Inspiration

Sting: This Ain’t No Time For Doubting Your Power

October 31, 2010
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I’ve always adored this song (and particularly this remix). I’m hoping by listening to it today, on a day when I feel particularly meek, that I’ll be inspired to take life and run with it. Hey, I might even do some art.

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John Cogan: Ideas Are Everywhere!

May 12, 2010

I make this distinction between ideas and encouragement to preface this video from John Cogan. John makes the observation that ideas are in fact everywhere! The challenge isn’t so much finding an idea, so much as committing to just one and developing it.

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Sir Ken Robinson’s Spiritual Argument

April 7, 2010
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One of the things I found most compelling was how Robinson suggests that finding your passion is about much more than just a career or a hobby, that it can really affect the quality of your life and interactions with others. He describes his book, The Element, in part as a spiritual argument.

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Teen Angst Journals

April 6, 2010

It’s easy to forget sometimes where your initial passion for an artform came form, especially if you’ve been doing it for a while. It is not surprising that the idea of teenage poetry is such a cliche, because it is a time when there are a lot of changes happening in your life and for perhaps the first time in your life you’re really consciously reflecting upon the world around you and your role within it. Yet in later life we can look back at this period of life with creative contempt. After all the worst thing a person can say about your work is that is ‘sophomoric’ (even if you are a sophomore!).

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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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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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Go Big or GTFO – But Just Keep Going!

March 4, 2010
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What if there was a territory that represented this struggle? Well, Ford Fiesta Movement team members Sam Proof and Jen Friel think there is. It’s the internet… or, erm, Los Angeles.

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