Creativity
Think anew, act anew, disenthrall ourselves
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves and then we shall save our country. Abe Lincoln, 1862 Via Sir [...]
Woodkid – Iron
A couple of weeks ago I found some old Elric paperbacks on someone’s stoop (that’s how we freecycle in BKLN – just leave your cool crap on the stoop for someone else). As an old school D&D player, I knew of Elric but hadn’t ever read Michael Moorcock’s tale of the nihilist young Melnibonean emperor [...]
Your greatest creation is gonna be your life story
Today, by Jonathan Harris with Scott Thrift.
Amy Winehouse
Some things are pure but other things are meant to be.
2 insanely good music videos you may have missed
2 faces of the Dionysian dream… Gil Scott-Heron – Me and the Devil El Guincho – Bombay Via gorilla v bear. Enjoy.
Daddy’s little Dexter
Drawing with Win is always a serendipitous adventure. We work together like Warhol and Basquiat, with me coloring inside the lines and her deconstructing contemporary cultural icons. Here’s her latest work, and I think her best. I call it “Sheriff Lecter”: If you ask Win what her favorite color is, she’ll tell you purple. But [...]
How to game KickStarter
KickStarter‘s cool but I feel like I see too many projects hit their funding numbers at the last minute of the pledge window. Call me a cynic, but after thinking about this on the train one morning, I devised this scheme for getting “free” money for your project. Start your project the old-fashioned way: gather [...]
So sayeth Ms. Gags
I used to walk down the street like I was a fucking star. I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be – and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth. All that ever holds somebody back, I think, is fear. For a [...]
Neurological definition of “flow”
From this Newsweek article (about halfway through): During improvisation, the highly trained music majors used their brains in a way the nonmusicians could not: they deactivated their right-temporoparietal junction. Normally, the r-TPJ reads incoming stimuli, sorting the stream for relevance. By turning that off, the musicians blocked out all distraction. They hit an extra gear [...]