There’s always going to be a time where you work on a project that demands some creative thinking, and nothing happens. The magic seems temporarily gone and your brain seems unable to get you closer to a Great Idea, that one thought that will spark your creativity and be your muse.

It’s time like this I often remind myself of the following list. These are six simple techniques that will allow you to unleash your creative potential, and once more set inspiration free inside your mind. Continue reading »

I am a HUGE fan of mash-ups artists such as GirlTalk and 2ManyDJ’s. The skill involved in mixing and mashing fragments of existing songs into new compositions just as much an artform as creating the original songs in my opinion. But the Eclectic Method group takes the art of mixing various video and audio fragments into a new song/video to a new level. Their remixes are creative and often carry a message (mostly anti-copyright) and a pretty good tune: Continue reading »

The Astounding World of the Future is a thought provoking piece of ‘comedy’, looking into the ‘future’ as it would have been imagined decades ago. An age where robots have made life easier, happier and have improved the quality of life. Or has it? Via Collapsing Geography

An amazingly creative animation, introducing the sponsors of OFFF2009 ‘Fail with Grace’ International Festival for the Post-Digital Creation Culture (Portugal) by the Dutch animation agency Onesize. The result is an 8 minute promo where the logo’s become the stars of the animation as they are being experimented on. The animation carries a great message (watch it through to the end), best explained by the director himself: Continue reading »

One must not lose desires.They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.

Every now and again my romanticism urges surface- a desire for integration of science, arts, modern culture and media like they are in the world inside my head. Sometimes I have an opportunity to express these urges at Pecha Kucha nights, as with the following essay which was originally intended to be a 20 slides long presentation.

No matter what ‘they’ tell you, experience marketing, pull marketing and all other buzzwords that pass for new marketing’ today all started in the 15th century.

In medieval Brittan the monarchs and landlords often found themselves in a position where they needed to pass their (unpopular) new rulings along the commoners they ruled. Like announcing tax increases when they had given a grand party or fought a neighboring lord and found their treasure chest drained.

At first this was done by the military, but as the military was often recruited from the town itself, threatening the farmers often proved to be counterproductive, more than once caused uprisings. But it was around 1450 when these lords and monarch started recruiting special individuals to pass along their message for them, people that seem to have a way with words and other people – the bards. Continue reading »

‘The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun’ is a quick but pretty presentation of what ‘fun’ means to us, and how to feel more of it. The very colorful, visual style and animated ‘slides’ give some nice pointers on how to bring more fun into your life (and ideas!). Made by Bungay Stanier.