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How to Get Yourself Out of the Dumps

by Lindsey Anderson on March 12, 2008

There are some days when I want to just disappear, or die, or drive as far away as I can. Unfortunately, these things tend to be a little inconvenient. Here are some things that I do instead:
1. I look inside of my joy box. This is a round box that I painted using sponges back […]

What We Are and What We Are Not

by Edward Atkinson on March 11, 2008

Mind Sprocket is a work in progress. We’re not outlined. We’re not in a box. We’re beta. We’re a growing amoeba with a purpose. There’s one driving factor that’s keeping us all together and it’s the core of what we do.
We want to build real relationships with our readers. […]

How to Expand Your Vocabulary (and Know What Day It Is): The Desk Calendar

by Lindsey Anderson on March 10, 2008

Something happened at the end of 2007 that left me feeling lost and unfocused. My off-the-wall Far Side calendar that I kept on my desk at work ended. It was a fantastic calendar (and if you keep up with the Far Side, you’ll know that this calendar was a special edition for 2007 and that […]

The Online Journal

by Lindsey Anderson on March 9, 2008

Maybe you’ve been thinking about getting an online journal, but have hesitated to do so since it would be … so unlike a journal.
Traditionally, journals have been classified as “private”. So why would you get one online? Online = everyone in the world knows, so it’s really a huge contradiction, right? Right! You can work […]

Unleashing The Self

by Jacqueline on March 8, 2008

I just took a pair of scissors and cut out a new favorite quotation from a paperback book I finished reading for class. I liked the typography of the paperback, rather than just my own handwriting on a piece of drab college-ruled notebook paper.
The little cut-out taped to my wall looks as if I used […]

How To Kick Butt in the Publishing World

by Edward Atkinson on March 7, 2008

Hire Snapshot Animations. That’s what we did, and we’ve just kicked butt. Check it out!

Snapshot Animations is a small stop-animation shop run by my brother Peter. We’re eternally grateful to Peter for his hard work and production.
The music is courtesy of Lane Gardner as Artey Kang. We chose his music for […]

The imminent, but long coming, arrival

by Lindsey Anderson on March 7, 2008

For months and months, The Back Page was just a picture on a flat screen promising better things to come. But now, The Back Page is up and running! From now on, you can expect daily (or nearly daily) updates from the Mind Sprocket staff. We work from Illinois to Georgia to Maryland to Pennsylvania […]

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