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• BLC07 Closes - Time to move on from just creativity...

  Published: July 21, 2007, 11:53 am

  Tags: Blc07, Creativity, Marco Torres, Stephen Heppell, Blc07, Creativity

  has been the word "creativity", a word that is unfortunately overused and has begun to shrink in useful value for those of us trying to work out what it actually is. The creativity of the young filmmakers with us here, the creativity of some of the presentations and arguments, the creativity shown in some of the throwaway chats

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• Marco Torres @ BLC: Products of passion

  Published: July 19, 2007, 2:46 pm

  Tags: Blc07, Communication Tools, Creativity, Digital Divide, Digital Image, Digital Video Animation, Marco Torres, San Fernando, Blc07

  Marco teaches in a school with 5000 students, with 40% staff turnover in two years in San Fernando, and captures his students' minds with multimedia to get them thinking about storytelling, telling their stories, the stories that are important to them, and studying the science of decision-making. Their films are incredible. Communication:A two

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• Liveblogging: Finding and Following Your Passion - Blogher 2007 Liveblog

  Published: July 27, 2007, 12:45 pm

  Tags: Amp 039 07 Sessions Speakers, Blogher Conferences, Blogher, Blogher07, Blogs, Christine Kane, Creativity, Music

  I am liveblogging the first breakout session of the Blogher conference, "Finding and Following Your Passion." Here's the description from the conference website: "Many people define blogging as writing with passion. How do you define passion? Do you follow your passion when you write, when you work, when you go through your day? Could you? Is

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• If you want it you have to go and get it.

  Published: July 28, 2007, 10:12 am

  Tags: Change, Networking, Beliefs, The Business Of Art, Art Life Illustration Philosophy, Graphic Design, Illustration, Marketing, Creativity, Philosophy, Business Development, Life

  I finally got to see the movie “the pursuit of happyness”. Great movie about following your dream no matter what. Chris Gardener had some very rough life experiences to go through and had to give up pretty much everything in his life except his son to succeed. He had a vision of who he wanted to become. That red sports car was the

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• Patience… That Again?

  Published: July 23, 2007, 9:21 pm

  Tags: Absurdity, Beliefs, The Business Of Art, Art Life Illustration Philosophy, Change, Peace, Life, Health, Creativity, Philosophy, Religion

  Patience This is beginning to feel like a dirty word to me. It seems to be the lesson that comes to me every day in every aspect of my life. The same or similar people, the same situations, the same lessons. Just when I think I am making progress on the patience front I realize I still have a long way to go. I have tried meditating on patience-

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• Living in Love and Staying Tuned In.

  Published: July 21, 2007, 11:16 am

  Tags: Change, Networking, Beliefs, The Business Of Art, Art Life Illustration Philosophy, Graphic Design, Illustration, Health, Marketing, Creativity, Philosophy, Business Development, Life

  Well it is the end of week one. It has definitely been a very good start for getting back into the Art & Design world. I made progress on all fronts including keeping the fear monsters away. They love to come out in the middle of the night and inject insecurity and doubt into my brain. They did visit a couple of nights this week but I managed

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• What are you going to do today that moves you further along with your dream?

  Published: July 20, 2007, 11:06 am

  Tags: Networking, Change, The Business Of Art, Art Life Illustration Philosophy, Graphic Design, Illustration, Marketing, Creativity, Philosophy, Business Development, Life

  Finally made it to a couple of art gallery openings last night. There are so many galleries in this city. Why am I not in one of them yet? I have to get out more. I think I need to set a gallery day or 2 every week. Get out and see art and find a home for my work besides my studio. It really is time. It was good to get out and see art, talk to

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• The Business of Building a Business- It takes Passion and Intuition

  Published: July 18, 2007, 9:48 am

  Tags: Change, Beliefs, The Business Of Art, Art Life Illustration Philosophy, Networking, Graphic Design, Creativity, Philosophy, Business Development, Illustration, Marketing

  So now that I am in business for myself again, I am busier than ever. I finished rebuilding my website. Made it much cleaner and simpler than the previous edition. Much easier to look at, no scrolling, a little bit of Flash but nothing that gets in your way. Have been working on other marketing tools as well. An alternative brochure and I think I

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• When you love what you do, you don’t need time off.

  Published: July 16, 2007, 10:09 am

  Tags: Networking, Change, The Business Of Art, Art Life Illustration Philosophy, Graphic Design, Illustration, Marketing, Creativity, Philosophy, Business Development, Life

  Now I know this is not true. It is good to give yourself down time to regenerate and renew. But it is different when you are happy with your work. When work is not drudgery your energy flows easily and you are excited to be there. Vacations are more enjoyable because you know that when they are over, you are still going back to something you love

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• First day on the job, or First Day of the Rest of My Life!

  Published: July 15, 2007, 10:11 am

  Tags: Change, Beliefs, The Business Of Art, Art Life Illustration Philosophy, Graphic Design, Illustration, Marketing, Creativity, Philosophy, Life

  So yesterday I spent the day getting organized. Getting my office back in shape, re-designing my business cards and re-building my website. I have decided it is time to learn Cascading Style Sheets and get more familiar with html and xhtml and whatever else in happening in web stuff these days. I have done a little with Flash but really very

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• “Off to the Next Big Adventure!”

  Published: July 14, 2007, 11:21 am

  Tags: Absurdity, Beliefs, The Business Of Art, Art Life Illustration Philosophy, Change, Illustration, Health, Creativity, Philosophy, Peace, Life

  Last blog I was talking about angels. Well, yesterday was full of them! My horoscope for weeks has been saying things about making changes and moving on to new adventures. Well yesterday it became a reality. I got laid off. Normally this is not a good thing, however in this instance I think it was. For the last few weeks I have been thinking about

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• What do I know today? What I believe is up to me.

  Published: July 4, 2007, 9:59 am

  Tags: Absurdity, Beliefs, Art Life Illustration Philosophy, Change, Peace, Life, Creativity, Philosophy, Religion

  I was just reading some of the other blogs on this site, and I came upon one by an overzealous Atheist. His or her need to prove the absence and nonexistence of God was just as strong and just as annoying as that of many of the overzealous Christians I have met in my life. Both are coming from a position of absolute belief in only their own

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• Vox Pop: Implementing GTD for Creative Work?

  Published: July 27, 2007, 10:41 am

  Tags: Getting Things Done, Productivity, Creativity, Action Based, Implementation, Keith Robinson

  his own tweaks for Getting Creativity Done. Here’s a novel idea: Create a creative time and space for yourself. Make sure it’s free of distraction and get into the habit of going there as often as you can. When there, pull out your @creative lists and get to work. I find this is a great way to tackle smaller creative problems.

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• Stefan Sagmeister on design and happiness

  Published: June 14, 2007, 2:31 pm

  Tags: Productivity, Creativity, Mind And Spirit, Chris Glass, Design, Happiness, Happy, Stefan Sagmeister, Ted, Ted Conference

  Happy” chris glass, creativity, design, happiness, happy, mind and spirit, stefan sagmeister, TED, TED conference Featured 43f Job: Ruby/Rails Developers at ThoughtWorks Post your job to the 43f Job Board today, and get 43% off with checkout coupon 43OFFTHRUJUL. Offer ends 7/31.

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• Piano prodigy on focus and flow

  Published: July 30, 2007, 8:45 am

  Tags: Productivity, Creativity, Jennifer Lin, Music, Ted Conference

  attention to her thoughts on creativity and flow — discussing how she tries to beat distraction and gain focus in both drawing and composition. Her discussion starts around 13:31, but do stick around after for her improv based upon randomly chosen notes. [via Metafilter] creativity, jennifer lin, music, TED conference Featured 43f Job:

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