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An idea or practice is “spiritual” when it reveals our personal desire to establish a felt-relationship with the deepest meanings or powers governing life.

” ~Robert C. Fuller
“Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.”
~ George Lois
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Don Norman on the relation between happiness and creativity

In this talk from 2003 at the TED conference, design critic Don Norman turns his incisive eye toward beauty, fun, pleasure and emotion. He looks at design that makes people happy, and the relationship between happiness and creativity.

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Unleashing your Creativity

Written by Rick van der Wal in June 2009
 

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. Read the rest of this article »

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Ecltectic Method: Visual Mash Up artists

Written by Rick van der Wal in June 2009
 

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: Read the rest of this article »

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Is this the way we imagined it?

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

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F is for Fail

F is for Fail is a short film about the creative process, and the failure we always encounter, but usually overcome. Told using the alphabet, each letter informs us of the state of the protagonist’s creativity/state of mind. Each letter has two words associated with it (except A and Z); sometimes the positive word overpowers [...]

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Experimenting with logos

Written by Rick van der Wal in May 2009
 

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: Read the rest of this article »

“One must not lose desires.They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.”
~ Alexander A.Bogomoletz
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Calling all bards

Written by Rick van der Wal in May 2009
 

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. Read the rest of this article »

“Great Ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
~ Albert Einstein
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