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"Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while." - Steeve Jobs

"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves." - Carl Gustav Yung

The picture on a stand that I've used in this composition is Chinese hand-made silk embroidery. Have you ever seen such a beautiful painting on a piece of silk satin? Just imagine embroidering such a delicate fugure with the threads and needles! But such an exquisite embroidery has been one of China's most famous art forms for many centuries. The first response people normally have when they see Chinese silk embroidered pictures (embroidery picture, needle painting or thread painting as some people would call) is that they don't believe they are hand embroidered.

Chinese embroidery paintings are well known for its rich colors comparable to an oil painting and realism comparable to photography.

To create a high quality piece, an artist needs to split a single silk thread into several thinner threads and embroider layer after layer with threads of a variety of colors to reach the final wonderful effect. One top quality silk embroidery work usually uses millions of silk threads of hundreds of different colors, taking more than one year to complete.

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Featuring a 38,082 pieces LEGO Artwork! Set atop a wooden board made out of LEGO tiles, as well as stationaries and tabletop decorations to emphasize the creative aspect of the artwork. ​​​​​​ The abtract design in the center does not imply a distinct message, but designed to invoke the flow of thoughts, ideas, concepts, and imaginations that run through our minds everyday!

Notes: The work done here is not desgined to be a actual LEGO structure, but more of an art form. Though there are no illegal building techniques going on here, not every part is actually attached to another brick. Some plates are just placed down and balanced because of certain limitations, but mostly for the sake of design.

ps: Everything you see in the image is made purely out of LEGO element. Enjoy. (It also made it as a runner up :D)

By B.Cox, 2016

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Marin says, "I am so happy to play with my toy bug which has plastic wings!"

memories, memories, memories...

thanks for stopping by

and God Bless,

hugs, Chris

The city overflows with creativity. Forged by traditions and customs, the city of Oaxaca is also defined by its inventive capacity, reflected in its streets, in art, and in its gastronomy. Knowing its challenges and challenges, Oaxacans have become dynamic thinkers, creators and actors of projects that bring unity and resilience to the city.

Creativity is seeing what everyone else has seen, and thinking what no one else has thought.

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Creativity is intelligence having fun!

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Chronicles of Lifting Light

There is a certain daring “edge” in acting out a role-playing game on a partner(s) in public, especially if (in our case) one favors Jewel thievery Games.

It’s a certain adrenaline thrill, both addictive and desirable, that increases up until the “mark” is relived of one or more of her dangling valuables.

Whether its carried out with a simple bump, a lift conveyed while, say dancing, or a squeeze play maneuvered with a second player, with the intention of pickpocketing the jewels they wear, or more subtle games of trickery or simple robbery, it all creates and holds a level of excitement most thrilling in its nature, quite erotic within its scope.

These Chronicles contain short essays on pickpocketing and thievery games played solely within our group over the past few years.

These were games only, done with full knowledge and consent of all the players (with a couple of exceptions where the parties involved were not informed of the actual happenings until sometime after the fact.)

Any articles of jewelry lifted or “Stolen” were returned to their original owners, albeit sometimes those owners at first thought the jewelry being returned had just simply fallen away.

The actual facts have been stretched, padded, and enhanced, due primarily to the significant detail that I rather like those in my immediate circle, and in order to keep them liking me, have agreed to “put meat on the bone” so to speak when putting pen to paper.

These Chronicles far from complete, and additional stories will be added as they are played out.

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The Game...Rory's Husband

I love watercolors x3

I fell in love with the medium when I used them for the first time in art & design class a few months ago. <33

Someone got creative and put a Daffodil in this group of Rhododendron flowers. It looks great even in the rain.

At least that’s how I feel most of the time (LOL)!

Had this last minute idea and had to execute!!! sorry for the late entry gang!!!

Macro Monday project – 01/24/11

"Imagination”

I'm grateful for the visit and comments!

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Outlining a Theory of General Creativity . .

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Entropy ≥ Memory ● Creativity ²

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L'individu suffoque sous la saturation du monde parce qu'il a le sentiment que ses subordinations outrepassent son autonomie, sa puissance d'être-en-soi au sein de la multitude, son conatus dirait Spinoza, l'élan de son individuation psychique dirait Simondon, sa liberté diraient ces libéraux qui la catéchisent en la confisquant à ceux qu'ils asservissent pour persévérer dans la leur.

Qu'en est-il de la puissance d'être-en-soi de la multitude, de ce conatus composé de multiples conatus ? Elle est la puissance de l'individuation collective qui réunit les conditions de possibilité des émancipations individuelles, autant que les conditions de possibilité de leurs apprivoisements, domestications, assujettissements, servitudes et asphyxies.

C'est ainsi que la multitude s'étouffe dans ses propres supports de mémoire collective, ses rétentions tertiaires désirées ou fortuites, ses hypomnemata. Grâce à eux, pendant tout le 20e siècle, les individus s'émancipèrent par plus de temps libre, de mobilité, de culture, par plus d'autonomie qu'ils n'eurent à le payer de soumission aux normes morales, marchandes, ou écologiques.

Mais ces indispensables hypomnemata, externalités anaboliques et cataboliques comprises, sont à la fois opportuns et importuns, sains et délétères, indissociablement. Ce sont des pharmaka, c'est à dire des remèdes autant que des poisons, des délivrances autant que des addictions, et des boucs émissaires dès que les équilibres homéostasiques se rompent.

Comment s'emparer de ces pharmaka pour prendre soin de nous autant que de la multitude ? Comment mener ce projet comme une thérapeutique ? A ce jeu, à somme non-nulle, seront créatifs ceux qui libèreront les capacités d'excédences individuelles au sein de projets collaboratifs, c'est à dire ceux qui relâcheront les servitudes sans déraciner les rhizomes sociaux.

Du fond de la globale saturation capitaliste, cette créativité ne doit plus être une sublimation bourgeoise mimétique, mais une émancipation co-errante cathartique. Cette créativité doit investir les résonances consensuelles de la multitude pour en infléchir les modes de production, que de nouveaux hypomnemata, objets, formes et figures, adviennent hors les dépotoires des surproductions mercantiles.

A cette fin, il s'agit moins de “faire de nos vies une oeuvre d'art” que “de faire de nos vies un flot d'événements”. Faire événement c'est dé(ré)inventer, dé(re)choisir, dé(re)construire, dé(re)territorialiser, dé(re)créoliser les singularités et les excentricités distribuables et résonnantes, pour que la multitude en algorYthme les récursions et en laisse émerger de nouvelles lignes de fuite.

Individué par jef safi, récursant les hypomnemata du multiple : Héraclite, Démocrite, Zhuangzi, Platon, Aristote, Spinoza, Bergson, Simondon, Debord, Deleuze, Guattari, Foucault, Castoriadis, Conway, Negri, Stiegler, Žižek, Badiou, Maffesoli, . . et de tant d'autres.

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The individual suffocates under the saturation of the world because he feels that his subordinations overstep his autonomy, his power to be-in-himself among the multitude, his conatus Spinoza would say, the surge of his psychic individuation Simondon would say, his freedom liberals would catechize, confiscating it to those they enslave to persevere in theirs.

What about the multitude's power of being-in-itself, of this conatus composed of multiple conatus ? It is the power of the collective individuation which brings together the conditions of possibility of individual individuations, as the conditions of possibility for their tamings, domestications, subjugations and asphyxiations.

Thus, the multitude smothers itself in its own collective memory supports, its tertiary retentions desired or unintended, its hypomnemata. Thanks to them, throughout the 20th century, people were emancipated by more leisure time, mobility, culture, by more autonomy which they had to pay it with submission to moral, commercial or ecological norms.

But these vital hypomnemata, including anabolic and catabolic externalities, are both opportune and unwelcome, healthy and harmful, indissociably. These are pharmaka, i.e. remedies as much as poisons, releases as much as addictions, and scapegoats as soon as the homeostatic balances break.

How to seize these pharmaka to take care of us as much as of the multitude ? How to conduct this project as therapeutics ? In this game, a non-zero-sum one, those who will be creative will be those who liberate the capacities of individual exceedences within collaborative projects, i.e. those who will loosen the servitudes without uprooting the social rhizomes.

From the bottom of the global capitalist saturation, this creativity should no longer aim bourgeois mimetic sublimations, but co-erring cathartic emancipations. This creativity must invest the consensual resonances of the multitude to change the modes of production, so that new hypomnemata, objects, shapes and figures, can befall outside the mercantile overproduction dumps.

To this end, it is less to "make our lives a work of art" than to "make our lives a thread of events". Let us de(re)invent, de(re)choose, de(re)construct, de(re)territorialize distributable singularities and eccentricities, so that the multitude can algorYthm their recursions allowing the emergence of new vanishing lines.

Individuated by jef safi, recursing hypomnemata of the multiple : Heraclitus, Democritus, Zhuangzi, Plato, Aristotle, Spinoza, Bergson, Simondon, Debord, Deleuze, Guattari, Foucault, Castoriadis, Conway, Negri, Stiegler, Žižek, Badiou, Maffesoli, . . and so many others.

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El individuo se ahoga en la saturación del mundo porque siente que sus subordinaciones sobrepasan su autonomía, su poder para ser-en-sí-mismo entre la multitud, su conatus, que diría Spinoza, el manantial de su individuación psíquica, que diría Simondon, su libertad, que catequizarían los liberales, confiscándosela a aquellos a los que esclavizan para perseverar en la suya.

¿Qué hay del poder de ser-en-sí-misma de la multitud, de este conatus compuesto de múltiples conatus? Es el poder de la individuación colectiva lo que reúne las condiciones de posibilidad de individuaciones individuales, así como las condiciones de posibilidad para sus domas, domesticaciones, subyugaciones y asfixias.

Así, la multitud se sofoca en sus propios soportes de memoria colectiva, sus retenciones terciarias deseadas o inintencionadas, sus hypomnemata. Gracias a ellos, a lo largo del siglo XX, las personas se vieron emancipadas a través de un mayor tiempo de ocio, movilidad, cultura, más autonomía que tuvieron que pagar con la sumisión a normas morales, comerciales o ecológicas.

Pero estos hypomnemata vitales, incluynedo externalidades anabólicas y catabólicas, son a la vez oportunas y no bienvenidas, saludables y nocivas, indisociablemente. Son pharmaka, esto es, remedios a la vez que venenos, liberaciones a la vez que adicciones, y chivos expiatorios en cuanto los equilibrios homeostáticos se rompen.

¿Cómo apoderarse de estos pharmaka para cuidar de nosotros mismos a la vez que de la multitud? ¿Cómo conducir este proyecto como una terapéutica? En este juego, de suma no-nula, serán creativos los que liberen las capacidades de las excedencias individuales dentro de proyectos colaborativos, es decir, aquellos que aflojen las servitudes sin desenraizar los rizomas sociales.

Desde el fondo de la saturación capitalista global, esta creatividad no debería ya tener como objetivo las sublimaciones miméticas burguesas, sino las emancipaciones catárticas co-errantes. Esta creatividad debe invertir las resonancias consensuales de la multitud para cambiar los modelos de producción, de modo que nuevos hypomnemata, objetos, formas y figuras puedan surgir fuera de los vertederos de la superproducción mercantil.

Para este fin, no se trata tanto de “hacer de nuestras vidas una obra de arte” como de “hacer de nuestras vidas un hilo de eventos”. Des(re)inventemos, des(re)escojamos, des(re)construyamos, des(re)territorialicemos singularidades y excentricidades distribuibles, de modo que la multitud pueda algorYtmar sus recursiones permitiendo la emergencia de nuevas "líneas de fuga".

Individuado por jef safi, recurriendo hypomnemata de múltiples: Heráclito, Demócrito, Zhuangzi, Platón, Aristóteles, Spinoza, Bergson, Simondon, Debord, Deleuze, Guattari, Foucault, Castoriadis, Conway, Negri, Stiegler, Žižek, Badiou, Maffesoli, . . y muchos otros.

Many thanks to Alicia Pallas, alias Alificacion, for her tra(ñ)slation.

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WOMEN IN LOVE

I spent an afternoon at my mom’s the other day and browsed through her large stock of buttons, ribbons and old lace. A gold mine for a craft enthusiast! This is part of what I came home with. :-)

Blogged here:

craftandcreativity.com/blog/2011/11/29/knappar/

An attempt to show the most fundamental things that God created: Substance, joy, beauty, relationship, wisdom, holiness, all played out in time/eternity. I have blogged about this here.

Thanks for looking!

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Creativity

(Another Don Draper slide, this quote is from a recent episode.)

I laughed out loud when I heard this one and it's so true. Creativity can be encouraged, sure, but it can be very difficult to force. Sometimes you just have to fuck around until creativity strikes.

Slightly related: www.dkeithrobinson.com/thingimade/the_science_or_lack_the...

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A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. And earlier when I saw my daughters beads it hit me :) and I had the hunch.

I wish you could buy creativity in a glass, or well maybe not buy it (then it wouldnt be a gift anymore), just when it comes that you could bottle it up and use it later.

I find myself with images going through my head all the time, but do i have the time to go create those pictures then? of course not :) So thats why occasionally you can find me running through the house like a crazy person, and everybody knows..mommy's got a hunch :)

If rainy days are sad and gray ..... color them!

Ceva viu colorat - ce a ieșit de după norii negreții .

We are innovators

Each of us carries creativity ..

For example

I can excelled in photography, even the place is empty..

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كلنا مبدعون

وكل شخص منا يحمل الإبداع ..

على سبيل المثـآل

أنا , أستطيع أن أبدع بالتصوير ولو كان المكان خالي.. =)

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I want to make March my Photography month

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E l i Z a - K s a..™ & TAQWA Abduallah..~

Corpus Christi 2007 - Sitges, Barcelona (Spain).

ENGLISH

For the festivity of Corpus Christi, every year it is celebrated a contest of carpets of flowers in the streets of Sitges, in which people, groups and schools participate. The used materials usually are petals of carnations, grass, earth, coffee, bran of rice and other types of flowers. Also some balconies are specially arranged.

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CASTELLANO

Para la festividad de Corpus Christi se celebra cada año en las calles de Sitges un concurso de alfombras de flores, en que participan personas, colectivos y escuelas. Los materiales empleados suelen ser pétalos de claveles, hierba, tierra, café, salvado de arroz y otros tipos de flores. También se engalanan algunos balcones.

Fatta stamattina col cellulare...indovinate dove ??

Dall'interno della mia auto all'autolavaggio automatico...

Taken today with my iphone today ... Guess where???

From my car at the car wash

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Land claimed from the sea. That is what we Dutch do well. And then we apply our rulers to put the new land to good and efficient use. Add some soft light though and the green mathematical landscape becomes a delight from above.

I came across a set of Halloween photos from a couple of years ago 🎃

They were wearing sunglasses and straw hats, pretending to be “ghost mother and child” 👻

We laughed so hard our stomachs hurt, while still trying to keep that “mysterious vibe”

The desire to create is of the deepest yearnings of the human soul. ~Elder Uchtdorf

"Super Nova Expulsion"

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In July of 2011, while photographing and freezing fireworks no longer felt like a challenge, and I began to realize that a lot of the pictures had seemed to look way too similar to each other. To solve this problem, I wanted to get a little experimental and spice things up a bit with some creativity. I developed a few deeply thought out techniques to be executed within the camera at the time of the photo being taken, to that make the fireworks look like anything except for what we are used to perceiving as an actual "firework".

This experimentation and creative technique, had proven fireworks to be my favorite things to photograph, as well as leading me to win 3rd place in the Popular Photography Magazine's "Your Best Shot Contest", with this photo:

"Abstract Explosion"

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(Which can be found in the April Issue of Popular Photography Magazine)

When the celebrations began in 2012 for the anniversary of America's independence, I set out with a mission to photograph as many firework displays as I possibly had the time and energy for. My goal was to refine and improve my techniques and experiment further, to get and idea of what other immense and colorful designs I would be able to create - with no expectations.

***Instead of uploading a whole batch all at once, I will be revealing a new abstract firework photograph DAILY, for the next 30 days - to keep things more interesting***

Thank you so much for taking your time to read what I wrote, and for spending the time to look at my work.

Please, don't be afraid to share your thoughts- I'd love to know what you think.

I hope you enjoy some of my most recent results!

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If you like my work and you would like to see more, please feel free to visit my website, nickbensonphoto.com.

One of the best ways you can stay updated with my current and most recent work, is by liking my fan page on Facebook!

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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

~Scott Adams

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Ahhh my eyes hurt a lot after 2 hours of editing about 200 layers of petals! :) Crazy stuff we do for our passions! Buzzing after this image. The inspiration came from watching Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. He uses a lot of blossom and petals with such beautiful tones I decided to create a dress from petals myself.

Feedback is more than welcome as I'm feeling so positive about this! :)

Hope you all had another lovely day enjoying the holidays!

Title: Eden of Creativity

Giclée (Acrylic) on stretched cotton (100%) canvas

Size: 66 cm x 87.6 cm (frame 4 cm thick)

Price: christoff-kott.webtorch.co.za/eden-of-creativity/

For inquiries:

Email: christoff.kott@gmail.com

Contact: christoff-kott.webtorch.co.za/contact/

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Outlining a Theory of General Creativity . .

. . on a 'Pataphysical projectory

Entropy ≥ Memory ● Creativity ²

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Study of the day :

Il y a donc, là, une crise que j’appelle écosophique, pour élargir la notion de pollution environnementale, non seulement aux dimensions matérielles de la pollution, mais aussi aux dimensions de la pollution sociale, de la pollution mass-médiatique et de la pollution mentale. C’est pour intégrer toutes ces dimensions écologiques que j’ai formé, que j’ai forgé, ce terme d’écosophie. Il y a le problème d’une réinvention de la vie sous tous ses aspects. Sous ses aspects matériels. Sous ses aspects sociaux et sous ses aspects incorporels. Il y a toute une problématique de l’écologie du virtuel à forger.

So there is, there, a crisis which I call ecosophic, to expand the concept of environmental pollution, not only to the material dimensions of pollution, but also to the social dimensions of pollution, of the massmediatical and mental pollution. This is to integrate all these ecological dimensions that I formed this term : ecosophy. There is the problem of a reinvention of life in all its aspects. In its material aspects. In its social aspects and in its intangible aspects. There is a whole problematics of the ecology of the virtual that have to be founded.

( Félix Guattari - An interview on greek TV 1992 )

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Consciousness in Action

Creation - Creativity

Being aware

Buddha’s Light

Consciousness

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“Consciousness is all there is.”

Advaita

Ramesh Balsekar

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Buddhas Licht

„Sieh nur“, sagte Rinpoche zu mir und wies mit dem Finger auf eine niedergehende Sternschnuppe.

„Ich bin wie sie!“ lächelte der Alte. „Nach einer langen Reise durch die Dunkelheit verstrahlt sie ihr Licht, zaubert ein Lächlen auf manche Lippen und vergeht im Nichts.“

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