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How Artist Underdogs Succeed

April 3, 2020April 3, 2020 Damon DiMarco 2 Comments Malcolm Gladwell, Weakness is Strength

Actor, playwright, historian, and author Damon DiMarco writes about how artist underdogs succeed. Turn weaknesses into strengths!

Public Announcement

New Yorkers Applaud Essential Workers During COVID-19 Pandemic

April 2, 2020April 2, 2020 Damon DiMarco 0 Comments Community, Coronavirus, COVID-19, New York spirit, Resilience, Upper West Side

Watch New Yorkers applaud essential workers from their windows overlooking Broadway on the Upper West Side in what’s become a ritual every night at 7 pm.

Creative Process

Creativity and Divinity – the Lost Art of Being a Child

March 28, 2020March 28, 2020 Damon DiMarco 0 Comments childhood, creativity, divinity, fatherhood

Ancient cultures believed that human creativity and divinity were related. That the gods worked through us whenever we fashioned a

Royal Quiet DeLuxe 1952 Typewriter Damon DiMarco

Typewriters

The Basics of Typewriter Maintenance

March 24, 2020March 26, 2020 Damon DiMarco 0 Comments Royal Quiet De Luxe, Typewriter Maintenance, Typewriter Restoration

A refurbished 1952 Royal Quiet De Luxe gets sold to a new member of the typosphere who asks advice about

Guest Post Public Announcement

Social Distancing WILL Save Lives – A Geneticist Describes How Important it is to Flatten the Curve RIGHT NOW!

March 19, 2020March 19, 2020 Damon DiMarco 0 Comments Coronavirus, COVID-19, Guest Post, Public Health Announcement

Greetings, creators! If you’re at all concerned about the effects of social distancing on flattening the curve of COVID-19, the

Cooking Public Announcement

Social Distancing Flattens the COVID-19 Curve — with Pulled Pork

March 17, 2020March 19, 2020 Damon DiMarco 0 Comments cooking, COVID-19, Flatten the Curve, Pulled Pork, Self-quarantine, Social Distancing

Damon DiMarco cooks pulled pork during COVID-19 self-quarantine social distancing to flatten the curve of the virus before it becomes a pandemic.

Creative Process

Increase Your Creativity by Revealing Your True Self — ”Give up, give in, give way!”

March 7, 2020March 28, 2020 Damon DiMarco 0 Comments Bill Esper, Carl Jung, ego, Greek Theater, Shadow

When we make art, we’re better off letting the person under our mask move the brush, the pen, or our bodies. The mask itself is not really qualified.

Creative Process Plays Travel Typewriters

Hemingway’s Toilet. Or: How to Finish Your Play in Key West

February 16, 2020March 26, 2020 Damon DiMarco 2 Comments Ambrose Bierce, Hemingway, Key West, Play adaptation, Typewriter, Writing Life

In January, I headed down to Key West to finish my stage adaptation of an Ambrose Bierce novella called The Monk and The Hangman’s Daughter. Why finish a play in Key West? Because it’s better than freezing your ass off in Manhattan after the holidays.