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After a gig or two, it's easy to feel the letdown of the non-gig.
How do you get fired up for the next project?
#inspiration #CatchTheWave
Post gig inspiration - 5 tips to catch the wave

Post gig inspiration - 5 tips to catch the wave
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

The Importance of In-Person Inspiration https://muz4now.com/2022/the-importance-of-in-person-inspiration/

The Importance of In-Person Inspiration
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

"I think my high-school acting career lasted a day."
—Dennis Farina
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Rural Masterminds - Bush Inspiration
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Dorabella Cipher as Musical Inspiration
Bradley Hauer, Colin Choi, Abram Hindle, Scott Smallwood, Grzegorz Kondrak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17950 https://

Dorabella Cipher as Musical Inspiration
The Dorabella cipher is an encrypted note written by English composer Edward Elgar, which has defied decipherment attempts for more than a century. While most proposed solutions are English texts, we investigate the hypothesis that Dorabella represents enciphered music. We weigh the evidence for and against the hypothesis, devise a simplified music notation, and attempt to reconstruct a melody from the cipher. Our tools are n-gram models of music which we validate on existing music corpora enci…

Folks, @… is also running a donation campaign to get the families they’re helping out of the danger zone in the North and to relative safety in the South.
Her amazing work with Keep Hope Alive: A Gaza Giving Circle has been a huge inspiration for Gaza Verified.
Please follow, help, and share if you can.
Thank you!
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"Come to work on time, know your lines and don't bump into the other actors."
—Spencer Tracy
#acting #coaching #inspiration

r-graph-gallery.com provides example code for a variety of chart types, both in base R and ggplot: #rstats #ggplot

The R Graph Gallery – Help and inspiration for R charts
The R graph gallery displays hundreds of charts made with R, always providing the reproducible code.

‘That Looks Awful’: This 1987 Photo of Donald Trump Just Exposed the Hidden Inspiration Behind His White House Renovation
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/08/23/donald-trumps-white-house-makeover/

Day 28: Samira Ahmed
As foreshadowed, we're back to YA land, which represents a lot of what I've been enjoying from the library lately.
I've read "Hollow Fires", "This Book Won't Burn", and "Love, Hate, and other Filters" by Ahmed, along with "Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know" which is quite different. All four are teen ~romances with interesting things to say about racism & growing up as a South Asian Muslim, but whereas the first three are set in small-town Indiana, the third is set in France and includes a historical fiction angle involving Dumas and a hypothetical Muslim woman who was (in this telling) the inspiration for several Lord Byron poems.
Ahmed's novels all include a strong and overt theme of social justice, and it's refreshing to see an author not try to wade around the topic or ignore it. Her romances are complex, with imperfect protagonists and endings that aren't always "happily ever after" although they're satisfying and believable.
My library has a plethora of similar authors I've been enjoying, including Adiba Jaigirdar (who appeared earlier in this list), Sabaa Tahir ("All my Rage" is fantastic but I'm less of a fan of her fantasy stuff), Sabina Khan ("The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali"), and Randa Abdel-Fattah ("Does My Head Look Big In This?"; from an earlier era). Ahmed gets the spot here because I really like her politics and the way she works them into her writing. Her characters are unapologetic advocates against things like book bans, and Ahmed doesn't second-guess them or try to make things more palatable for those who want to ban books (or whatever). Her historical fiction in "Mad..." is also really cool in terms of "huh that could actually totally be true" and grappling with literary sexism from ages past.
#30AuthorsNoMen

"To grasp the full significance of life is the actor’s duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication."
—Marlon Brando
#acting #coaching #inspiration …

I’ve Got Some Explaining To Do #heart #inspiration #recording

I've Got Some Explaining To Do
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Conv-like Scale-Fusion Time Series Transformer: A Multi-Scale Representation for Variable-Length Long Time Series
Kai Zhang, Siming Sun, Zhengyu Fan, Qinmin Yang, Xuejun Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17845

Conv-like Scale-Fusion Time Series Transformer: A Multi-Scale Representation for Variable-Length Long Time Series
Time series analysis faces significant challenges in handling variable-length data and achieving robust generalization. While Transformer-based models have advanced time series tasks, they often struggle with feature redundancy and limited generalization capabilities. Drawing inspiration from classical CNN architectures' pyramidal structure, we propose a Multi-Scale Representation Learning Framework based on a Conv-like ScaleFusion Transformer. Our approach introduces a temporal convolution-lik…

The Iconicity of the Generated Image
Nanne van Noord, Noa Garcia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16473 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.16473

The Iconicity of the Generated Image
How humans interpret and produce images is influenced by the images we have been exposed to. Similarly, visual generative AI models are exposed to many training images and learn to generate new images based on this. Given the importance of iconic images in human visual communication, as they are widely seen, reproduced, and used as inspiration, we may expect that they may similarly have a proportionally large influence within the generative AI process. In this work we explore this question thro…

Music is one of the ultimate whole-body experiences
#Music #inspiration
the heart and mind of music
https://muz4no…

the heart and mind of music
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ClassicalMixtape
- 30 minutes of classical inspiration
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0029k02

A few years back, wifey and I did a project together, as we often do. We wanted to do a very specific mashup - death metal and Pokémon. It's admittedly a niche. But we wanted to choose Cubone because that's the name of our furry son (the one in my avi). And the Pokémon's back story, wearing his dead mom's skull, it's pretty metal. Original shirt inspiration on the right, for reference (I have a very worn copy of this one). I sketched it out, she painted (she's so tale…

Attention Schema-based Attention Control (ASAC): A Cognitive-Inspired Approach for Attention Management in Transformers
Krati Saxena, Federico Jurado Ruiz, Guido Manzi, Dianbo Liu, Alex Lamb
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16058

Attention Schema-based Attention Control (ASAC): A Cognitive-Inspired Approach for Attention Management in Transformers
Attention mechanisms have become integral in AI, significantly enhancing model performance and scalability by drawing inspiration from human cognition. Concurrently, the Attention Schema Theory (AST) in cognitive science posits that individuals manage their attention by creating a model of the attention itself, effectively allocating cognitive resources. Inspired by AST, we introduce ASAC (Attention Schema-based Attention Control), which integrates the attention schema concept into artificial n…

Model-free algorithms for fast node clustering in SBM type graphs and application to social role inference in animals
Bertrand Cloez, Adrien Cotil, Jean-Baptiste Menassol, Nicolas Verzelen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15989

Model-free algorithms for fast node clustering in SBM type graphs and application to social role inference in animals
We propose a novel family of model-free algorithms for node clustering and parameter inference in graphs generated from the Stochastic Block Model (SBM), a fundamental framework in community detection. Drawing inspiration from the Lloyd algorithm for the $k$-means problem, our approach extends to SBMs with general edge weight distributions. We establish the consistency of our estimator under a natural identifiability condition. Through extensive numerical experiments, we benchmark our methods a…

"Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people."
—Adam Driver
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Are gray skies trying to bring us down? #inspiration #beauty #inspiration

Are gray skies trying to bring us down? #inspiration
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Swap Regression Methodology for Predicting Relationship with Historical Bivariate Data
Viral Chitlangia, Mosuk Chow, Sharmishtha Mitra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15479 https://

Swap Regression Methodology for Predicting Relationship with Historical Bivariate Data
This study revisits regression for samples with alternating predictors (SWAP) proposed in Chow et al.[2015] with the purpose of finding the best fit model when the role of the response and the explanatory variables was established. In the current work, we explore the directional relationship between the two variables at a given point of time, by a novel approach which draws direct inspiration from the concept of SWAP regression. Our method, based on the Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) and the beta…

"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself."
—Mikhail Baryshnikov
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Ring polymers in two-dimensional melts double-fold around randomly branching "primitive shapes"
Mattia A. Ubertini, Angelo Rosa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15757 https:…

Ring polymers in two-dimensional melts double-fold around randomly branching "primitive shapes"
Drawing inspiration from the concept of the "primitive path" of a linear chain in melt conditions, we introduce here a numerical protocol which allows us to detect, in an unambiguous manner, the "primitive shapes" of ring polymers in two-dimensional melts. Then, by analysing the conformational properties of these primitive shapes, we demonstrate that they conform to the statistics of two-dimensional branched polymers (or, trees) in the same melt conditions, in agreement with seminal theoretical…

Guidelines for the Enhancement of the Corpus and the Verismo Vocabulary
Michael Bassi, Giovanni Salucci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15645 https://arxiv.org/…

Guidelines for the Enhancement of the Corpus and the Verismo Vocabulary
VIVer is a digital lexicography project with historical-literary and historical-linguistic aims that can be considered a case study of a Digital Humanities project. This paper presents the IT choices made to promote the dissemination and enhancement of the results, analysing the issues and advantages for wider adoption, beyond the specific VIVer project, serving as a model and inspiration for future projects.

Podcast : Vers la liberté et l’amour de soi chez Horta avec Youdra Guerreiro. Tu peux écouter l'épisode sur https://chardonsbleus.org/podcast-vers-la-liberte-et-lamour-de-soi-chez-horta-avec-youdra-guerreiro/ 🎙️

Podcast : Vers la liberté et l’amour de soi chez Horta avec Youdra Guerreiro
Dans ce nouvel épisode de Bombo, je pousse la porte de chez Horta, épicerie bio de quartier à Forest à inspiration portugaise. Youdra s’ouvre à moi et à vou ...

Adapting Biological Reflexes for Dynamic Reorientation in Space Manipulator Systems
Daegyun Choi, Alhim Vera, Donghoon Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14258 https://

Adapting Biological Reflexes for Dynamic Reorientation in Space Manipulator Systems
Robotic arms mounted on spacecraft, known as space manipulator systems (SMSs), are critical for enabling on-orbit assembly, satellite servicing, and debris removal. However, controlling these systems in microgravity remains a significant challenge due to the dynamic coupling between the manipulator and the spacecraft base. This study explores the potential of using biological inspiration to address this issue, focusing on animals, particularly lizards, that exhibit mid-air righting reflexes. Ba…

"I don't really look for specific types of projects any more. I'm not taking care of a career anymore. I'm just having fun acting."
—Kurt Russell
#acting #coaching #inspiration

From Nothingness - How Emptiness Inspires Us
#inspiration #CreativeProcess
https://muz4now.…

From Nothingness - How Emptiness Inspires Us
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Latent learning: episodic memory complements parametric learning by enabling flexible reuse of experiences
Andrew Kyle Lampinen, Martin Engelcke, Yuxuan Li, Arslan Chaudhry, James L. McClelland
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16189

Latent learning: episodic memory complements parametric learning by enabling flexible reuse of experiences
When do machine learning systems fail to generalize, and what mechanisms could improve their generalization? Here, we draw inspiration from cognitive science to argue that one weakness of machine learning systems is their failure to exhibit latent learning -- learning information that is not relevant to the task at hand, but that might be useful in a future task. We show how this perspective links failures ranging from the reversal curse in language modeling to new findings on agent-based navig…

"What sets you apart can feel like a burden, but it’s not. A lot of the time it’s what makes you great."
—Emma Stone
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Invitation – an improvised “jazz” poem #improv #inspiration #poem

Invitation – an improvised “jazz” poem
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

"I love acting because it's a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man's revenge."
—Hayden Christensen
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project."
—Alex Borstein
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Musician Kacy Lee Anderson on finding your voice and accepting it will change
https://thecreativeindependent.com/people…

Musician Kacy Lee Anderson on finding your voice and accepting it will change – The Creative Independent
Musician Kacy Lee Anderson discusses learning from your younger self, taking inspiration from tradition, and facing the fear of a new venture.

"If any of the work, that any of us do, contributes to the stretching of culture, the stretching of boundaries of empathy that’s expected of an audience… that’s the holy grail."
—Riz Ahmed
#acting #coaching

"Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different."
—Ian Mckellen
#acting #coaching

Staying On Track – Detours Galore #creativity #inspiration https://muz4now.com/2025/staying-on-tr

Staying On Track - Detours Galore
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

"The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results."
—James Dean
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"One day, the people that didn’t believe in you will tell everyone how they met you."
—Johnny Depp
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Escape May Be An Option – Ritual Escape #inspiration #music https://muz4now.com/2025/escape-may-be

Escape May Be An Option - Ritual Escape
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

"What sets you apart can feel like a burden, but it’s not. A lot of the time it’s what makes you great."
—Emma Stone
#acting #coaching #inspiration

vacation or holiday – which reflects the time? #inspiration https://muz4now.com/2022/vacation-or-holiday-which-reflects-the-time

vacation or holiday - which reflects the time?
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

"Only you can be you. What a privilege! Nobody can reach what you can if you do it. So do it. We need your best, your voice, your body."
—Stella Adler
#acting #coaching #inspiration

From Nothingness – How Emptiness Inspires Us #creativeprocess #inspiration https://muz4now.com/2020/fro…

From Nothingness - How Emptiness Inspires Us
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Explore New Skills and Hobbies For Personal and Professional Growth #creativity #inspiration https://

Explore New Skills and Hobbies For Personal and Professional Growth
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

"Acting, for me, is giving to your co-actors."
—Rajkummar Rao
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results."
—James Dean
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best."
—Nathan Fillion
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself. That is the best combination."
—Judi Dench
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Blue sky #blues – or how to embrace changes #clouds #inspiration #presentmoment

Blue sky #blues - or how to embrace changes
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

"Ideally, that's what you've got in an acting career is an equal number of dramas and comedies and an equal number of small films and big films."
—Jason Bateman
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"Only you can be you. What a privilege! Nobody can reach what you can if you do it. So do it. We need your best, your voice, your body."
—Stella Adler
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Answer – for every question another improvisation #inspiration #pianoimprov https://muz4now.com/2025/a…

Answer - for every question another improvisation
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

"The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results."
—James Dean
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"One day, the people that didn’t believe in you will tell everyone how they met you."
—Johnny Depp
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"The only way I can move past the absurdity of what I do, is to commit to the point of absurdity."
—Jake Gyllenhaal
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Forms: Passacaglia and Fantasia or Fugue and Fantasy #composing #inspiration https://muz4now.com/202…

Forms: Passacaglia and Fantasia or Fugue and Fantasy
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Photos from a Holiday week #inspiration #photoseries https://muz4now.com/2025/photos-from-a-…

Photos from a Holiday week
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Just made a back to school collection on my Threadless store to suggest stuff I think people should get for the students in their lives, or themselves. So basically some shameless self promotion.
Enjoy: https://davidaugust.threadless.com/collections/back-to-school…

Shop the Back to School Collection on David August's Artist Shop | Featuring custom t-shirts, prints, and more
Whether you're heading to class, or just want to learn stuff this year, here's some inspiration by me.

Healing Vibe - happy inspirations of all sorts
#inspiration #marimba
https://muz4now.com/2024/he…

Healing Vibe - happy inspirations of all sorts
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

"The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last."
—Henry Cavill
#acting #coaching #inspiration

No Words – #NoWords #inspiration #photography https://

No Words - #NoWords
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself."
—Mikhail Baryshnikov
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!"
—Ben Kingsley
#acting #coaching

Taughannock Falls inspiration
#waterfall #PhotoSeries
https://muz4now.com/2021/inspiration-f

Taughannock Falls inspiration
Stan Stewart finds inspiration -- again -- at Taughannock Falls State Park in the Finger Lakes region of New York.

People I Care About #inspiration https://muz4now.com/2022/people-i-care-about

People I Care About
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

There's Nothing Fluffy About This Audio
#inspiration #Sounds4MusicMaking
https://muz4no…

There's Nothing Fluffy About This Audio
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

"I think my high-school acting career lasted a day."
—Dennis Farina
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"Come to work on time, know your lines and don't bump into the other actors."
-Spencer Tracy
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"Only you can be you. What a privilege! Nobody can reach what you can if you do it. So do it. We need your best, your voice, your body."
-Stella Adler
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Exploring Each DreamState Deeply #dreams #inspiration #puppy

Exploring Each DreamState Deeply
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Interdependence Themes for Independence Day #community #inspiration https://muz4now.com/2023/interdependen…

Interdependence Themes for Independence Day
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Healing Melodies – recovery and inspiration #healing #inspiration #music

Healing Melodies - recovery and inspiration
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Get Creative With These Simple Strategies  #creativity #inspiration https://muz4now.com/2024/get-creative-

Get Creative With These Simple Strategies 
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

"Acting is experience with something sweet behind it."
—Humphrey Bogart
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one."
-Stella Adler
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Release, release, release #inspiration #music #musicvideo http…

Release, release, release
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

"What sets you apart can feel like a burden, but it’s not. A lot of the time it’s what makes you great."
—Emma Stone
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!"
—Chuck Norris
#acting #coaching

Exploring Each DreamState Deeply #dreams #inspiration #puppy

Exploring Each DreamState Deeply
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

"The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results."
—James Dean
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Greener Grass – an airy, ephemeral instrumental #inspiration #meditation #music

Greener Grass - an airy, ephemeral instrumental
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

"Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people."
—Adam Driver
#acting #coaching #inspiration

When You Want To Get High, Go To The Highlands
#inspiration
https://muz4now.com/2024/when-you-want-to-get-high-go-to-the-highlands/

When You Want To Get High, Go To The Highlands
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

"Come to work on time, know your lines and don't bump into the other actors."
—Spencer Tracy
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Exploring Each DreamState Deeply #dreams #inspiration #puppy

Exploring Each DreamState Deeply
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Cycle of Creativity – Inspire, Create, Rest, Repeat #creativity #inspiration https://muz4now.com/2023/cy…

Cycle of Creativity - Inspire, Create, Rest, Repeat
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

From Nothing
#inspiration #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2020/from-nothing-nowplay…

From Nothing #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

"The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!"
—Ben Kingsley
#acting #coaching

"If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously."
—Cate Blanchett
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy."
-Denzel Washington
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people."
—Adam Driver
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"One day, the people that didn’t believe in you will tell everyone how they met you."
—Johnny Depp
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"Ideally, that's what you've got in an acting career is an equal number of dramas and comedies and an equal number of small films and big films."
—Jason Bateman
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it."
—Spencer Tracy
#acting #coaching

"You put your nightmares up there, you put your dreams up there and people can see them better because they can stand outside of it and recognise themselves inside it."
-Holly Hunter
#acting #coaching

"The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!"
—Ben Kingsley
#acting #coaching