Creative Think

This is about right. What do you think?...

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I really like this short video (1:40) entitled "Vanishing Point" from Bonsajo, a visual performance unit in Japan. It makes me think of some stuff I saw in the late 1960s and early 70s. It's fun just to watch it and let it flow over you. Vanishing Point from Bonsajo...

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The '00s are at an end. On a personal level, I can say the '00s were a good decade. I spent most of my fifties there (I aged from 51 to 61). I had some wonderful experiences, met some interesting people, and created a few things along the way. Here...

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Click HERE to follow me on Twitter! For the past month, I've been Twittering — and having a lot of fun doing it. I was an early adopter of Twitter — March, 2007 or member #1,810,431 — but didn't much do with it until recently. One thing that has helped...

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Today, Apple approved a new version (3.1) of my Creative Whack Pack iPhone app. [Here is the link to iTunes.] Since it was introduced last March, this product has become the iPhone's premier creativity/innovation tool. It has also been #1 in its category (Business). Great price too: $1.99. The three...

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It's time again for some inspiration from Heraclitus, the world's first creativity teacher (he lived around 500 BC). Today's insight is: “I searched into myself.” Heraclitus felt that consulting our own knowledge and intuition is a wonderful way to gain insight. Unfortunately, some of us never learned this lesson. Much...

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If you asked me how this decade went for me, I'd say: "Swimmingly!" Why? I'll share a personal swimming milestone with you.This week, I passed the 10,000,000 yard mark for yards swum this decade (2000-2009). (9,144 kilometers, or approx. 5,700 miles.) This started with an innocent remark that a teammate...

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For the past two weeks, I've watched the 1969 thirteen-part BBC series, "Civilisation" which was written and narrated by Kenneth Clark. This series --which focused on western art over the past thousand years -- was quite popular when it first appeared four decades ago. I greatly enjoyed it then, and...

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I think the best thing about about the year "2010" is that most people will call it Twenty-Ten. Nice and simple. Only three syllables! [Not, God forbid, two thousand and ten. Ugh!] This means a return to calling the first two digits of the year one number, and the last...

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The Internet makes many new enterprises possible. For example, I recently ran across this example. Hooray for human ingenuity! The guy in the bed has used the Internet to combine his sloth (sleeping in) with environmental concern (people wishing to offset their carbon use) and clever marketing ("having an environmentally...

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Here's some amazing synergy! Gardeners know that when tomatoes and asparagus are planted together, they have a beneficial effect on one another. • Asparagus roots exude a chemical that kills many of the nematodes that either feed of tomato roots or carry diseases to the plant. • Tomatoes repel the...

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Fun video of the X-Ball from TD Monthly. One minute long. Watch TDmonthly Video...

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Meeting a friend in the corridor, Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) said: "Tell me, why do people always say that it was natural for men to assume that the sun went around the earth rather than the earth was rotating?" His friend said: "Well, obviously, because it just looks as if the...

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Here's a fun 1-minute video of my newest product: the X-Ball®, a set of 30 X-shaped magnetic design pieces (available from Creative Whack Company). The X-Ball is a companion product to the award-winning Ball of Whacks. The X-Ball gets your creative juices flowing!...

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[The following interview was conducted by David Armano of Logic + Emotion and originally published in his blog on June 3, 2009.] David Armano: With Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference coming up on June 8-9, it's time to check in with L+E's favorite iPhone App developer, Roger von Oech. Earlier this...

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Release 2.0 of my Creative Whack Pack iPhone App has just been made available at the iTunes App Store. The big new feature is note-taking creative workshops! This release is FREE for current owners of the App. For more info, go HERE. In my years as a creativity consultant, I've...

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Have a go at this: Switch the frogs to the opposite side within two minutes. (Supposedly a second grade computer test in China.) Click the picture for link....

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Chuck Frey at Innovation Tools is asking for participants in a study surveying their creativity abilities, how their being utilized in the work place, and what the organizational climate for creativity looks like today. Based on answers from early respondents, Chuck thinks the results will be quite interesting. Click HERE...

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Beware of urinating on electrical power lines. Illustration from the 1931 electric safety book Elektroschutz in 132 Bildern (hat-tip: Tim Siedel)....

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Metaphors are great for giving us a fresh picture of a complex situation. Today's metaphor o' the day comes from Wall Street Journal reader Henry Ahrens who wrote the following letter (May 19): "California's Proposition 1A seeking to increase the size of the state's rainy-day fund is like ordering umbrellas...

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