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Is Your Best Work Ahead of You?
It’s important that we know our best work is yet to be produced. Our best is what is in us now, not what we – or others - admire about the past. Jazz Composer, Maria Schneider, has a story to illustrate this point.
Continue reading...Crowds are Dull, Committees are Deadly, Creativity Needs Freedom
25. January 2010
The committee is usually wrong; yet the crowd is commonly right and incredibly dull. If you’re part of the crowd you’ll be sourced and forgotten. Ji Lee and his bubble project is a good example of how it's done right.
Continue reading...So Where is the Democratized Artistic Genius?
18. January 2010
Evidently neither technology nor egalitarianism does anything to stir the soul, yet, Rauschenberg erases beauty and inspires – or provokes - the heart of an artistic movement. Watch a short video interview with Rauschenberg about his erasure of a de Kooning masterpiece.
Continue reading...Creative Denial, Anger, Bargaining, & Acceptance
14. January 2010
Lately, creative professionals are suffering the heartbreak of a fading uniqueness and coping with the pressure to add value in other ways. Clay Shirky gave his first TED talk in 2005. His institution v. collaboration presentation must have appeared abstract to more folks then than now, nevertheless, Clay’s talk hasn’t faded in value for those of us trying to recover our bearings in a once familiar profession.
Continue reading...Photographic Point of View – Ralph Gibson
11. January 2010
Listening to Ralph Gibson speak, and reviewing his work, something hit me. Yes, his work is simultaneously complex and simple. Its complexity is hidden by simplicity. His chosen frame is the disguise. But moreover, his work over five decades is astonishingly similar and that, to me, is especially remarkable when bearing in mind that I consider changing my approach daily.
Continue reading...“Look for excellence rather than the results of it” – Ryan Lobo
28. December 2009
Photography at its root is honest. Its analog legacy is documentary, accuracy and authenticity. Digitally transformed, the honesty of image capture is being questioned. Regarding truth, however, photography’s quality has remained unchanged. Each capture is a story and the storyteller is the purveyor of truth. Compassionate storyteller, Ryan Lobo, relates some remarkable insights in a 15 minute presentation.
Continue reading...A Message for Crowdsourcing Fans from PermissionToSuck.com
21. December 2009
Creativity is principally the domain of an individual enhanced by great relationships, but just as a properly harnessed horse team can pull harder, the right creative team can produce more consistently powerful messages. That said, teamwork isn’t what crowdsourcing stimulates. Consequently, don’t expect a creative product superior to that which you’d get from a reputable individual or strong creative team. Fluffy the cat will probably fetch your morning paper more often.
Continue reading...The Space Between Your Notes
17. December 2009
“Music is the space between the notes” – Claude Debussy I thought of this quote before discovering someone much more intelligent said it first. I was at a show listening to bluegrass virtuosos play so fast that it was hard to discern a space between notes. It made me realize that there was only one interpretation possible. There were no spaces for me to think or feel anything but the energy of their content.
Continue reading...These Tools Are Insane
14. December 2009
In the late 80’s the Apple Mac II taught us to set typography. Immediately anyone could set type. We didn’t hardly notice when the stat camera darkroom was reclaimed for storage, or when you’re local type house became a Mailbox Etc. or a Postal Instant Press (similar to Kinko’s). Creative destruction is no longer a concept but a lifestyle.
Continue reading...Random Creative Thinker – Robin Williams Video
10. December 2009
Discuss creativity and my embodied mock-up resembles random thinkers; those who, when confronted with a problem, make seemingly crazy connections that are nonetheless worth exploring. And – who is more random than Robin Williams?
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