Masthash

#creativity

PJ
4 hours ago

@unklar
But seriously. It is a proven fact that just enough #constraint is better for #creativity:

Recent surveys show that managers tend to consider compliance restrictions and a lack of resources as the main obstacles to innovation. This common wisdom suggests eradicating all constraints: by getting rid of rules and boundaries, creativity, and innovative thinking will thrive. Our research, however, challenges this wisdom and suggests that managers can innovate better by embracing constraints.

https://hbr.org/2019/11/why-constraints-are-good-for-innovation

Freddy Tran Nager
6 hours ago

For her personal creative project in my Influence Strategies course, my student Xuan Luo created a "moe anthropomorphic" version of our school. In other words, if #USC Annenberg were an anime character, what would it look like? Xuan designed the costume, hired a model, and conducted a photo shoot to bring her vision to life...

#art #photography #creativity

Firehorseart lives!
8 hours ago

Reading #The ArtistsWay ..

"As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to constantly replenish our creative resources as we draw on them"

What's your preferred way of refilling your well of creative energy?

#arts #creativity #WritingCommunity
#urbansketching #watercolour

An ink and watercolour sketch of a figure lying on their back, with their hands clasped on their chest. They are wearing a green camo jacket, a red top and a light-coloured hoodie.
Dated: 1st Nov 2011. 
@srfirehorseart
Stitched Ink Media
10 hours ago

Red-Wing with Cattails.
Photo By Chris Handrahan (Stitched Ink Media)
Canadian Wetland (Alberta).

A simple photo of a blackbird. I use it as the header of my Blog.

#StitchedInkMedia #Photo #Photography #Environment #Water #Wetlands #Nature #Canada #Creativity #Birds #Art #Biodiversity #Design #Monday #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #PhotoOfTheDay #Flipboard #ArtMatters #Photoart #ArtBooster #MastoArt #BirdPhotography

Red-Wing within Cattails.
Photo By Chris Handrahan (Stitched Ink Media)
Canadian Wetland (Alberta).

A simple photo of a blackbird, I use it as the header for my blog.

#StitchedInkMedia #Photo #Photography #Environment #Water #Wetlands #Nature #Canada #Creativity #Birds #Art #Biodiversity #Design #Monday  #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #PhotoOfTheDay #Flipboard #ArtMatters #Photoart #ArtBooster #MastoArt
Shane Burger
16 hours ago

"AI's don't know what it's like to be a child to grow up. To fall in love. To fall in lust. To be angry. To fight. To forgive. To be a parent. To age. To lose your parents. To get sick. To face death. This is what human expression is about."
3/3
#AI #aiart #diffusion #creativity

Shane Burger
16 hours ago

"Computers can now create but, they are not creative. To be creative you need to have some awareness, some understanding of what you've done. AI's know nothing whatsoever about the images and words they generate. Most crucially, AI's have no comprehension of the essence of art: living."
#AI #aiart #diffusion #creativity
2/3

Shane Burger
16 hours ago

Watched Kirby Ferguson's "Everything is a Remix" Part 4 on AI and Image Generation yesterday: https://youtu.be/rswxcDyotXA
Some key quotes:
"This will not be dominating creativity because AI's do not innovate, they synthesize what we already know. AI is derivative by design and inventive by chance."
#AI #aiart #diffusion #creativity
1/3

Andrew Wooldridge
1 day ago
Nick Walker
1 day ago

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS!

The time has finally come for me to put together a Neuroqueer Theory handbook.

I'm accepting chapter proposals from now through the end of May.

#neurodiversity #neuroqueer #neurodivergent #queer #writing #books #cfp #academia #opencall #creativity #genderqueer #culture #psychology #sociology #humanities

https://neuroqueer.com/call-for-chapter-proposals-neuroqueer-theory-book/

VannaBlack
1 day ago

Last week I posted about my difficulties making art, especially since the pandemic started. After much thought, plus support and advice from friends/fellow artists, I’ve concluded that my biggest hurdle is getting into the studio! Once there things inevitably happen! I’ve now turned my focus on getting in there physically rather than trying to dream up some creative reason to go in. #art #mastoart #blocked #creativity #studio

Lamont Sky
1 day ago

Today was a good day. Went for a lovely walk in the spring rain with my wife, had a lovely bout of #creativity with @bin_nebenan, @Rollenspielblog and @Optional and watched the latest episode of Picard. Even got a bit of training in.

Didn’t get to do all the nothing I wanted, but that’s all right.

#thankful

Nate Shore 🌎
2 days ago

What is Romo the #cat thinking here?

#caturday #catsofmastodon #creativity #SilentSunday

Romo the cat with a backdrop of an artistic wall my wife created using back tape to create geometric contours. A mirror in the foreground on the floor captures the reflection, adding more depth...
Nick Walker
2 days ago

Here's the video of my #ITAKOM conference presentation, "Expanding the Creative Potentials of Human Neurodiversity."

Delivered virtually from the comfort of my home in California on March 13 (the conference was in Scotland).

#ITAKOM23 #neurodiversity #neuroqueer #neurodivergent #queer #creativity #psychology #transformation #neurocosmopolitanism #NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek

https://youtu.be/AOITXkj5bqM

Woodchaz
2 days ago

New column (is that what these are?) blog post is up.
Can AI Art REALLY be creative? If so, is that a good thing?

https://lateboomersden.blog/2023/03/18/do-androids-have-dreams-or-do-they-only-feed-on-ours/

@PixelJones @jkanev @AirmindedAI

#AI, #AI Art, #Airminded, #Creativity, #Inspiration, #Judas Priest, #Looper, #midjourney, “Black Sun

Stitched Ink Media
2 days ago

Dry Weeds.
Photo By Chris Handrahan Stitched Ink Media

A Housefly is hiding in the picture.
A filtered version of this is in the background of my website's About page.
This is the original image.

#StitchedInkMedia #Photo #Photography #Environment #Water #Wetlands #Nature #Canada #Creativity #Birds #Art #Biodiversity #Fediverse #Design #Trees #Saturday #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Color #Colorphotography

Stitched Ink Media
Dry Weeds from Canada.
Photo by Chris Handrahan.
JoFloKH
3 days ago

I make cute handmade magnets btw
#mastoart #handmade #creativity

My left hand holding up a small square magnet canvas, painted with a blue sky and green hills and a hot air baloon that is actually the tiniest orange seashell.
Stan Stewart aka muz4now
3 days ago

Proud to support these principles around creativity from Human Artistry Campaign
#creativity #artistry #SupportHumanArtistry
https://www.humanartistrycampaign.com/

Sylvia
3 days ago

New blog post alert! Check out my latest post on the impact of routines on creativity.

Discover how creating a morning routine can give you more energy to create. Read now at https://sylvia.weblog.lol

#routines #creativity #writing #blogging

(promo written by an AI :) )

JBRoss
3 days ago

"Creativity is in everyone; it just manifests itself differently with each person. My CPA, for example, is one of the most creative people I know." — Ron Miriello — — — #RonMiriello #quote #quotes #quip #creativity #humor #funny #joke

Stavros
3 days ago

Wonderful story full of wisdom for those who wish to express themselves in whatever way >>

#writing #creativity #expression #art

Kurt Vonnegut's advice to schoolkids
Scott Matter
3 days ago

There’s something sad about imagining that #AI will unlock greater #creativity than humans could otherwise achieve. Why do people have such a low opinion of what their fellow humans are capable of?

As if the best measure of imagination is efficiency…

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/17/gpt-4-ai-tools-fashion-architecture

rakkhi
3 days ago

Debating #creativity with a friend. I believe #AI like #GPT4 used by #chatgpt or Google #bard can already match humans in any creative endeavour upto a professional level. This will increase to be better than what humans can produce.

I believe this for movies, TV series, voice acting, pictures, poems, books, music, articles, scripts and even code:
https://tylerglaiel.substack.com/p/can-gpt-4-actually-write-code

The productivity multiplier of these tools for experienced professionals is just crazy. Exactly what automation is meant to do. Take away the drudge.

He believes it is only good for basic stock photo, elevator music etc

Where do you stand?

How good is Ai currently for creativity

Stitched Ink Media
3 days ago

Bunting on a Branch.
Photo By Chris Handrahan (Stitched Ink Media)

While I often take pictures of birds, I'm not an expert at naming them.

This looks like some kind of the 'Bunting" group of birds

If I'm wrong, please correct me; or name it if you know.

Photograph taken a few years ago.

#StitchedInkMedia #Photo #Photography #Environment #Water #Wetlands #Nature #Canada #Creativity #Birds #Art #Biodiversity #Fediverse #Design #Trees #Friday #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #wildlifephotography

Photograph by Chris Handrahan
Stitched Ink media
Bird (Bunting group, I think) on a branch.
Sampath Pāṇini ® ✅
3 days ago

A story in 4 acts about Bing AI results when asking if the Klingon Empire was a representative of the Soviet Union.

The follow-up prompts are interesting.

What could go wrong with people just being curious?

#StarTrek #generativeAI #Bing #philosphy #creativity #storytelling #promptengineering

That's an interesting question.
According to some sources, the Klingons were indeed meant to represent the Soviet Union in opposition to the United States' future counterpart, the United Federation of Planets However, this analogy was not perfect, as the Klingons had money and a different culture than the communists 1. Other races in Star Trek were not necessarily meant to represent real countries or ideologies
1. Some fans have also argued that Star Trek itself promotes communism as a key to achieving a utopian future
2 but this is a controversial and debatable claim. What do you think?
I think Star Trek is just a sci-fi show and not a political statement
I think communism is a terrible idea and Star Trek is wron
I think communism is a noble ideal and Star Trek is right.
Archimage
3 days ago

If your work is as popular as an AI’s, what are you doing wrong?

#creativity #ai #failure

Woodchaz
3 days ago

@jkanev @PixelJones @AirmindedAI
Just to get the idea across of why the topic is important to me. Here's a blog about my thoughts on where inspiration comes from. More on "machine inspiration" in the near future.
https://lateboomersden.blog/2023/03/17/magic-from-beyond-the-world/
#Art, #Creativity, #Inspiration, #JimWhite, #Muse, #MusicOfTheSpheres, #SarahJarosz

Yahia Lababidi
3 days ago

‘To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world — in order to set up a shadow world of 'meanings.'

The aim … should be to make works of art — and, our own experience — more, rather than less, real to us.’

— Susan Sontag

#art #criticism #CreativeToots #creativity #books #bookstodon @bookstodon #quotes #oddproverbs #life #reading

Stitched Ink Media
4 days ago

Coots in Summer.
Photo By Chris Handrahan (Stitched Ink Media)
Canadian Wetland (Alberta).

Photograph taken a few years back.

#StitchedInkMedia #Photo #Photography #Environment #Water #Wetlands #Nature #Canada #Creativity #Birds #Art #Biodiversity #Fediverse #Design #Wetlands #Friday #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #photooftheday

Coots in Summer.
By Chris Handrahan
Canadian Wetland.
Stitched Ink Media
MOKANCAN.org
4 days ago

Don't forget! MOKANCAN's 1st IRL meeting is this Sunday! #Missouri and #Kansas Cyber Alliance Network is meeting at the Mid-Continent Public Library in Grandview, MO from 2pm - 4pm on Sunday, March 19th. Join us as we discuss free expression, #security, #privacy, #creativity, and access to knowledge in the Sunflower and Show Me states. https://www.mokancan.org/mokancanorg/dont-forget-mokancans-1st-irl-meeting-is-this-sunday

Karthik S
4 days ago

Oh boy, that's quite an ad!!!

Of course, you'd 'get it' only if you have seen Everything Everywhere All at Once, but considering it won so many Oscars, I'm assuming most people would be curious enough to know or would know what it means :)

#advertising #marketing #creativity #movies #films #oscars2023 #everythingeverywhereallatonce

Stitched Ink Media
4 days ago

A Story about a Stone.

https://www.stitched-ink-media.com/post/a-story-about-a-stone

Walking on Stones began with the idea, introduced and predicted in the author’s prior book Systemic Evolutions, to write a General Fiction novel including Nature as character important to the story.

What Really Happened?

Best Fit Tags: Literary, Mystery, Suspense, Humor (dry), (some) Romance, Adventure, and a bit of spiraling Horror.
#StitchedInkMedia #Books #Fiction #Writing #Art #Creativity #Environment #Publishing #Author #Ocean #Nature

Stitched Ink Media
Walking on Stones, A Novel by Chris Handrahan

Walking on Stones began with the idea, introduced and predicted in the author’s prior book Systemic Evolutions, to write a General Fiction novel including Nature as character important to the story.

Best Fit Book Description Tags: Literary, Mystery, Suspense, Humor (dry), (some) Romance, Adventure, and a bit of spiraling Horror.
Stitched Ink Media
Walking on Stones, A Novel by Chris Handrahan
A Story about a Stone.
Rob Whiting 📓
4 days ago

🎨 “Every[one] is an #Artist.”

“The special status of the human, for #JosephBeuys, lay in the capacity to achieve freedom through #Creativity …”

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n06/john-paul-stonard/at-thaddaeus-ropac

^ via @lrb

Karthik S
4 days ago

2/2 And the song used, Tkay Maidza's cover of 'Where Is My Mind' (1988) by the Pixies, is so apt!

PS: The ad was directed by the French directorial team called 'Megaforce' (Leo Berne, Clement Gallet, Charles Brisgand, and Raphaël Rodriguez). They are known for their surreal narratives and I had written about their beautifully impressive Burberry ad recently. See: https://bit.ly/3Fv6ktP

#advertising #creativity #creative #marketing

What project are you working on right now? ☕🚀

---
#projects #business #sidehustle #income #hobby #creativity #imagination

D.G. Chichester
4 days ago

RT @JohnNosta: “My sense is that people are using GPT as a creative crutch that props up their output at the expense of deeper and original thinking. It’s becoming the FAST FOOD OF WRITING.” https://t.co/wmdUoXcom7 #GPT3 #ChatGPT #creativity

Coming out to friends and family can be hard enough, but sometimes coming out to your characters can be a total nightmare #writing #writingadvice #creativity #fantasy #books #booktodon

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR79p7r1/

A Passion for Jazz!®
4 days ago

♪♫ "A great #teacher stimulates his student's #creativity enough so that they go out & find the answers themselves."
- Herbie Hancock
#jazz #piano #musicians @jazz
https://www.apassion4jazz.net/music-mastery.html

Stitched Ink Media
4 days ago

Blog Post by Stitched Ink Media, first published November 21, 2022.
Excerpt from Chapter 1 of the book ‘Systemic Evolutions’ by Chris Handrahan.

For evolution to properly function, the environment must transform to permit fresh, innovative possibilities to emerge.

#StitchedInkMedia #Books #Nature #Science #Writing #Creativity #Environment #CriticalThinking #Ocean #Trees #Culture #Art #Biodiversity #Diversity

https://www.stitched-ink-media.com/post/impending-change-for-betterment-part-1

Stitched Ink Media Blog Post
First published November 21, 2022.
Title: Impending Change for Betterment
Excerpt from book 'Systemic Evolutions' by Chris Handrahan
Beej
4 days ago

Wandering reflections on AI-generated content by yours truly (unless it's AI-generated and you can't tell, of course.)

https://beej.us/blog/data/proof-of-humanity/

#ai #creativity

My latest at Black Sun Journal. Excerpt:

Intelligent machines are beginning to impinge on the exclusive franchise of human meaning, by stealing some of our thunder in language and the arts. The more human-level tasks machines accomplish, the worse humans seem to feel. But artificial intelligence is still in diapers. We can still run circles around it artistically. We can still laugh at its fabrications, mistakes, and clunky wordsmithing.

Nonetheless, we’re already reaching peak overreaction. It’s a critical mass of sentimental outrage from the human creative community, with at least one major boneheaded think-piece being shat into the online ether every day. By some of the ostensibly “best and brightest” public intellectuals like Noam Chomsky, who should damn well know better.

#AI #aiart #chatgpt #consciousness #cognition #soul #meaning #creativity

https://blacksunjournal.com/2023/03/16/its-the-end-of-meaning-as-we-know-it/

DJM (open to jobs)
4 days ago

Where Good Ideas Come From
by Steven Johnson (2010)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NugRZGDbPFU

#Innovation #Creativity

Karthik S
5 days ago

You cannot unsee this. You have been warned.

ZIJkant, a Belgian organization that specializes in raising awareness around gender and equal opportunities, has a new campaign that has utterly disgusting imagery—adequately altered to make it bizarre and surreal in order to make a point—that also makes perfect sense for what they want to communicate.

Thoroughly provocative, memorable, and impactful.

Agency: mortierbrigade

#advertising #marketing #gender #creativity #creative

1/2

Esther Mondragón
5 days ago

An update of the AIGenC model has been uploaded to #arxiv.
The model introduces a necessary architecture and structure interplay for concept transfer and functional #creativity in #artificial #agents, suggesting several ways a concept blending function could result in novel content functionally apt to cross-task problem-solving in #rl.
#AI #DeepLearning.
👥 @CorinaCatarau & Eduardo Alonso
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.09738.

Alwin de Rooij
5 days ago

Come find us on April 25 (15:55-16:35) or April 26 (10:30-11:10) at #CHI2023 in Hamburg (DE) to learn more about how #VR can support #Creativity during idea generation.

Mark A. Rayner
6 days ago

The first episode of a podcast I’m co-hosting with fellow Canadian writer, Joe Mahoney is live! We talk to creative people about the art that inspired them, and we kick off with Joe interviewing me about the movie that BLEW MY MIND when I was eleven years old. Star Wars: A New Hope

https://re-creative.ca/a-new-hope/

#starwars #creativity #art #writing #writingcommunity #podcast #podcasting

Still from star wars: Obi Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker watching the holo video of Princess Leia for Obi Wan's help
Futurist Jim Carroll
6 days ago

Daily Inspiration: "Dare I suggest that if you are thinking about a bit of downsizing, you consider getting rid of your Department of Procrastination and Delay?" - #Futurist Jim Carroll

Downsizing seems to be all the rage these days, particularly at tech companies. As someone who has studied innovation for thirty years, I've learned that often, those doing the downsizing are targeting the wrong people. 

With that in mind, let me offer up my expertise on what groups should be on the chopping block. In fact, there are a number of departments that I suggest you might consider axing:

- The Creativity and Innovation Prevention Department

- The Office Of Small Thinking and Marginal Ideas

- The Department of Lost Initiative

- The Excuses and Justification Bureau

- The Committee To Create Committees

- The Aggressive Indecision Department

- The Division of Obsolete Technologies

- The Department of Reinventing the Wheel

- The Office of Doing What's Always Been Done

- The Department of Repetitive But Useless Actions

- The Department that Always Does it This Way

- The Office of the Leadership Sycophants (That one is for Twitter)

... and a few others that are in the post!

#innovation #creativity #leadership

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2023/03/daily-inspiration-dare-i-suggest-that-if-you-are-thinking-about-a-bit-of-downsizing-you-consider-getting-rid-of-your-department-of-procrastination-and-delay/

Karthik S
6 days ago

Oh, this is lovely stuff, Samsonite! More than the other celebs used within the 'Tested like Samsonite' theme (Amitabh Bachchan, Yuvraj Singh, and Mithali Raj, where their struggles were equated to that of the product's), here, renowned dancer Rukmini Vijayakumar dances *on* a Samsonite! This is a beautiful way to showcase the product's strength even while using a wonderful cultural context to do so!

Excellent work by the agency Enormous.

#advertising #marketing #creativity #creative

the trouble with mia
1 week ago

"Creativity is contagious. When I hear you sing, I am tempted to write a new story; when you read my story, your soul begins to dance, and so it goes, on and on. The journey is open-ended."
~ Elif Shafak
#Quotes #Humanity #Creativity #ArtistsOfMastodon

Karthik S
1 week ago

4/4 to those of so many others who said the same thing to themselves, imagining that they are not addicted, totally in denial of where they are all heading! It's a powerful device that you cannot ignore or forget.

#advertising #marketing #smoking #addiction #creativity #creative

The First Episode Of :podcast:
1 week ago

NEW! Adam Murciano talks about his retro horror ICE-CREAM, starting a subscription platform for listeners, the awkwardness of the teen years, the strange subversion of ice cream trucks, and the horror of always being one mistake away from ruin.

Available on your fav pod app, from http://thefirstepisodeof.com or on Youtube: https://youtu.be/BR2PUkKQXuA

#audiodrama #audiodramasunday #audiofiction #interview #indie #podcast #creative #creativity #horror #writing #writingcommunity #icecream

"Solution" to my survey question according to this study from 2019 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/acp.3532

Music decreases #creativity.

#Background #music with foreign #lyrics decreases as well.

#Library noise is better than music but still worse than silence.

Overall: #Silence is the best acoustic environment for creativity.

However: n=36 (too few), age distribution not optimal, majority was female. So there is valid criticism with respect to the design of the study.

Alwin de Rooij
1 week ago

Artistic creative activities help to regulate emotions and support self-development.

This n = 47,924 survey shows that artistic activities can support acceptance and reappraisal, provides needed distraction, and benefits self-development in terms of i.a. enhanced self-esteem and agency. 🎨♥️

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2019-07011-001

#Art #Craft #Creativity #Emotion #Psychology #SelfDevelopment #Wellbeing

There's always one character who just has to be the center of attention at all times and keeps nagging at you while you're writing other POVs... #writing #writingadvice #creativity #fantasy #books #booktodon

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cpog1ISg-7E/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Wesley Fryer (he/him)
1 week ago

Mind map drawing example & free #wakelet educator’s guide by Manuel Herrera @manuelherrera33

https://wakelet.com/wake/76cc922c-35c8-4033-897d-4b2cfeb0b740

#NCTIES23 #create2learn #sketchnote #creativity #MediaLit #MediaLiteracy

Mind Map example
Wakelet resource on Visual Thinking
Contact info for Manuel Herrera
Alwin de Rooij
2 weeks ago

The feeling of lacking control fosters creative thinking. 💡

This study suggests that primed lack of control carries over into later creative activity. Positively puzzled! 😀

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2713374522000231

#Control #Creativity #DivergentThinking #Psychology

Wesley Fryer (he/him)
2 weeks ago

Great student sketching lesson idea! Similar to my lesson “All About Me / All About Us” “Identity Collage” https://mdtech.casady.org/lessons/identity-collage with Google Slides But with drawing!

via Manuel Herrera #NCTIES23 #create2learn #sketchnote #creativity #MediaLit #MediaLiteracy

Identity Sketch lesson template
Wesley Fryer (he/him)
2 weeks ago

Articles on the science / #EduResearch value of students sketching ideas! via Manuel Herrera @manuelherrera33 #NCTIES23 #create2learn #sketchnote #creativity #MediaLit #MediaLiteracy

EduTopia: The Science of Drawing and Memory
Sketching in UX Design
Wesley Fryer (he/him)
2 weeks ago

Sketching the US Supreme Court by Manuel Herrera @manuelherrera33 #NCTIES23 #create2learn #sketchnote #creativity #MediaLit #MediaLiteracy

Supreme Court sketch
Japanned Steve McCarty
2 weeks ago
Wesley Fryer (he/him)
2 weeks ago

Amazing drawn / sketched PEOPLE by Manuel Herrera @manuelherrera33 #NCTIES23 #create2learn #sketchnote #creativity #MediaLit #MediaLiteracy

Wesley Fryer (he/him)
2 weeks ago

Examples of drawn / sketched objects that are all combinations of simple shapes: Manuel Herrera @manuelherrera33 #NCTIES23 #create2learn #sketchnote #creativity #MediaLit #MediaLiteracy

Sketches
Wesley Fryer (he/him)
2 weeks ago

Session description - Manuel Herrera “Drawing as a Thinking Process” #NCTIES23 #create2learn #sketchnote #creativity #MediaLit #MediaLiteracy

Session description
Wesley Fryer (he/him)
2 weeks ago

Now learning from Manuel Herrera “Drawing as a Thinking Process” #NCTIES23 #create2learn #sketchnote #creativity #MediaLit #MediaLiteracy

Michael Herrera at #NCTIES23
Alwin de Rooij
2 weeks ago

Do constraints promote or stymy creativity? 🚧 🎨

Constraints make it harder to produce ideas, but also push people to think creatively in a sentence production task ~ according to new research.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10400419.2023.2182038

#Constraints #Creativity #Psychology

Sky "Bunny" Stanton 🌈♾️🧠
2 weeks ago

Redoing my intro because it's been a minute...

Hi! My name is Sarah, and I'm a queer neurodivergent poet, musician, and AuDHD/OCD advocate.

The words queer and neurodivergent are doing a lot of heavy lifting in that first sentence, though! The longhand is "bisexual nonbinary genderfluid demigirl who is autistic, PDA, ADHD, OCD, GAD, CPTSD, and bipolar", but that doesn't fit on a business card. 😅

I'm Australian, and I used to live in China but now I live in San Francisco, ostensibly working on a novel but mostly just sucking up life like I'm a vacuum cleaner and it's lint.

Special interests and hyperfixations: #Creativity, #Writing, #Poetry, #SFF / #SpecFic, #Drag, #ClassicalMusic, #ChoralMusic and #Musicals, #ContemporaryArt, #History (especially #QueerHistory and #DisabledHistory), #Biology and #Zoology, #Food, #FiberArts, #MBMBAM and #TheAdventureZone, #TerryPratchett, #AceAttorney, #AnimalCrossing, #StevenUniverse, #OurFlagMeansDeath, #RuPaulsDragRace, #Psychology, #Neurodivergence, #Autism and #OCD, #DisabledRights, #SocialJustice, #Ducks.

Current projects: the NOCD Autism/OCD support group, "The 17%" support Discord for autistic folk with OCD (link in bio!), Tabitha and the Nightingale (YA queer/neurodivergent/disabled fantasy novel), and OCD: The Musical. 🧡

Fun fact about me: there is a recording somewhere of me very intensely discussing The White Witch of Narnia / Conan The Barbarian porn on the radio.

Amarie 🦋
2 weeks ago

She holds it all until it cracks. Broken promises, shattered dreams, this broken state her new reality. Then she realizes, as it all falls apart, it’s through the cracks a new creation will emerge. It’s in the breaking there is healing. It’s when the walls are shattered that hope can endure. The breaking is only the beginning of mending.

Read the #blog: https://hopelightimages.com/blog/broken-perfection/

🦋

#conceptart #egg #ideas #broken #healing #mentalhealth #creation #creativity #arttherapy #art #artists #perfection

Girl in teal dress kneels holding large egg with lighted crack from the top to the center.
Trying my best.
2 weeks ago

Livepush.io review

It's been 6 months since I started using LivePush.io, the multi streaming service, and I thought it was time to give my review.

What is "multi-streaming" or "restreaming"?

Multi-streaming is when you live stream to several platforms at the same time. The way it works is that instead of live streaming directly to Twitch, YouTube, Trov

https://mrfunkedude.com/2023/03/09/livepush-io-review/

#LiveStream #creative #creativity #livestreaming

thomas 🌸
2 weeks ago

I'm reading this book, "The Creative Act" by Rick Rubin, and this page got me. I feel like i'm being called out 🤣 It's a list of "thoughts not conducive to work", and I feel seen 🤦😭 #creativity #work #barriers #art #making

list of thoughts not conducive to work from "the creative act" by rick rubin
spydergrrl
2 weeks ago

The image from this article is spectacular in showing the design process > What’s Your Latest Bad Idea? https://www.gapingvoid.com/blog/2023/02/27/whats-your-latest-idea/ #creativity #ideation #design

A character sitting at a desk in 18 cartoon frames. Above it in each from is a thought bubble, containing squiggles, lines or emptiness. At the end, the bubble has a complete abstract drawing.
Andrew Wooldridge
2 weeks ago

Why does everything - movies, music, books seem like watered down rehashing of past things. Can we not create anything with novelty from the heart? Or maybe it's because our systems for social networking filter those things out #creativity #novelty

Emma the Gardener 🌱
2 weeks ago

I've been feeling a bit blah lately. Well, a lot blah. Like all the magic and fun has drained out of the world.

So I'm taking a trip on the Inspiration Express, and I'd love for you to come along!

#InspirationExpress #inspiration #creativity #imagination

https://theunconventionalgardener.com/blog/all-aboard-the-inspiration-express/

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Peter Butler
2 weeks ago

"ChatGPT can get as good as our overlords want it to. It can get perfect. And it can replace a lot of jobs, it really and truly can and there’s not a whole lot any of us can do about that.

But it cannot even begin to replace our need to talk shit and make stuff.”

@catvalente takes on "WallofText-E.”

https://catvalente.substack.com/p/the-great-replacement-not-that-one

#ChatGPT #Art #Writing #Humanity #Creativity

karl
3 weeks ago

Got inspired by a post @jimniels shared recently on a talk John Cleese gave back in '91 on helping managers embrace creativity.

Decided to work on a talk for my team to share in our regular Monday design meetings in a couple of weeks.

Thanks Jim for the inspo!

#Design #ProductDesign #Presentations #Creativity

A visual of the first slide of a talk titled “On balancing creativity and logical reasoning”.

Written by Karl Koch on the 14th March 2023

Fonts in Use: PP Mori, PP Editorial New
Alwin de Rooij
3 weeks ago

New research to be published and presented at #CHI2023!

We present new psychological and neurophysiological evidence suggesting that #VirtualReality can be used to support #Creativity by enhancing #Flow, and more generally #ExternalCognition.

Many thanks to the brilliant Laura Hagedorn and Maryam Alimardani; and to the TSHD Research Traineeship fund @TilburgU for financing this research project.

Alwin de Rooij
3 weeks ago

Graham Wallas is often credited with the first creative process model, published in his 1926 book "The Art of Thought".

The model consists of 4 stages: Preparation, Incubation, Illumination, and Verification.

I have read about similar but older models from the more general problem-solving literature in the past. But I can't seem to find these anymore!

Does anyone have a lead? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

#Creativity #Help #ProblemSolving #Question

Sometimes we need to stop stopping ourselves - Just Quit
#creativity #fear #art #artist
https://muz4now.com/2014/just-quit/

Danielle Vossebeld
3 weeks ago

I was given a round wooden frame, so I was thinking of putting a piece of Tiffany (glass, not a person) in it. 🤔

First idea: Iceland, northern lights and a waterfall. Not fully happy yet, so I will be creating more variations or different designs, until I am satisfied.

#tiffany #design #creativity #stainedglass #iceland #waterfall #sketching

Piece of white paper on a table. On it a drawing of a waterfall, with brown hills around it, blue sky and green aurora. Next to it, some sketches of different colours or shapes of this design. The drawing materials are still lying on the sheet.