Keep the channels open
Advice from choreographer Martha Graham.
Creative Practice
No time for despair
Subtle Maneuvers x Oblique Strategies
how one feels when "...making something actually says very little about the quality of what one is making...”
Fredrik Backman on Creative Anxiety and Procrastination
At the Simon & Schuster centennial, author Fredrik Backman discusses the highs and lows of being an author, from attempting to get along with the voices in your brain, to the hidden joys of jet lag.
Learn more about Fredrik's book, THE WINNERS: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Winners/Fredrik-Backman/Beartown-Series/9781982112806
Celebrate our 100th anniversary with us: https://www.simonandschuster.com/p/simon-and-schuster-100th-anniversary
Watch more author highlights ►►https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-71r3OWGsTGaKXZIrM2GHRsLfdGkDU5I&si=keFF0VaGUrw37v1U
How Stuart Semple is working to democratise art education and creativity
We interviewed the leading British artist about how his free online school, innovative approach to paint manufacturing, and public projects are all helping transform the art world.
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Your brain on art with Ivy Ross and Susan Magsamen - ReThinking
As an organizational psychologist, Adam Grant believes that great minds don't think alike; they challenge each other to think differently. In Re:Thinking with Adam Grant, he has lively discussions and debates with some of the world's most interesting thinkers, creators, achievers, and leaders—from Lin-Manuel Miranda to Brené Brown to Mark Cuban, and Olympic medalists to Nobel laureates to Oscar winners. By diving inside their minds, Adam is on a mission to uncover bold insights and share surprising science that can make us all a little bit smarter. Tune in to Re:Thinking with Adam Grant. You might just be inspired to let go of some old ideas and embrace some new ones.
It’s not inside you trying to get out, it’s outside trying to get in - Austin Kleon
Tom Waits and Nick Cave on songwriting and how to get ideas.
Joyful persistence: my talk for the UBC School of Creative Writing graduation - Sarah Leavitt
For most of my life, my art-making, whether it was drawing, writing or making comics, felt painful and fraught. But now – most of the time – creative practice is something that steadies me, something I rely on to think and feel my way through the world. It’s a source of deep joy. I’m going to share some ideas with you today that have helped me make that shift.
Two kinds of attention: narrow and wide - Austin Kleon
Why my eclipse was a disappointment.
Create a collage in Pinterest
New feature!
Questions for technology
Ways to evaluate your tools and ways of doing things.
20 Creative Ways to Use Your Day One Journal
Beyond traditional journaling, Day One provides a creative way to document and organize the many different aspects of your life.
Dmitry Markov captured beauty amidst the brutality of Putin’s regime
The photographer, who has died aged 41, took the nation’s most vulnerable people as his subject, and his soulful images, shared on Instagram, earned him comparisons with the greats
Steal Strategies Online Deck
Based on Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies deck
Drawn From Life
Artist Janice Lowry's illustrated diaries record her history—and ours
An Exciting Time
On the Tension Between Making Art and Sharing It
It was not assumed they’d be eager to do AMAs on Goodreads or promos on Book-Tok.
But you don’t get to be famous by being a recluse anymore.
Through an insidious Darwinian winnowing over the last decades, most of the living writers you’ve heard of now tend to be of that freakish breed who take naturally to self-promotion and thrive on social media, like those newly evolved bacteria that eat plastic.
writing is a lonely, obsessive practice, favored by those types who prefer solitude, observation, and long, uninterrupted thoughts to celebrity, performance, and mouthing off on twitter.
It is an unavoidably fraught business, relinquishing a book you’ve been working on for years to the judgment of the public, even more so if your material is your own life
Like a lot of writers, Nell often feels at an involuntary remove from other people, like a researcher observing subjects from behind one-way glass, which can be an advantage as an artist, but is isolating and sad for a human being
I felt as if, by focusing on me as a person, readers fundamentally misunderstood what I was trying to do.
They’d already gotten the best aspect of me in my work; it was a fallacy to imagine that there’s more of the same to be found in the real-life person of me.
I had to not to care at all to keep from caring too much.
You beam your feeble radio signals out into the abyss and then, one morning, years later, the skies are full of starships.
Hermann Hesse on the two souls within us
Blue Period (TV Series 2021) ⭐ 7.7 | Animation, Drama
Netflix anime about a student trying to get into art school.
I research the therapeutic qualities of writing about art – here are three steps for trying it yourself
I want to help people without prior knowledge of art history write about issues that affect them – through the prism of an artwork.
Art advice with Beth Pickens
A chat about death, deadlines, and doing your art no matter what
15 qualities your Creativity needs from you NOW!
15 qualities your Creativity needs from you NOW!
Fierceness
Oh baby, do you need to be fierce! Think of your Creative spirit as the BESTEST-BEST part of you. You have to be tender, tough and determined to protect this precious being against all naysayers; especially thems that would h
Inside the Sketchbook of Lisa Takahashi - Jackson's Art Blog
Make your sketchbook practice your own!
Drawing A Life
Learning from Ruth Asawa's daily art practice, and her kitchen table
Discovering aphantasia - Austin Kleon
When you discover you don’t see pictures in your head.
Writer’s block is trying to tell you something - Austin Kleon
Lauren Groff and Joy Williams on block.
Be a good date - Austin Kleon
Injecting Personal Narrative Into Your Art
Will art sell when it's focused on the artist’s personal narrative? I discuss this question with Sara Lee Hughes, how she focuses on the long game, how she keeps her ideas, and the discipline she has to balance motherhood with her studio practice.
Artist Catalogs: Why You Need Them, What to Include, and How to Use
An artist catalog is physical documentation of your work at a specific moment in time, and all artists should use them. Include these items:
Sylvia Plath's Visual Notes
"As usual I take more time filling up space with crazy drawings."
Rick Rubin — Magic, Everyday Mystery, and Getting Creative - On Being with Krista Tippett
The flow and the ingredients by which an idea becomes an offering — and life practices which call that alchemy forth. The mystery of it all that can only be named and wondered at — and the ordinary mystery that creativity is a human birthright, a way of being rather than doing, that beckons to us all, in everything we do, from crafting something to conversing to the arranging of furniture in a room. This is where Krista goes with the rock star music producer Rick Rubin. It's not a conversation about the creative process of the many great musicians he's worked with — but a conversation that is for and about us all. There are some surprises, too, in his lovely, soothing voice — like the way he finds a metaphor for all of life in pro wrestling. And he leaves the doors of his studio wide open as they speak, so there is a soundtrack of ocean waves.