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Elizabeth Gilbert: A new way to think about creativity
Elizabeth Gilbert, you know, she’s actually kinda funny.
This is one of my favorite TED Talks from the author who wrote Eat, Pray, Love.
No. I have not read the book, I have not seen the movie. This is a great talk about the different forms of managing creativity. Olé! Olé! Olé!
Ira Glass on Storytelling
Have to admit, Ira Glass gives good advice.
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”
― Ira Glass
Edward Gibbon on Cultural Decay
The five marks of the Roman decaying culture:
Concern with displaying affluence instead of building wealth
Obsession with sex and perversions of sex
Art becomes freakish and sensationalistic instead of creative and original
Widening disparity between very rich and very poor
Increased demand to live off the state
― Edward Gibbon
Thank You Cards 2011
My wife and I have a battle going on over the most preferred card. Let us know which one you dig most. Typeface used, Capistrano from My Fonts.com
Used a local texture for this one. The word thanks overlayed with photo from Austin wall.
Finding the right paper was a large task which I could not have done without the help of Susan Frentz of UT printing. The paper used is from Curious Collection. The paper is Curious Particles, gold in the hefty weight of a 92lb. cover
This baby was created with the help of Sloke One – One of Austin’s Illest. He hooked up the word thanks and I illustrated the flourishes around it.
Cards gold foil stamped. Printed by Gilbert Business Forms Inc., Austin Texas. Please let us know if you are interested in purchasing a set: email Or Etsy.
Slow Club – Two Cousins – YouTube
Saw this video first here jerrikahinton.com
Pretty cool stuff!
BTW. This was not meant to be a video blog.
I’ve just been finding hella cool inspirational videos lately.