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 [...]

Selected Clips from the Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project is a treasure trove of interviews with various jazz musicians. DocBop hipped me to this one. Makes me want to take a trip to New York to see the other full length interviews. click here to see Selected Clips from the Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral [...]

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 [...]

Seth Godin being himself live and in living color. Listen to his take on the history of marketing: brilliant. And Seth is walking his talk by showing this particular group of people with a social mission how they can apply his ideas. Seth Godin live seminar for good causes 10/09 from Seth Godin on Vimeo. [...]

This is really cool. The fact that they did this after their instruments had been stolen is a testament to their creativity. Rock on Atomic Tom. Tweet

@brainpicker hipped me to Steven Johnson. He and creative thinker Kevin Kelly have published new books which discuss technology. Johnson’s focus is looking at the elements which foster creativity and innovation. I am really interested in this subject because of my involvement in creative collectives. I agree with Johnson’s premise that creativity is more than [...]

I wrote a blog post titled, “Creativity, Disappointment and YouTube,” where I discussed my experience of creating a slide show which got lost in email cyberspace and was not published. Wanted to complete the circle by putting the video in my blog. Got home and realized that I had not published the article I wrote [...]

One of my creative friends is pursuing a comedy career. This is one of her performances. (Note: profanity is used during the performance.) Tweet

I wanted to showcase this film because of my recent realization of how many people live for new ideas-including myself. The strange thing is I can live deeply and passionately in love with an idea only to find myself not even thinking about it some time later. Then there are ideas which I can not [...]

Funky little video by Brendan Dawes. The music took me there, to the city, and the hectic always on sensibility of the place. And I love b&w. Click here to view Voices in the Subway by Brendan Dawes. Tweet