My friend hipped me to these videos of singer Darlene Love performing at the Hollywood Bowl and on Letterman. She tears it up both times. Enjoy. Tweet

The Bodhi Tree Bookstore will be closing before the end of this year. I have spent numerous hours and money at this bookstore which specializes in metaphysical, spiritual and inspirational books. I wanted to visit it at least one more time before it closed to appreciate it and to support it in some small way [...]

Today was another Los Angeles Road Trip Friday. I went to the Bodhi Tree Bookstore last Friday and today I trekked to The California Science Center & The California African American Museum in Exposition Park. The California Science Center has an exhibit entitled, “Ecosystems”. It features environmentally themed rooms with displays that elaborated on their [...]

Cory Doctorow has a bunch of interesting things to say about e-book readers and content control as well as the opportunities and challenges of the current book publishing environment. Seth Godin and Cory Doctorow are thought provoking thinkers and writers when I’m contemplating writing, storytelling, and getting my work into the world. This video interview [...]

Seth Godin proclaimed the end of his writing career and then started, The Domino Project, with its first project being the publication of one of his books. (The second project was a book by Steven Pressfield, Do the Work.) Seth has moved from writing about the new landscape of book publishing to being knee-deep in [...]

Some folks I know had this video on their Facebook pages. The Roots are funky and the aesthetic of the video reminded me of the style of jazz artists like Thelonius Monk, Miles Davis, John Coltrane and the way they were photographed in their day. Tweet

DJ Spooky at Google riffing on creativity. DJ Spooky or is it Paul Miller is a phenom: he’s a hip-hop head and sound artist with a degree in French Lit and Philosophy whose intellectual interests are as varied as his projects. I like his approach to creativity and the fact that he has figured out [...]

I found this interview with Sonia Simone while using the internet to calm my mind which had been running in a worry loop. I went to Seth Godin’s blog and then skipped over to Hugh McLeod’s site where he had a link to this interview with Sonia Simone. I had never heard of Simone but [...]

Jason Fried’s TED talk dovetails with my last post about creative people needing to understand ourselves well enough to know what environments encourage our creativity. Fried has some interesting ideas about how to get work done in an office environment. I agree that employees should be allowed to manage their workflow but doubt that managers [...]

This creative happening, “Look Up More (Extended)”, was orchestrated in the windows of a New York City department store. The participants and the audience were having big fun. Yesterday, I saw a photo by Ormond Gigli which is based on the same inspiration as, “Look Up More (Extended)”. Amazing how an idea keeps finding new [...]