’s our pleasures that enslave and control us, paraphrasing social critic Neil Postman, in „1984“ it’s fear. Today’s world jumps from one extreme to another, leaving the answer on who was more correct about their predictions of the future open.
What does a perfect world look like?
No war, no hate, no envy. Just pure physical and emotional pleasures and stability in a society… with a small price to pay…
No war, no hate, no envy. Just pure physical and emotional pleasures and stability in a society… with a small price to pay…