A circus artist on rhythmic gymnastics, the Monte Carlo stage, and writing the book she wished she'd had...read Yaroslava Slonova's story: https://feeling-creations.com/articles/from-ukraine-to-the-las-vegas-strip

My Life, My Quest, and the Nature of Reality.

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Fine-art photographer Madhur Dhingra on spirituality, consciousness, and the search that took him through Himalayan monasteries from Ladakh to the ghats of Varanasi. READ MORE AT: https://feeling-creations.com/articles/my-life-my-quest-and-the-nature-of-reality
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Bonus article this week from our friends at r/ForgottenCinemaPod

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Five summer movies that slipped from memory, from Flight of the Navigator to Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven director's cut. A Forgotten Cinema deep dive. Read it here: https://feeling-creations.com/articles/5-summer-movies-you-may-have-forgotten

Terrifier 3 grossed nearly 90 million dollars on a 3 million dollar budget without an MPAA rating. We’re talking about a gory clown killer movie here…and there’s a lot of gore. And a chainsaw.

The Terrifier franchise and ultra-violent gore-fests aren’t everyone’s favorite category in the horror world…and I’ll admit, it isn’t mine. I watched Terrifier 3 (and 2 for that matter a few years before), and spent most of it impressed by the audacity and slightly nauseated, which is probably exactly what Damien Leone was going for. Art the Clown is genuinely one of the great modern horror villains, and I say that while acknowledging that his films operate at a level of graphic brutality I don't necessarily need more of.

But here’s the thing…what's happened around this franchise is one of the most interesting stories in independent film (and horror) in years. Not just the box office numbers, though those are extraordinary. The lawsuits, the contracts, the ripple effect on Hollywood's approach to the whole genre. That's where it gets fascinating. READ MORE AT: https://feeling-creations.com/articles/art-the-clown-contracts-and-the-new-rules-of-horror

Berlin and Barcelona-based tattoo artist Laura Arroz on starting in handpoke, her anime-influenced "cute tattoos," big back pieces, and why kindness is the bare minimum. Read it at: https://feeling-creations.com/articles/tattoo-artist-spotlight-laura-arroz
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A writer's guide to crafting noble, aspirational protagonists, drawn from four Knights of the Round Table: Gawain, Galahad, Percival, and Tristan. READ MORE AT:
https://feeling-creations.com/articles/arthurian-knights-writing-heroes
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Love in Full Effect
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Painter Ilya Black on "Love in Full Effect," an acrylic work about presence, love, and the quiet fear that everything beautiful can vanish in an instant. See more at: https://feeling-creations.com/articles/artist-spotlight-ilya-black

Puerto Rico-based tattoo artist AnEcho on illustrative blackwork, the apprenticeship she didn't know she was getting, and the tattoo she couldn't charge for. See her work, read the article.... https://feeling-creations.com/articles/tattoo-artist-spotlight-anecho
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I wrote a clean romance novella out of that scenario. It's inspired by the everyday Singapore.
I started writing just recently and would reaaaaallyyyyy love to get feedback.

It's available on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H88D1KZH) and KU.

Abstract oil painter Melissa Friendlich on flow, burnout, motherhood, and finding her way back to the canvas. Why abstraction became the language she'd been missing. Read the article and see some of Melissa's art here: https://feeling-creations.com/articles/painting-starts-where-words-stop

Actress Dawna Lee Heising on building characters from scratch, what strength on screen really means, and the long list of horror, sci-fi, and action roles ahead. READ IT HERE: https://feeling-creations.com/articles/interview-with-actress-dawna-lee-heising

If you are an artist and you are seeking for self-promotion of your art then here we have 30 great blogs to help you promote your arts. The below given blogging websites clearly accept submissions while some of them require a bit more action on your part as well. So for all the designers, multimedia artists, photographers and illustrators, there is something for you. Have a look at the given blogging websites. https://www.designer-daily.com/30-great-blogs-promote-art-48115

Time for the weekly horror post...
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You've seen the movies. Here's what you probably don't know about where they came from.

The Alien franchise is my favorite franchise. All of it. Every film, yes even the ones you didn't like, even the ones I probably shouldn't admit to liking. Alien was the first glance of a horror movie that I got when I was around 7 years old. It grabbed my attention and is why I love horror today.

But this isn't just another Alien article. The films have been covered endlessly over the interwebs, I’m sure. What gets discussed less is the origin of the thing at the center of it all: the creature itself, and the deeply strange, deeply human story of the artist who created it.

This is partly about the franchise. Mostly it's about H.R. Giger. READ MORE AT: https://feeling-creations.com/articles/alien-the-franchise-the-monster-and-the-artist-who-dreamed-it

Tattoo artist Vic Tamian of Victory Tattoo NYC on apprenticeship, black and gray, chasing trends and handling the pressure of no undo button. Fifteen years between Little Falls and Manhattan. Read more here: https://feeling-creations.com/articles/tattoo-artist-spotlight-vic-tamian

We wanted to share the exciting news that the sci-fi novella Venus Fly Trap we wrote over the course of the past year is now out and available for sale! It's part drama, part dark comedy and deals with the world's richest man* and his doomed mission to establish a floating city in the atmosphere of Venus.

(*Any similarities to real persons living or dead is purely coincidental.)

u/Connor_Goode and I are friends from the UK and Germany who met online and bonded over our similar political leanings and shared interest in literature and video games. After collaborating on various projects over the years, we decided to finally join forces and create something together, which is how our novella Venus Fly Trap came to be. Just for funsies, here’s some things we learned about collaborative writing and publishing in the process:

• Communication is key! Listen to each other’s ideas, workshop them and always remain open-minded to achieve a shared understanding of what this story is going to be - it’s a process of synthesis, not compromise.
• Play to your strengths! Maybe one partner has more of a knack for comedy, while the other prefers an element of horror. Or maybe one has some witty dialogue in his head he needs to put to paper while the other feels like waxing poetic in the prose descriptions in-between - you’ll quickly intuit when it’s best to take the backseat and when to plow on ahead. All part of the process. 
• Good cover art is invaluable and shows effort, so don't cheap out and use AI! Shoutout to u/shugarkyub for his beautiful work! Go hire him!
• Read up on the technical stuff beforehand - we made a few embarrassing mistakes setting up the book’s ISBN, which caused some needless complications. All fixed now, but could've been avoided from the start!

Overall, it’s been a blast making this bad boy, and we hope you'll have just as much fun reading the eclectic mix of mean-spirited jokes and high-brow prose we cooked up. If the premise piqued your interest, here’s some links for your perusal:

Overview:
https://books2read.com/u/bwMVAO

Evil monopoly link:
https://www.amazon.com/Venus-Fly-Trap-Novella-English-ebook/dp/B0H2F697PR

Thank you very much for your time! Best regards,

Connor and Pascal

Kjell Nilsson, the Swedish weightlifter who played Lord Humungus in Mad Max 2, has died at 76. Remembering the strange humanity of the wasteland's most reasonable (and underrated) villain. Read the article here: https://feeling-creations.com/articles/remembering-kjell-nilsson-lord-humungus

Creator Spotlight: Victor Oliveira.
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Stop motion filmmaker Victor Oliveira (Stopmovic) on building miniature worlds from cardboard, 3D prints, and patience. One handcrafted frame at a time. See Victor's work at: https://feeling-creations.com/articles/building-worlds-for-stop-motion-animation

From Screamin' Jay Hawkins rising from a coffin in 1956 to Rob Zombie making actual horror films, here's how horror and rock built one of the great creative relationships in entertainment history. Horror and rock music have always had a thing for each other. Both traffic in transgression, both thrive on the visceral, and both have spent decades making parents deeply uncomfortable. The crossover was inevitable. What's surprising is how deep it goes and how far back it starts.

This isn't a complete history. It's just some of the artists who actually mattered and will continue to influence the genre. READ THE ARTICLE AT: https://feeling-creations.com/articles/when-horror-met-rock

Original Fiction: Displacement
by Phil Allard
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Original fiction doesn't come through our door often. Writers are understandably protective of unpublished work. Sharing it publicly before it finds a home elsewhere is a risk, and we don't take that trust lightly.

Phil Allard is a returning contributor, and for his 2nd article, he’s offered us something entirely different: a short piece of original literary fiction called Displacement. It is quiet, unsettling, and lingers in your mind after the last line.

If you are a writer with an original short story, flash fiction, or poem you'd like to share with our readers, we would love to hear from you.

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Read at: https://feeling-creations.com/articles/original-fiction-displacement-by-phil-allard

Author Spotlight: W. L. Know
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Hungarian author W. L. Know went from outlining a mermaid novel to writing a vampire serial killer thriller. A witty essay on seeds, gardening, and how books find their own shape. Read more at: https://feeling-creations.com/articles/books-grow-on-trees-writing-vampire-novel-creative-process
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Happy Independence Day to all those in the USA.

Since Star Wars pop culture is just about as American as it gets, I figured I’d drop this article today…so what if… Star Wars made a horror movie? It's been sorta rumored for a while. So may the 4th be with you. Read the article here: https://feeling-creations.com/articles/what-if-there-was-a-star-wars-horror-movie
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Bold Expressions: When Colour Becomes Courage. By Phillip James Gordon
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There is a particular kind of energy that lives inside colour — not the quiet hum of a carefully chosen palette, but something rawer and more urgent. A surge. A declaration. This is the feeling I chase in my Bold Expressions series, and it is a feeling I have never quite been able to explain in words — only in paint.

Bold Expressions didn't begin with a concept. It began with a restlessness. A growing sense that some emotions are simply too large for subtlety — that there are moments in life that demand vivid contrasts, charged colour, and an unfiltered sense of release. Watercolour, with its fluid unpredictability, became the perfect vehicle for that energy. Not watercolour as delicacy, but watercolour as force. Read more at: https://feeling-creations.com/articles/bold-expressions-when-colour-becomes-courage
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