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People are creative; industries, not so much. And cities? « Adam Greenfield’s Speedbird
The error is compounded when some well-meaning effort is made to attract both class and industries to what are now being dubbed “creative cities.” Believe me, I have absolutely no problem if you want to attract creative people to your city, nor would I complain in the slightest if you rigged the machinery of municipal policy so as to render your part of the world that much more welcoming to gay men and bicyclists. We could all use a leisurely ride every once in awhile, and so far as I know no city has ever done anything but make money and have a good time during an International Bear Rendezvous. That is all well and good.
via:robertogreco  cities  creativity  economics  richardflorida 
december 2010 by vielmetti
Triumph of the Cyborg Composer | Miller-McCune Online
Like many arts aficionados, Hofstadter views music as a fundamental way for humans to communicate profound emotional information. Machines, no matter how sophisticated their mathematical abilities, should not be able to possess that spiritual power. As he wrote in Virtual Music, an anthology of debates about Cope’s research, Hofstadter worries Emmy proves that “things that touch me at my deepest core — pieces of music most of all, which I have always taken as direct soul-to-soul messages — might be effectively produced by mechanisms thousands if not millions of times simpler than the intricate biological machinery that gives rise to a human soul.”
via:Vaguery  creativity  music  programming  dughof 
december 2010 by vielmetti
The Sir John Soane's Museum Web Page
Welcome to the web page of the house and Museum of Sir John Soane, R.A., architect.

Soane was born in 1753, the son of a bricklayer, and died after a long and distinguished career, in 1837.

Soane designed this house to live in, but also as a setting for his antiquities and his works of art. After the death of his wife (1815), he lived here alone, constantly adding to and rearranging his collections. Having been deeply disappointed by the conduct of his two sons, one of whom survived him, he determined to establish the house as a museum to which 'amateurs and students' should have access.
design  history  research  art  creativity  architecture  london  museums  archive  party-like-its-1815  soane  soane  john 
december 2008 by vielmetti
Sharism: A Mind Revolution - Freesouls
Thus, our brain supports sharing in its very system-nature. This has profound implications for the creative process. Whenever you have an intention to create, you will find it easier to generate more creative ideas if you keep the sharing process firmly in mind. The idea-forming-process is not linear, but more like an avalanche of amplifications along the thinking path. It moves with the momentum of a creative snowball. If your internal cognitive system encourages sharing, you can engineer a feedback loop of happiness, which will help you generate even more ideas in return. It's a kind of butterfly- effect, as the small creative energy you spend will eventually return to make you, and the world, more creative.
sharing  feedback  happiness  nonlinear  creativity  creativity-is-an-import-export-game 
november 2008 by vielmetti
I Am a Slow Blog : Ruminate
Slow Blogging is in the air. And even slower blogging. I don’t know all the details of the Slow Blogging movement, nor have I had the pleasure of meeting Barbara Ganley (who has been championing the concept) to talk about it. But I’m quite aware of the slow blogging idea… not just from Barbara’s blog entries, but from serendipitously stumbling across other people who had independently developed similar ideas. I’ve had similar– though less fully explored– thoughts about blogs and blogging for some time, particularly after coming under the influence of a book I’ve since recommended to many people, Carl Honore’s In Praise of Slow .
blog  essay  slow  meditation  reflection  creativity  writing 
november 2008 by vielmetti
What is NaNoWriMo? | National Novel Writing Month
Because of the limited writing window, the ONLY thing that matters in NaNoWriMo is output. It's all about quantity, not quality. The kamikaze approach forces you to lower your expectations, take risks, and write on the fly.

Make no mistake: You will be writing a lot of crap. And that's a good thing. By forcing yourself to write so intensely, you are giving yourself permission to make mistakes. To forgo the endless tweaking and editing and just create. To build without tearing down.
nanowrimo  novel  creativity  literature  writing  you-will-be-writing-a-lot-of-crap 
november 2008 by vielmetti
Methods for our madness - Thinking and Making
The point is that there are seven basic problem solving activities.

1. Generate
2. Disambiguate
3. Deconstruct
4. Synthesis
5. Affinity
6. Priority
7. Context
design  creativity  thinking  process  methods  accentuate-the-positive  eliminate-the-negative 
october 2008 by vielmetti
I think I'm musing my mind - Roger Ebert's Journal
Of course I don't think only about writing. I spend time with my wife, family and friends. I read a lot, watch a lot of politics on TV. But prose is beavering along beneath, writing itself. When it comes time to type it is an expression, not a process. My mind has improved so much at this that it's become clearly apparent to me. The words, as e. e. cummings wrote, come out like a ribbon and lie flat on the brush. He wasn't writing about toothpaste. In my fancy, I like to think he could have been writing about prose.

Yes, I had that cummings line in mind before I began. I knew I was heading for it. By losing the ability to speak, I have increased my ability to communicate. I am content.
ebert  roger  inspiration  creativity  genius  ability  essay 
october 2008 by vielmetti
Dangerously Irrelevant: Roll the dice!
Yesterday I found my kids playing Monopoly with the crazy dice. If they paid $5 to the bank, they got to use one of the crazy dice. If they paid $10, they got to use two. If they used a die with a color dot, they got to move to the set of properties with that color.
creativity  learning  incentives  monopoly  games  dice  d20 
august 2008 by vielmetti
Chillax - The Boston Globe
Funner. Impactful. Blowiest. Territorialism. Multifunctionality. Dialoguey. Dancey. Thrifting. Chillaxing. Anonymized. Interestinger. Wackaloon. Updatelette. Noirish. Huger. Domainless. Delegator. Photocentric. Relationshippy. Bestest. Zoomable.
chill+relax  chillax  writing  creativity  funny  language  words  english  via:bkerr  via:strudeau 
august 2008 by vielmetti
Are You Sure You Own Your Stuff? : NPR
Gould says he is continually astounded by what he finds discarded in the trash. He yearns for the 1950s, he says, when people held onto their things for many years, fixing rather than discarding them.
creativity  gadgets  recycle  repair  reuse  simplicity  party-like-its-195x 
july 2008 by vielmetti
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » What I plan to say at De Montfort University commencement
“paying attention to irrelevant details,” is a phrase that has stuck in my mind for decades, since I read it in a research paper about brain functioning.
attention  detail  brain  creativity  thinking  rheingold  howard  attention-to-irrelevant-details 
july 2008 by vielmetti
political Science and Beyond / Robert Axelrod
The main recommendation is to cultivate your curiosity by: reading up in a variety of fields so your mind will be well prepared, teaming up with others who can help you, loading up on research related to your problem, and lightening up when you need to es
creativity  curiousity  creativity-is-an-import-export-game  social-capital  socialnetworks  axelrod  robert  axe 
june 2008 by vielmetti
Kevin Kelly — Scenius: intelligence and intuition of a whole cultural scene, the communal form of genius
Let it remain inefficient, wasteful, edgy, marginal, in the basement, downtown, in the 'burbs, in the hotel ballroom, on the fringes, out back, in Camp 4.
community  creativity  learning 
june 2008 by vielmetti
Bad moods assist attention | COSMOS magazine
"If attention is like a spotlight, then a good mood will widen that spotlight, while a negative mood will focus it very tightly," said Adam Anderson, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Toronto in Canada and author of the study.
attention  detail  mood  focus  creativity  psychology 
march 2008 by vielmetti
Please Step Away From the In-Box - Advertising Age - Small Agency Diary
I believe e-mail is diverting our best waking hours from thinking, conceptualizing and dreaming big ideas.
attention  marketing  creativity  ideas  lack-of-ideas 
february 2008 by vielmetti
NPR: Alternative 'Commie' High Mellows with Time
Community High School in Ann Arbor, Mich., has offered children in this progressive city an alternative to traditional high school since 1972.
audio  creativity  culture  local  annarbor  michigan  commie-high 
february 2008 by vielmetti
» Innovation, cross-appropriation, social practice, and structural holes -- Coevolving Innovations -- Blog Archive -- … in Business Organizations and Information Technologies
An idea is a multiple sequence of creative acts. This is important because it means that creativity isn’t just the domain of brilliant people, it’s also the domain of average people who travel to other groups.
innovation  networking  social  ideas  creativity  travel  burt  ron 
february 2008 by vielmetti
Schedule & Location: Anne Lamott on shitty first drafts
Now, practically even better news than that of short assignments is the idea of shitty first drafts. All good writers write them. This is how they end up with good second drafts and terrific third, drafts.
procrastination  writing  inspiration  lamott  creativity  deadlink 
february 2008 by vielmetti
gapingvoid: "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards": the sex & cash theory
As soon as you accept this, I mean really accept this, for some reason your career starts moving ahead faster. I don't know why this happens. It's the people who refuse to cleave their lives this way- who just want to start Day One by quitting their curre
lifehacks  career  balance  creativity  cash  its-all-about-the-hamiltons 
september 2007 by vielmetti
Business School - Networks: Innovation & Effectiveness | University of Greenwich
organisational performance can be enhanced by judicious combinations of strong and weak networks. In general, weak ties are a source of novelty and creativity but strong ties are needed to turn creativity into marketable innovation.
networks  organizations  innovation  effectiveness  workshop  events  creativity 
july 2007 by vielmetti
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paper  creativity  drawing  isometric 
june 2007 by vielmetti
How to Be Silicon Valley
I think you only need two kinds of people to create a technology hub: rich people and nerds. They're the limiting reagents in the reaction that produces startups, because they're the only ones present when startups get started. Everyone else will move.
academia  business  checklist  creativity  essay  entrepreneur  geography  howto  innovation  startup  trends  university  urban  urbanism 
june 2007 by vielmetti
At 3M, A Struggle Between Efficiency And Creativity
his successors face a challenging question: whether the relentless emphasis on efficiency had made 3M a less creative company. That's a vitally important issue for a company whose very identity is built on innovation.
creativity  efficiency  3m  control-towers  business  six-sigma  maybe-seven-sigma-on-a-good-day 
june 2007 by vielmetti
scottberkun.com » Blog Archive » Efficiency vs. Creativity
A recent Businessweek article on 3M highlights the trade off between managing for efficiency and managing for creativity.

I read the article on a recent flight and found the whole debate silly - why is this a polarized, binary decision?
business  creative  creativity  efficiency  control-towers  via:twitter 
june 2007 by vielmetti
Creativity in the workplace | Veerle's blog
Coworking

Another example of an inspiring environment could be to share it with other people.
coworking  creativity  innovation  office  productivity 
june 2007 by vielmetti
Nina Katchadourian - sorted books
books sorted so that their titles tell a story; awesome. The Sorted Books project began in 1993 years ago and is ongoing. The project has taken place in many different places over the years, ranging form private homes to specialized public book collections. The process is the same in every case: culling through a collection of books, pulling particular titles, and eventually grouping the books into clusters so that the titles can be read in sequence, from top to bottom. The final results are shown either as photographs of the book clusters or as the actual stacks themselves, shown on the shelves of the library they were drawn from. Taken as a whole, the clusters from each sorting aim to examine that particular library's focus, idiosyncrasies, and inconsistencies — a cross-section of that library's holdings. At present, the Sorted Books project comprises more than 130 book clusters.
library  book  books  sorted-books  art  blog  superpatron  bookshelf  blog-this  creativity 
may 2007 by vielmetti
The (Bayesian) Advantage of Youth. Many-to-Many:
just remember, Clay: old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill.
business  creativity  cshirky  aging  change  psychology  shirky  old  cranky  young-whippersnapper-no-more 
may 2007 by vielmetti
Mingus: Biography
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
simplicity  complexity  creativity  mingus  mingus-mingus-mingus  jazz  music 
may 2007 by vielmetti
Poets&Writers, Inc. | Steven Elliott goes offline (and loves it)
suggest this as a routine for people who must spend their days in front of a computer and want to accomplish more: Divide your day into online and offline. Studies have consistently shown that people with more screens open get less done. Multitasking slow
addiction  advice  creativity  essay  ideas  interesting  internet  organization  procrastination  productivity  writing  work 
may 2007 by vielmetti
‘Toothpick traders’ boost Republic-Michigamme schools
“We started each with a toothpick and we basically traded them for something else and traded that item for another and so on,” Bessolo said. “At the end, we knew we couldn’t have any items so we sold them and all of the proceeds went toward helpin
school  fundraising  republic  michigamme  marquette  michigan  creativity  toothpick 
april 2007 by vielmetti
Robot Wisdom auxiliary: The bisociation machine
jorn, the analogous version of this in sociology is ron burt's observation that "creativity is an import-export game" and his work on "structural holes" in social relations. same principle, pull things from one context and apply to another
creativity  psychology  bisociation 
march 2007 by vielmetti
Christine Kane - Blog- Why Gratitude Makes You Happier and Wealthier
Gratitude is about so much more than being thankful. Gratitude is a practice. For some, it is a way of life. Why do some people swear by this practice? Why do those people live happier and more abundant lives than everyone else?
gratitude  thanks  positive  psychology  abundance  creativity 
march 2007 by vielmetti
Creative Leadership: Be Your Team's Chief Innovation Officer
Creativity drives the innovations that fuel your company's growth, extend its reach, and revitalize its processes. Substantial research demonstrates the connection between the characteristics of a work environment and the quality of the creative problem s
creativity  innovation  harvard-business-review  $ 
march 2007 by vielmetti
"creativity is an import export game" - Google Search
Ron Burt - (creativity is a function of the situation, not the individual; everyone is eligible)
creativity  quote  quotable  creative  innovation 
march 2007 by vielmetti
David Seah : The Printable CEO™ III: Emergent Task Timing
thanks for the link John. i've tried to use this without the philosophy behind it, but it does make more sense as an after the fact timer than a plan out the day one. what have I been doing?
via:jhritz  mindful  gtd  hacks  creativity  howto  innovation  kaizen  lifehacks  productivity  timer  timetracker 
february 2007 by vielmetti
Tux Paint -
kid friendly graphics program with lots of magic. saul uses this to do his fairy doors.
tuxpaint  paint  kids  creativity  via:saul  creative  graphics  osx  parenting 
february 2007 by vielmetti
The Ecstasy of Influence (Harpers.org)
i want a morning to read this again, or maybe it should be read out loud (hm, record it for assistive media? that would be really useful)
collaboration  awesome  *****  collage  essay  blogthis  superpatron  creativity  plagiarism  via:jazzmasterson  remix  reuse  text  writing  innovation  mashup  harpers  creative  magazine  publishing  wow  cooperation  copyfight 
february 2007 by vielmetti
How to Solve It - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
thedaniel, here's a book i would recommend for your improved mathematical reasoning goal.
books  creativity  heuristics  problems  thinking 
january 2007 by vielmetti
Join the Global Nation
about to launch "global nation of creatives"
oddpodz  creativity 
december 2006 by vielmetti
conway's law
organizations create software systems that mimic their own organizational structures. is this part of systemantics? must look.
anthropology  architecture  creativity  design  management  organization  process  software  systems  systemantics 
december 2006 by vielmetti
KJ-Method - Mycoted
whoa...Japanese technique of creativity based on index cards. in a wiki. full of creativity stuff. this is for josh dimauro to be sure.
creativity  indexcards  lifehacks  paper  quadrille  japan 
october 2006 by vielmetti
The Power of Ordinary Practices — HBS Working Knowledge
small things, like keeping people in a good mood, have tremendous impacts on culture and performance in organizations.
creativity  leadership  management  productivity  psychology  positive  happiness 
october 2006 by vielmetti
NPR : After School, Kids' Workloads Grow Heavier
Michele Norris talks with three fourth-graders and their principal about the downsides and benefits of a packed schedule. She also talks with child development expert David Elkind, whose latest book is The Power of Play.
book  books  creativity  health  kids  play  via:jhritz 
june 2006 by vielmetti
Etsy - Your place to buy and sell all things handmade
Prentiss Riddle notes that etsy has not just one but two sets of tags - one for materials ("cotton", "velvet") and one for items ("sporty")
clothing  crafts  creativity  diy  indie  make  p2p  wow  folksonomy  via:pztejas 
may 2006 by vielmetti
ALTERNATIVE FREEDOM
“A cool new documentary brewing about the free software, free culture movement.”
-Lawrence Lessig
creativecommons  creativity  internet  movie  movies  sium 
may 2006 by vielmetti
Matt's Idea Blog: The thrill of witnessing an "Aha!"
on watching someone reach an aha moment as a result of your guidance
aha  creativity  gtd  productivity  organization  coaching 
february 2006 by vielmetti
A common law for ideas
on the us mishmosh of the laws around ideas, and a suggested way forwards
via:napsterization  law  legal  ideas  creativity 
january 2006 by vielmetti
Carl Ally on creativity from "quoth"
The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things—ancient history, 19th century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new
creativity  quoth  quotations 
may 2005 by vielmetti
Mental State Called Flow
MicroSoft has a tack on this sort of thing. In addition to the "everyone has their own office" policy, I've read that they deliberately do not use the phone or go around to people's workspaces. Email is the preferred way because it is non-intrusive. You a
flow  email  creativity  microsoft 
january 2005 by vielmetti
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