The Creative Class and Economic Development. The 100 Most Creative People in Business 2012. 99% Conference 2012: Key Takeaways On Making Ideas Happen (Pt. III) Baratunde Thurston onstage at the 99U Conference. Photo: Julian Mackler / MACKME.COM “I’m the type of dude that thinks I can do anything,” said Baratunde Thurston, the Director of Digital at The Onion and the bestselling author of How to Be Black. Wrapping up two days of serious insights, Thurston closed out the Conference with a hilarious recap of lessons learned. But he also shared a few gems of his own along the way. Just because you use tools doesn’t mean you’re actually building things. Sometimes we can get distracted from doing meaningful work by the busy work of getting over-organized, learning a new software, etc. Remember that using a product, or making a chart, doesn’t actually mean you’re accomplishing something – and keep your eye on the prize.Do or do not.
Scott Belsky onstage at the 99U Conference. Brain Pickings. The Most Artistic Cities in America - Arts & Lifestyle. Art Basel Miami Beach kicks into full gear this week, bringing nearly half a million people from across the globe to greater Miami. Art and design have played big roles in Miami’s revitalization, from South Beach’s restored Art Deco treasures to the more recent redevelopment of the Design District and the Wynwood Arts District, homes to galleries, private museum collections, bars and restaurants.
Art and culture are increasingly important components of urban redevelopment efforts everywhere. The National Endowment for the Arts embraces the connection in its pioneering ArtWorks slogan and strategy. But which U.S. cities and metros have the most extensive artistic communities? With the help of my Martin Prosperity Institute colleague Kevin Stolarick, I used data from the U.S. The list of the top metros with the largest number of artists largely follows population size, as you would expect.
Below, you'll find a slideshow of the top ten metro areas by this new measure: Is The US In A Phase Change To The Creative Economy? Ushering In the Creative Age - Chicago Policy Review. Alan Freeman writes that the age of creation lies before us—if we can rediscover the lost art of investing in humans. Alan Freeman was the principal economist in the Greater London Authority’s Economic Analysis Unit from 2001 to 2011, and now writes and advises on cultural policy. While with the GLA’s intelligence unit, he produced a series of reports that defined the field of measuring the cultural and creative industry activity of large cities.
These were Creativity: London’s Core Business, the first comprehensive study of London’s cultural and creative industries, five subsequent updates, and London: A Cultural Audit, a rigorous comparison of the cultural offer of London, Shanghai, Paris, New York and Tokyo. The ‘creative industries’, a term popularized by the 1997 British labor government, are a copywriters’ dream. Alan Freeman But these enticing ideas are disputable. Yet it’s a technology of a radically new type, in which labor, not machinery, is the driver of growth. A Chuck Close Museum in the New York City Subway. Admission: $2.50 | Think Tank. I kind of want to move to the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Actually, not really, but I may visit more often once the new 2nd Avenue Subway line is up and running in 2016. And that's because New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority Arts for Transit has made the uncommonly wise decision to commission murals from artists such as Chuck Close.
That means you can get admission to a world-class art museum for $2.50 (although there will most likely be at least one, if not several, fare hikes by 2016), which is still cheaper than the pay-what-you-wish Saturday evenings at the Guggenheim. And the lines are shorter. Some critics may see the reportedly $1 million commission as a frivolous expenditure. Watch the video here: Image courtesy of Shutterstock.