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Learn to Create and Infuse Poetry into Designs to Make Them Sing.

When the credits start rolling, you don’t immediately go back to the beginning of the DVD and say “That was great! Let’s watch it again!” At minimum you might wait another five months before you see this movie again, regardless of goodness. Whereas if you hear a great song, you can listen to it start-to-finish, […]

Where to Find the Good Stuff: The Outer Fringe

You throw away the outside when you peel an orange. It’s what’s inside that counts. When you meet a stranger you judge them on their character. It’s what’s inside that counts. “Guns don’t kill people, bullets do”. It’s what’s inside that hurts. “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me”. […]

The Importance of Colliding Ideas in Your Brain

I spoke with Steven Johnson today, who recently spoke at TED. He promotes the intermingling of ideas that occupy different spaces, not on any sort of spectrum, to create good ideas. These ideas also don’t have to happen at a cultural level or even a physical space like a coffeeshop, which he describes in his […]

Be Safe to Be Creative.

I interviewed Lynval Golding of the Specials when I ran a ska/punk magazine and I asked him about how he felt about the ‘scene’. Was dressing up in two-tone suits, just like everyone else, just a sign of conformity? Wasn’t dressing-down, way-down, in mohawk, leather and chains, like everyone else in the scene, going against […]