creativity: Annabel Mangold - Priming Your Environment for Creativity
- 04/13/22 05:53 PM
Annabel Mangold blew soap bubbles to start her conversation, Priming Your Environment for Creativity, with Alyea Sandoval for the 2021 Playful Creative Summit. I'm paraphrasing her very broadly - find touchstones, reminders of your projects, intentions, ambitions, and keep them near - but choose carefully and sparingly. And be very generous in defining touchstones - ANYTHING can work from candles to videos to your favorite music to your pet rock. Ask yourself what is authentic to you - the questions are intuitive. What tools draw out your authenticity - journaling, meditating, running...? Don't be afraid to lose yourself in your creativity - … (4 comments)
creativity: You're More Creative Than You Think - Diego Pulido
- 04/13/22 02:25 PM
You're More Creative Than You Think, Diego Pulido's theme for his 2021 Playful Creative Summit discussion with Alyea Sandovar, was delightfully motivating. He emphatically reminded his listeners that creativity doesn't have to involve paint brushes or massive slabs of stone. It can be invoked with computer code represented by scribbles on scraps of paper. It can be found in conversations. Let yourself have a bitmoji (an emoji that looks like you, for those not in the know - I wasn't). Don't block yourself into stereotypes about "artistic" behavior. Be flexible and have fun! … (1 comments)
creativity: I used to be a poet - thoughts and a teaser...
- 10/27/21 12:48 PM
I used to be a poet. Attended workshops, co-edited some student-run creative magazines, participated in readings. Here's the T. Rex in the room: "I used to..." Imaginative instincts never leave you. They just go fallow. I set myself a challenge, June 1, 2021, to start writing a poem a day. Haven't come close!!! I have written a handful again. Quantity isn't important, effort is. More important, much more, the challenge has gotten me looking around again, noticing colors, textures and all the rest even more than I'd tried for pre-"contest."
And I've recently gotten a real camera - 42 buttons, hugely intimidating … (3 comments)
I made this trifle for the sole purpose of holding my reusable shopping bags. The top to drop full bags onto is just whipped cream. Found the topless wire cart in a Redmond thrift store, went tearing off to a Goodwill and spent a ridiculous, dogged 20 minutes rummaging through the cutting boards until I managed to find one to fit. Three tries and several glued-together fingers got the two stuck together. I've decoupaged parts of the rack just to give it some glitter. I like the … (0 comments)
creativity: Competition ain't playful
- 06/23/21 09:32 AM
Competition ain't playful - it can be healthy, if it's goal-oriented. BUT... don't confuse competition with play, actively engaging in relaxing, mindless, unstructured, "timeless" and/or energizing pastimes without any purpose other than having fun. Which, by the way, seriously promotes creativity, productivity, and health. Our need for play, our instinct for playfulness, is as fundamental to us as our need to breathe.
There are a gazillion sources for more information about play, such as The National Institute for Play founded by Dr. Stuart Brown, a researcher Brene Brown cites; a fascinating series of Psychology Today posts by Peter Gray Ph.D., and the … (1 comments)
creativity: Celebrate the mystery
- 11/07/20 09:01 AM
Machines can’t crochet. A client taught me that. Looping my chain on-line, sleuthing taught me that no one can build a machine which can pattern and manipulate needles with the complexity of the weaves our hands stitch. There is a contraption shamelessly dubbed a crochet machine, but, in fact, its talent is “warp knitting.” Celebrate the mystery of our creativity. For those of you who do crochet, celebrate that you’ll make mistakes. You’re not mechanical. Let yourself relax in the textures and colors of the yarn, the distinctive sounds of the needles. Same for any craft: don’t worry if you haven’t … (2 comments)
Annabel Mangold blew soap bubbles to start her conversation, Priming Your Environment for Creativity, with Alyea Sandoval for the 2021 Playful Creative Summit. I'm paraphrasing her very broadly - find touchstones, reminders of your projects, intentions, ambitions, and keep them near - but choose carefully and sparingly. And be very generous in defining touchstones - ANYTHING can work from candles to videos to your favorite music to your pet rock. Ask yourself what is authentic to you - the questions are intuitive. What tools draw out your authenticity - journaling, meditating, running...? Don't be afraid to lose yourself in your creativity - … (4 comments)
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