Best Poetry Books of All Time. It’s National Poetry Month, and you’re probably thinking: “I should really read more poetry. But where oh where do I start?” Well, sound the trumpets, because here is Flavorwire to the rescue! After the jump, you’ll find a list of 50 essential books of poetry that pretty much everyone should read. There’s something for everybody here, from the deeply established canonical works to riveting, important books by newer poets, from the Romantics to the post-modernists, from the goofy to the staid. Lighthead, Terrance Hayes Hayes is a people’s poet, writing about pop culture and race and masculinity and humanity, with whip-smart attention and playful, exuberant lines that pop and puzzle and give it to you straight and give it to you on the sly. Rules and models destroy genius and art. - William Hazlitt at Lifehack Quotes. Rules and models destroy genius and art. - William Hazlitt at Lifehack Quotes.
How to Take Sunset Photos Like a Professional. Become A Pro Comedian | Learn Stand-up Comedy. The Abnormal Psychology of Creativity. Music Touches Us Emotionally Where Words Alone Can't. Feeding Diddy’s Art Addiction: How Maria Brito Buys Art for Celebrites. Police hunted down the prostitute accused of watching a Google exec overdose—and found a trail of dead and damaged men in her past. The detectives from the Santa Cruz police department could see an unmistakable injection mark in the arm of the deceased Google executive. But the detectives could see no drugs and no syringe on the yacht where 51-year-old Forrest Timothy Hayes had been found dead from a heroin overdose.
What the detectives did see was a pair of wine glasses on a table. They also noted that somebody appeared to have straightened up the cabin. “There was another person in the room, obviously,” Deputy Chief Steve Clark of the Santa Cruz Police later said. The body had been discovered on the floor of the main cabin by the captain, who had been retained by Hayes after he purchased the 50-foot powerboat. The captain tried to say all the cameras were functional except for the one in the cabin where the body was found.
“It happens to be the only one not working,” Clark says. The Benefit of Starting a Creative Circle. We are most alive when we're in love. - John Updike. We are most alive when we’re in love. – John Updike Love this article? Share it with your friends on Facebook Love this article? Get more stuff like this in your inbox You may also like We are most alive when we're in love. - John Updike 86 Shares Say “I love you” to your loved ones as often as possible. 96 Shares If you want to Succeed you should Strike out on New Paths. - John D. 104 Shares A Successful Marriage requires Falling in Love Many Times. - Mignon McLaughlin 64 Shares Love is our True Destiny. - Thomas Merton 76 Shares To Fear Love is to Fear Life. - Bertrand Russell 75 Shares Let us never negotiate out of fear. 54 Shares Forgiveness Is The Best Form Of Love 44 Shares How to Overcome A Heartbreak?
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So, was one of the most creative minds of our time onto something, or was he just a turtleneck-wearing stoner who happened to be a genius? We work in a creative industry. Our success depends on our ability to generate exciting ideas and fresh campaigns, to adapt to various budgets, resources, and constraints. That’s why we’re always looking for an edge. A lot of them are smoking weed. I’m not suggesting we swap out our coffee machine for a vaporizer or turn the supply closet into a green room, but I do think it’s an interesting debate.
So, without debating the politics or the economics of the sticky icky—or even the moral implications—I want to explore the issue on a deeper level. The Science and Neuroscience We’re not the first ones to ask this question, obviously. The High and Creative Summary. Exclusive: James Franco's Next Movie Is About Race in the NBA. David Shields’ 1999 book Black Planet follows Shields as he covers the 1994-1995 Seattle Supersonics and attempts to address the “white guilt and white voyeurism and white homosexual panic” pervasive in the team's coverage. It’s regarded as one of the best basketball books ever written—and it’s now one of James Franco’s next film projects. Shields, Franco, and co-writer Michael Logan have adapted Black Planet for the screen. After its release in 1999, the New York Times called it a “risky and brilliant” look at the struggle to have a real conversation about race in pro sports.
Now, after the Donald Sterling controversy, Shields and Franco think it has new life. Franco will direct the film and co-star in it with Shields, who says shooting will start around September. Esquire talked to Shields about how the film came about after the book’s 15th year on the shelf and 20 years since the 1994 Sonics, plus about the changing cultural conversation about LeBron James and free agency in the NBA. Does modern art hate religion?
For centuries, the church was a powerful force that shaped art – but this has changed. Alastair Sooke explores what the future holds. It is often said that art galleries today are the new cathedrals – places that people visit to replenish the spirit in a secular age. But for many centuries, cathedrals functioned in the manner of art galleries. Walk into any cathedral in Western Europe, and you will discover countless examples of beautiful art works, from intricate wooden carvings and metalwork to moving marble sculptures and exquisite painted altarpieces. “After Classical antiquity, Christianity became the predominant power shaping European culture,” explains Jennifer Sliwka, curator of art and religion at the National Gallery in London. In galleries of modern art, however, the proportion of works treating Christian subjects is much smaller.
Shock doctrines Yet contemporary artists who wish to make less critical art about Christianity are not the endangered species you might think. Do TEDx: How Empathy Fuels the Creative Process | Art. 29 ways to jumpstart your creativity (video) Do alcohol and pot really make you more creative? It depends. Creative artists have used mind-altering substances from time immemorial. The first evidence of fermented beverages was found in a 9000-year-old archaeological site in China, alongside some of the oldest intact musical instruments. Naturally. In modern times, it's hard to imagine American culture without booze and pot — from Louis Armstrong, a prolific marijuana smoker, to Ernest Hemingway and F.
Scott Fitzgerald, heroic drinkers both. But how do alcohol and pot actually affect create the creative mind? Dr. “When your alcohol level first starts to rise,” she says, “the first thing that it inhibits is some of the inhibitory systems... But this isn't necessarily a bad thing. Jason White, a Nashville-based singer-songwriter and whiskey connoisseur, would agree. “I make a point of trying not to drink before the cocktail hour,” he says. But here’s a funny thing: White's biggest success wasn't written while he was drinking. Dr. So how do alcohol and marijuana compare? Dr. Study: Narcissists Only Think They’re Especially Creative - Julie Beck. Narcissistic people do undertake more creative things, but their correlation with self-reported creativity is disproportionately strong.
Problem: Most any sort of creative work ultimately involves a certain amount of narcissism, unless you immediately lock it in a drawer upon completion and never show it to another living soul or speak a word about it ever. Producing things for consumption means you think you made something worthy of being consumed. (Not that you shouldn’t think that; confidence, believe in yourself, etc.) But the question that researchers are looking at in a recent study published in Thinking Skills and Creativity is whether that works in reverse—are narcissistic people naturally more creative? Methodology: A diverse group of 207 people took an assessment about what creative activities, such as choreographic a dance or writing a poem, they’d done in the past year. Study of the Day: Why Crowded Coffee Shops Fire Up Your Creativity - Hans Villarica.
Watch "Inspiring Creativity," A Short Film About Creative Thinking and Behaviors. Bob Dylan’s ‘Da Vinci Code’ Revealed. Researchers say they’ve uncovered more than 1,000 items lifted from other authors in Dylan’s ‘Chronicles.’ And that’s just the beginning. For half a century, fans of rock’s enigmatic poet laureate have picked apart his words—and even his garbage—searching relentlessly for hidden meaning. Now a small band of Dylan sleuths led by an Albuquerque disc jockey may finally have found the key…but, to what?
In recent years, the singer’s followers have been quietly uncovering clues to what New Mexico DJ Scott Warmuth calls Bob Dylan’s own personal “Da Vinci Code,” a hidden metatext within his acclaimed 2004 memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, full of fabrication, allusion, and widespread appropriation of material from a vast and surprising spectrum of sources. “If you’re dumb enough to believe this is like a student plagiarizing a paper in school, that’s your own problem.” “There are a couple of different reactions to it,” Kinney told The Daily Beast. “You can’t repeat the past.” Documentary following year in James Franco's life nears completion | Film. A documentary following a year in the life of James Franco is nearing completion according to The Wrap, after it began shooting in June last year.
From first-time director Lisa Vangellow, Franco: A Documentary will follow both Franco's professional and personal life, and will apparently feature Franco's actor friend Seth Rogen as well as the director of New York's Museum of Modern Art, Klaus Biesenbach. Vangellow certainly hasn't been short of material in the last year. On the professional side, Franco made his Broadway debut in Of Mice and Men alongside Chris O'Dowd, saw his short story Palo Alto get adapted into a film by Gia Coppola in which he also starred, become the head of an acting school, and starred in Playtime, artist Isaac Julien's seven-screen meditation on commerce. He also completed his film Interior. There's also been some personal controversy, much of it centred around his Instagram account. Elizabeth Gilbert: Is Creativity Divinely Inspired? Pin It Regular readers of Lateral Action will know we’re pretty sceptical about the idea of creative genius.
You’ve probably noticed we preach a gospel of creativity-as-hard-work rather than the proverbial flash of inspiration. We’ve looked at creators such as Michelangelo, Kurt Cobain, Charles Darwin, David Bowie, Shakespeare and Stanley Kubrick, and shown how their apparently effortless genius can be traced to hard work, craft skills, effective business models and eccentric habits. So when writer Elizabeth Gilbert takes the stage at TED and starts spouting a version of creativity based on supernatural genius and divine inspiration, you can expect squawks of protest from Lateral Action. Wrong. This is one of the most inspiring and practical talks I’ve seen about creativity for a long time.
After years of working at her craft and enjoying steady but unspectacular success, Gilbert’s last book, Eat, Pray, Love became, in her words ‘this big mega-sensation international bestseller thing’: Can Depression Help Us Be More Creative? Part 3. “The creative process shrivels in the absence of continual dialogue with the soul. And creativity is what makes life worth living.” That is a quote by Jungian analyst and author Marion Woodman, from my post Spirituality and Creative Expression, which also includes quotes by Julia Cameron and others. [This post is a continuation from Part 2.] Spiritual insights Author Tom Wootton has written about his experiences with depression, and says, “I have begun to gain tremendous insight into many things, including my spiritual life.
It is in the spiritual sense that I have really begun to see that depression can be a great thing.” From his article The Art of Seeing Depression. He is author of several books including The Bipolar Advantage. A creative cognitive style In a New York Times article, Jonah Lehrer writes that neuroscientist Nancy Andreasen “argues that depression is intertwined with a “cognitive style” that makes people more likely to produce successful works of art. Dr. Resources Articles: Using Research to Enhance Creative Thinking - Part 2. In Part 1 of this post, I mentioned two articles that refer to multiple research studies; here are more excerpts from those articles, plus additional material.
In “The science of creativity,” Amy Novotney notes a study at Harvard Medical School in which creativity researchers suggest sleeping on a problem. Psychologist Deirde Barrett, PhD “asked her students to imagine a problem they were trying to solve before going to sleep and found that they were able to come up with novel solutions in their dreams. “In the study, published in Dreaming (Vol. 3, No. 2), half of the participants reported having dreams that addressed their chosen problems, and a quarter came up with solutions in their dreams.” “We’re in a different biochemical state when we’re dreaming, and that’s why I think dreams can be so helpful anytime we’re stuck in our usual mode of thinking,” Barrett says.
Also see my earlier post More Daydreaming, More Creativity. Collaboration – or not Bilingualism and multilingualism Step away. The consciouse (elective) journey into creativity. The consciously elected journey into exploring creativity really started when the author chose to relinquished his position as the Acting Director of the Office of Research, Development and Testing Facilities at the US Department of Energy, to become a senior technical advisor to the office director of a newly formed engineering support group. It was through that decision that he place himself into the situation he had both the time and workplace flexibility to study creativity both organizationally and on the individual level. The journey started as an exploration of creativity in the work place but as discussed here it evolved into and exploration of our inherent creativity.
Yet, this only makes sense for people lie at the heart of any organization and the individual’s creative spirit lies at the heart of each individual. Decision making and the issue managers faced in decision making was not new to the author. The next step Subconscious journey into creativity Top.