September 2008
10 posts
Motivation Monday: Illustrated Mad Men.
Searching for creative motivation or inspiration? Each Monday you can find all of the creative insight you need right here at Creative Something, with “Motivation Monday”.
If you ever wanted to see what living in the 60s was like, you need to catch on to AMC’s Emmy and Golden Globe winning television show: Mad Men.
The show focuses on Don Draper, an advertising executive...
Rick Astley's 10 Tips for Being Creative
He is one of the most successful, creative geniuses of our time, and he has become an internet phenomenon overnight. He’s no stranger. He knows the rules, and he is fully committed to being creative.
Of course I’m talking about Rick Astley, world–famous singer and songwriter.
Through–out his career, Rick has been globally recognized as a man with great talent. But how did Rick...
Walls are full of inspiration.
“When spiders unite they can tie up a lion.”
That was the quote that inspired my creativity, lazily marked on a graffiti–covered USPS envelope, taped to a metallic post. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to discover those words in real life, but rather from a unique website that – in it’s own words – is a gallery of walls with stuff written on them.
An inspiring quote, a humorous...
Motivation Monday: What is a hunch?
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Academy Award winning director and major creative force behind a number of highly popular films of the 1930s and 1940s, Frank Capra once stated:
“A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.”
What do you...
No words to describe.
Capturing a moment in time has never been this intense. The lighting, the angles, the action (or lack of action) in each photo is stunningly creative; I dare say that these are some of the most beautiful photos I have ever seen.
NY girl creates functioning invisibility cloak.
New York City, NY – What scientists have been trying to create for years, Abby Dougal, age 7, has put together in only a few hours.
With some help from her parents, using nothing more but a bed sheet and scissors, Abby has constructed a fully functional invisibility cloak.
Like a familiar scene from our favorite science fiction movie, Abby tells us that we are in for a surprise as she pulls...
Motivation Monday: Getting dizzy with Chuck...
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Chuck Anderson was born one year before me. He has worked with major companies like Nike, Honda, and even McDonalds. Mr. Anderson is, what I like to call, an inspirational jerk.
He’s young, he’s...
6 easy ways to be creative at work.
It doesn’t really matter where you work (or what you do at your job), there are going to be some creative walls that stop you from being creative a lot of the time.
Know what I’m talking about?
Maybe you have to file a report, or send out a lengthy email to a co-worker. Maybe you are assigned a new project but have a million constrains on it. If you work for a living, you are...
The many mistakes of Einstein.
Sure, he is considered to be a genius, but Einstein made a lot of mistakes in his time.
In–fact, the man who revolutionized the theory of general relativity and showed everyone why E=mc2 made quite a few mistakes that would have stopped anyone else in their tracks. From making multiple mistakes in his theories, to believing that the universe was static, Discover Magazine has a list of...
Motivation Monday: Picasso on creativity.
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Pablo Picasso once said:
“There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.”
Think about...