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I heard Steven J. Tepper, PhD – Curb Creative Campus – speak last night…
I heard Steven J. Tepper, PhD – Curb Creative Campus – speak last night… It was a non academic audience, so he kept it light, or “lite” actually. He is associate director at the Curb Center at Vanderbilt. He spoke about the importance of creative habits. I’m trying to track down the working definition of…
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mikkipedia: “Writers don’t write from experience, though many are resistant to admit that they don’t. I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.” — Nikki Giovanni (via amandaonwriting) Hm. I have mixed feelings about how empathy functions, or how…
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kateoplis: This is the Russian police wrestling with World Chess Champion, Garry Kasparov, outside the Pussy Riot court.
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Three years ago, two pals from Brooklyn came up with the idea of creating a desktop toy out of powerful magnets. Their creation, Buckyballs, became an instant hit. And by this year, the two — Craig Zucker and Jake Bronstein — had expected annual sales to reach about $25 million. Enlarge This Image Richard Perry/The…
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newyorker: Cartoon of the day by Emily Flake. For more cartoons: http://www.newyorker.com/cartoons
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underpaidgenius: Scorching Phoenix Plans For An Even Hotter Future – Peter O’Dowd via NPR I read this piece waiting for the obvious and didn’t hear a whisper of it. Scorching Phoenix Plans For An Even Hotter Future – Peter O’Dowd via NPR The view is bleak from John Larsala’s front drive in West Phoenix. The…
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Bob Dylan on his songwriting process
Bob Dylan on his songwriting process austinkleon: The master thief on his theft: “Well, you have to understand that I’m not a melodist,” he says. “My songs are either based on old Protestant hymns or Carter Family songs or variations of the blues form. “What happens is, I’ll take a song I know and simply…
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Bob Dylan on his songwriting process
Bob Dylan on his songwriting process austinkleon: The master thief on his theft: “Well, you have to understand that I’m not a melodist,” he says. “My songs are either based on old Protestant hymns or Carter Family songs or variations of the blues form. “What happens is, I’ll take a song I know and simply…
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jtotheizzoe: Help The Oatmeal raise money to buy Nikola Tesla’s old laboratory and turn it into a museum. Can you think of a better place to throw a few dollars? Didn’t think so.
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Medium As A Bellwether
stoweboyd: The boys at Obvious have launched a peek at a new experiment of theirs, called Medium. Medium — to the degree that we can fool with it so far, or so far as they have fooled with it — is more of an indication of a new esthetic that the Obvious Ones are pursuing…