creative fuel
What does it mean to find balance in life?
poem about someone who was literally “tickled to death” and the cruel contrast of pain, suffering, and smiles and laughter
Analogous for something…
A woman loses everything in one and a half years. And we complain? Her father, her mother, her husband, her brother, her son. - KB
Death is hidden too much in modern society. It indirectly prevents people from realizing their potential.
An effective performance creates “a kind of hiccup in the texture of everyday life”, reckons Jason Leddington, a philosophy professor at Bucknell University. People still crave that. As Houdini once put it, without wonder, “we should find life scarcely worth living.”
How magicians stay relevant in the age of AI
https://economist.com/interactive/chr
... See moreThree truths keep showing up in the past 100 years of creativity:
1. “Steal like an artist.”
Austin Kleon said it best, “The best ideas aren’t born. They’re borrowed, reworked, and made your own.”
2. Make more pots.
In the famous pottery experiment, one group was graded on perfection.
The other on quantity.
The “quantity” group ended up producing better
High school art and music synergy project: