I am currently taking “Creativity Bootcamp” taught by Julia Cameron the author of The Artist’s Way. We have had several homework assignments to complete over the duration of the course. For example, morning pages, artists dates, etc. For the 2nd week our homework was “media deprivation” which meant we couldn’t expose ourselves to outside media. [...]
From the woman that wrote “Eat, Pray, Love” – Elizabeth Gilbert a talk in which she discusses taking an alternate view of creativity. How to find your creative muse: What purposes define your life? What enthuses and excites you? What moves you — physically, spiritually, and emotionally? What is really important to you? What things [...]
Interesting talk by Sir Ken Robinson about whether schools kill creativity. //
Creating is something I have been doing since I was old enough to hold a crayon. Now that I work creating designs for online experiences I can see how my love of technology and design have merged over the years. Without design we would all be lost. Our experience of our favorite brands would be [...]
I recently attended a showing of Hugh MacLeod’s work at a bar in New York. I had never heard of Hugh until I started using Twitter six months ago. But every since I have been a big fan of his work. If you’ve visited my site at all you’ve seen that I’ve installed his gapingvoid.com [...]
No I am not crazy. Everyone CAN draw. Some people have more natural ability than others but anyone can learn to draw. The image I’m using for this post is one of my own sketches. It doesn’t look exactly like the nude model but that wasn’t the point. It was just a warm-up exercise to [...]