2 Cheap and Easy Studio Lighting Setups
Anyone think it’s difficult or expensive to get professional quality lighting? Here are a couple lighting setups to debunk those myths. I was inspired to try out a couple ideas that I had generated on the drive home from the office recently, so immediately upon...WACO: The Rules of Engagement (Review)
PREFACE: Over the last several years I have become a big fan of foreign films, documentaries…and Rita’s Italian Ice. This piece is not politically- or religiously-motivated but is meant to simply inform you of an amazing film project. Anyone else ever get...![My Greatest [Creative] Weakness](https://allenmowery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/creativity.jpg)
My Greatest [Creative] Weakness
Whether or not you like to admit it, each of us have weaknesses of some variety and intensity. We don’t like people to see our imperfections and often go to great lengths to camouflage our shortcomings. Dating relationships are a perfect example of this, but as...After Dark at Walker Lake
DAILY PHOTO – Last evening my parents had invited us to go with them to Walker Lake, a local body of water near their place, to spend some time together and take our daughter out in their boat. However, my brother and I commandeered the boat first and went out...
Ep. 87 — Seventeen Syllables of Suffering: The Haiku Scam
Tired of people calling 17 syllables “genius”? So am I.
In this brutally honest, occasionally unhinged episode of Perfectly Poetic, Allen Mowery finally unleashes his pent-up frustration about the most overrated poetic form of all time: the haiku. From childhood worksheet trauma to seasonal name-dropping, syllable policing, AI-generated nonsense, and the myth of Bashō’s frog — no stone (or smooth river pebble) is left unskipped.