Creativity

May 22, 2025

Curating The Week: Experience In The Digital Age, Swing Changes And Teachers, Social Media Art, Narrative Warfare

“It feels as if the whole world has been transformed into images of the world and has thus been drawn into the human realm, which now encompasses everything. There is no place, no thing, no person or phenomenon that I cannot obtain as image or information. One might think this adds substance to the world, Continue reading

Curating The Week

AI, art, Creativity, education, teaching
March 21, 2025

Curating The Week: The Serum Synthesizer, Insight, Being A Media Theorist

“What you want is some sort of motor memory—sort of like what makes a QUERTY keyboard great is that you know where the W key is without having to look down. So with Serum there’s a bit of that same concept—you want to know where things are without having to analyze too much. I think Continue reading

Curating The Week

Creativity, psychology
September 3, 2014

Notes On Ed Catmull’s “Creativity, Inc.”

“The uncreated is a vast, empty space” – Ed Catmull Ed Catmull’s Creativity, Inc. is a memoir that explores and analyzes the history and creative life of Pixar, the American computer animation company. Catmull, one of the founders of Pixar, its current president, and an accomplished computer scientist, untangles the complex business of how to Continue reading

book reviews, Creativity

Creativity, Ed Catmull, Inc., Pixar
June 16, 2014

On Philippe Petit’s “Creativity: The Perfect Crime”

“When is something worth pursuing? I think when the outcome advances the efforts of humanity.” – Philippe Petit In his recent book, Creativity: the perfect crime, Philippe Petit reveals the elements, flows, techniques, and routines of his very long career as an artist. Petit is high-wire walker, juggler, magician, lock-picker, and all around street entertainer, Continue reading

Creativity

Creativity, David Abram, Philippe Petit

Thomas Brett is a musician and writer who holds a PhD in ethnomusicology from New York University. He is the author of Principles of Electronic Music Production and The Creative Electronic Music Producer, a book described by Sound On Sound magazine as “a deep philosophical analysis of the various creative inspirations, ideas and processes involved in producing electronic music.” His essays have appeared in the journals Popular Music and Popular Music and Society, as well as edited collections by Routledge, Oxford, and Cambridge University presses. Thomas has played percussion on Broadway since 1997 and writes about music at brettworks.com.

Creativity

Curating The Week: Experience In The Digital Age, Swing Changes And Teachers, Social Media Art, Narrative Warfare

Curating The Week: The Serum Synthesizer, Insight, Being A Media Theorist

Notes On Ed Catmull’s “Creativity, Inc.”

On Philippe Petit’s “Creativity: The Perfect Crime”