Food as Creative Inspiration

Marilyn Friedman serves gourmet foods to simulate writing and creativity. She is founder of Writing Pad, which offers classes on writing [text via KCRW Good Food]. I love the idea of using food as a way to break the ice. The Good Food article talks about how the food can stimulate ones muse. And its in Silverlake, I should go.

Visualizing and Abstraction

Now I didn't find these [I did, just not on my own]. It was first over at core77, then at notcot.org. It is one of the most fantastic videos I've seen in a while. Even more amazing is that its over thirty years old! I don't remember getting any of this when I was a kid in school. I did get something, that was more from my mom and her flash cards [I should go find those...]. As I recall, school just didn't encourage this enough. And by the time I was in high school it was pretty much left to the way side. Now I'm reminded of Sir Ken Robinson's speech. Now my mind is off and racing with ideas, I hope yours is too.

[Edit: Check out this great post at Presentation Zen on Sir Ken Robinson]

Grafische Visualisierung

I'm assuming that means graphic visualization, and that the topic of that visualization is interaction. I don't know German, so I can't say for sure. I just think the graphs looks beautiful, I can only hope that they're representing the information well. I could argue that it's not done well enough, or else I'd be able to understand it regardless of the language. This is just on the cusp of my understanding though, so I'll give it the benefit of the doubt...

That's how the post started out, until I discovered the little english button in the corner of the webpage. Haha. After reading the english summary of the goals and process execution I am very intrigued by the graphics from a different perspective. I enjoy the combination of human interpretation and machine automation side by side. The finer details of how they went about trying to represent the info was informative. It was also a bit to complex for me to internalize, and I'll have to reread it later on down the line.

image via munterbund.de

James Turrell

I went with my Illumination and Lighting Class out to Pomona College yesterday. We were there to see the amazing James Turrell Exhibit, Dividing the Light. It is completely indescribable. I could spend a million words attempting to relate to you the feeling of being in his space. Being there in person for one second says more than all of those words though.

I literally walked into the space and my jaw dropped. Its a cross between the feeling of walking in San Francisco fog, the final scene in Millenium, and eating fresh blueberries.

Get Inspired

Sir Ken Robinson is the most well spoken and inspiring speaker I've ever experienced. I saw him speak at Connecting 07 and was blown away. I wasn't the only one who thought so, because he got a standing ovation. The energy he exudes when speaking is worth seeing him in person. If you haven't seen him yet, watch this video.