Getting self-referential for a minute, I’ve talked here before about the tyranny of expensive space here in Singapore for startup creatives and also about the co-working space The Change You Want To See, in Williamsburg, NYC.
I know I go on about it a bit, but it’s a pet subject of mine. I was reading something [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Creativity’
November 26, 2009
Co-working Creatives In Dubai
November 23, 2009
Prolonged Exposure
I’ve been off the grid for a while, doing all kinds of stuff. A lot of it is actually what my parents would call “constructive”, but there’s been a few time-wasters in there as well, and one of those was the TV show Entourage. I’ve just done the entire 6 seasons.
No idea why, but it [...]
October 2, 2009
Step Right Up And Enter The Pavilion Of Fantasies
In Shanghai I found a gap in my considerable mental database of the trivial, obscure and probably-useless. They’re busy enthusiastically ripping the city to pieces for World Expo 2010 (that tooth-like creature in the photo is the mascot)… but what exactly is a World Expo?
So I Wikied it, as you do, got a bit of [...]
September 26, 2009
Civilisation – Until You Try Hailing A Cab
Yesterday I hit the more gentile side of Shanghai… the M50 arts district and New Heights on the Bund.
Along Moganshan Road where M50 is, I managed to stop in at m97 Gallery who have been my penpals for quite some time. Well, not penpals exactly. They email me notices of their exhibitions and I read [...]
September 2, 2009
It Doesn’t Take A Genius
You’ve probably noticed the way things cluster around you and figured there’s just a lot of industrial spying going on.
Movies are a great example. Deep Impact and Armageddon came out back-to-back. So did A Bug’s Life and Antz. It happens with books, TV, fashion, technology, advertising and pretty much everything you can think of. I’ve [...]
August 25, 2009
What Happens When The Dreams Don’t Come?
A late-night muse visited my sister Liz a few nights ago and now we’re in an exciting development stage for Life Dreaming, an amazing project we’re working on together.
It’s a collection of tools to help you focus on what’s important in your life right now. Not what your friends or family say is important, not [...]
July 15, 2009
It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
With every change there’s a backlash, and I’ve noticed there’s a new form of Ludditism creeping into a lot of the stuff I read. The posture is that the internet is making us stupid and a new generation of lazy thinkers is coming through.
Over lunch today I read a piece by University of South Florida [...]
June 13, 2009
The People’s Blackboards
I’m in Philly at the moment, staying in what has got to be the campest and most eclectic BnB in the US. It’s a turn of the century townhouse run by the Mrs Madrigal-like Barbara and every room (and the back garden) is filled with eclectic flea market finds in an over-the-top celebration of quirky [...]
April 11, 2009
Life Dreaming ~ Is It Better to be Apathetic or Anxious?
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the retired head of the department of psychology at the University of Chicago, has published a lot of work related to happiness and creativity, but he’s most famous for ‘Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience’, where he presented his research of the theory that people are most happy when they are in a [...]
