March 2009
11 posts
“In short, I had always believed that the world involved magic; now I...”
– Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton
BE HOPE TO HER
Last year some amazing friends of mine started an amazing organization called Nuru International.
On April 23rd they will be launching their first large scale awareness campaign about clean water in Africa: Be Hope To Her.
If you find yourself on a college campus (or know someone who does), have a heart for clean drinking water, and want an easy way to get involved and create awareness then...
RAINN WILSON (THE OFFICE) HAS A NEW SITE ABOUT... →
5 THINGS I'M INTERESTED IN RIGHT NOW
Daniel Pink - A Whole New Mind. Pink’s book subtitled, Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the World, has really got me thinking. I believe it’s a great resource for helping to create some common language for talking about the PoMo shift in a corporate/church context. I’m also finding it helpful in defining future values for an organization that is deeply wrestling with change and...
“The paradox of prosperity is that while living standards have risen steadily...”
– A Whole New Mind (Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future) by Daniel Pink
LET'S GET LOST
Original collage by Pretty Messes @ Etsy
“There’s a certain curiosity about the world that’s not matched by a willingness...”
– Daniel Alarcón, quoted by Aviya Kushner
THE CREATIVE MANIFESTO
Last week, the folks over at Accidental Creative released what they are calling The Creative Manifesto. Call it 10 maxims for wading through the muck of making stuff. Helpful? Inspiring? Pretentious? You decide…
1. We create. Everyday. Not because we have to, but because we can’t help it. We empty ourselves because that’s what artists do.
2. We are brilliant at what we do, but what we...
ELIZABETH GILBERT & CREATIVE GENIUS
This TED talk has been going around the interweb for the last few weeks. Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Love, Pray, gives her take on the creative process and God-given inspiration. If you have 19 minutes to spare, I HIGHLY recommend this.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE CREATIVE?
Seth Godin posted the following a little while back:
“You could watch the most non-creative, linear-thinking, do-it-by-the-book cop work to solve a crime and you’d be amazed at how creative her solutions seem to be. Creative for you, because you’ve never been in that territory before, it’s all new, it’s all at the edges. Boring for her, because it’s the same...
ON DENIAL
Jack Cheng has a wonderful little post about hearing the dreaded words, “it can’t be done,” when working on a project. Really good stuff.