Tag Archive | "Creativity"
Clay Shirky’s Cognitive Surplus: We are changing how we use our free time.
Clay Shirky, author of “Here Comes Everybody” is one of everyone’s favorite TED speakers. Here are a few of the points I took from his most recent on Cognitive Surplus – a title shared by his latest book.
Continue reading...Talking with Advertising Creative Director – Mike Allen
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
I had a chance to talk with Creative Director and Copywriter Mike Allen about his career in Advertising and get some of his thoughts on branding and creativity. Here are 10 minutes from that discussion.
Continue reading...Graffiti Art Meets Designer Engineer: James Powderly
Thursday, June 10, 2010
In my research for my post on Banksy I stumbled onto James Powderly, an incredible high tech street artist. James gives us a demonstration in this video [via The Creators Project]. You'll be shaking your head by the end.
Continue reading...You Waiting for Permission?
Monday, June 7, 2010
What is the street artist’s intent? Anti-social pop art with an extreme satirical point intended for consumption across all socioeconomic barriers, or is it hype driven brandalism by an artistic terrorist bent on pulling one over on a naïve culture?
Continue reading...Don’t Waste Your Change Reserves
Thursday, June 3, 2010
How do we know we aren’t behaving like comfort loving factory workers? I doubt there is a material answer, but the subtlety of creative exhaustion knows no bounds. Take a look at this experiment explained by Dan Heath at Fastcompany.com.
Continue reading...Great Work is Memorable – Good Work is Experience
Monday, May 24, 2010
What defines our story are significant moments and endings; memorable works and what we’ve done lately. Artist’s think of the future in terms of anticipated great works. It’s a trap. + View a TED video presentation by Daniel Kahneman
Continue reading...Heightening or Cheating the Creative Encounter
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Artistic creativity is an act of intimacy or not; it’s genuine art or it's artifact. Learn to manipulate tools and their crafty mechanisms so they become secondary or not.
Continue reading...A Scarcity of Surprises is the Result of Abundance
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
In general, the scarcity shift is away from artifacts and toward process. Can you establish the culture that creates, the moment worth photographing, the performance that affects, or the product that markets itself?
Continue reading...Get as Close to the Flame as You Can
Monday, May 10, 2010
Flame finding is your talent. Imagination is hot, execution is cold. The flame is illusive; if you must obsess about something, make it a flame search. "I think part of the process of this whole thing is to get as close to the flame as you can get without being burned" – Graham Nash
Continue reading...Handiwork: One Man’s Story about Rediscovering His Art
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Nate Sheaffer relates the re-awakening of his creative love for a craft he left behind years ago: "Ten years ago, my life changed forever. Early in 1999, I lost my glassblowing business to offshore competition, followed eight months later by the suicide of my closest brother."
Continue reading...Video Interviews with Creative Professionals
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