February 2010
9 posts
The Sandpit →
A day in the life of New York City, in miniature. Absolutely mesmerizing.
Want to win Field Notes notebooks?
We all know that writing ideas down is a phenomenal idea, but getting a high–quality notebook that’s also easy to carry around isn’t so easy. Especially if your wallet is thinner than the money that should be inside of it.
To celebrate the creative crowd that is the readers of Creative Something, we’re going to give away a few exceptional notebooks from the Field Notes shop....
Where to find creative inspiration online.
Looking for good websites to inspire your creativity? If you haven’t checked out the following websites, you are missing out. Big time.
1. BOOOOOOOM!
Vancouverian (Vancouvian? Vancouverite?) Jeff Hamada started up this little website called Booooooom! a few years ago. The website serves as a community “of people excited to go out and be creative!” and boy does it deliver. Booooooom!...
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Re-sculpting the real world.
Adam Beane is re–sculpting the world with his own two hands. One look at his portfolio (here) and you’ll see what I mean.
The fact that Adam is able to use techniques to create small, photo–realistic sculptures is inspiring. But what really takes the cake is that while his artistic freedom is constrained by the companies he is hired to sculpt for, he still uses his talents and creativity...
Jazz music increases creativity. →
When jazz pianists are improvising riffs, their brains act much more like the dreaming brain, with inhibition turned down and creativity cranked way up
Thanks Liz.
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Motivation Monday: Today, everyday.
In any experience, if you are sensitive enough to see it, there will be something someone says, or two things that line up in a certain way, or the light hitting something as it does, and you will find that one small gesture contains the full essence of the thing, and then you can throw away everything else and just keep the gesture, which is like the jeweled nucleus that is small and sparkly,...
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Colin Bisset is inspired to do nothing. →
And that’s the point of boredom, isn’t it? Wasn’t Newton sitting underneath an apple tree staring into space, and Archimedes wallowing in the bath, when clarity struck? In my own insignificant way, I think I have always understood that doing nothing is the key to getting somewhere.
Pause for creativity.
Have you ever been driving down the road, or gone for a run, or taken a walk, and suddenly found yourself struck by creative inspiration?
Better yet: have you ever sat in the shower and discovered, almost randomly, a solution to a problem you had on your mind?
These moments are called creative pause, a term that was possibly first coined by Edward de Bono, a brilliant physician, author,...
How to Avoid Being Creative
Follow a routine every day, all the time, with everything you do.
Stick to what you already know.
Assume that your way of thinking is always right.
Only pretend to listen to other people’s ideas.
Believe that creativity cannot be learned.
Play it safe, avoid risks.
Ensure that you are never wrong.
Always think logically.
Critique while creating, not after.
Constantly copy other...