Results tagged “creativity”

Ta-Nehisi Coates, a blogger for The Atlantic, has been running a Friday poetry feature. Intriguing, thought provoking, and worth a visit.

What's your job? Is it making stuff, or answering email? And how much time do you spend actually doing it?

Merlin Mann has a short series on the importance of making time for real work. It also explains why you may not get an email response from me right away.

My friend Janet is blogging about art, and mindfulness, and culture, and all sorts of interesting stuff. With lots of fascinating pictures, too. Her latest, about Huichol art as a means of cultural communication, is especially worth a visit. Enjoy!

Movies are different from books. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix seems to be the first of the Harry Potter movies to recognize and embrace the differences.

Potter purists will hate it. Things were left out. Things were added. It isn't what Rowling wrote.

No, it isn't, and that's okay. Where the book (the longest of the series so far) rambles across the long expanse of the school year, the movie careens toward its epic climax, feeling shorter than its 138 minute run time.

Movies are different from books. Finally, the Potter movies stand on their own.

There's an interesting article in the New York Times Magazine about independent musicians in the Internet era. Many of them are only able to reach an audience at all because of the Internet, but at some point the fan intimacy that made them successful becomes a huge burden. I can understand that. Ten emails a day from readers would be fantastic, but a hundred? A thousand? How do you balance that kind of load against the solitude that creativity demands?

(Link by way of 43 Folders.)