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Thursday, December 31, 2009
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Family Fun Time!
About to start a rip-roaring game of Stackable Uno with the family. My kids absolutely love it, including my 4 year old. We let her freestyle a bit and not have to obey all the rules, but it's still a ton of fun. Way better then staring at a screen of even video games.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Monday, December 21, 2009
Kinda like GlueNow.com
Looks like a nice was to post once and publish everywhere. Ready to download iPhone app and take it for a spin.
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Kinda like GlueNow.com
Looks like a nice was to post once and publish everywhere. Ready to download iPhone app and take it for a spin.
Friday, December 18, 2009
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
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Thursday, December 3, 2009
RSS Creativity: Routines, Systems, Spontaneity :: Tips :: The 99 Percent
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Most stories about creativity are stories about the 1%. We hear about the moment of inspiration – Archimedes leaping from his bath, Coleridge hallucinating “Kubla Khan” in an opium reverie. We don't hear so much about the years of perspiration – Archimedes plugging away at failed experiments, Coleridge learning his craft by writing notebooks full of dull poetry.
Most of us don't like to think about the labor involved in creativity. It takes away the glamour and the magic. But real creators know different. They know that creative work isn't particularly glamorous. It requires discipline, routine, and a nitpicky attention to detail. But they also know that none of that takes away the magic.
We often talk about “the creative process,” but it's really several interlocking processes. The magic happens at the point where they intersect.
Here are three core processes you need to coordinate in your work as a creative professional:
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Why Business Leaders Should Act More like Artists - John Maeda & Becky Bermont - HarvardBusiness.org
Stereotypes abound about artists: they range from the mild ("they have fuschia-colored hair"), to the absurd ("they starve,"), to the disturbed ("they do things like uncontrollably peeing in the fireplace as depicted in the popular movie Pollock."). Granted I know artists with wild-colored hair and others who are certainly struggling to make ends meet, but they all choose to use the restroom. I've also met artists who are quite plain-looking and plain-acting CEOs, lawyers, stockbrokers, and scientists.
Even as someone who has worked to weaken some of the sillier stereotypes about creative types, I must admit that I've carried a few stereotypes around myself. In particular, I'd always believed that artists are much like the kind of geeks I grew up with at MIT — passionately focused on their work with little regard to their own physical or financial circumstance, and often more comfortable working as a lone constructor instead of as a collaborative player on a larger team. So when I observed RISD students exhibiting the classic "lone wolf" traits of this kind of "creative geek," my mental model was confirmed. But when I recently spoke with two RISD textile entrepreneurs in Chicago about this stereotype, my mind fortunately re-opened.
The three aha's I received from my conversation with partners Robert Segal and Alicia Rosauer were:
AdFreak: The 10 best celebrity computer ads of the 1980s
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Most celebrity-backed tech commercials of the 1980s were pretty terrible. These 10 were pretty awesome. Or at least, in some cases, awesomely terrible. —Posted by David Griner
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