#creativity — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #creativity, aggregated by home.social.
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What did yo learn from his, now 3y. old #TikTok #lipsync #video #Clip 's
It' s about the carefree #creativity of #youth.
It was a unique insight into a #teenager #growing up.
My favourite #Clip : How he is sized up by an #NYPD officer while his head was covered by a hoodie.
#nyc #wisconsin #zodiac #mindset #psychology #free #apple #capitalism #diversity #design #culture #internet #socialmedia #freedom #international #punk #rebellion #multimedia #media #arte #tv #art
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"We creative types like to think of ourselves as superior people, but we're not. We do, however, seem to be configured in ways that allow us to achieve something akin to peak happiness in solitude. For us, profound joy is not always a collective experience."
-- Richard Russo, from the essay collection "Life and Art"
#Books #Bookstodon #Culture #Entertainment #Introvert #Creative #Creativity
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"We creative types like to think of ourselves as superior people, but we're not. We do, however, seem to be configured in ways that allow us to achieve something akin to peak happiness in solitude. For us, profound joy is not always a collective experience."
-- Richard Russo, from the essay collection "Life and Art"
#Books #Bookstodon #Culture #Entertainment #Introvert #Creative #Creativity
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You bought the notebook. You wrote the date. Then you put it down. The full ones tell a different story about how things actually begin.
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You bought the notebook. You wrote the date. Then you put it down. The full ones tell a different story about how things actually begin.
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Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born
https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/good-ideas
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314235
#HackerNews #cultivatingideas #mindset #creativity #innovation #inspiration
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Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born
https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/good-ideas
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314235
#HackerNews #cultivatingideas #mindset #creativity #innovation #inspiration
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10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet 187
The mind replays what the heart wants to heal
Iconoclast and Rebel Peaches opens up her mind on Amoeba’s channel
One of the most singular and outre artists in the world Peaches visits the Amoeba shop and picks out her fav albums and films. This was interesting because she has some pretty wild choices including a strange film with Kate Blanchett in it that I’ll need to check out. Also I’ve never heard of Eartha Kitt but I will be looking into that further.
https://youtu.be/nL2b-4PkjZ0?si=Vv0n4tvE5ejswlhx
Intricate papercut art by Elsa Mora
Paper-cut artwork by multimedia artist Elsa Mora, who was born and raised in Cuba before moving to the US in 2001. Via Alabandine on BlueSky
Junghofstraße Trance Classics | OMEN Frankfurt Tribute Mix
Take a trip back to the ecstatic heart of 90’s trance.
https://youtu.be/cD2FcICGmio?si=uI2ogz8i-vGHjQgE
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Animal agents who can shape their own lives and the course of history
Plato’s attempt 2,500 years ago to define the human as ‘a featherless biped’ had to be swiftly qualified –‘with broad flat nails’ – when Diogenes presented him with a plucked chicken. Many subsequent attempts at human self-definition have faced similar problems in relation to exceptionality. Yet lately, scholars have begun to conclude that while the difference between humans and other animals is great, it is one of degree, not kind. Steadily, the notion that humans were uniquely created in the image of the divine is dropping out of the Western world view, as it becomes clear that characteristics once thought to be unique to our species – tool use, language, culture – are found to occur among other species. Even so, one aspect of humanity has seemed indisputably ours alone: our capacity for self-conscious agency; that is, our ability not just to act on and influence the world, but to do so deliberately and reflectively.
Photo by ArtHouse Studio on Pexels.comSelf-aware animal protagonists have always existed within the human world. Usually, however, they’ve been imaginary, and mostly they’ve appeared in the pages of children’s stories. Characters such as the talking animals in The Chronicles of Narnia (1950-56) by C S Lewis, for example, were relatively simple. For all their animal appearance, their thoughts, actions and emotions were largely indistinguishable from those of humans. Other stories have exploited differences in human and animal experience to teach moral or ethical lessons, by precept or example. In some cases, this involved close exploration of the inner lives of animal protagonists – the gradual civilisation of the wolf-dog in Jack London’s White Fang (1906), for example, or the mature suffering of the horse in Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty (1877). But more often than not, the author’s aim was to use the animal to explore the human, and humane.
T H White’s Merlyn transformed the wart (the young King Arthur) into (variously) a hawk, an ant and a badger so that the regent in The Once and Future King (1952) could learn more about the governance of human nature; the altruistic friendships in Charlotte’s Web (1952) by E B White gradually shaded into the conscious acceptance of individual mortality. Animals have also been deployed allegorically, to explore relationships between people (often depending on animals to say things that humans found hard to hear). Such childhood stories frequently acquire resonance as their readers grow. For example, when read in adulthood, Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows (1908) provides just as devastating a critique of the shift from an agricultural to an industrial society as George Orwell’s Animal Farm (1945) does of the transition from capitalism to socialism.
Of course, animal allegories and stories featuring animal narrators are not confined to children’s literature. Books such as Felidae (1993) by Akif Pirinçci, The Plague Dogs (1977) by Richard Adams or Only the Animals (2014) by Ceridwen Dovey use nonhuman protagonists to explore aspects of human inhumanity to animals, while Carmen Dog (1988) by Carol Emshwiller and Pig Tales (1997) by Marie Darrieussecq specifically explore inhumanity to women. Yet within these accounts writers can also make intriguing efforts to explore what it might be like to view the world from the animal’s perspective, as in Pig Tales where the protagonist shifts from pig to person, and back again. The detective sheep of Three Bags Full (2005) by Leonie Swann retain an ovine logic throughout (just as the narrator of Felidae remains feline). The Many Selves of Katherine North (2016) by Emma Green examines the consciousness of a ‘phenomenaut’, someone who can project herself into the mind of a lab-grown animal body, unravelling the devastating and addictive impact of animal senses on human awareness.
Sako, a heroic dog from Kananka Bar, BC, was inducted today into the 2015 Purina Animal Hall of Fame. (CNW Group/Purina Animal Hall of Fame)In The Inheritors (1955), William Golding embarked on a sustained novelistic attempt to imagine a nonhuman consciousness among Neanderthals. Golding shows us a world where ego is integrated at the community, rather than individual, level. Understanding is based on collective experience, intense proximity and abiding empathy, while knowledge, concept and communication are kinaesthetic rather than cerebrally based. Golding’s Neanderthals are not self-conscious in the human sense – since they are not ‘human’. They are, however, active subjects and agents making their own histories and influencing those of others. Reading that novel is a breathtaking and disturbing exercise in trying to understand, rather than analyse, awareness.
The Inheritors presaged a new way of thinking that would spread among animal behaviourists, evolutionary scientists and eventually historians in the latter part of the 20th century. It turns on there being a difference between agency and consciousness – and between agency and subjectivity, or agency and individuality. Humans have the capacity to act as agents, because they are considered to know what they are doing and why they are doing it. But even though nonhumans possess individuality and consciousness, too, the absence of self-consciousness among them has generally been taken to preclude agency. However, as scholars and artists adopt less anthropocentric approaches to understanding how histories (and futures) are made, in the manner that Golding did in 1955, such thinking is now being challenged. Put another way, do literary efforts to create an embodied but nonhuman consciousness have any purchase in reality?
Frankie’s cultural observations: Gen Z
https://youtu.be/GnjBlxeUFbw?si=7NDOsTN4kziSGLzE
Hedge Hearth and Witch resists with beautiful AI-free art
I love that she called out how shitty AI is for artists but even more so how it stifles creativity and originality for everyone. She goes into detail about how art is a form of witchy resistance for her. Now full transparency I have posted AI art on this blog in the past but I now realise how soulless it is.
https://youtu.be/xvZZMeT8OIk?si=xprG2BvHDIlXTkjN
Villa Saraceni, a digital rendering by designer Charlotte Taylor and 3D artist Riccardo Fornoni
Polynesian Origins: DNA, Migrations and HistoryI am fascinated about the history of my own ancestors in Polynesia and so this was so on point for me!
https://youtu.be/ahfPbDLDu38?si=W7jnrRCodmq7uRlI
Rebecca Vincent is a printmaker and artist from Northumberland, UK whose expressive, colourful landscapes bring nature, light, and joy into any space. Finding solace in the the English countryside, she manifests fields, hills, trees, flowers, and coastlines into richly layered compositions filled with movement and depth. Her intricate two-plate etchings and painterly monotypes reveal a mastery of technique and a deep connection to the natural world. Rebecca has exhibited widely across the UK and built a loyal following of collectors worldwide. She brings the soul of nature from the outdoors in, read more.
Art by Rebecca VincentDid you enjoy this collection? let me know what you think of it below. Thank you for reading my dear friends!
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10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet 187
The mind replays what the heart wants to heal
Iconoclast and Rebel Peaches opens up her mind on Amoeba’s channel
One of the most singular and outre artists in the world Peaches visits the Amoeba shop and picks out her fav albums and films. This was interesting because she has some pretty wild choices including a strange film with Kate Blanchett in it that I’ll need to check out. Also I’ve never heard of Eartha Kitt but I will be looking into that further.
https://youtu.be/nL2b-4PkjZ0?si=Vv0n4tvE5ejswlhx
Intricate papercut art by Elsa Mora
Paper-cut artwork by multimedia artist Elsa Mora, who was born and raised in Cuba before moving to the US in 2001. Via Alabandine on BlueSky
Junghofstraße Trance Classics | OMEN Frankfurt Tribute Mix
Take a trip back to the ecstatic heart of 90’s trance.
https://youtu.be/cD2FcICGmio?si=uI2ogz8i-vGHjQgE
Title
Animal agents who can shape their own lives and the course of history
Plato’s attempt 2,500 years ago to define the human as ‘a featherless biped’ had to be swiftly qualified –‘with broad flat nails’ – when Diogenes presented him with a plucked chicken. Many subsequent attempts at human self-definition have faced similar problems in relation to exceptionality. Yet lately, scholars have begun to conclude that while the difference between humans and other animals is great, it is one of degree, not kind. Steadily, the notion that humans were uniquely created in the image of the divine is dropping out of the Western world view, as it becomes clear that characteristics once thought to be unique to our species – tool use, language, culture – are found to occur among other species. Even so, one aspect of humanity has seemed indisputably ours alone: our capacity for self-conscious agency; that is, our ability not just to act on and influence the world, but to do so deliberately and reflectively.
Photo by ArtHouse Studio on Pexels.comSelf-aware animal protagonists have always existed within the human world. Usually, however, they’ve been imaginary, and mostly they’ve appeared in the pages of children’s stories. Characters such as the talking animals in The Chronicles of Narnia (1950-56) by C S Lewis, for example, were relatively simple. For all their animal appearance, their thoughts, actions and emotions were largely indistinguishable from those of humans. Other stories have exploited differences in human and animal experience to teach moral or ethical lessons, by precept or example. In some cases, this involved close exploration of the inner lives of animal protagonists – the gradual civilisation of the wolf-dog in Jack London’s White Fang (1906), for example, or the mature suffering of the horse in Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty (1877). But more often than not, the author’s aim was to use the animal to explore the human, and humane.
T H White’s Merlyn transformed the wart (the young King Arthur) into (variously) a hawk, an ant and a badger so that the regent in The Once and Future King (1952) could learn more about the governance of human nature; the altruistic friendships in Charlotte’s Web (1952) by E B White gradually shaded into the conscious acceptance of individual mortality. Animals have also been deployed allegorically, to explore relationships between people (often depending on animals to say things that humans found hard to hear). Such childhood stories frequently acquire resonance as their readers grow. For example, when read in adulthood, Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows (1908) provides just as devastating a critique of the shift from an agricultural to an industrial society as George Orwell’s Animal Farm (1945) does of the transition from capitalism to socialism.
Of course, animal allegories and stories featuring animal narrators are not confined to children’s literature. Books such as Felidae (1993) by Akif Pirinçci, The Plague Dogs (1977) by Richard Adams or Only the Animals (2014) by Ceridwen Dovey use nonhuman protagonists to explore aspects of human inhumanity to animals, while Carmen Dog (1988) by Carol Emshwiller and Pig Tales (1997) by Marie Darrieussecq specifically explore inhumanity to women. Yet within these accounts writers can also make intriguing efforts to explore what it might be like to view the world from the animal’s perspective, as in Pig Tales where the protagonist shifts from pig to person, and back again. The detective sheep of Three Bags Full (2005) by Leonie Swann retain an ovine logic throughout (just as the narrator of Felidae remains feline). The Many Selves of Katherine North (2016) by Emma Green examines the consciousness of a ‘phenomenaut’, someone who can project herself into the mind of a lab-grown animal body, unravelling the devastating and addictive impact of animal senses on human awareness.
Sako, a heroic dog from Kananka Bar, BC, was inducted today into the 2015 Purina Animal Hall of Fame. (CNW Group/Purina Animal Hall of Fame)In The Inheritors (1955), William Golding embarked on a sustained novelistic attempt to imagine a nonhuman consciousness among Neanderthals. Golding shows us a world where ego is integrated at the community, rather than individual, level. Understanding is based on collective experience, intense proximity and abiding empathy, while knowledge, concept and communication are kinaesthetic rather than cerebrally based. Golding’s Neanderthals are not self-conscious in the human sense – since they are not ‘human’. They are, however, active subjects and agents making their own histories and influencing those of others. Reading that novel is a breathtaking and disturbing exercise in trying to understand, rather than analyse, awareness.
The Inheritors presaged a new way of thinking that would spread among animal behaviourists, evolutionary scientists and eventually historians in the latter part of the 20th century. It turns on there being a difference between agency and consciousness – and between agency and subjectivity, or agency and individuality. Humans have the capacity to act as agents, because they are considered to know what they are doing and why they are doing it. But even though nonhumans possess individuality and consciousness, too, the absence of self-consciousness among them has generally been taken to preclude agency. However, as scholars and artists adopt less anthropocentric approaches to understanding how histories (and futures) are made, in the manner that Golding did in 1955, such thinking is now being challenged. Put another way, do literary efforts to create an embodied but nonhuman consciousness have any purchase in reality?
Frankie’s cultural observations: Gen Z
https://youtu.be/GnjBlxeUFbw?si=7NDOsTN4kziSGLzE
Hedge Hearth and Witch resists with beautiful AI-free art
I love that she called out how shitty AI is for artists but even more so how it stifles creativity and originality for everyone. She goes into detail about how art is a form of witchy resistance for her. Now full transparency I have posted AI art on this blog in the past but I now realise how soulless it is.
https://youtu.be/xvZZMeT8OIk?si=xprG2BvHDIlXTkjN
Villa Saraceni, a digital rendering by designer Charlotte Taylor and 3D artist Riccardo Fornoni
Polynesian Origins: DNA, Migrations and HistoryI am fascinated about the history of my own ancestors in Polynesia and so this was so on point for me!
https://youtu.be/ahfPbDLDu38?si=W7jnrRCodmq7uRlI
Rebecca Vincent is a printmaker and artist from Northumberland, UK whose expressive, colourful landscapes bring nature, light, and joy into any space. Finding solace in the the English countryside, she manifests fields, hills, trees, flowers, and coastlines into richly layered compositions filled with movement and depth. Her intricate two-plate etchings and painterly monotypes reveal a mastery of technique and a deep connection to the natural world. Rebecca has exhibited widely across the UK and built a loyal following of collectors worldwide. She brings the soul of nature from the outdoors in, read more.
Art by Rebecca VincentDid you enjoy this collection? let me know what you think of it below. Thank you for reading my dear friends!
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David Norland's 'La Source' — Ancient Sounds, Forward Motion https://www.thetonearm.com/ancient-sounds-forward-motion-david-norland-religion-of-one/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=muz4now%2Fmagazine%2Fart%2C%20creativity%2C%20and%20creative%20process&utm_medium=mastodon #creativity
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David Norland's 'La Source' — Ancient Sounds, Forward Motion https://www.thetonearm.com/ancient-sounds-forward-motion-david-norland-religion-of-one/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=muz4now%2Fmagazine%2Fart%2C%20creativity%2C%20and%20creative%20process&utm_medium=mastodon #creativity
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🎨🥁 A groundbreaking innovation: draw random squiggles, and voilà, you have a "drum"! Because who doesn't want to listen to the sweet, sweet sounds of amateur geometry? 🤔✨ Oh, and don't forget to bombard the developer with all your "advertising" inquiries. 📧🎉
https://baselashraf81.github.io/eigendrum/ #innovation #creativity #sounddesign #arttech #amateurgeometry #HackerNews #ngated -
🎨🥁 A groundbreaking innovation: draw random squiggles, and voilà, you have a "drum"! Because who doesn't want to listen to the sweet, sweet sounds of amateur geometry? 🤔✨ Oh, and don't forget to bombard the developer with all your "advertising" inquiries. 📧🎉
https://baselashraf81.github.io/eigendrum/ #innovation #creativity #sounddesign #arttech #amateurgeometry #HackerNews #ngated -
Eigendrum - Draw any shape and hear what it sounds like as a drum
https://baselashraf81.github.io/eigendrum/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49246366
#HackerNews #Eigendrum #sound #design #music #technology #creativity #interactive #drumming
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Eigendrum - Draw any shape and hear what it sounds like as a drum
https://baselashraf81.github.io/eigendrum/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49246366
#HackerNews #Eigendrum #sound #design #music #technology #creativity #interactive #drumming
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How to Stay Creative in the Age of AI (Without Losing Your Voice)
https://www.acumentor.co/how-to-stay-creative-in-the-age-of-ai/
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How to Stay Creative in the Age of AI (Without Losing Your Voice)
https://www.acumentor.co/how-to-stay-creative-in-the-age-of-ai/
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How to Stay Creative in the Age of AI (Without Losing Your Voice)
https://www.acumentor.co/how-to-stay-creative-in-the-age-of-ai/
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How to Stay Creative in the Age of AI (Without Losing Your Voice)
https://www.acumentor.co/how-to-stay-creative-in-the-age-of-ai/
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A taste of some local urban graffiti.
#photography #blackAndWhite #fujifilm #monochrome #creativity #blogging #journal #Canberra
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A taste of some local urban graffiti.
#photography #blackAndWhite #fujifilm #monochrome #creativity #blogging #journal #Canberra
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MODEL AEROPLANES & GOLF – A Similarity — A SHORT STORY
MODEL AEROPLANES & GOLF A Similarity A SHORT STORY by Jeff Nisley There is a quiet magic shared between the fairway and the flight line, a space where patience, precision, and a touch of luck determine the outcome. Whether you are lining up a perfect putt or trimming a rubber-powered model for maximum glide, you are engaging in a dance of cause and effect that has captivated enthusiasts for generations. Both pursuits demand an intimate understanding of the elements, a steady hand, and the […] -
musicians who still
musicians who still
#art #artists #beauty #create #creative #creatives #creativity #dailyPost #everyNowAndThen #haiku #humanNature #indispensable #music #musician #musicians #poem #poetry #postaday #still #time
music every now and then –
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musicians who still
musicians who still
#art #artists #beauty #create #creative #creatives #creativity #dailyPost #everyNowAndThen #haiku #humanNature #indispensable #music #musician #musicians #poem #poetry #postaday #still #time
music every now and then –
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🎶 Oh joy, another groundbreaking innovation: draw a shape and it somehow becomes a "real drum" 🎨🥁. Because what the world truly needs is a website dedicated to turning your #doodles into questionable percussion sounds. Just a tip, Basel Ashraf: maybe spend less time on "canonical URLs" and more time on making something people actually care about. 🙄💥
https://eigendrum.com/#p=circle #innovation #creativity #techhumor #drumming #HackerNews #ngated -
🎶 Oh joy, another groundbreaking innovation: draw a shape and it somehow becomes a "real drum" 🎨🥁. Because what the world truly needs is a website dedicated to turning your #doodles into questionable percussion sounds. Just a tip, Basel Ashraf: maybe spend less time on "canonical URLs" and more time on making something people actually care about. 🙄💥
https://eigendrum.com/#p=circle #innovation #creativity #techhumor #drumming #HackerNews #ngated -
I made another poster. GOOSE CREEK HOLLER. MONEY. MOUNTAINS. MURDER. Legal thrills in the heart of Appalachia. #mastodon #mastoArt #books #bookstodon #booksky #bookReview #book #poster #postADay #post #ad #advertising #ads #writing #author #august #authorLife #authors #writingCommunity #writers #writer #productivity #pro #promotion #socialmedia #fediverse #worldBuilding #words #graphics #pictures #picture #novels #novel #fun #exhibition #selfPromo #indieAuthor #indieAuthors #indie #DailyCreate #creative #creativity #readingCommunity #reading #read #ebooks #ebook #paperbackCoverArt #paper #publishing #published #ProductLaunch #creek #rural #Appalachia #legal #attorney #law #lawsuit #lawyer #crimeFiction #suspense #thriller #mystery #hills #hidden #murder #mountains #money
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I made another poster. GOOSE CREEK HOLLER. MONEY. MOUNTAINS. MURDER. Legal thrills in the heart of Appalachia. #mastodon #mastoArt #books #bookstodon #booksky #bookReview #book #poster #postADay #post #ad #advertising #ads #writing #author #august #authorLife #authors #writingCommunity #writers #writer #productivity #pro #promotion #socialmedia #fediverse #worldBuilding #words #graphics #pictures #picture #novels #novel #fun #exhibition #selfPromo #indieAuthor #indieAuthors #indie #DailyCreate #creative #creativity #readingCommunity #reading #read #ebooks #ebook #paperbackCoverArt #paper #publishing #published #ProductLaunch #creek #rural #Appalachia #legal #attorney #law #lawsuit #lawyer #crimeFiction #suspense #thriller #mystery #hills #hidden #murder #mountains #money
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The BIG Type Festival,
“… a three-day celebration of #Print, #Typography, #Design and #Creativity … [to] mark the #Museum ’s 30th anniversary.”
📅 4–6 September 2026
📍 National Print Museum, #Dublinhttps://www.nationalprintmuseum.ie/whats-on/the-big-type-festival/
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The BIG Type Festival,
“… a three-day celebration of #Print, #Typography, #Design and #Creativity … [to] mark the #Museum ’s 30th anniversary.”
📅 4–6 September 2026
📍 National Print Museum, #Dublinhttps://www.nationalprintmuseum.ie/whats-on/the-big-type-festival/
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Because I feel it has to be said:
Thank you so much to all the artists out there.
For expressing things on our behalf that we don't know how to get out.
For reminding us what the human spirit is capable of.
For refusing to back down in the face of sprawling materialism that doesn't acknowledge anything beyond money.
For making life bearable.
And for doing so since the advent of mankind.
Much appreciated.
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Because I feel it has to be said:
Thank you so much to all the artists out there.
For expressing things on our behalf that we don't know how to get out.
For reminding us what the human spirit is capable of.
For refusing to back down in the face of sprawling materialism that doesn't acknowledge anything beyond money.
For making life bearable.
And for doing so since the advent of mankind.
Much appreciated.
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You spend eight hours a day under it.
You probably never think about it.
Until someone changes it.
Office lighting might affect your mood, concentration, creativity — and perhaps your general willingness to remain employed.
We went down the rabbit hole.
The Psychology of Office Lighting -
https://rabagas.ghost.io/the-psychology-of-office-lighting/#Rabagasmagazine #Psychology #OfficeLife #Workplace #Design #Architecture #Creativity #Productivity #HumanBehaviour
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You spend eight hours a day under it.
You probably never think about it.
Until someone changes it.
Office lighting might affect your mood, concentration, creativity — and perhaps your general willingness to remain employed.
We went down the rabbit hole.
The Psychology of Office Lighting -
https://rabagas.ghost.io/the-psychology-of-office-lighting/#Rabagasmagazine #Psychology #OfficeLife #Workplace #Design #Architecture #Creativity #Productivity #HumanBehaviour
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Decorated Envelope
#art #artist #crafts #handmade #creative #creativity #papercrafts -
Decorated Envelope
#art #artist #crafts #handmade #creative #creativity #papercrafts -
Why Music Theory Isn’t Boring
For many learners, the words “music theory” can sound intimidating. Some imagine pages filled with unfamiliar symbols, complicated rules, and endless memorization. As a result, they focus only on learning songs while avoiding the theory behind the music.
As a music instructor and mentor, I’ve discovered that this perception often changes once students understand what music theory really is.
Music theory isn’t about making music more complicated—it’s about making music easier to understand.
Think of it as learning the language of music. Just as reading and writing help us communicate effectively, music theory helps us understand how music works and why it sounds the way it does.
- Music Theory Helps You Learn Faster:
Instead of memorizing every song from scratch, music theory helps you recognize patterns, chord progressions, scales, and rhythms. The more you understand these building blocks, the easier it becomes to learn new music.
Knowledge reduces guesswork.
- It Builds Musical Confidence:
When you understand keys, chords, intervals, and rhythm, you rely less on trial and error. You become more confident during rehearsals, performances, and collaborations with other musicians.
Confidence grows with understanding.
- It Improves Creativity:
Music theory doesn’t limit creativity—it expands it.
Whether you’re composing, arranging, improvising, or producing music, theory gives you the tools to transform musical ideas into reality. It helps you understand why certain sounds create excitement, peace, tension, or resolution.
Creativity flourishes when it’s supported by knowledge.
- It Makes Communication Easier:
Imagine rehearsing with a band or choir where everyone understands musical terms such as key, tempo, time signature, modulation, or crescendo.
Music theory creates a common language that helps musicians communicate clearly and work together efficiently.
- It Strengthens Every Musical Skill:
Whether you’re a singer, pianist, guitarist, drummer, violinist, saxophonist, choir member, worship leader, or producer, music theory strengthens your overall musicianship.
It sharpens your ear, improves sight-reading, enhances improvisation, and deepens your understanding of music.
Final Thought
Music theory is not an obstacle to creativity—it is a bridge to greater musical freedom.
The more you understand the language of music, the more confidently you can perform, teach, compose, arrange, and collaborate with others.
Don’t study music theory simply to pass an examination. Study it because every concept you learn gives you another tool to express your musical ideas with clarity and confidence.
The best musicians don’t just know what to play—they understand why and how it works.
Reflection
Which area of music theory would make the biggest difference in your musical journey if you took time to understand it better?
“Music theory doesn’t take the joy out of music—it unlocks the understanding behind it. The more you understand the language of music, the more confidently you can speak it.” — Victor Adenola
#art #band #benefits #choir #churchchoir #creativity #music #musicDirector #musicLanguage #MusicLessons #Musicbasics #musicians #SATB #singer #singers #singersgospelSingers #Victoradenola #VoiceScore #voicecoach -
Why Music Theory Isn’t Boring
For many learners, the words “music theory” can sound intimidating. Some imagine pages filled with unfamiliar symbols, complicated rules, and endless memorization. As a result, they focus only on learning songs while avoiding the theory behind the music.
As a music instructor and mentor, I’ve discovered that this perception often changes once students understand what music theory really is.
Music theory isn’t about making music more complicated—it’s about making music easier to understand.
Think of it as learning the language of music. Just as reading and writing help us communicate effectively, music theory helps us understand how music works and why it sounds the way it does.
- Music Theory Helps You Learn Faster:
Instead of memorizing every song from scratch, music theory helps you recognize patterns, chord progressions, scales, and rhythms. The more you understand these building blocks, the easier it becomes to learn new music.
Knowledge reduces guesswork.
- It Builds Musical Confidence:
When you understand keys, chords, intervals, and rhythm, you rely less on trial and error. You become more confident during rehearsals, performances, and collaborations with other musicians.
Confidence grows with understanding.
- It Improves Creativity:
Music theory doesn’t limit creativity—it expands it.
Whether you’re composing, arranging, improvising, or producing music, theory gives you the tools to transform musical ideas into reality. It helps you understand why certain sounds create excitement, peace, tension, or resolution.
Creativity flourishes when it’s supported by knowledge.
- It Makes Communication Easier:
Imagine rehearsing with a band or choir where everyone understands musical terms such as key, tempo, time signature, modulation, or crescendo.
Music theory creates a common language that helps musicians communicate clearly and work together efficiently.
- It Strengthens Every Musical Skill:
Whether you’re a singer, pianist, guitarist, drummer, violinist, saxophonist, choir member, worship leader, or producer, music theory strengthens your overall musicianship.
It sharpens your ear, improves sight-reading, enhances improvisation, and deepens your understanding of music.
Final Thought
Music theory is not an obstacle to creativity—it is a bridge to greater musical freedom.
The more you understand the language of music, the more confidently you can perform, teach, compose, arrange, and collaborate with others.
Don’t study music theory simply to pass an examination. Study it because every concept you learn gives you another tool to express your musical ideas with clarity and confidence.
The best musicians don’t just know what to play—they understand why and how it works.
Reflection
Which area of music theory would make the biggest difference in your musical journey if you took time to understand it better?
“Music theory doesn’t take the joy out of music—it unlocks the understanding behind it. The more you understand the language of music, the more confidently you can speak it.” — Victor Adenola
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The Blue Screen of Death
An overreliance on technology means that invariably a writer will be left hanging when said technology breaks. I have become so used to the screen that I spent the last several days moping around, unable to work on my latest novel.
My plethora of notebooks is a testament to how I used to write. Why is it so difficult for me to write without technology now? Pencils break, but there is always a pencil sharpener.
And another pencil.
Ink pens run out of ink, but I have plenty more in reserve. Paper never breaks. It can brown or get damaged, but I’ve had these notebooks for a LONG time.
So it is a reminder to me that while technology is a helpful tool, it can also be a handicap.
I put pen to paper.
Lesson learned.
Maybe.
August 13, 2015
#analogWriting #Blog #ComputersAndTechnology #creativeDiscipline #CreativeProcess #Creativity #digitalTools #handwriting #lessonsLearned #notebooks #penAndPaper #Productivity #resilience #screenFatigue #Simplicity #Technology #technologyDependence #tools #Words #writerSBlock #Writing #writingHabits #writingLife -
The Blue Screen of Death
An overreliance on technology means that invariably a writer will be left hanging when said technology breaks. I have become so used to the screen that I spent the last several days moping around, unable to work on my latest novel.
My plethora of notebooks is a testament to how I used to write. Why is it so difficult for me to write without technology now? Pencils break, but there is always a pencil sharpener.
And another pencil.
Ink pens run out of ink, but I have plenty more in reserve. Paper never breaks. It can brown or get damaged, but I’ve had these notebooks for a LONG time.
So it is a reminder to me that while technology is a helpful tool, it can also be a handicap.
I put pen to paper.
Lesson learned.
Maybe.
August 13, 2015
#analogWriting #Blog #ComputersAndTechnology #creativeDiscipline #CreativeProcess #Creativity #digitalTools #handwriting #lessonsLearned #notebooks #penAndPaper #Productivity #resilience #screenFatigue #Simplicity #Technology #technologyDependence #tools #Words #writerSBlock #Writing #writingHabits #writingLife -
#ICYMI: Kimberly McElhatten did yoga at age 3—before ballet, before mindfulness, before she had words for any of it.
What it gave her wasn't calm. It was posture. Shoulders back. Spine aligned. The projection of confidence before she ever felt it inside.
"What a gift as a young woman to be confident in my body and how it occupied space."
🎧 Listen: https://tinyurl.com/yogascussion20
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#ICYMI: Kimberly McElhatten did yoga at age 3—before ballet, before mindfulness, before she had words for any of it.
What it gave her wasn't calm. It was posture. Shoulders back. Spine aligned. The projection of confidence before she ever felt it inside.
"What a gift as a young woman to be confident in my body and how it occupied space."
🎧 Listen: https://tinyurl.com/yogascussion20
