Thirty + years ago, the world witnessed Meg Ryan’s perfection of a faked orgasm in Katz’s Deli, we’ve been thinking about great, transformative yeses we’ve written about or experienced.
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Why You Should Play: It Sparks Creativity and Invention (Steven Berlin Johnson)
In this mind-boggling little film, Steven Berlin Johnson shows how play and pleasure may be as powerful drivers of invention as necessity.
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A 3-Word Practice for Expanding Possibilities
This photo of hunks of clay by Gentl and Hyers, made us wonder: What are we going to make today? And then we found this in Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art:
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leap! play!
Indian children play on the banks of the River Ganges in Allahabad, India, on Nov. 17. A reminder to leap and play, no matter what age you are! Need encouragement?
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grownups on swings
The other day walking in a nearby park early one morning, we came upon a line of swings – big kid’s swings – in a playground. So we thought ‘Why not?‘ and did what we hadn’t done in many many years: swung HIGH looking at up at trees and sky. via DVDP Related posts: xhousegifts to…
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a book + music (‘free play’ + ‘the koln concert’)
One of our favorite books about improvising is Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art by Stephen Nachmanovitch. It’s one of those enduring books that you can open randomly and find something useful or compelling…like this, which we found just now: “…Sometimes we damn the limits, but without them art is not possible. They provide…
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