Celebrating the Art, Craft and Business of Animation https://www.awn.com/ en-US 15 Tue, 08 May 2018 15:03:44 -0700 Thu, 25 Apr 2019 13:00:02 -0700 https://www.awn.com/blog/outside-window-inside-my-mind It takes willingness to step outside the norm for a stroll onto the wild side, and who knows, maybe even beyond, where human imagination gets ignited. Edward Bakst https://www.awn.com/blog/outside-window-inside-my-mind Tue, 08 May 2018 15:03:44 PDT Reflections https://www.awn.com/blog/norm-dull The norm lavishes in opulence and tranquility, making it difficult to willingly seek out challenging creative endeavors. Edward Bakst https://www.awn.com/blog/norm-dull Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:58:52 PDT Reflections https://www.awn.com/blog/ugly-muse-part-3 Final reflections on the power of impartial and broad-minded ideation on dissimilar domains, disciplines or objectives, as well as how such can be inspired by most unlikely Muses.   Edward Bakst https://www.awn.com/blog/ugly-muse-part-3 Wed, 06 Jan 2016 16:12:52 PST Reflections https://www.awn.com/blog/ugly-muse-part-2 Ongoing reflection on the power of impartial and broad-minded ideation on dissimilar domains, disciplines or objectives, as well as how such can be inspired by most unlikely Muses. Edward Bakst https://www.awn.com/blog/ugly-muse-part-2 Wed, 16 Dec 2015 9:19:12 PST Reflections https://www.awn.com/blog/ugly-muse-part-1 Dedicated to Colin, my host, who invited me for ideation brainstorming and asking, ‘What if?’ Edward Bakst https://www.awn.com/blog/ugly-muse-part-1 Wed, 25 Nov 2015 5:06:41 PST Reflections https://www.awn.com/blog/virtuality Imagination and ‘gravity free & reality independent’ ideation are critical to unlocking the true potential of AR and VR. Edward Bakst https://www.awn.com/blog/virtuality Fri, 16 Oct 2015 12:00:31 PDT Reflections https://www.awn.com/blog/imagination-workshops-and-world-large-part-6 Final reflections on how society has a critical need for igniting and cultivating imagination as the origin of all ideation, inspiration, invention and innovation. Edward Bakst https://www.awn.com/blog/imagination-workshops-and-world-large-part-6 Mon, 28 Sep 2015 14:57:49 PDT Reflections https://www.awn.com/blog/imagination-workshops-and-world-large-part-5 Continuing reflections on how society has a critical need for igniting and cultivating imagination as the origin of all ideation, inspiration, invention and innovation. Edward Bakst https://www.awn.com/blog/imagination-workshops-and-world-large-part-5 Mon, 17 Aug 2015 15:29:32 PDT Reflections https://www.awn.com/blog/imagination-workshops-and-world-large-part-4 Ongoing reflections on how society has a critical need for igniting and cultivating imagination as the origin of all ideation, inspiration, invention and innovation. Edward Bakst https://www.awn.com/blog/imagination-workshops-and-world-large-part-4 Fri, 31 Jul 2015 16:18:12 PDT Reflections https://www.awn.com/blog/imagination-workshops-and-world-large-part-3 Continued reflections on how society has a critical need for igniting and cultivating imagination as the origin of all ideation, inspiration, invention and innovation. Edward Bakst https://www.awn.com/blog/imagination-workshops-and-world-large-part-3 Thu, 09 Jul 2015 10:24:22 PDT Reflections https://www.awn.com/blog/imagination-workshops-and-world-large-part-2 Further reflections on how society has a critical need for igniting and cultivating imagination as the origin of all ideation, inspiration, invention and innovation. Edward Bakst https://www.awn.com/blog/imagination-workshops-and-world-large-part-2 Fri, 19 Jun 2015 12:11:57 PDT Reflections https://www.awn.com/blog/imagination-workshops-and-world-large-part-1 Society has a critical need to ignite and cultivate imagination as the origin of all ideation, inspiration, invention and innovation. Edward Bakst https://www.awn.com/blog/imagination-workshops-and-world-large-part-1 Fri, 05 Jun 2015 17:48:17 PDT Reflections https://www.awn.com/blog/one-kind-part-3-farewell I’m grateful for the journey within my imagination that this tree has inspired. Edward Bakst https://www.awn.com/blog/one-kind-part-3-farewell Tue, 19 May 2015 15:20:07 PDT Reflections https://www.awn.com/blog/one-kind-part-2-encounter I spent a considerable time exploring the tree from all seemingly accessible angles, and I am convinced that it, in return, did no less. Edward Bakst https://www.awn.com/blog/one-kind-part-2-encounter Fri, 03 Apr 2015 13:30:31 PDT Reflections https://www.awn.com/blog/one-kind-part-1 Are we not all but puppets conceived for someone’s reasons, then delivered onto a stage, on which to learn, evolve, conform or rebel, impact on or be impacted, trampled on and shaped by the others? Edward Bakst https://www.awn.com/blog/one-kind-part-1 Wed, 18 Mar 2015 18:12:34 PDT Reflections https://www.awn.com/blog/green-desert-part-2 Each time I return to New York, my spiritual home, it takes even less time for me to become uptight, tense, stressed and mistrustful towards others. Edward Bakst https://www.awn.com/blog/green-desert-part-2 Thu, 26 Feb 2015 17:50:29 PST Reflections https://www.awn.com/blog/green-desert-part-1 Feeling famished and deprived in the relative calm of the Green Desert, my journey back to D.C. and New York is a welcome, though not altogether pleasant reprieve. Edward Bakst https://www.awn.com/blog/green-desert-part-1 Mon, 26 Jan 2015 10:28:12 PST Reflections https://www.awn.com/news/edward-bakst-bringing-imagination-workshop-uc-berkeley Designer, director and AWN blogger Edward Bakst to lead a five-week workshop, ‘Unleashing Imagination,’ presented by UC Berkeley’s Department of Art Practice beginning January 30 through February 27. Jennifer Wolfe https://www.awn.com/news/edward-bakst-bringing-imagination-workshop-uc-berkeley Mon, 12 Jan 2015 11:51:14 PST Reflections https://www.awn.com/blog/end-year-musing At times when I become this sweet and mellow, it makes me reflect and wonder whether I am a wishful and naïve dreamer, utopian or simply losing my marbles. I shall let you know in the forthcoming blogs. Edward Bakst https://www.awn.com/blog/end-year-musing Thu, 18 Dec 2014 14:02:12 PST Reflections https://www.awn.com/blog/mysteries-entombed-within-redwoods-realm-part-2 For those of you readers who miss seeing the forest’s creatures, its bouquet of textures and colors, I am truly and deeply sorry. Edward Bakst https://www.awn.com/blog/mysteries-entombed-within-redwoods-realm-part-2 Tue, 02 Dec 2014 15:06:29 PST Reflections https://www.awn.com/blog/mysteries-entombed-within-redwoods-realm-part-1 Pause, stand still, hold your breath, open your eyes and unleash your imagination to the uninhibited realm of the Redwoods. Edward Bakst https://www.awn.com/blog/mysteries-entombed-within-redwoods-realm-part-1 Tue, 11 Nov 2014 14:38:07 PST Reflections https://www.awn.com/blog/cuba-part-2 To ignite, liberate and empower imagination to its fullest and most potent we must open our minds and embrace "gravity free & reality independent” thinking. Edward Bakst https://www.awn.com/blog/cuba-part-2 Mon, 07 Jul 2014 13:27:45 PDT Reflections https://www.awn.com/blog/cuba-part-1 Why is it that many live action filmmakers look down upon Animation as a lesser and an inferior medium? Edward Bakst https://www.awn.com/blog/cuba-part-1 Mon, 19 May 2014 16:14:00 PDT Reflections https://www.awn.com/blog/encounter-peru-part-4-machu-pichu-wayna-pichu-and-back I highly advocate that everyone step out of their status quo onto the wild side to taste the joys of such a sight. Edward Bakst https://www.awn.com/blog/encounter-peru-part-4-machu-pichu-wayna-pichu-and-back Mon, 03 Feb 2014 15:06:29 PST Reflections https://www.awn.com/blog/behind-great-wall-china-part-1 My impressions, after working and living in China, contradict those initial assumptions and reflections from a year ago, when I visited China the first time. Edward Bakst https://www.awn.com/blog/behind-great-wall-china-part-1 Wed, 15 Jan 2014 17:58:33 PST Reflections https://www.awn.com/blog/life-vs-afterlife-part-2 Having traveled and lived in countries representative of truly diverse ideological, political, economic, social, geographic and otherwise distinctive settings, the issuing realities are dawning on me, and in the reflective process also are becoming uncomfortably clear to me. Edward Bakst https://www.awn.com/blog/life-vs-afterlife-part-2 Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:54:23 PDT Reflections https://www.awn.com/blog/life-vs-afterlife-part-1 This much delayed episode comes to you all the way from China, where I am now, invited here as a Professor & KoGuan Chair of Digital Arts & Design @ Peking University. Edward Bakst https://www.awn.com/blog/life-vs-afterlife-part-1 Thu, 16 May 2013 17:53:33 PDT Reflections https://www.awn.com/blog/homage-venice-beach Edward reflects on the calm beauty of Venice Beach before he travels again, this time for a long stay in Beijing. Edward Bakst https://www.awn.com/blog/homage-venice-beach Mon, 01 Apr 2013 16:51:43 PDT Reflections https://www.awn.com/blog/promised-land-part-5 Edward's final post on his travels and search for artistic and spiritual enlightenment in Israel. Edward Bakst https://www.awn.com/blog/promised-land-part-5 Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:16:14 PST Reflections https://www.awn.com/blog/promised-land-part-4 Israel's demand for its neighbors’ recognition of its right to existence as an independent state is essential. Which country would not seek it or fight for it, if need to? But there is another facet to this, one which came to my focus while there, Israel's right to existence as the Jewish state. This is an all together other, vastly more complex an issue. Edward Bakst https://www.awn.com/blog/promised-land-part-4 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:25:07 PST Reflections