Watershed moment or wishful thinking? : 26 year old father considers future life. Looking to the hive mind for direction. [more inside]
posted on Jul 24, 2008 - 18 answers

Is it rare, or just infrequent, to find a river branch whose confluence with a creek or other waterway, causes it to reverse direction? [more inside]
posted on Apr 29, 2008 - 8 answers

Can you recommend a good, cheap and/or free tool for storyboarding a stage production I'm about to direct? [more inside]
posted on Dec 17, 2007 - 4 answers

When did directors of plays and operas start the practice of overtly imposing their own visual interpretation of the play at the expense of the stage direction of the author? These days if you go to see a Shakespeare play, it's even odds that it's set in modern times, or the early 20th century, or what have you. Were there 19th century (or earlier!) productions of Shakespeare that set his plays in what were then "modern times"? At what point did staging old plays become just as much about the director's vision as the playwright's?
posted on Apr 20, 2007 - 17 answers

My sister is in her late-30s and a single mother of one little girl. She's stuck in an endless series of crummy jobs, severely dependent on our mother, and she is incredibly defensive and vitriolic about pretty much everything. I'd like to help her somehow. [more inside]
posted on Dec 26, 2006 - 15 answers

I have no internal compass and no inherent sense of direction. When I think north, south, east, west, I have to picture a map of the whole U.S. in order to remember where they all are in relation to each other. At work, statements such as "meet in the south parking lot" bring up no immediate mental image of where that might be. Is there anything I can do to not be lost all the time? [more inside]
posted on Jul 28, 2006 - 50 answers

Good books (textbooks?) about art direction? [more inside]
posted on Feb 21, 2006 - 2 answers

Help me decide on a project... [more inside]
posted on Dec 22, 2005 - 12 answers

If you have a happy career help me! So I'm trying to figure out what to do with my life. Why is it so hard? [more inside]
posted on Nov 17, 2005 - 24 answers

Do women find it more difficult to immediately distinguish left from right than men? [more inside]
posted on Aug 9, 2005 - 41 answers

Why are left/right and clockwise/counterclockwise so easy to get mixed up, but never up/down or forward/backward?
posted on Jul 18, 2005 - 29 answers

Need some advice on GIS route software.
posted on Feb 6, 2005 - 4 answers

Online maps... I run along a weird path and around a lake, and I have no idea how far I'm going. Is there an online map that'll allow me to trace my route and gauge the distance?
posted on Jul 24, 2004 - 13 answers