‘Tell No One’
Short video experiment by Erdinç Kalyoncu.
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Found via Reza Abedini
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More Wakeman
It’s always cool when a show you’re attending is being recorded.
Video (above) is from a 1989 concert at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA. I was in the audience.
Jumping around in front of us was a deadhead who kept shouting ‘Jerry’s God!’ over and over and over. We were pretty sure he didn’t realize he wasn’t at a Grateful Dead show.
Wakeman was touring with some of the members of Yes. I was surprised years later when I found the show on CD – then DVD. The solo (above) features Wakeman tracks Gone But Not Forgotten, Catherine Parr, Merlin The Magician.
Catherine Parr, of course, was from his Henry VIII album. Always loved the cover, the inside had a cool foldout too.
Gift to White House: Ben Eine’s graffiti typography
Ben Eine: Twenty First Century City, spray paint and black gloss on canvas
‘Ben Eine (real name Ben Flynn) is a street artist in London who has recently gained a whole lot of recognition in the states. British Prime Minister David Cameron presented his work to President Barack Obama for his first official visit to the U.S.’ –Global Grind
Article here. Check out Eine’s official site here.
Found via Chank Diesel
Corn Star
‘the stuff we’re really made of’
King Corn (2007) is a look at the very, very powerful corn industry in the United States. And how corn is in EVERYthing.
Trailer above, watch the entire film via iTunes.
Official site here. And here’s a previous post on the subject.
Found via Shandi Pierzina
Creativity decline
‘For the first time, research shows that American creativity is declining. What went wrong – and how we can fix it.’
Great article in Newsweek. Read it here.
I have my own take, which has to do with how difficult it actually is to be creative. How society does its best to discourage and strip creativity from us so we can be good worker bees. Sit down, shut up and do your job.
what is creativity
As the article mentions: ‘To be creative requires divergent thinking (generating many unique ideas) and then convergent thinking (combining those ideas into the best result).’
Today, divergent thinking is often discouraged – but if it does take place, it can be so divergent, it can’t be implemented as a convergent – or coherent – plan.
And at the college level, I’m at ground zero teaching this stuff.
Sometimes it creates wonders, sometimes it only goes halfway. Other times, it’s so frightening to attempt something new . . . creativity finds itself at a standstill. The work veers back into mediocrity. Because that’s safe.
Pictured above: The incredible work of Graham Roumieu, visit his portfolio site here. Twas more creative than the trite crayon flag that came with the Newsweek article. Found via swissmiss. Article found via Adam Helweh.
Why work?
‘The 40-hour workweek was born in the industrial age, when people made widgets in factories. The modern world is a much different place than the one we used to work in, and smart individuals are discovering that time doesn’t equal productivity.’ -Everett Bogue
Was in the North Bay recently and picked up a copy of the North Bay Bohemian. Great article by Leilani Clark on simplifying one’s life.
Read it here.
Resources mentioned include NEF’s 21 hours report, the books Plenitude: The New Economics of Truth Wealth by Juliet Schor, The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard and blogs by Tammy Strobel and Everett Bogue – plus Shareable.net.
Above: Illustration by Yamauchi Kazuaki; which had nothing to do with the article, just liked it a tad better than the stock image they posted. Found via Pomegranita.
Colorful bugs
Pick a flavor.
31
Also as a kid, I had a small stack of these flyers: The official Baskin-Robbins 31 flavors list, changed out monthly, available at the counter.
And Daiquiri Ice was my favorite. The allure of drinking without the drinking.
Found via So Much Pileup.
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