Category: Creativity
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Words
Follow along to the Words. Excellent use of transitions and word association.
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Ones and zeros are free
On the plane this weekend, I watched David Hobby’s photo lighting seminar from his Lighting 102 material for Strobist.com. At one point he’s explaining that you don’t have to get the right exposure, and sometimes it takes some fiddling to get the proper combined flash and ambient exposure. You may need to take more than […]
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Creativity and divergent thinking as a strategic national asset
Thomas Friedman views immigration and the melting pot that is America as a strategic asset of creation: …America’s most important competitive advantage: the sheer creative energy that comes when you mix all our diverse people and cultures together. We live in an age when the most valuable asset any economy can have is the ability […]
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Bookshelf porn
Bookshelves are sexy, like the librarian with trendy glasses: Bookshelf Porn
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Detroit Art City
Economic collapse means you can build a lot for your buck amongst the rubble, especially if you’re an artist in Detroit. But its particular brand of civic and economic decay has also drawn something unexpected: a small but well-publicized movement of artists and other creative types trying to wring something out of the rubble. TED, […]
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Play nourishes creativity
In publishing her latest book, Jillian Tamaki says this about the importance of play to the creative spirit: But I do sincerely believe that without personal work and comics, I might go nuts. For the most part, there is little Sense of Play in commercial illustration (there are a few glorious exceptions to this rule). […]
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Coordinated camera flashes at a concert
At concerts, the pop of a camera flash is constant. You see it on TV at the Super Bowl or some other event. At a Robbie Williams concert, for a Nikon ad, he called upon the crowd to raise their cameras and take a picture. The result:
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Finite and Infinite Games
James P. Carse’s Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility philosophically explores the premise of life as a series of games and infinite games. Finite games have an end and rules may not change, whereas infinite games are never ending and the rules must change. Directly, think of Super Mario […]
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Art Space Tokyo, a Kickstarter postmortem
After a project, it’s a good thing to capture your thoughts on how you did. This includes everything from the initial idea, the the steps you took to get everything together and complete it, for better or worse. Craig Mod did a writeup about the whole process of creating Art Space Tokyo using Kickstarter as […]
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Inception deconstructed
The Awl deconstructs Inception as a movie about making movies, or the act of creation. Like 8½, Inception is a movie about making movies; it’s not that the whole movie “is a dream,” though, but rather that the whole movie is an allegory of creation. Upon second viewing, the metaphor for creation makes sense across […]