Part one
‘Found Rick Wakeman’s Journey to the Centre of the Earth on Itunes. Renfair geekrock at its finest. Oh yeah! I need a cape & winged boots.’ –CraigyFerg
Progressive Rock pioneer, Minimoog, mellotron, biotron, synth and Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman goes to excess. But that’s what Progressive Rock is all about anyway. [Read more →]
‘2000 people from around the UK were filmed singing The Fear for this promo for Lily Allen which was part of an Xbox Sing it with Lips game campaign.’
Found via exspiro
And so on . . .
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
Art by Patrick Drayus
The great Jennifer Jacobsen has kept me in the loop on this: The Corporate Wrath Art and Poetry Show at the Marco Fuoco Gallery in Sacramento. The show starts at 7 tomorrow night, Saturday July 24, 2010.
Artists featured include Brianna Lea Pruett, Keely Sadira Doran, Sue Dedina, Patrick Drayus, Bari Kenned, Willie, Sir Lucy Foot, Marco Fuoco, Shaw Reed, Gene Avery and more. Spoken word, music, interactive, live art . . . .
‘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
‘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.
‘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.
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