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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The measure of an artist is how far back through those computations we can get: to bring us back into touch with the instinctual, the innate, the foundational. Closer to the source, and closer to our fundamental humanity – all in some profound knee-jerk of the soul we call art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The mind does an extraordinary amount of work in an instant, as we perform the uniquely human act of making meaning out of the world around us; millions of computations are conducted, countless comparisons drawn, and significance is steadfastly assigned to every stimulus… \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The measure of an artist is how far back through […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,54,52,51,5,50,49,53],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6YnH1-2S","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":169,"url":"http:\/\/brandonwicke.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/03\/gift-horse-first-promotional-image\/","url_meta":{"origin":178,"position":0},"title":"Gift Horse First Promotional Image","date":"January 3, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The first promotional image for Gift Horse, making its first appearance at the Pivot Festival.","rel":"","context":"In "News"","img":{"alt_text":"Magic is Perception.","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/brandonwicke.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Gift-Horse-816x1024.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":154,"url":"http:\/\/brandonwicke.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/22\/the-plays-the-thing-part-one\/","url_meta":{"origin":178,"position":1},"title":"The Play's the Thing (part one)","date":"November 22, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"a Treatise on making Canadian Theatre more like Hockey\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As winter rolls around again, I find that more and more of my evenings (and much of my precious mental energy during the ever-shortening days) is occupied by the other of my great passions: Hockey. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As did many Canadians,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "The Play's the Thing"","img":{"alt_text":"MTL\/BOS Faceoff","src":"http:\/\/fallofthefourthwall.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/04\/mise_au_jeu_bos__mtl_faceoff-e1429224529315.jpg?w=350&h=200&crop=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":205,"url":"http:\/\/brandonwicke.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/18\/kill-shakespeare\/","url_meta":{"origin":178,"position":2},"title":"Kill Shakespeare!","date":"April 18, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm happy to announce that I'll be performing in Kill Shakespeare: A Live Graphic Novel coming up at the Guild Hall in Whitehorse June 2nd - 4th. It's an official Radio Drama interpretation of the very cool graphic novel, and it's being produced as a fundraiser for Yukomic-Con 2017. I'll\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/brandonwicke.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Kill-Shakespeare-Banner.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/brandonwicke.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/brandonwicke.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/brandonwicke.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brandonwicke.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brandonwicke.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/brandonwicke.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"http:\/\/brandonwicke.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/brandonwicke.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brandonwicke.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brandonwicke.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}