BoingBoing offers Augmented Embroidery – patches you can sew on to whatever. Someone takes a picture of it with their smartphone and the QRcode sends them to your website. Pretty neat, and I find ‘em aesthetically pleasing. From Richard Kadrey’s Twitter, a Salon article on what readers wish writers knew. The Guardian asked writers for their...
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Warren Ellis linked a twenty five minute keynote address by Bruce Sterling on atemporality specifically geared for creative artists. It’s a fantastic talk, well worth the short time it takes to watch. I have to admit I’m kind of new to the Sterling-train and haven’t read much by him. I just added him to...
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One of my favorite authors, Richard Kadrey, put out a few tweets about writing today that’re worth noting: Any beginning writers following me should note that several of my teachers told me to give up writing. Don’t be hurt by teachers, family or friends who don’t like your work. If you’re a writer you write....
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My friend Rachel Astruc pointed me to a Business Week article on how to spark innovation and creativity that’s worth a read. BPS Research Digest profiles a study about how performing horizontal eye movement exercises may boost your creativity. The journal Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts has a study (and in typical APA...
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Had an interesting abstract run across my virtual desk today with somewhat of a parallel to my earlier post talking about Warren Ellis’ idea of the importance of letting your brain out to hunt ideas. The journal Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts had this to say in an article titled “Researching imaginative play...
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I have a stack of deadlines a mile high, but I think I’m also going to sit around with a bottle and just think for a while. The thinking time is essential. At least half of all writing involves just sitting and staring into space. Letting your brain out to...
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