Found at Lucinda Chambers instagram: Permission to NOT tile an entire bathroom wall, but just selected parts. Beautiful! As is her inspiration…
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Opened at Random: Chronicles Vol 1 by Bob Dylan
This morning, we opened Chronicles Volume 1 by Bob Dylan at random and found this…
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Reminder: Where Good Ideas Can Come From
Where Do Ideas Come From? is a video that features vastly different answers to the question from some seriously creative people, from David Lynch, Susan Orlean and Chuck Close to a couple of kids.
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Found Idea on a Building Wall (Forage Ideas like Mushrooms)
We are ALWAYS on the lookout for ideas that we can apply…somewhere in our life. This snazzy pattern we spotted on the side of a building sent us dreaming.
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A Mentor’s Wisdom: ‘Jump back and kiss yourself and count the blessings’
(Video link here.) In 1983, James Brown and band were playing the Beverly Theatre in Los Angeles with legendary blues man B.B. King. Halfway through the set, Brown asked “another fantastic people” to join him onstage: 25-year-old Michael Jackson watching the show ignognito in the audience. Brown’s words are as astonishing as Jackson’s 30…
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being ‘a landing strip for ideas’
…excerpted from the blog of Nick Ward, screen writer and tinkerer: One of the questions I get asked the most is ‘where do your ideas come from?’ Usually I simply say: ‘I steal them from other people.’ But the truth is I have no real idea at all. Many years ago I remember hearing a…
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mailbox key earrings (from Fuad’s dream)
I was walking across 125th Street in Harlem the other day and noticed a guy standing outside of a store, wearing really surprising earrings in one ear. “Wow, cool earrings” I said, “Did you make them?” “Yeah, and they’ve got a story…” He said with a smile. He told me he dreamed them, dreamed of…
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big think illuminates
(Video Link Here) Sometimes I indulge in really wrong-headed notions about how other people work and live. It goes like this: THEY do things easily, neatly, brilliantly all the time; and I’m really untogether and slow, and waste time and am weak and undisciplined because I take naps and … Big judgments. This way of…
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