Inspirations

One page at a time — in order. He figures he’ll be finished in March 2011.  Go see.

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“Messages in bottles, smoke signals, letters written in the sand; the modern equivalents are the funny, sad, beautiful, hopeful, hopeless, poetic posts on Missed Connections websites. Every day hundreds of strangers reach out to other strangers on the strength of a glance, a smile or a blue hat. Their messages have the lifespan of a butterfly. [Stephanie Blackall] is trying to pin a few of them down.” [visit Missed Connections]

The messages and Stephanie’s wonderful illustrations make great writing prompts!

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The world's most beautiful libararies.Sansovino

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Card1945-380x230 "Might as well own this meltdown" ~ Jean Hagy's Indexed.

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A New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Agency employee is celebrated by semicolon lovers.

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Post-Workshop Collaboration

April 10, 2008

After learning about non-western forms in Susan Lilley’s Poetry Alchemy 2 workshop, participants collaborated on a renga via email. In times past, Samurais would hold long renga sessions into the night, fueled by frequent sips of sake. A completed renga typically covers all four seasons and lasts about fifty stanzas. Our more economical, 14-stanza version [...]

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this is your brain on jazz

March 3, 2008

Here’s a study of jazz musicians  that tells us during improvisation their "brains turn off areas linked to self-censoring and inhibition, and turn on those that let self-expression flow" so that creating is about "shutting down impulses that might impede the flow of novel ideas" We already knew that, eh? But it’s interesting to read [...]

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Scrumptious

September 12, 2007

I could get lost on the Book by its Cover site for a very long time. And have.

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The Sad Song Video

July 25, 2007

Made up of 15 second jpg movies. Imagine what it took to layer and edit this all together into a thing of beauty. And then there it is posted on the Intenet without fanfare for anyone to discover and enjoy. For those reasons Fredo Viola’s Sad Song Video makes me happy.

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Jazz and Writing

July 9, 2007

I love novelist Haruki Murakami’s  New York Times essay about the influence of jazz on his writing and rhythm, melody, harmony and improvisation in both arts. He says "Practically everything I know about writing, then, I learned from music."

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How to be Creative

March 19, 2007

I love this video. It’s a spinoff from How to be Creative by Hugh Macleod. The image is from his cartoons drawn on the back of business cards site.

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