New to JustinsMorningCoffee? . Film student? . Just curious?. I’d say start with the 7 Basic Plots Lectures. It’s like a free film course where you can think along with me as I attempt to go upstream & understand the story archetypes. The Seven Basic Plots.

Osteria Romana

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Rome - Trastevere

Arrivederci, Italia! . Time to leave fantasy land and go back to real life. Good heavens it was a wonderful, meraviglioso, incredibile, e bellissimo trip. The Italian Alps are down below and, is that Lake Como I see?

The Uffizi (Florence)

Water fountain . Rome (the people’s water)

Orvieto: . Same scene, three versions . Which do you prefer?

Rome

Florence

I spend a wonderful three weeks in a little Italian hilltop town called Orvieto, halfway between Rome and Florence in Italy. It was a summer program called Art in Orvieto put on by a graduate school of philosophy out of Toronto called ICS. Along the way, I made some (to be

“Subject is deeper than topic. It's not ‘what it's about,‘ it's what it's really about.”. - Steven Pressfield . For example - Bruce Springsteen’s “subject” (according to Pressfield) is “the worth of passion,” and the integrity of the common person. This is a theme he returns to.

Florence

Orvieto

Orvieto

Orvieto

Orvieto

Notice the little lizard in the lamp here. #Orvieto, Italy

Orvieto

“The artist's journey is a parallel to the hero's journey in that you and I, the artists-in-embryo, must leave our Ordinary World (the conscious mind) and cross the threshold into the Extraordinary World (the unconscious or superconscious) to find and acquire our golden fleece.

According to Pressfield - the artist has:. - subject .- voice .- point of view.- medium of expression .- style . Each one of those things is sort of discovered, un-covered, developed and cultivated.

In act IV - the paradigmatic shift of the non-tragic hero is from:. Ask what (the world) can do for me, but rather ask what I can do for (the world). It’s from: . Gold . To. Telos . It’s from: . Want . To . Need. It’s from: . Are you an obstacle or an opportunity to get what I.