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Aug 27, 2010
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Video: The amazing John Cleese shares his wisdon on writing, creativity, getting in the zone, and interruptions

Damn, this is good:

The point is, we don’t know—this is terribly important—we don’t know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops. We get our ideas from our unconcious, the part of our mind that goes on working when we’re asleep. So what I’m saying is that if you get into the right mood, then your mode of thinking will become much more creative. But if you’re racing around all day, ticking things off on lists, looking at your watch, making phone calls, and generally just keeping all the balls in the air, you are not going to have any creative ideas.

The way to do this, Cleese says, is to create boundaries of space and boundaries of time. You need a place to work that’s away from the garbage of your life, and a start time and a stop time to play. It’s that simple.

Lynda Barry says almost the exact same thing in What It Is.

Aug 24, 2010
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Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
— Marin Luther King, Jr., in his sermon, “Transformed Nonconformist

Aug 11, 2010
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Aug 09, 2010
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Applied Imagination: Principles and Procedures of Creative Thinking by Alex F. Osborn, 1953

Ellen Lupton in  Print magazine:

One of the most influential design educators of the 20th century didn’t teach in an art school. Alex F. Osborn was a Madison Avenue advertising man who invented a collaborative thinking technique called “brainstorming” Today, pretty much anyone involved in creative practice knows how to brainstorm: pose a question and create a big, uncensored list of ideas.Brainstorming, however is just one of many ideas that Osborn considered in his bestselling 1952 book, Applied Imagination: Principles and Procedures of Creative Thinking. Another Osborn technique is known as “Manipulative Verbs,” an exercise that’s used to refine a core idea and then create variations on it. Here’s how: starting with an initial concept, modify your idea by applying different verbs to it, such as magnify, minify, rearrange, alter, modify, substitute, reverse, and combine.

via @DrewDernavich

Applied Imagination: Principles and Procedures of Creative Thinking by Alex F. Osborn, 1953

Ellen Lupton in Print magazine:

One of the most influential design educators of the 20th century didn’t teach in an art school. Alex F. Osborn was a Madison Avenue advertising man who invented a collaborative thinking technique called “brainstorming” Today, pretty much anyone involved in creative practice knows how to brainstorm: pose a question and create a big, uncensored list of ideas.

Brainstorming, however is just one of many ideas that Osborn considered in his bestselling 1952 book, Applied Imagination: Principles and Procedures of Creative Thinking. Another Osborn technique is known as “Manipulative Verbs,” an exercise that’s used to refine a core idea and then create variations on it. Here’s how: starting with an initial concept, modify your idea by applying different verbs to it, such as magnify, minify, rearrange, alter, modify, substitute, reverse, and combine.

via @DrewDernavich

Jul 16, 2010
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Even the stupidest possible creative act is still a creative act. And I’d still take the most inane collaborative website over someone watching yet another half hour of TV.

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All art is always created from a base of someone else’s work. There is no “new.” No one invents art. You always have a base of someone you’re—I can’t think of any other word to use—you’re *copying* them even if you don’t remember it. It might be Picasso, it might be Michelangelo’s finger, it might be Da Vinci’s earlobe…but you’ll remember it. That’s the creative process: you look at things and you’re impressed by it, and your job then is to show it to others and say, “I like this, look at this.” Or, “I hate this, look at this.” That’s what the artistic life is all about.

Jul 02, 2010
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Jun 28, 2010
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Jun 11, 2010
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