creativity
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Getting to zero time
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Time is constant. And it keeps on moving with more and more rapidity, driven by technology. Said painter Fredericka Foster in her interview with composer Philip Glass: Time is speeding up in a real way. Younger people’s sense of time is completely different than mine; they have been working on screen time since they were…
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Georg Scholz’s revenge creativity
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Scholz’ early works were determinedly critical of society. One of them goes back to a painful personal experience, when, on return hungry from the war, he attempted to buy something to eat for himself and his family, only to be pointed by a farmer in the direction of the compost heap. It was this sort…
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The unclassifiable
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When we stop becoming someone for everyone, we start to find the right people instead. That’s not to say we want to remain unknown or unclassifiable. One can still ride the wave of uniqueness and make a big splash. Do you think Radiohead cares about the pop charts? The band thrives at the fringes, showing…
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Luxury fashion house Balenciaga knows how to nail the type of ugly design that gets people talking. In Fall 2017, it debuted the Bernie Sanders-inspired logo he used for his 2016 campaign. But this time around, the company once referred to as “the master of all” by Christian Dior, will release a double-shirt as part of its…
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Wave cinemagraphs by Ray Collins
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Photographer Ray Collins captures the magic that happens at the intersection of water and light. Each shot in this film was created from a single one of Ray’s original photos. The stills are transformed into cinemagraphs – a hybrid between photo and video – an infinite loop that makes a single moment last forever. The original…
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The tree is a spectacular creation because each part of the tree is necessary to it’s life. It is the perfect sculpture. Giuseppe Penone, A Tree in the Wood
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Mark Twain: ‘We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope’
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“There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations.” — Mark Twain See combinatorial creativity.
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Re-ymagined, “is an art project that digitally renders the reality of the artists’ environment before they started to draw,” says New York-based artist Yulia Pidlubnyak. It all started with Van Gogh’s Cafe Terrace, where she redrew the painting with Autodesk 3ds Max but erased the people to elucidate the lighting, framing, and shapes. Check out her revisions of…
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Turning inanimate objects (‘stuff’) into puppets
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Ainslee Henderson takes interesting “stuff” (wood, stick, wire, leaves, broken electronics, etc.) and turns it into stop-motion puppetry. Says Henderson on the creative process: “It’s like making music, you just see where it leads you. I stick and scult and keep scraping, putting things together and shaping things and then suddently what was just stuff becomes…
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The illusion of a sole genius
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Upon winning the MacArthur Fellow award for creating unconventional, immersive opera experiences, Yuval Sharon didn’t feel like he was a ‘genius’ in any sense of the word. The fellowship is also known as “the genius grant” although the organization steers clear of using the term in its to describe MacArthur Fellows ““because it connotes a…
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The placebo effect of a good luck charm
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NASA engineers eat peanuts before every launch as a lucky charm. Picasso held on to his fingernail clippings to maintain his spiritual “essence.” You can more read about artists and their peculiar amulets in Ellen Weinstein’s new book Recipes for Good Luck: The Superstitions, Rituals, and Practices of Extraordinary People. Why do some creators hold…
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“To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.” — Man Ray, Self-Portrait