Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #creativity, aggregated by home.social.
La sperimentazione per il mio nuovo blog sta andando avanti, adesso ho una modalità terminale con un prompt per i comandi, da li è possibile lanciare una modalità desktop, inoltre per i retro-computer ho anche una modalità lite.
Forse la modalità lite rientra nello #smolweb
Allego immagini :D
...poi torno a lavorare su #TheGate !
Like Playing the Piano
On getting discouraged as a writer, and what to do next:
I think hearing that all of us get that feeling is very helpful to people. Knowing all through our careers, we feel this all the time. Even if you’re very confident, you occasionally feel it. The thing that helped me most with this is realizing writing is like playing the piano. The more you do it, the better you will get. So if you’re discouraged about your writing, stop stressing so much. Stop feeling like you have to be a New York Times bestseller next week. Just go write. You will get better. You will improve. The next books will be better than the ones before. That’s what this is all about. Just keep doing it. — Brandon Sanderson
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Pay no attention to the man on the wall for now, just have fun.
🐈 ICYMI: Inspired by a real cat who lived at #TateModern, Mildred naps by day and creates secret artworks out of found materials by night. In this animated #adventure, her clandestine career faces competition from an aloof street artist named Barksy.
👉 https://seethis.tv/post/mildred-and-the-copycat-the-tate-modern-gallery-cat-meets-her-match
#animals #animation #art #museums #books #cats #creativity #dogs #gallery #mouse #museum #storytelling #tatekids #tksst #video
Lance Thomas has a great podcast about #inspiration & invites me in to muddy the waters by talking about #AI. A splendid time is guaranteed for all. https://shorturl.at/lwxES #ArtificialIntelligence #creativity #advertising #orginagency #influence #advertisingagency #creative
And Go
Some days I know exactly what I need to do and how. Others, I’m stuck at the edge of a new idea, a new project, and new direction, and the hard part is kicking away from shore.
Stop. Take a deep breath.
And go.
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Photo by Efe Kurnaz on Unsplash #365Ways #365Ways2026 #GettingThingsDone #creativity #Motivation #Thoughts #Writers #writing
We've got some incredibly talented people joining us for Writing the Occult: Harbingers & Spirits next month - including the gothic goddess that is acclaimed novelist and poet CJ Cooke.
With more than 10 books, published in 23 languages, some optioned for film and TV, CJ Cooke is a powerhouse of feminist gothic fiction. More 🧵⬇️
#gothic #gothicfiction #horror #haunted #haunting #ghoststories #spirits #writers #writing #writingcommunity #creativity #books #creativetoots #writingevents
Where Do I Find You?
A creative careers podcast with designers, artists and creatives from around the world, talking honestly about self-doubt, career paths and finding your way...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/where-do-i-find-you/
#AusPods #Podcasts #Podcasting #Australia #Society #Arts #Careers #Conversations #Creativity
What your #CreativeDirector should have told you about #creativity. We review @gideonamichay’s #NoNoNoNoNoYes http://wp.me/P23AlC-vt
I wrote my second creative log just now, and I have to say, I really like this new habit of logging my creativity on my second blog.
🐈 WATCH: Inspired by a real cat who lived at #TateModern, Mildred naps by day and creates secret artworks out of found materials by night. In this animated #adventure, her clandestine career faces competition from an aloof street artist named Barksy.
👉 https://seethis.tv/post/mildred-and-the-copycat-the-tate-modern-gallery-cat-meets-her-match
#animals #animation #art #museums #books #cats #creativity #dogs #gallery #mouse #museum #storytelling #tatekids #tksst #video
Does Blogging Matter in the Age of AI and Antisocial Media?
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Whenever you look for something on Google you get an AI summary, and then you can look at websites and web pages for an in-depth human written answer. At the same time there are dozens of apps for Twitter, the Fediverse and more, but there are none for browsing blogs.
If I look up blog on the Apple App store I get minimal notes and ChatGPT as the first results, and then several non blogging apps. The Android app store is a little better but the first results are for Grok, Daynote, a piano app and a few apps like blogger, journiblog, wordpress and blogspace. All of these are apps for writing, rather than reading.
Substack, Medium and WordPress are suggested but, to me, these apps stopped being interesting years ago. They stopped being interesting when they encourage people to paywall their content, and when they paywall sharing, and more. They stopped being interesting when those with a small audience provide the long tail for those with a big audience. We’re making Substack and other apps more visible by using them, but by using them we become less visible, because algorithms encourage us, and others, to waste time on those with a big audience, rather than those with a niche audience.
I noticed that my fediverse audience, if it exists in the first place is tiny. I don’t know whether that’s because I am less active on the Fediverse, in recent months, or even seasons, or if humanity as a whole is less active on the fediverse.
Blogging isn’t about the audience. If it was about audience then it’s a waste of time. Blogging is about thinking, and about focusing. If we want to use a buzzword then blogging is about mindfulness. It is about focusing for an hour or two on a topic and writing. It’s about stream of conscience and about establishing connections between thoughts.
I was listening to a set of podcasts by France Culture yesterday afternoon and they were speaking about how, in the age of AI, using such technology gets us to under-utilise certain parts of our brain. We begin to depend on AI for thought, and rational connections.
I believe that the process of writing daily, is important. AI could write this within a second or two, but as someone said yesterday, AI doesn’t have vécu, or experience, to use the English equivalent. AI is, as I like to think of it, just a glorified photocopier with deliberate generation loss. It produces derivative content, rather than original content.
I am often struck by something. I spend an hour or two writing but what I end up with takes less than five minutes to read. For all of that thinking, and procrastinating I have little to show. I believe that this is why writing has value.
If I went to Facebook to watch reels, or Bluesky to scroll endlessly for an hour or two, or even Facebook, then I’d see plenty of content but I am passive rather than active.
In the age of AI, where people spend less and less time learning and thinking, and in the age of influencers grabbing our attention on antisocial media I believe that there is real value in reading books, and writing blog posts. We could call it mindfulness but I believe that we keep healthy habits alive.
Blogging matters today, because it encourages us to focus for an hour or two, and, in the age of AI, it keeps us from depending too heavily on a glorified photocopier from forming our way of seeing the world. It also benefits us more than an hour or two of antisocial media.
#creativity #thinking #writing