Creativity

Sometimes I Take Inspiration From Nature

March 17, 2010
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Sometimes I take inspiration from nature. I wonder what nature takes inspiration from…?

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Ken Burns: There Is No Career Path And You’re Alone

March 12, 2010

That’s the good news and the terrifying bad news. There is no career path and you’re alone and you just sort of have to bring something to it and what I think it is among many other qualities is a kind of perseverance.

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Good Taste And The Gap

March 10, 2010

Ira Glass, host of This American Life, talks in terms of good taste – that passion and understanding you have of your artform – and the gap between that good taste, that thing that you aspire to, and your current abilities.

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Gever Tulley: Sweet Success Or Gleeful Calamity

March 6, 2010

Can you imagine how different your life might be if you started celebrating your failures? The mind boggles… and that’s kind of the point.

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ISBW Does The Artist’s Way

February 17, 2010

This is just a quick note to let you know that Mur Lafferty and I Should Be Writing is going to be tackling The Artist’s Way creativity program as an online community. You can follow the group’s progress at the I Should Be Writing website (or subscribe via iTunes or at YouTube) and by joining the associated Facebook page.

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2010: Back To Work

February 1, 2010

It’s February, which, for me, means getting back to work. (In more ways than one.) I made a conscious decision to not produce online content throughout January. Infact during January I did a number of things that were completely novel for me. I actually went on a holiday. And what really struck me when I reflect upon that holiday is how much I actually wanted to create things.

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When No One Cares…

January 27, 2010
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I sometimes get disappointed when something I produce doesn’t get much of a reception. You hope that a project is worthwhile and that somebody somewhere is getting something out of it, and as much as I look for some intrinsic merit to the things I do, I am still sometimes left wondering. But what if no one caring was actually a good thing?

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Felicia Day: Celebrate People Not Waiting For Permission To Make Their Art

January 13, 2010
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When Felicia Day won the Streamy Award for Best Female Actor in Comedy Web Series for her work in The Guild, she wowed the audience with a frank exploration of some of the challenges the web series faced and explained how being rejected by Hollywood was the impetus she needed to create her own art.

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