Posts Tagged ‘creativity’
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Winter Olympic events like luge and downhill have become so absurdly dangerous you might as well take a bunch of elite athletes and shoot them out of cannons! This guy might weigh a bit more, that one have a sleeker body suit. One might open up too early for landing or another put an arm out for balance, and those factors [...]
Linda Barry writing workshops
Tonight on Q, Gian Gomeshi's show on CBC Radio, cartoonist Linda Barry talked about the importance of play, creativity and art. I love it when artists spin their expertise off in practical ways. Barry does writing workshops. Who would know more about the ins and outs of creativity than an artist? But still you have to wonder why it is that most [...]
Why Are Artists Poor? 2
Hans Abbing's book Why Are Artists Poor? should be assigned reading for every art student because it talks about the place of art and the artist in society in practical ways, from the viewpoint of the economist, somewhat objective, from ten stories up as Abbing puts it. Abbing, who is both a visual artist and an economist, gives us a view we in [...]
