Halloween weekend in Ashville, NC, it’s MoogFest! Moogfest – the annual event honoring the remarkable vision of Robert Moog and his amazing musical inventions that changed the course of music – is reinventing itself. This year, moogfest 2010 will move from New York City to Asheville, NC – the place Bob Moog called home for […]
The folks at iFeelBeta.de have created a chemical formula that will dissolve 3D-extruded PLA but leaves ABS alone. This is critical because it allows you to print a fabject with overhangs: you use the PLA as a support structure during the print, and when done you dissolve it. Now all we need are dual-extruder printers! […]
Life-size monopoly house translation below… An Te Liu is 1967 in Tainan, Taiwan to the world. Prior to his artistic career, he studied architecture and art history. Today he lives and works in Toronto, Canada. His installations and sculptures are concerned mostly with the themes of cleanness, safety and functionality. They are often made of […]
These candy corn Jell-O bites from the Jelly Shot Test Kitchen are clever, fun and visually appealing. Plus, they sound darn tasty. Aren’t they cute? Yummy too – a creamsicle-like concoction of orange jello and a sweetened condensed milk based gelatin – so creamy and good! Yum, indeed! [via @shavingkit] More: Aspic Ascension: Jell-O Mold […]
A big congratulations to Kelly from Santa Cruz, CA for winning a signed copy of Crafty Chica’s novel, Waking Up in the Land of Glitter and an advanced reader copy of her second novel, Miss Scarlett’s School of Patternless Sewing from our recent giveaway. Thanks to everyone who entered.
Whatever else may be said of me, I am fundamentally a dreamer: I have ideas. Lots of them. Most are terrible (ask me sometime about my scheme to potty-train cattle), but every so often one will work out. And, like many creative people, when others see my work I often get asked “How did you ever think of that?” When I was younger, the process was as mysterious to me as to anybody else. But over the years I’ve learned a lot about where my ideas come from and what to do with them when they pop up, and the more I read about and talk to other creative people, the more I come to believe that there are, in fact, some more-or-less universal principles of creativity. And while there will always be something mysterious in the workings of the muse, I do not subscribe to the common belief that creativity is a magical gift bestowed on some and not on others. Like drawing, doing algebra, or speaking a second language, having original ideas is a mental skill that can be developed and, with practice, can become second nature. What follows is a brief list of the stations on my own personal “assembly line” of ideas. If you need an idea and can’t seem to have one, give it a read, give it a try, and see what shakes loose. If it works for you, remember it; if it doesn’t, throw it away. Experiment, as always, and develop your own process.
