Today’s mid-week distraction is a celebration of the connected web, human connections, and connecting-the-dots – and the brilliant creative complexity that these connections weave.
“Chance favours the connected mind.” – Steven Johnson
Steven Johnson’s book, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation describes how when we put our noggins together and let things marinate, we’re far more likely to come up with works of genius via what he refers to as a “slow hunch” (rather than the lauded and mythologised “eureka moment”).
His 2010 TED talk & RSA Animate video (below) are great introductions to his inspiring and illuminating ideas on the origins of innovation and creativity.
Steal Like an Artist.
Artist/blogger Austin Kleon’s post “How to Steal Like An Artist” went nothing short of viral last year. Naturally, he’s turned it into a book, *Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative. *
Click here to read the original post.
Curation as Creation.
A brand-new collaborative brainchild of Maria Popova (Brain Pickings), experience designer extraordinaire, Kelli Anderson, and Tina Roth Eisenburg (Swiss Miss) is The Curator’s Code.
With the rise and rise of blogs filled with curated findings, micro and tumblogs, (not to mention pinning, bookmarking and aggregation app-sites) these leaders in the field have developed a timely code of attribution and honour that speaks directly to the lines of genius we follow when we quote, or are inspired by something extraordinary.
Elegant in form (a creative work in itself), The Curator’s Code solves clunky issues of attribution with a single keystroke. It offers simple economy of aesthetic while rigorously presenting the portal to what can be the brilliantly bottomless “rabbit hole” of the internet.
Comments
Brad Dunn 14 Mar 4:31PM
Along the same lines, I read this article a few weeks ago about brainstorming http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/01/30/120130fa_fact_lehrer which is pretty interesting...
Mostly, it talks about the evidence that brainstorming is less effective than people on their own, coming up with ideas in isolation. But theres some great stories in it about Apple and where they found the best ideas came from...
Great stuff Ming-Zhu.