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By El Ratón Automático-The 3Nines Arts Life. For most of us means working 'decent' shift after 'decent' shift ad infinitum. Human coalface, working a tedious seam of soul destroying ordinaryness, for – RELATIVELY – little reward. The vast majority of us are forced to do this because we need to keep a roof over our heads feed ourselves, and our fami...

By El Ratón Automático-The 3Nines Arts As a writer and a journalist I love text, I love words, I love the process of writing and of selecting how the words are put together to form sentences, paragraphs, stories, fact, fiction... Narrative is, for me, the way a story unfolds, and I always have this feeling (rightly or wrongly) that we ( as a human ...

By El Ratón Automático-The 3Nines Arts  Look up. What do you see? Millions of stars in a black sky? It is a bit like photographers. They are everywhere across social media, on Twitter, on Instagram, and on Facebook. But here, amidst this rapidly expanding photographic universe, there are a few brilliantly lit stars. One of the big finds, for m...

 By El Ratón Automático-The 3Nines Arts Everyday of our lives we use language to communicate, to exchange ideas and messages. We create descriptions of the world, and what we understand as 'reality' via theories written in language, usually deposited in books or magazines or online. We are constantly taking in information. It comes at us like ...