Inspired Conversations: Mark Hildreth (part 1)
Posted by Allison Mack | Filed under Inspired Conversation
Enjoy!
Tags: complex state of attachment, inspiration, love, mark hildreth, music
Overthinking Much?
Posted by Allison Mack | Filed under Directing, Musings
Wrote this a few days ago:
That is definitely the name of the game tonight. I start my first day of directing on the set tomorrow; all the preparation I have done over the last year still cannot prepare me for what I am imagining the endeavor to be. I am so nervous. Excited, but nervous about the whole experience. But I am thinking that is a good thing. Alive, which is always good.
This prep process has been incredibly rewarding for me as far as my personal growth is concerned.
I have been able to see my failures in the type of person I want to be and really work to overcome them. It is an amazing thing to have such a strong and clear mode of calibration.So now I am sitting in my living room, staring at my script, going over and over and over my ideas and shots. I think it is time to give the kid her lunch box and send her off to school. You can only learn so much before you have to simply dive in! Test the treading water lessons! Just go!
xoxo
a
Tags: committement, Directing, inspiration, preparing
Hi
Posted by Allison Mack | Filed under Musings
Hello all!
I apologize for the brief hiatus, I hope you all can forgive me! I have been completely bogged down with learning the new skill of directing and I’m spending pretty much all my spare time watching movies for research and learning as much as I can about this amazing craft.
It is so cool because I’m seeing the process of directing from a whole new light and it is beautiful!
Here is one of the videos I am feeling most inspired by right now! Enjoy and I will check in with some questions and thoughts very soon!
xoxo
allison
Tags: Directing, inspiration
My Hopes
Posted by Allison Mack | Filed under Musings, poetry
In my life I hope to accomplish….
In my life I hope to accomplish a true understanding of the word compassion.
I hope to live that understanding in every moment of my life.
I hope to make beautiful art that inspires people to question, think, and push themselves in their relationships with the world around them.
I hope to build relationships with people that are based in authenticity and love.
I hope to inspire people to express themselves in the most joyful and genuine way possible.
I hope to be a woman who represents understanding and acceptance.
I hope to be instrumental in changing the way we relate to each other as human beings.
I hope to be an example of some one who takes responsibility for all things she effects in the world.
I hope to accomplish a life of joy!
I hope to laugh out loud.
xoxo
allison
Tags: art, authenticity, compassion, inspiration, love, relate, understanding
Scare
Posted by Allison Mack | Filed under Musings
Lou Says:
September 4th, 2008 at 4:07 pmanything can inspire change. looking at the right random object. noticing a theme in a movie or tv show. conversations. books. illness, death, and even birth.
but whether or not we decide to ACTUALLY change is up to each person. I can want to change. I can TRY to change. but that doesn’t mean I will. there has to be EFFORT and AMBITION.
Personally, what inspires change in myself is realizing my own potential and wanting to achieve it. but attaining one’s own potential is like constantly dividing. you can get closer and closer and closer to the ultimate goal, but it’s nothing more than an ideal situation. ideal is never met. ideal is utopia (if you will). I want to be the best I can. this is why we all learn. when we stop learning, we stop growing. stopping growth is to stop yourself from going up in the world. then you’re just stuck.
I want to change to prevent getting myself stuck in life. not just my skills, but also ethically/morally, spiritually, and socially.
what do I want to change in myself, specifically? everything. not a total change, but more like improvements. more ambition, being less lazy, noticing more in life that I’m missing out on. things like that. oh yeah. and getting into shape.
I found this post to be really well stated and very beautiful. Thank you, Lou.
I feel that change for me happens in two ways. Either I see something amazing and I am inspired to strive for it, or I feel so uncomfortable, so totally sick of myself and the way I am doing something that I shift.
Obviously the former is much more optimal than the latter. However, I must say that the latter is much more effective. Change is scary. Doing something new? AHHHH! Holy shit!
It is so funny, because I watch myself opening my eyes to something I want to be, something I see inspires me to push myself to grow. But if it is really something new, something so beautiful, yet so foreign, often I will make up all these excuses, generate all these lies so that I have a reason to stay the same. And even though fear totally sucks, it’s familiar and much more appealing than the unknown.
I have so much respect for people who unabashedly dive into the unknown. People who stare into the abyss of uncertainty and embrace it. Those who seek that are truly the leaders and change makers.
Eleanor Roosevelt said we should “Do one thing every day that scares us.” But what really scares us, not fake, “I- wanna- get- out- of- pushing- myself- or- trying- something- new” scares us.
So I challenge you as I am challenging myself, take on something scary, something unknown and new, and embrace it.
Dive in and see what happens.
Keep me posted!
I wanna know about your progress!
xo
allison
Tags: Change, Eleanor roosevelt, Fear, inspiration
Bravery in Art
Posted by Allison Mack | Filed under Blog, Musings
Last night I saw such a beautiful exemplification of bravery that I had not ever recognized before.
I was in the audience of a play comprised of 3 one-person shows. The courage one must have to believe they can tell a story, honestly, for 20 minutes to a group of strangers is so honorable and beautiful.
I am so moved by people expressing. To me there is something so extraordinary about our capacity as human beings to translate experience and emotion.
I feel like it is one of the major things that sets us apart from animals: Our capacity, and reason for creating simply to create. To communicate with something other than a conversation, or to communicate something so potent it inspires depth and introspection which than effects all conversation.
Amazing.
So here is a nice little philosophical question for you:
What is art?
xo
allison
Tags: Acting, art, conversation, expression, inspiration, introspection, play
Inspired Conversations
Posted by Allison Mack | Filed under Inspired Conversation
Ok, so welcome to my very first “Inspired Conversation!” Please watch and enjoy!
Get to know what Ward is about today and check back tomorrow with more info on the inspiring thing he is doing! I thought I would break it up for y’all!
Check it out!
xo
allison
Tags: conversation, inspiration, Interviews, mondonation, ward bingham
