Change comes from a willingness to try something that doesn’t match what’s come before. When an iceberg calves from a glacier we see sudden transformation as tons of ice crash into the sea. But what we don’t necessarily see is the inexorable, relentless push of the glacier down to the sea, the long-term, root cause of the calving front. The thunderous change we observe is the sudden visibility of what’s really a deeper, longer, richer process.
Read MoreACTS OF REBELLION (first of a two part series)
Acts of rebellion are always disruptive. Acts of creativity are almost always acts of rebellion. Therefore, acts of creativity are almost always disruptive. Creative acts are always the result of what’s come before, and while new works emerge as a result of incremental modification, those modifications are always about one thing fading out while another thing begins to glow.
Read MoreYOU'RE READY, ALREADY!
There’s no excuse that makes sense if answers always point back to you trying to leave the starting line. External forces holding you back? That’s a little different. That’s a hard, painful situation—legit if it’s legit—and as one creative to another I sincerely feel for you. But fidgeting and fussing over non-sensical distractions is only an indication that your desire to see this thing through ’til the end—whatever it — is not as strong as your urge to resist doing the work.
Read MoreCLOUD WATCHING
The ability to see something different from the person directly next to you offers clues about how you might regard acts of creative invention, or at least appreciation.
Read MoreHEARTS AFIRE
A romantic existence, just like a romantic story, deals with extending life into the future. Ultimately the extension of all of our lives into the future is why we invest ourselves in our children, in our values whatever they may be, or in our great creative enterprises big and small. Romance is about preserving a moment or an idea into timelessness.
Read MoreNUANCE
Nuance is all about how that attention to detail plays out in concert, about how subtle, tiny interactions among elements can contribute to profound differences.
Read MoreGO FARTHER -- 2014 COMES TO A CLOSE
In the news section of our website you can follow tales of our exploits. Here on the blog the topic generally concerns the many ways to think about being creative, from what fuels creativity, to how we lose it, to engaging it in diverse and surprising—or even simply reliable—ways.
Read MoreSTORY
Story means everything, even if everything doesn’t look like a story. How we think about what we do is the essential architecture of all stories, and the onus is always on storytellers to make them sing.
Read MoreWHAT CREATIVITY WANTS
Creativity wants to solve problems. To create something is to make a judgment, that “this” is more desirable than “that”. What raw materials are available will influence the process, just as the level of available talent will also influence the process.
Read MoreBEAUTY
Beauty is a trait often found during moments of transformation, full of implication and promise. Beauty resides in the levitating silence filling camera crew headsets five seconds before a live broadcast begins. It's the perfectly timed bare-handed pickup of a baseball between second and third base. It's a successful parallel parking maneuver on the first try.
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