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http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/2001.228a-pp
“ I GOT UP is part of a continuous piece produced by On Kawara…”
I Got Up (by still got legs)
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There are many reasons why novelists write - but they all have one thing in common: a need to create an alternative world.
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Source: quoteworld
The Fierce Imagination of Haruki Murakami
The signature pleasure of a Murakami plot is watching a very ordinary situation (riding an elevator, boiling spaghetti, ironing a shirt) turn suddenly extraordinary (a mysterious phone call, a trip down a magical well, a conversation with a Sheep Man) — watching a character, in other words, being dropped from a position of existential fluency into something completely foreign and then being forced to mediate, awkwardly, between those two realities. A Murakami character is always, in a sense, translating between radically different worlds: mundane and bizarre, natural and supernatural, country and city, male and female, overground and underground. His entire oeuvre, in other words, is the act of translation dramatized.
A wonderful glimpse into the life and environment of one of the most highly regarded writers of our time.
Source: The New York Times
“Life will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” ~ Albert Einstein
Lovely poster for NASA’s One Hundred Year Starship Program, in the vein of Einstein’s famous thoughts on rationality vs. intuition.
Source: explore-blog
The only way to be creative over time — to not be undone by our expertise — is to experiment with ignorance, to stare at things we don’t fully understand.
Source: explore-blog
The yes and no of the creative process…writing and wonder
Elizabeth Gilbert discusses the creative process, gardening, and her upcoming novel.
“I want to look out my window and see indefensible amounts of beauty.”
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The Secrets of the Super Creative
For full article on “How to be Creative” :
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Almost two years ago, Spanish filmmaker Cristóbal Vila shot an exquisite little film, Nature by Numbers, which captured the ways in which mathematical concepts (Fibonacci Sequence, Golden Number, etc.) reveal themselves in nature. And the short then clocked a good 2.1 million views on YouTube alone.
This week, Vila returns with a new film called Inspirations. In this case, the inspiration is M.C. Escher (1898-1972), the Dutch artist who explored a wide range of mathematical ideas with his woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints. Although Escher had no formal training in mathematics beyond secondary school, many mathematicians counted themselves as admirers of his work. (Visit this online gallery to get better acquainted with Escher’s art, and be sure to click on the thumbnails to enlarge the images). As Vila explains, Inspirations tries to imagine Escher’s workplace, “what things would surround an artist like him, so deeply interested in science in general and mathematics in particular.” It’s a three minutes of unbridled imagination.
Source: Open Culture, an excellent resource for free lectures, movies/videos, courses, and e-books
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Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation
“Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don’t: Traditional rewards aren’t always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories — and maybe, a way forward.”
Don’t be seduced into thinking that which does not make profit is without value.
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The way your brain processes happiness…the lens you view the world through…college, and more
“If we study what is merely average, we will remain merely average” —-Shawn Achor
