Tom Libertiny is an award-winning composer, author, photographer, and director. He creates stories with intention across words, visuals, and music.
2017 June 19 The relaunch of Gothic Girl Art Magazine had gotten away from me. Art For any creative project, it takes me a minimum of 6 weeks to go from concept to completion. This was also the case for the relaunch of our magazine. Conceptually, we knew that we…
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2017 June 6 Back in 2016 September I started research for Steel (working title). It’s a movie set in the early 1900’s during the technology revolution that lead to affordable automobiles. Henry Ford is one of the key characters in anything related to automobiles and the steel industry. To get a…
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2017 May 29 On May 17, 2017 my father sat in a small room with my mother laughing at one of their many inside jokes. Twenty-four hours later, he was dead. Death. Everything about that word sounds brutal. There’s no way to sugarcoat it. Make it politically correct. Fineness the…
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2017 May 11 Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Leonardo da Vinci I started my Minimalism project at the beginning of 2017. As my travels spiral outward from Detroit, here’s a series from my recent trip to Hawaiian House in Marshall Michigan.
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2017 May 9 Abner Pratt. New York District Attorney. Michigan Supreme Court Judge. Counsel to the Kingdom of Hawaii. Theif. It seems that all of Pratt’s self-inflicted troubles came to a head when he built Honolulu House in Marshall, Michigan (1860) as a tribute to his love for Hawaii. History…
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2017 May 4 What happens when you connect two driven entrepreneurs with lingerie? Secret Blossom; a New York company that was founded by Mimi Dang and Alex Trang. Their speciality is designing and making unique lingerie that’s custom fit, all for an amazing price. To quote Alex: No one beats…
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2017 April 27 My father and I both love classical music, particularly listening to it live in a concert hall with a first-class orchestra. Similarly, we both purchase multiple recordings of the same symphonic recording (audio and video) to compare the performances of each conductor and orchestra. What are we…
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2017 April 25 Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Leonardo da Vinci One of my missions is to continue with my process of throwing everything at a project and then deleting everything that doesn’t advance the story. This applies to all mediums that I’m working in (writing, visual, and audio at the…
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2017 April 13 Sometimes inspiration is literally down the road. Jupiter’s Oil Slick There’s a small nature preserve next to a busy road that we’ve driven on thousands of times. One sunny afternoon we seemed very far from the reality of the city. Within the preserve sits a hidden dam that creates…
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2017 March 12 I remember watching Stanley Kubrick’s movie 2001 a Space Odyssey. Sure, the International Space Station (ISS) isn’t quite what he had in mind for his commercial space station with its hotel and spacious accommodations. And we don’t yet have a permanent base on our Moon. But with…
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