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Befriending Your Creativity - DesignTAXI.com
For years, I’ve been actively researching and experimenting with ways to make creating effortless, joyful and fun.
Here are three ways I use to create—writing, parenting, life—with a light heart and a saunter in my step. See what you think.
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Welcome to Apple.
An inspirational welcome to Apple. We expect great things bitch. (Via.)
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"We have a certain amount of time here, on this planet. I’m not gonna waste any of it by dividing it up between work and then things that I enjoy. I’m gonna make all of it something I enjoy."
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You Are The Problem - DesignTAXI.com
Recently, I came across a sign informing…
You are not stuck in traffic.
You are traffic
Get a bike. Break Free!
I thought this sign was brilliant, not least because my bicycle is my preferred means of transport for journeys under 10km or so. But it is also a handy reminder that we humans tend to blame problems on others, and then expect others to solve those problems for us. Sadly, those others often have the same thoughts as us! They blame us and everyone else—but themselves—for the same problem. Meanwhile, everyone is waiting for someone else to solve the problem. But the truth is, if we are the problem, we also have a responsibility to solve the problem. -
Jonathan Harris: Cowbird And Humanizing The Web (by Piers Fawkes)
Jonathan Harris, founder of Cowbird.com, talks about capturing the fleeting with storytelling.
Cowbird is a great collective project. If you haven’t already requested your invite, do it now!
(via Swiss Miss)
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"Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while."
-Steve Jobs, 1996 Wired Interview
(via swissmiss)
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"Allow sufficient time during daylight to make an occasional visit to museums or an occasional sketch or an occasional bike ride. Sketch in cafés and trains and streets. Cut the movies! Library for references once a week."
- Henry Miller’s creative routine and his 11 commandments of writing. (via explore-blog) -
John Cleese - a lecture on Creativity (by novelhaven)
John Cleese’s 5 Factors to making your life more creative:
- Space (“You can’t become playful, and therefore creative, if you’re under your usual pressures.”)
- Time (“It’s not enough to create space; you have to create your space for a specific period of time.”)
- Time (“Giving your mind as long as possible to come up with something original,” and learning to tolerate thediscomfort of pondering time and indecision.)
- Confidence (“Nothing will stop you being creative so effectively as the fear of making a mistake.”)
- Humor (“The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.”)
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(via Inflated Deflated « ,)
“These words are marked on the surface of inflated balloons, and like that of one’s thoughts being released, so too is the air of the balloon.”
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(via swissmiss)
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"There’s something sacred about reading a blog post on someone else’s site. It’s like visiting a friend’s house for a quick meal ’round the breakfast table. It’s personal — you’re in their space, and the environment is uniquely suited for idea exchange and uninterrupted conversation. In many ways, we should be treating our blogs like our breakfast tables. Be welcoming & gracious when you host, and kind & respectful when visiting."
-Trent Walton, on blogs
(via swissmiss)
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The Manifesto for Visual Culture from Les Rencontres d’Arles.
(via swissmiss)
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"The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That’s the only lasting thing you can create."
- Chuck Palahniuk, Choke(Source: facebook.com)
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"Lots of people have talent, but it’s the hard work that sets you apart."
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"Today, everybody is talking ‘Creativity,’ and frankly, that’s got me worried. I fear lest we keep the good taste and lose the sell. I fear all the sins we may commit in the name of ‘Creativity.’ I fear that we may be entering an age of phonies."
- Bill Bernbach, (via The Sell! Sell! Blog: Bill Bernbach Said #52)
Favorite Things
Twenty-something.
Atlanta.
Hedonist.
The views expressed here are my own and do not represent the views of my employers. No one should be held responsible for my stupid thoughts.
