March 31, 2010
Reading The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp made me realized some very important points about creativity. I’ll try to share them all with you in this post, but for the whole experience, read the book. It’s a fascinating account of the work and discipline behind the craft of the creation of ideas.
Everything that happens to me is usable. Everything feeds into creativity, but you need to be prepare, to see it, to retain it and to use it. You need to get ready to create.
No one starts a creative project without a certain amount of fear.…
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Source: The Creative Habit
Via: Inaki Escudero, Creative Director and Writer
Labels: Creativity
March 29, 2010
You always need to think about how a building will look beside its neighbors. Of course, that doesn’t mean you should merely imitate them. Neither does it mean you should make the other buildings look bad. The ideal is to create something that, through its presence, makes the overall environment look better, and at the same time makes your own building look good by virtue of its relationship with the surrounding buildings.
Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa
SANAA
Source: Successes stack up for Tokyo design duo
Labels: Context
March 27, 2010
I’m really multicultural. My mom is from Haiti. My dad’s from Puerto Rico. I was born in Brooklyn. I read Proust. Your heritage is your heritage, but your soul is truly who you are.
Maxwell
Singer and Musician
Source: 10 Questions for Maxwell by TIME
Labels: Soul
March 20, 2010
John Warner: “Is there ever any anxiety over your own creative MO? That’s been one of my most constant struggles, a love of starting things, less interest in finishing them. I tell myself it’s better than working on something where I’m not feeling inspired, but it took me almost 15 years of trying to finally finish a novel at least good enough to take a shot at publication. Aren’t we all struggling with a sense that we might be doing it ‘wrong?’ Or with age, is peace and wisdom achieved?”
Philip Graham: “Oh, I’m much more relaxed about the whole process than I used to be. Basically, all that matters is what appears on the page, I don’t worry so much anymore about publishing schedules. I’m primarily interested in the trial and error of forging the patterns of my imagination’s fingerprint; the grimy marks it may leave on the world comes later.”
Source: A Conversation With Writer Philip Graham by John Warner
Labels: Creativity
March 17, 2010
Applying constraints can help your company and your customers in unexpected ways. The default thing we do is ask how we can add something to make it better. Instead we should say, What can we take away to create something new?
Evan Williams
Founder, Twitter
Source: Anything Could Happen by Max Chafkin
Labels: Constraints
March 14, 2010
…a democracy of images is important for me. I don’t see anyone’s work as being older just because it was posted earlier. And I also don’t view the work of somebody who has never shown in a gallery as less (or more) important than the work of someone who sells her or his photos for a million bucks.
Jörg M. Colberg
Founder and Editor of photography site Conscientious
Labels: Photography
March 11, 2010
“What if, instead of thinking about sourcing from the crowd, we reverse engineer that thought. In other words, why not send the company out into the crowd?
As [Cory] Doctorow’s character Kettlewell (more force of nature than human being) puts it:
‘Our business plan is simple: we will hire the smartest people we can find and put them in small teams. They will go into the field …capitalized to find a place to live and work, and a job to do. A business to start. Our business to start. Our company isn’t a project that pull together on, it’s…
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Source: The Economies of Small
Labels: Small
March 8, 2010
Never once in my life did my parents say, ‘What you’re doing is a waste of time.’ … I know there are kids out there that don’t have that support system so if you’re out there and you’re listening, listen to me: You want to be creative? Get out there and do it, it’s not a waste of time.
Michael Giacchino
Composer & Academy Award Recipient, Best Original Score, Pixar film “Up”
Labels: Creativity
