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On Unlocking Creativity, Ideas as Viruses: Robin Young Interviews Elizabeth Gilbert
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September 25, 2015 by katmcdaniel

The way that I’ve always thought about creativity is that ideas are these disembodied life forms, they don’t have a …
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Category: Recommended Reading | Tags: Being Creative, Big Magic, Collaboration, creativity, curiosity, Elizabeth Gilbert, ideas, Inspiration, manifestation, passion, Robin Young, vocation
Dream of Water: Tears Become… Streams Become… at the Park Avenue Armory
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December 7, 2014 by katmcdaniel

Darkness falls as an acclaimed pianist begins a recital devoted to music about water. Slowly the hall becomes a lake. …
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Category: Recommended Reading, Videos | Tags: challenge, Collaboration, conceptual art, Douglas Gordon, Hélène Grimaud, imagination, installation, music, Park Avenue Armory, piano, recital, Tears Become… Streams Become, water
Civilization: Beyond Earth and the ultra cool technologies of tomorrow from Polygon
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October 8, 2014 by katmcdaniel

Technology has often been spawned from ideas created by science fiction. Will strategy games play their part in the future? …
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Category: Recommended Reading | Tags: awareness, Civilization: Beyond Earth, Colin Campbell, colonization, conquest, Consciousness, Earth, Firaxis, game, humanity, risk, strategy, technology
Village of Life-Sized Dolls in Nagoro, Japan, via The Herald Sun
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February 23, 2014 by katmcdaniel

When a village or a city dies, nature takes over. One woman in Japan is attempting to memorialize her village …
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Category: Recommended Reading | Tags: awareness, Being Creative, dolls, dying city, eerie, empathy, humanity, life-sized, memorial, memory, Mizuki Ayona, Nagoro, resilience, village
Prussian Blue and Early Photography: Following Synchronicity From Diesbach to Anna Atkins
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September 26, 2013 by katmcdaniel

Scientific discovery and artistic innovation often occur together in unpredictable ways. How is this relationship shaped by accident and synchronicity? …
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Category: Exploring Culture, Recommended Reading | Tags: accident, Anna Atkins, art, blue, cyanotype, Diesbach, feminism, John Herschel, photogram, photography, pigment, Prussian blue, science, synchronicity
there are mermaids
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August 3, 2013 by katmcdaniel

This is a beautiful, poetic reblog from my friend Tony at t h i n g s + f l …
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Category: Recommended Reading | Tags: awareness, carelessness, communication, connectedness, empathy, God, imagination, mermaids, singing, songwriting
Saying Goodbye to a Legend: Richard Matheson’s Obituary in the Guardian
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July 13, 2013 by katmcdaniel

American author Richard Matheson passed away on June 23rd at the age of 87. He was famous for many novels, …
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Category: Recommended Reading, Videos | Tags: film, I am Legend, novelist, obituary, Richard Matheson, screenwriting, vampire

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