Procrastination buster
Lifehacker has a whole featured category about fighting procrastination.
First steps:
- Visualize how you spend your time with time tracking or a log
- Focus on what you actually do first, and not on open ended vague to-do lists
- Make room for both productive work and guilt-free play
- Work in short bursts
TED| Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight
A fantastic glimpse into the balancing act of the left and right hemispheres of the brain, and why you should learn to visit your right side more often.
This could explain that feeling of peace and fulfillment I get when I finally find time to work on something creative, as well as the feeling of loss and frustration when I am dragged away from it by interruptions from my surroundings.
TED | Philippe Starck: Why design?
About evolution, civilization and our (already half-way) story …
TED | Lawrence Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law
Another brilliant talk about the reclaiming of culture by a democratization of content providers and how absurd copyright laws have become. A powerful call for a reform (not a replacement) of laws that criminalize anyone who participates into the digital culture.
TED | Do schools kill creativity?
Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
A wonderful demonstration of the impact of education on creativity and the urgent need to rethink an educational model that was created for another era.
Don’t let yourself be ‘educated out of creativity’. Find what you love and do it well.
Ideas echoed in the famous graduation speech by Steve Jobs at Berkeley – ‘Steve Jobs : Stay hungry, stay foolish‘
TED | The rise of the amateur professional
Charles Leadbeater: The rise of the amateur professional
A couple of years ago, I read an article in Wired talking about this wonderful, almost secretive conference around topics such as Technology or Education. At the time, I couldn’t find more details about the conference, so I forgot about it… until I came across some videos on YouTube referencing TED talks.
That same conference again – TED | Technology Education Design.
Only this time, there is a rich, official website about it. A real gold mine of stimulating talks to watch and listen to.
I will post here links to the ones that I particularly liked…. starting with this talk about amateurs professionals and how creativity is rarely the fruit of individual, isolated labor but more often an evolutionary process of collaborations.
Modeling
A stimulating afternoon with my muse ended up with a little Modeling Experiment. Playing with real clay made me realise a few things :
- Physical artistic media are messy but it is precisely because they involve the senses of touch, sight and smell, that they are so much more powerful at stimulating creativty.
- I should to use more physical media.
- I am out-growing the kind of illustrations I have done so far. I need to explore more abstract, organic and textured graphic works.
- Now is the right time to practive modeling in general and learn Zbrush in particular.