BY: SAMANTHA TAPP When you see an airplane overhead, what do you think about? Do you consider the sheer volume of work that goes into each flight? Are you jealous of the people that are travelling somewhere? Most likely, you…
These women are combining fashion and plastic in a fight against pollution
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Think about how many plastic bags you throw out on a monthly basis. Now, try to imagine how many plastic bags are thrown out every month in your city. Imagine these bags being used to improve environmental…
Get to Know the Graffiti Affect
Often accredited to deviant hooliganism, my professors, and peers upped their nose at the idea of graffiti as fine art, only to ask me in private how I felt about Banksy. It seems the academic and hi-art roster is quick to jump…
The truth behind Hemingway’s advice to “write drunk, edit sober”
Ernest Hemingway’s famous advice was to “write drunk, edit sober”. Although there is a lot of debate as to whether he actually said this, the question remains: does alcohol help with the writing process? Many brilliant writers were also heavy…
There is a way to fulfill all of your travel cravings while being low on funds
If you do not have a significant amount of cash in your hands, but you wish to explore new worlds, there is a solution for your situation. Now, you can exchange your home trough websites like HomeExchange, IntervacHomeExchange, LoveHomeSwap, etc.…
It looks like your procrastination isn’t necessarily a bad thing: maybe you’re an original thinker!
“Originals are not conformists. They are the people that stand out and speak up. Originals drive the creative changes in the world. They are the people you wanna bet on. And they look nothing like I expected.” – This is…
China’s Urban Art of Containing an Ever-Growing 1.3 Billion Populace
By: MELISSA BOODOO Overpopulation is the environment’s inability to support the existing population of humans or other living things. In my project entitled ‘Over Populated‘, I examine China’s never-ending economic growth through the exploration of colors and architecture. We are able to…
The simple childhood practice that will sharpen your memory and heighten your creativity
By: JACK M. Information overload. Permanently connected. Pressure to conform. Addiction to social media, e-mailing, texting, tweeting, re-tweeting, liking and sharing. These are just a few of the oft-quoted reasons tossed around in today’s hyper-connected world that point to the…
The fundamental guide to leading a more creative life
By: Adrian Smith Ever wondered what it takes to be more creative? This infographic by Pop Chart Lab offers a complete guide to making your inner genius your greatest on-the-job asset. It’s filled with both conventional and completely ridiculous ways…
These story ideas will save you from the dreaded writer’s block
By: Adrian Smith You just finished a major scene in your story. You’ve read it over a few times and feel pretty satisfied. The story, to this point, is everything you imagined it would read like—but you’re not sure…
Research shows that a busy coffee shop is the best place to spark creativity
By: Jocelyn Schwalm Coffee shops have long been considered a second home to creative types everywhere, but fundamental aspects that make a coffee shop a coffee shop are now changing. Like cafés, they are quintessential “third spaces” of the…
The pain you feel is a crucial element in the creative process
By: Jocelyn Schwalm The price of creativity is often extremely high: the more pain, the better the artist, the saying goes. This is essentially the backdrop for the idea of the tortured artist. A certain neurosis seems to be…
To the young, struggling and aspiring writers – this letter is for you
BY: Adrian Smith It isn’t always easy for writers, especially young, aspiring writers, to be revealing of their thoughts, ideas and emotions within their work. Leonard W., the 17-year-old protégé to essayist Anaïs Nin, struggled with feeling naïve and ashamed…
Over stimulation is blocking our creativity but boredom could actually be the solution
BY: CAROLINE ROLF At some point, we all get the feeling of boredom. Maybe it’s late Friday afternoon and you’re waiting for the workweek to finally end. Maybe it’s in the clinic waiting room or through the third hour of…
Six Contradictory Characteristics of a Creative
By: Adrian Smith Earlier this week I came across a book written by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, professor of psychology at the Quality of Life Research Center in Claremont. In Creativity: Flow and The Psychology of Discovery and Invention, he marvels at…
Science proves that everyone can be creative. Here’s how.
BY: SWIKAR OLI Solving a problem creatively demands the sort of non-linear thinking that frees us from everyday, familiar reasoning. This is the crucial step to creative problem-solving that’s perhaps the most hard for people to overcome when trying to…
Those flashes of genius you have can be trained to happen more frequently
BY: SWIKAR OLI Despite the popular assumption, creativity is not a capricious muse, continually teasing then eluding writers and artists, revealing only a brief fragment of itself in flight before disappearing, often before we can assimilate the shades of their essence.…
Larry Rivers’ paintings prove there’s inspiration in anything if you decide to see it that way
BY: ADRIAN SMITH Frank O’Hara closes his memoir for Larry Rivers noting, “What his work has always had to say to me, I guess, is to be more keenly interested while I’m still alive. And perhaps that is the most…
A simple guide to the best and worst ways to stimulate creativity
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Creativity is an elusive mother-fucker. When deadlines approach, it’ll leave you staring deadpan at a blank sheet of paper for hours on end, only to strike when you’re already on the bus home without a paper or…
If you feel your passion wrinkling like a grape under the sun, this will reinvigorate your life (video)
BY: DANIEL WATERBORNE We have all felt the sudden onset of bleakness that settles behind our eyes and clouds everything that stands before them. But understand that perspective is a choice. There are fewer things more exhausting than managers and…