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Sam Anderson on writing and drawing - Austin Kleon
The thing that unites good writing and good drawing — authentic writing and authentic drawing — is the exploratory line.
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Why broken sleep is a golden time for creativity
People once woke up halfway through the night to think, write or make love. What have we lost by sleeping straight through?
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Iconic Camouflage: Painted People Disappear into Cityscapes
Unlike some other prominent artists working with more seamless urban camouflage in strange or offbeat settings, this work in NYC by Trina Merry allows for curves and distortions, and operates with ...
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The Messy Minds of Creative People
Creativity is very messy. According to one prominent theory, the creative process involves four stages: preparation, incubation, illumination, and verification. This is all well in good in theory.
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Why You Do Your Best Thinking In The Shower: Creativity & the “Incubation Period”
Research suggests that peak creativity happens when we’re pleasantly absent-minded. Or, as psychologist Allen Braun writes, “We think what we see is a relaxation of ‘executive functions’ to allow more natural de-focused attention and uncensored processes to occur that might be the hallmark of creativity.”
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When The Lights Go Out, My Glowing Murals Turn These Rooms Into Dreamy Worlds
If you think a few glowing stars on your ceiling are impressive, just get a look at these insane bedroom murals from Hungarian-born, Vienna-based artist Bogi Fa
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Research links creativity with inability to filter irrelevant sensory information
The literary great Marcel Proust wore ear-stoppers because he was unable to filter out irrelevant noise—and lined his bedroom with cork to attenuate sound.
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Researchers tie unexpected brain structures to creativity — and to stifling it
A new study is the first to directly implicate the cerebellum in the creative process. As for the brain’s higher-level executive-control centers? Not so much.
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Flora
Staff: Video : Roseti Bruno Models: Veress Noémi, Nagy Petra Hair & Makeup: Merka Bea Flower Design: Gudana Otilia Featured by: Dark Beauty Magazine, Elegant Magazine 2015/April Beauty Issue Gallery: Making of:
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Draw a Stickman Epic 2 | A New EPIC Adventure!
Draw a stickman and then guide him through a fantastic world where you have complete creative freedom.
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German crew turns Mexican neighborhood into a rainbow painted mural
A German crew has transformed the village of Palmitas into a vibrant rainbow, connecting the community of more than 200 homes through an array of colorful hues.
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45 Amazing Sites (and Resources) for Stirring Up Your Creativity
These are 45 amazing creativity resources that can stir up your creative instinct. If you need inspiration and motivation to take your product or business to the next-level, you will find these resources, ideas, projects, designs, videos, predictions and innovations useful.
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Putting Elon Musk and Steve Jobs on a Pedestal Misrepresents How Innovation Happens
The idea that particular individuals drive history has long been discredited. Yet it persists in the tech industry, obscuring some of the fundamental factors in innovation.
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This Magical New Book Makes Sewage-Contaminated Water Drinkable
It's worth reading about.
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Voyage out to sea and uncover your own creativity with Trawl
Trawl is an exploration game, but not in the traditional sense of the word. Like Woolf, it would seem creators Nate Gallardo and Danny Gallagher have cast themselves to the bottom of the ocean, brokeb tradition, and returned with a new genre for their art form. Unlike other exploration games, you do not walk around a pre-rendered and beautiful world or solve puzzles—in fact the closest thing to a puzzle in Trawl is the bewildering enigma of creation.
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Creating A Paper Mache Dragon
Now there's a hobby. Very impressive. :-)
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Why You Probably Won’t Find a Genius Doing Work at Starbucks
New research out of Northwestern University suggests that—for some people—a bombardment of sound can actually be a good thing.
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The Psychology of Genre
Why we don’t like what we struggle to categorize. By Tom Vanderbilt.
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How I Wrote Arrival (and What I Learned Doing It)
Screenwriter Eric Heisserer shares notes and extracts from early drafts as he breaks down how he adapted Ted Chiang’s “Story of Your Life.”
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Originality Versus the Arts
In the last century, originality has killed one once-flourishing art form after another, by replacing variation within shared artistic conventions to rebellion. The impact of German Romantics on the artist. By Michael Lind.
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