In spirit of Curie's mission to promote undiscovered but exceptional content, we wish to use this twice weekly section to provide an author showcase for some of the outstanding authors who received Curie upvotes in past week. Curie curators and reviewers nominate authors for inclusion in this showcase and author approval is sought and attained.
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@letsgetquirky
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Today's Author Showcase starts off with an extremely heart-wrenching story. Luckily it has reached a happy and healthy middle of the story now and will hopefully continue on to a happy ending.
We all have our stories, and the most amazing thing is that we are still here and able to tell them, perhaps for our own personal growth or to help/guide others that have been, or are in similar situations. Today I am feeling like I want to share with that hope in mind, for the first time ever. -
Hers is an amazing story or perseverance. It goes from a troubled childhood filled with abuse and using coping methods such as cutting, to an emotional center and release, a fair amount of counseling, and now finally to the present day where
Go visit Lauren's page to learn more about her recent gardening or her dog Roxy who is convinced her attention would be better spent petting her than on some silly garden.
@grobensNext up we have a very unique project that is a study in modulating sound. When I heard the final result of the project it reminded me of different periods in the career of the band Pink Floyd. If you have ever seen the story behind the making of some of their albums you will know they used many extremely unusual techniques to create some of the iconic sounds on their albums. Many portions of which I can sort of relate to this piece that
The problem with this project was very Sartre-like: the content came before the concept so we had to think about what we are actually pursuing here. Everything started with Bojan filming a short slow motion video of his girlfriend putting a black shirt over another shirt and then eventually taking the black shirt off. It was filmed because it looked good and after the video was done, Bojan thought of the term TRANSFIGURATIONS. It is actually a religious term and, put most simply, it means a complete change of form or appearance into a more beautiful or spiritual state.. -
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@aksounder
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It is truly amazing what sorts of dangerous jobs some people will do for a paycheck. What makes it even more incredible is how so many can actually love doing these jobs. A few weeks ago the Author Showcase featured a wild fire firefighter. This week we move to a firefighter in a different kind of specialty,
While most days pass by safely—or with only minor incidents—we remain vigilant, constantly aware of the potential to respond to "the big one" at any moment without warning. -
I am pretty certain you could not pay me enough to walk out into a pool of 1,800 liters of diesel fuel and then PURPOSELY light it on fire! It takes a special kind of person to do something like that. Luckily for travelers everywhere there are people like
@damianjayclayWriting is a mostly solitary occupation. We spend hours, days and months working on stories, novels and poems in seclusion, developing our craft as we go.
As our author
Are you ready to have your work critiqued, or worse returned to you covered in a bunch of red ink to indicate your failures? If not perhaps you need to remain in solitary confinement a bit longer. In many careers getting feedback and learning from it can help. To the psyche of a writer however it can be a crushing blow, yet one that often times needs to be handed out by a critic or editor to make your work better.
@lillywilton
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I have been trying to avoid using authors and artists more than once in the Author Showcase lately in an attempt to give more people a chance to have the spotlight shine on them. However sometimes I come across something that I simply cannot move past without sharing, regardless of how many times they may have appeared in these pages.
That is the case today with
Well Lilly does something similar I feel, the thing is like a great art post here on the platform where the artist shares all the process steps, she does the whole thing on camera showing us all the parts - with no editing! What's even more incredible is not only is she doing he different harmonies, she IS all of the instruments as well.
In her post she shares the following about the story behind the lyrics.
I think the metaphors are pretty obvious here so there won't be much of a "behind the song" this week, but to me this is about a desperate need for cleansing.
I played with the syntax of the lyrics as if they came from someone walking through the streets and getting knocked the fuck down with memories they weren't anticipating.
When the rain comes in, I hope to create a feeling of relief as well as sorrow that it's actually happening.
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