Creativity

Looking for constraints in a different medium or a different process and I applying to rules that I had mastered is how I developed since then.Andrew Byrom talking at TEDx about letting constraints lead you in new directions.

Eric Kim discusses what we can learn about photography from Henri Cartier-Bresson: Don’t only see the world as it is, look for shapes and geometry that occur naturally as well. Open up your mind and break your environment into different formal elements. Look for lines that may lead to

Rules can be broken — but never ignored.Quotes on Design

During recording: Great! This will be our best show yet. Hours later: I wish I had said “X” instead of “Y”. The next day: Disappointed. Maybe I won’t even bother to edit it. Listening: Hey, this isn’t bad stuff. Editing: Pretty good! We made some good points, had

What is the role of art during crisis? What does history show? — Matthew Cornell

Its called agile design. A process that involves frequent adaptation, collaboration, minimal planning and face to face communication. It requires for everyone to have and share a clear mental picture of the goals. The process also feeds from the endless need for questioning and feedback. And ultimately it demands that

Great ideas seldom arise in the romantic way we like to imagine—the bolt from the blue, the lone genius running through the streets crying, “Eureka!” Like evolution itself, science more often advances by small steps, with different lines converging on the same solution. — Richard Conniff via Smithsonian Magazine

You can’t have art without resistance in the materials.
 — William Morris via A Brief Message

find, define, design then refine the redesign do it one more timeBy Justin Feinstein and sent to Michael Surtees.

In an interview with the Parallax View, Jonathan Demme discusses Jenny Lumet's writing for "Rachel Getting Married": What she cares about is truth of character, and having established this potential forest fire of predictable problems, she, yes, delivers catastrophe, catastrophic things happen, but they happen behind closed doors within the

In acting you’ll maybe take the first take, and it’s very fresh. And you’ll say wow, that felt like real life! So now let’s recreate that, and do it again. That’s the trap. What you have to do is get back to zero. Get emptiness,

“As long as people are in the frame I’m pretty happy. You didn’t ask but what I don’t like is big productions, I’m way too impatient to work with strobes or teams to get a job done, not that I don’t appreciate well lit photography

Wired on the building of Toy Story 3: They thought they already had a great start on the plot for Toy Story 3, but after 20 minutes, the whole thing is scrapped. By day two, a new idea emerges…Also: Day 380: Actors start coming in to voice the script.

In the article “A New Approach to Igniting and Sustaining Creativity”, Dr. Anne Paris says that recent studies suggest that ”we are helped along in the creative process by certain kinds of emotional support from others that help us to be at our best and to realize our full potentials.