This blog is just for nice
This blog is f’nice. There’s no real objective to it nor anything in particular I want anyone to...
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Tag: creativity
Yugen and the art of the intangible takeaway
Amercian Artist Edward Ruscha* suggests that there is a simple way to distinguish between good art...
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Why do I write? (A love letter to my blog)
Why do I write? I write because arithmetic isn’t my thing.I write because there is not...
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Taking boredom seriously
If I could go back in time, to Monday September 3rd 1984 and speak to 12 year old me on my way to...
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Brut Creativ! The importance of bearing weirdness
Outsider Art has always fascinated me. Drawings, paintings, sculptures (etc) made by people with...
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The Originality Trap
This blog is not totally original. Nor are any of the blogs I have written since Can Scorpions...
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The smell of analogue – Dialling back digital
This blog was written on an old typewriter. It was a lovely experience but, if for any...
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Throwing talent into the void. The improvised Concept album
As the audience hush in anticipation I realise that I am witnessing something very special....
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Bad drawings, telegraph poles and paradoxical learning
In his beautiful book, “The Five Invitations” Frank Ostaseki tells the story of a...
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Captain Beefheart and his Magic Blog
In 1969 the late Don van Vliet, otherwise known as Captain Beefheart, set out to create an album...
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The man who loved dragons. When rhetoric meets reality.
Once upon a time there was a man who loved dragons. He had pictures of dragons on every wall of...
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If you can’t fix it, feature it
Ned Crowley had a problem. Having taken a sabbatical from the world of advertising to make his...
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