July 18, 1992: The First Photo Uploaded to the Web, of CERN’s All-Girl...
Love and science set to song, from quarks to colliders. In 1990, shortly before a CERN physicist subverted gender and science stereotypes by adapting Alice in Wonderland as an allegory in quantum...
View ArticleLeonard Bernstein’s Moving Letter of Gratitude to His Mentor and a Prescient...
Decades before Kickstarter, a vision for how micro-patronage can help creators “ascend to new heights” and “gain in confidence, in self-esteem and in fortitude.” As a great proponent of the mutual gift...
View ArticleDrone over Burning Man, to Tycho Awake
Tycho Awake. A fitting track to pitch with footage of a drone over Burning Man. Filmed by Fest300 on a GoPro Hero 3+. I’ve yet to sample what the playa has to offer. Undoubtedly a photographer’s...
View ArticleLegendary Composer Aaron Copland on the Conditions of Creativity, Emotion vs....
“The main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It’s useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy.” In 1970, long before our present barrage of books on creativity, even before...
View ArticleJeff Buckley on Music and Life: A Rare Interview with One of Creative...
“Be awake enough to see where you are at any given time and how that is beautiful and has poetry inside.” In 1995, while working for a local radio station in the town of Correggio, Italian journalist...
View ArticleOPENING, by Christopher Willits
OPENING is a beautifully immersive audio visual recording by San Francisco-based Christopher Willits. “For years, I’ve imagined the work I do in music, photography, video/film, immersive audio and...
View ArticleHow Repetition Enchants the Brain and Why We Love Refrains in Music
“Music takes place in time, but repetition beguilingly makes it knowable in the way of something outside of time.” “The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it’s a form of mesmerism,” Haruki...
View ArticleJoni Mitchell on Freedom, the Source of Creativity, and the Dark Side of Success
“How does a person create a song? A lot of it is being open… to encounter and to… be in touch with the miraculous.” At the age of eight, Joni Mitchell (b. November 7, 1943) contracted polio during the...
View ArticleGreil Marcus on What the History of Rock ‘n’ Roll Teaches Us about Innovation...
How to continually experience “the satisfaction that only art, only the act of putting something new into the world, can bring.” “All of us, we’re links in a chain,” Pete Seeger said in an altogether...
View ArticleWhy festival mobile apps stink more than the porta-potties
Having just come off 3 fun, but exhausting days at the Austin City Limits (ACL) music festival, I shouldn’t be losing any of my precious Sunday night slumber thinking about how I could have “fested”...
View ArticleHow Branding Launched Michael Jackson’s Solo Career
Getting your career started in the design industry can be a challenge, which is why we’ve put together the Branding Yourself and Your Design Career Collection. With these five resources, you’ll enter...
View ArticleJazz Legend Bill Evans on the Creative Process, Self-Teaching, and Balancing...
“The person that succeeds in anything has the realistic viewpoint at the beginning and [knows] that the problem is large and that he has to take it a step at a time.” In a 1915 letter to his young son,...
View ArticleBruce Springsteen’s Reading List: 28 Favorite Books That Shaped His Mind and...
From Montaigne’s philosophy to Flannery O’Connor’s short stories, literary anatomy of the creative icon. “A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another,” Rebecca Solnit wrote in her...
View ArticleLucinda Williams on Compassion
“You do not know what wars are going on down there, where the spirit meets the bone.” Recently, in witnessing the astounding haste with which people were lashing out against one another, without so...
View ArticleTake the Donuts: Amanda Palmer on the Art of Asking, by Way of Thoreau’s...
“You’re an artist when you say you are. And you’re a good artist when you make somebody else experience or feel something deep or unexpected.” “Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don’t...
View ArticleNovember 25, 1963: Leonard Bernstein’s Moving Tribute to JFK and His Timeless...
“This must be the mission of every man of goodwill: to insist, unflaggingly, at risk of becoming a repetitive bore, but to insist on the achievement of a world in which the mind will have triumphed...
View ArticleLegendary Cellist Pablo Casals, at Age 93, on Creative Vitality and How...
“The man who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age.” Long before there was Yo-Yo Ma, there was Spanish Catalan cellist and conductor...
View ArticleOskar Schlemmer: The Bauhaus Master of Multimedia Design
Brander, typographer, web designer. Today’s market requires unrivaled multimedia design skills. Be prepared for anything with the Multidisciplinary Design Kit from MyDesignShop. Even if you might not...
View ArticleThe Best Biographies, Memoirs, and History Books of 2014
Nabokov’s love letters, Shackleton’s courageous journey, the unsung heroes behind creative icons, Joni Mitchell unbound, and more. After the year’s best reads in science, children’s books, psychology...
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