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Robert Horton

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As seen in: Journal of Environmental Quality, The Seattle Times, Metacritic, Skift, The Everett Daily Herald, Before It's News, Yakima Herald-Republic, Cascade PBS, Film Comment Magazine, European Respiratory Journal and
National Society of Film Critics; host, The Music and the Movies/Scarecrow Academy. Longtime contributor to Seattle Weekly, Film Comment. A real goer.
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Creation begets creation: Rick Rubin and The Creative Act: A Way of Being

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By Robert Horton 
| Fort Frances Times
Creativity does not cease to be at the end of an artist’s brush, nor is it reserved solely for artists. If you are a human being, you are creative in impressive and at times overlooked ways. The problem is not the absence of creative impulse or talent, but an often-narrow belief of what constitutes creativity—and what it can be. I was reminded of this on Tuesday morning when supporting another resident of our town who has begun their public speaking journey.
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Integrally paradoxical, imperfectly perfect: Maynard James Keenan’s A Perfect Union of Contrary Things

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By Robert Horton 
| Fort Frances Times
As the twisting kaleidoscope that moves us all in turn, this week’s book review sits at the intersection of a meaningful conversation, a music column and an anniversary. It feels wonderfully timely and appropriate to allow them to orbit one another in these pages. A recent conversation with a friend and colleague ascended into a very real, often denied, often overlooked and quite dynamic idea.
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Book Review: Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam Grant

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By Robert Horton 
| Fort Frances Times
The walls used to speak to me with a buzz of contrarian rebels. While making the city home for several years, the Madhouse in Thunder Bay made for an amazing place to reflect and write. However, it was not the ebb and flow of conversation nor the lively debate filling the room that made it special. It was the art—rebels gazed out from the acrylics on each wall of the Madhouse. Gadflies. Rebels. Contrarians. Those who walked to the beat of their own drum. Trailblazers. Warriors.
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