Category Archives: Future

Overcome your Fear of Success This Year

Posted on January 3, 2012 by atlumschema

In the last two posts I discussed how we understand success, our inevitable misconceptions of other peoples’ successes and the debilitating role fear sometimes plays when we consider the big picture ways successes might change our life. In this final … Continue reading →

Posted in Future, Independent Thinking | Tagged aims, art, derek sivers, famous, fortune, goals, making it, musician, overcome fear, public opinion, rewards, success, symptoms, writer | Leave a comment

Why to Say That I Remember is Not Enough

Posted on November 8, 2011 by atlumschema

Let’s make the process of remembering a positive verb, rather than a unprogressive and largely ignored noun. I wrote last year about the timing of the release of computer game, Call of Duty: Black Ops, which coincided with Armistice Day. … Continue reading →

Posted in Future, Gaming, Independent Thinking, War | Tagged armistice, call of duty, false, forget, kids, release date, remembrance, videogames | 8 Comments

Do I Paint my Own Reality? (I didn’t even Realise I Held a Brush…)

Posted on October 27, 2011 by atlumschema

I got to thinking a few days ago as I perused status updates on my Facebook page. Most people were posting inane comments, humorous pictures and videos, but then I noticed one of my friends had posted a link to … Continue reading →

Posted in Control, Future, Media | Tagged algorithm, censorship, cookies, facebook, google, like, manipulation, search | Leave a comment

Goodbye to the Mother-ship

Posted on August 20, 2011 by atlumschema

As a boy I dreamt of having a recording studio. There was always something mysterious and magical to me about the process of recording music and the way you could create something unique out of nothing. Around six years ago … Continue reading →

Posted in Future, Independent Thinking, Life-Changing, Song | Tagged build, end, era, greenbelt, home recording, new song, studio, video | 2 Comments

‘I’m an artist don’t you know’

Posted on June 2, 2011 by atlumschema

Inspiration precedes the desire to create, not the other way round (Hugh Mcleod) It is very important to remember this because we can very easily slip into unproductive routines, attempting to force our uninspired minds onto the blank canvass. This … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Career, Dreams, False, Future, Ideas, Independent Thinking | Tagged art, art for everyone, elitism, goldsmiths, hugh mcleod, obnoxious artist | Leave a comment

Soundcloud and How Major Labels are Spoiling Things…Again

Posted on January 22, 2011 by atlumschema

Those involved in the music world are all pretty well aware that the major labels, on the whole are pretty regressive, reactionary and retrogressive in their ability to move forwards and change with the rest of us. It is completely … Continue reading →

Posted in Collaborating, Control, Future, Independent Thinking, Inspiration, Music, Sheep Dressed Like Wolves | Tagged big business, control, major labels, money, not legal but moral, soundcloud | 4 Comments

Fan Funding and the Compromise of Integrity?

Posted on November 2, 2010 by atlumschema

I don’t really have any fixed views on this issue but am intrigued to see what others are thinking about the current wave of fan-funded project models. I write this as someone who used something similar in the pre-sale period … Continue reading →

Posted in Control, False, Future, Ideas, Independent Thinking, Observation | Tagged artist sell out, cheapening, fan-funding, money raising, pledge, raising, sellaband, slice the pie | 2 Comments

One World Less

Posted on August 31, 2010 by atlumschema

Within every human mind there lies a unique world. On this planet there are around seven billion different worlds, each of them as significant as you consider your own. Each one dreams. Each one desires. And each one is inevitably … Continue reading →

Posted in Control, Dreams, Future, Ideas, Independent Thinking | Tagged art, background, dreams, one world less, reality, unique people, where do we fit | 1 Comment

Hypey New Year

Posted on January 11, 2010 by atlumschema

It is a New Year. It is a time to reflect and also to look forward. This is all the more apparent as we slide into a new decade – and yes, I am quite aware that technically we still … Continue reading →

Posted in Control, False, Future, Independent Thinking, Media | Tagged bbc sound of 2010, donald miller, ellie goulding, florence and the machine, hype-machine, industry, la roux, massimo zeppetelli, new year, predictions, tastemaker, x factor | 1 Comment

Fulfilling the Big Dream

Posted on October 23, 2009 by atlumschema

I noticed recently, while watching a reality TV competition show that there is a strange phenomenon that the powerful now use in order to control the weak; the capacity to possess access to fabricated dream-fulfilment. It has probably always been … Continue reading →