Like most fans of Alan Moore's graphic novel Watchmen, I'm looking forward to the feature film version with a mixture of excitement and trepidation. One of the articles that caught my eye while …
What Family Guy Can Teach You About the
Business of Creativity
Family Guy. It’s crude, rude, and, according to its detractors… badly drawn. But the show has a rabid fan base that’s brought it back from the dead not once, but twice. And it’s the basis of a $2 …
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Why Thinking “Outside the Box” Doesn’t Work
'Think outside the box' is one of the biggest creativity cliches. The basic idea is that to be creative you need to challenge your own assumptions and look at things from a fresh angle. You need to …
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Do You Take Your Creative Rituals Seriously Enough?
Photo by EspartaWhat do the following people have in common? The Priestess of Apollo - Greece, 403 BC She has fasted for several days prior to the 7th of the month, which is sacred to her God. She …
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The Rise of the Creative Economy
In the last post we looked at the converging economic forces that make creativity a hot property in the 21st century. Mature economies such as the US, Europe, and Japan, which previously shifted from …