Category: Art
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The Gaps, Crap and Gumption Traps in Creative Work
The poster above reflects hard-won wisdom acquired and shared by Ira Glass, host of PRI's This American Life, emphasizing the importance of perseverance in developing mastery of creative production. While Glass focuses on storytelling for radio and television, his insights and experiences about the gaps between ambitions and realizations – and the connections between quantity…
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I Am Because We Are: African Wisdom in Image and Proverb
We are all interconnected and we have responsibility for each other. This is the interpretation of the Swahili word, ubuntu, offered near the start of a short, inspiring interview with photographer Betty Press by NPR Weekend Edition Sunday host, Audie Cornish two weeks ago. The interview focused on the incredible photographs celebrating the lives of…
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Blessing and Wounding: Longing, loss, pain and transformation
I was transfixed by an article in today’s Wall Street Journal – In Praise of the Crackup: A novelist peers through darkness to find glittering gems in writing and art – by Jeanette Winterson, in which she explores “the collision of creativity and mental instability”, digging deeper into the way that artists are often able…
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Thingamajiggr II: Attentionality, Surreality and Sexuality
I attended Thingamajiggr, “a party celebrating the innovative Pacific Northwest tech community”, last night. The party – organized by Waggle Labs and O’Reilly Radar, and held at the 911 Media Arts Center – was fun, and the presentations preceding the party – by John Medina, Scotto Moore, Dan Savage and others – were very engaging…
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Johathan Keats on Art, Science and Religion
Jonathan Keats gave a curiously engaging presentation on "Extraterrestrial Aesthetics, Divine Genetics, and Other Thought Experiments" at the Art, Technology and Culture Colloquium of UC Berkeley’s Center for New Media Monday night. Jonathan noted that both art and science are too inwardly focused, so he uses art to tease out nuances in science, and science…