Category Archives: creativity

George Carlin - Stuff

June 23, 2008 – 14:00

via: Laughing Squid
link: George Carlin 1937-2008, Farewell to the Class Clown
definition: consume on merriam-webster.com
Main Entry:
con·sume
transitive verb
1: to do away with completely : destroy: “fire consumed several buildings”
2 a: to spend wastefully : squander b: use up: “writing consumed much of his time”
3 a: to eat or drink especially in great [...]

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A Manifesto for street poetry

June 20, 2008 – 8:35

“Senza paura, poesia gettata all’onde.“
Ivan (www.i-v-a-n.net) presenta la mostra Scala Mercalli (www.scalamercalli.it) a Roma, lanciando migliaia di barchette di carta con le poesie nel Tevere.
“Without fear, poems thrown on the waves“
Ivan (www.i-v-a-n.net) presents the exhibition Mercalli Scale (www.scalamercalli.it) in Rome, launching thousands of boats of paper with poems on the river Tevere.
video: Ivan street performance [...]

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The art of Serendipity

June 18, 2008 – 13:17

txt: Serendipity - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Serendipity is the effect by which one accidentally discovers something fortunate, especially while looking for something else entirely.
The word derives from Serendip, the old Persian name for Sri Lanka,[1] and was coined by Horace Walpole on 28 January 1754 in a letter he wrote to his friend Horace [...]

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Blublu: video art

June 14, 2008 – 7:04

If you loved “Muto” have a look at the other videos by Blu, you’ll love them as well: always restless, always full of thoughts, simple and involving.
And go to www.blublu.org, his site deserves definitely a visit.
video: Child by blu on Vimeo.com

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What is wisdom in five words

June 13, 2008 – 20:36

txt: Muppets - Mahna Mahna - Hiraeth on youtube.com
Hi! This video always brings a smile to my face, so I hope it does the same for you. YouTube suggested “wisdom” as an appropriate tag for this video. I completely agree.
Yes, the subtitles are in Swedish. Why? I don’t know. This thing has been sitting [...]

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A new Cultural Economy

June 6, 2008 – 21:32

link: Ars Electronica 2008 - A New Cultural Economy: The Limits of Intellectual Property
LINZ 04-09 september 2008
txt: Curatorial Statement (Joichi Ito)

Computers and the Internet has lowered the cost of communication and the creation and distribution of information so much that many fundamental notions of organizations, economics and property have completely changed or require major [...]

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Mixed media

June 6, 2008 – 17:39

txt: Mixed media - Wikipedia.org
Mixed media, in visual art, refers to an artwork in the making of which more than one medium has been employed.
There is an important distinction between “mixed media” artworks and “multimedia art”. Mixed media tends to refer to a work of visual art that combines various traditionally distinct visual art media. [...]

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We must become the change we want to see in the world

May 31, 2008 – 23:10

“We must become the change we want to see in the world” - M.K. Gandhi
txt: Change - Wikipedia

Change can mean:
* The process of becoming different.
- Social Change
- Metamorphosis
[...]

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Unleash Your Creativity

May 29, 2008 – 21:20

txt: How to Unleash Your Creativity - Scientific American
John Houtz: There’s so much power in a new idea taking shape and changing the way people live and act. Often the rest of us are in awe, or we are even afraid of a new idea, and sometimes our fears spur us to learn more about [...]

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What is creativity

May 28, 2008 – 19:36

via: invisiblered.blogspot.com
video: Lazy guy gets a lot of Money - playwithreactivity on youtube.com

txt: Creativity - from Wikipedia
Creativity (or “creativeness” ;) is a mental process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts, or new associations of the creative mind between existing ideas or concepts.
From a scientific point of view, the products of creative thought (sometimes [...]

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The idea becomes a machine

May 27, 2008 – 8:59

txt: Sol LeWitt - Paragraphs on Conceptual Art, Artforum, 1967
In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work. When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes [...]

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Long Weekend 2008 + Margini Festival

May 17, 2008 – 10:59

txt: UBS Openings - The Long Weekend 2008
UBS Openings: The Long Weekend brings you three days and nights of extraordinary live events and performances at Tate Modern.
During the day, the gallery will be buzzing with performances to watch and opportunities to get involved, themed around the States of Flux Collection display, which [...]

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