Posts Tagged ‘ creativity ’

A few years ago, during the brief time when I thought maybe I shouldn't work in crafts and creativity and was instead working at a tech startup, I had the pleasure of having coffee with Alexandra Samuel. She's a powerhouse thinker about social media – not in a slimy soc-med way, but in an intelligent,...
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Remember this, people. With a couple of important yet not universally applicable exceptions, you cannot control what others do with your work. The minute it escapes your possession, your work will be interpreted, judged, manipulated and sometimes downright defiled by people you don’t even know. One day I'll tell you the story of how Greg reacted...
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My mind is still reeling after the Hello Etsy conference last weekend, and I'll be writing quite a bit about it in coming days. Etsy has put several of the talks from a variety of conference venues up on Livestream, and there's a wealth of solid, inspiring, thought-provoking information in them. As I write...
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I've deleted this post a half dozen times, because I'm not sure there's a good way to say this thing I'm fairly desperate to say. Maybe this will do it. Dear crafts, For the last few months, I've felt like I've been unfaithful to you. I've been thinking of myself as a maker. I know this comes as...
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Have I mentioned that I'm getting back into Mighty Ugly? Since I'm back to, you know, fairly full cognitive functioning now that Owen's almost six months old, I'm back to thinking a lot more about my favourite project. Something that excites me very much is that Mighty Ugly will be at one of Portland's Etsy...
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Over at Make and Meaning today, Diane posted a video of Jamie Oliver talking about the mission he's on to use his creativity as a chef (and the visibility he's gained) to educate people about food so they can live more healthfully. It's an outstanding talk, well worth twenty minutes of your time. Diane asks, What...
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A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of talking with Sister Diane of Craftypod and Brenda Dayne of Cast On for their amazing—and wonderfully different—podcasts. If this is your first visit to my blog, please take a look around and write a comment to say hello. Subscribe to the blog (link in the top-right)...
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Over at Lateral Action (a new-to-me blog I've now subscribed to), Mark McGuinness posted this video of choreographer Twyla Tharp talking about motivation and failure in creative pursuits. I'm most taken with what she says about doing what you love and having the money follow. However counterintuitive it might seem, this is one of the...
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So, that interview with Joss Whedon, eh? Yeah, that was a major rush. As I've said before, I am not a fangirl. I've never been a fangirl—of anything. In fact, my default is usually to distance myself from anything other people are compelled to shriek or swoon over. No boy bands in my youth;...
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