Remember your speech class from high school or college? Remember the rules they gave you for a good speech. Now think of the famous speeches from history–”Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” speech, The Gettysburg Address, “I Have a Dream” speech. According to those speech-class rules, Patrick Henry, Abe Lincoln, and MLK would have…
Gastronomy The practice or art of choosing, cooking, and eating good food. If you want to be physically fit, it’s important what you feed your mouth. If you want to be fit creatively, you need to feed your eyes and ears the right stuff. That’s what visual gastronomy is all about–good food for your eyes.…
A few friends and I have started a creative exercise we practice each day. We write a simple “what if” scenario and develop it…then share it with each other. It’s been a fantastic creative boost, plus it’s helped discipline our minds to be creative. This is especially a great project for aspiring fiction writers or…
One of my favorite things is change. But change is hard. You can’t keep things the same. (obvious?) But there is a way to make change easier. Simplicity.
This is one of my favorite ways to get the creative juices flowing when I feel dried up. I pick a random topic from my past (a musician, actor, tv show, subject from school) and look it up on Wikipedia. Read a bit, then click on a random link inside that page and look at…
Gastronomy The practice or art of choosing, cooking, and eating good food. If you want to be physically fit, it’s important what you feed your mouth. If you want to be fit creatively, you need to feed your eyes and ears the right stuff. That’s what visual gastronomy is all about–good food for your eyes.…
Guest Post by Nate McConnaughhay: I have hundreds of unfulfilled ideas in folders on my hard drive. Why didn’t they make it to paper? This is the battle: art versus function. An idea can be so brilliant and unique, but without “function” it gathers dust in a folder. I used to think that limited resources and…
Everyday stuff is so commonplace. Why not turn it into art. This plastic cutlery set turns into a small piece of art. How brilliant! Everything can be art if you are willing to make it be. This week, look for small ways you can bring art into everyday stuff.
Tomorrow something will come out that is bigger and better. That’s the way you “succeed”. Blow your opponents out of the water by creating more, and creating bigger. What if the key to your success was to create smaller.
Can you guess what horror movie this screen shot is from?