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I’ve been feeling a bit uninspired lately, so naturally I took some time to wander around the wonderful worldwide web to get me out of this dip.
To my delight, I discovered Everything is a Remix by Kirby Ferguson. It’s split up into four parts, so it’ll take a little bit of time to get through it all, but it’s soooo worth it.
A true visionary, innovator and creative. He will be missed.
“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes … the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo. … You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things. … They push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the people who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
– Steve Jobs
Growing up, my mother has always told me I was a doodler and writer. I didn’t believe her until she pulled out a giant box full of notebooks, sticky notes and scratch paper with squiggles, diagrams and random thoughts written down that spanned from my childhood and throughout my college years. Two thoughts ran through my head. 1) “Wow, my mom saved all this stuff?” and 2) “Wow, what was I thinking??”
Good to know that all that brainstorming and doodling was productive. =)
I recently got the 50mm f/1.8 G lens and took it to Discovery Green to test it out.
These were my favorite pictures from the evening.
We all agree that creativity is highly valuable, but why is that we’re still resistant to creative ideas? The news site ScienceDaily explains some interesting findings.
Based on the experiments at the University of Pennsylvania: