View allAll Photos Tagged Creativity
National Creativity Day Is May 30
National Creativity Day was founded by Hal Croasmun and Screenwriting U “to celebrate the imaginative spirits everywhere and to encourage them to keep creating.” It is a day to nurture your creativity, to be imaginative, and to support the creativity of others. There are all types of creative people, such as artists, writers, photographers, musicians, and filmmakers. But one doesn't need to be an expert in a field in order to be creative—those who just dabble in creative pursuits can benefit from doing so.
Kurt Vonnegut once wrote: “The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
On National Creativity Day, this sentiment is embraced, and we set out to harness our creative energies and create!
How to Observe
Spend the day supporting the creativity of others and and encouraging others to continue being creative. Nurture your own creativity and learn strategies to enhance it. You could read an article such as “25 Ways to Be More Creative”, which goes over author and psychologist Keith Sawyer’s eight steps to be more creative, from his book Zig Zag: The Surprising Path to Greater Creativity. You could read that book or another book of his on the topic, Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation.
There are an almost limitless amount of creative things you could do or things you could do to help get you into a creative mood:
Write a priority list with your hopes and goals, or make a vision board.
Join a book club.
Meditate.
Avoid technology for the day and connect and engage with the things around you. Say "hello" to people you pass on the street, and notice birds, trees, flowers, and the beauty that can be found everywhere.
Organize. Start with something small like organizing a drawer or a closet, and then expand to a whole room.
Call a friend.
Write in your personal journal or diary, or start one if you don't have one. Journaling helps you understand and reflect on your inner thoughts.
Pick a topic and do some free-writing. Write a poem or a short story. Begin writing a novel or screenplay. Write a letter to a friend. Write a letter to your past self, or write a letter to your future self and put it in a time capsule.
Begin learning how to play a new instrument or play an instrument you already know.
Start a band. Get your old band back together. Sing in the shower. Sing in the car. Sing some karaoke.
Take a walk and get into nature.
Read poetry in public.
Join a theater group.
Take dance lessons or go dancing.
Host a comedy show.
Do some visual art such as drawing, painting, sculpting, collaging, photography, or videography. Draw in a sketchbook or use an adult coloring book.
Visit a museum or art gallery, or travel around a city looking at murals.
Do some sewing, needle-pointing, knitting, pottery, or candle making.
Make some new recipes.
Plant a garden.
Play a board game.
Or, do as Emmit is doing: Constructing with Legos!
20200530 151/366
L’Ikebana (生け花?) également connu sous le nom de kadō (華道/花道?), la Voie des fleurs ou l’art de faire vivre les fleurs est un art traditionnel japonais basé sur la composition florale. La structure complète de l’arrangement floral japonais est axée sur trois points principaux symbolisant le ciel, la terre et l’humanité à travers les trois piliers, asymétrie, espace et profondeur.
Ikebana (生 け 花?) Also known as Kado (華 道 / 花道?), The Way of the flowers or the art of live flowers is a traditional Japanese art based on the floral composition. The complete structure of Japanese flower arrangement is focused on three main points symbolizing heaven, earth and humanity through the three pillars, asymmetry, space and depth.
Wikipédia
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
The Uruguayan artist Fede Ruiz Santesteban has been rediscovering and reinventing one of the most unusual and most delicately poetic of photographic craft forms: the Anthotype. His images are made using the naturally occurring properties of plants in his garden. There are none of the chemicals or inks commonly associated with photography. His methods simply harness the way certain leaves and petals react in sunlight. While he began with a process invented in the early 1840s, he has since undertaken extensive experimentation, developing new ways in which plants may be used to create images in an ecologically sustainable way.
Fede Ruiz Santesteban unfolds the gifts of the garden at Talking Pictures.
talking-pictures.net.au/2021/10/30/fede-ruiz-santesteban-...
Its extremely rare you get to see this birds actual namesake "Red Bellied Woodpecker." Apparently "red headed" was already taken. My mother puts out oranges and grape jelly for our summer time visitors from Costa Rica like the orioles and rose breasted grosbeaks. Of course it doesn't stop our year round residents from getting a sugar high. This particular woodpecker would come in and dance circles around that branch its hanging from and finally decide its best approach as you can see (please zoom in and you can see it can only reach with its tongue). The smaller birds have no problem but this bird is too big and has learned it flips the tray up and thus can't land on it. This is proof of the creativity and intelligence of even the smaller to medium sized back yard birds we have all around us.
Someone got creative and put a Daffodil in this group of Rhododendron flowers. It looks great even in the rain.
"Erotically Sparking and Steamy"
Early marriage was borne of ancient societies' need to secure a safe environment in which to breed, handle the granting of property rights, and protect bloodlines. Ancient Hebrew law required a man to become the husband of a deceased brother's widow.
But even in these early times, marriage was much about love and desire as it was social and economic stability. In its roundness, the engagement ring, a custom dating back to the Ancient Rome, is believed to represent eternity and everlasting union. It was once believed a vein or nerve ran directly from the 'ring' finger of the left hand to the heart.
Many other modern day marriage traditions have their origins in these ancient times. Newly-weds are said to have aided fertility by drinking a brew made from honey during certain lunar phases and it is this tradition from which we derive the origins of the word 'honeymoon'.
ONE WIFE OR TWO?
Understanding of marriage contrasted greatly from culture to culture. Some cultures viewed the institution as endogamous (men were required to marry within their own social group, family, clan, or tribe), exogamous (marrying outside the geographical region or social group) or polygamous (allowing men to take more than one bride).
Polygamy was formally banned towards the end of the Roman Empire with laws against adultery, fornication and other relationships outside a monogamous lifelong covenant. The seeds of modern marriage were sowed here and they extended into the modern Western world.
A tornado of creativity hit my craftroom in the last few weeks! I will be re-organizing and cleaning it this week :o)
June 20, 2009, Explore #108
This has become a little series, huh? :P
I guess you can all guess what is on the picture... You know where the bokeh comes from :P
And you know what?
I'm not doing anything today... I'm just gonna sit in my PJ´s and do NOTHING!
Hope you are all having a fantastic weekend!
« If you appreciate my work and would like to support me becoming an independent photographer, become a Patreon supporter at www.patreon.com/alexdehaas, or buy me a coffee at www.buymeacoffee.com/alexdehaas :) »
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:
BEAUTY LIES OFTEN IN THE DETAIL.
Love often shown most in the 'little' attentions and gestures!
Ain't that the truth?
They are very showy flowers!
Pink lilies stand for wealth and prosperity, but are seen as a symbol of youth and acceptance, as well. Also, their appearance may lead our thoughts to feelings of hope and aspirations.
In this dreary season, a dash of colour and fragrance can do wonders!
I have another agenda when I buy them... I just know I'll photograph them, cannot resist! I MAKE time!
And each time I think... that's it, there's only so much you can do with flowers... and yet again and again, I'll see something new.
Being creative is not a choice... it is an urge in me.
READ MORE HERE, Blog: magdaindigo.blogspot.com/2010/01/about-innovative-creativ...
Have a wonderful day, filled with love and thanx for your visit, M, (*_*)
For more of my other work visit here: www.indigo2photography.co.uk
IT IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN (BY LAW!!!) TO USE ANY OF MY image or TEXT on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved
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.
------------------------
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.
An old rusty engine left by an unusefull cooperation program, became a kids play park...
(Explored dec.13)
13 Arch Bridge ; The bridge which was constructed during the British regime using surki construction, a period when cement was not in use… Thenmala, Kerala, India.
Kaleidos - Creativity Top Selection
Day from 29/02 to 06/03 2016
Many congratulations!
Selected by Eleonora Bruscolini
__________________________________________________
Outlining a Theory of General Creativity . .
. . on a 'Pataphysical projectory
Entropy ≥ Memory ● Creativity ²
__________________________________________________
Study of the day:
" [...] Pitié pour la viande! La viande n'est pas une chair morte, elle a gardé toutes les souffrances et pris sur soi toutes les couleurs de la chair vive. Tant de douleur convulsive et de vulnérabilité, mais aussi d'invention charmante, de couleur et d'acrobatie. Bacon ne dit pas "pitié pour les bêtes " mais plutôt tout homme qui souffre est de la viande. La viande est la zone commune de l'homme et de la bête, leur zone d'indiscernabilité, elle est ce "fait ", cet état même où le peintre s'identifie aux objets de son horreur ou de sa compassion. Le peintre est boucher certes, mais il est dans cette boucherie comme dans une église, avec la viande pour Crucifié. C'est seulement dans les boucheries que Bacon est un peintre religieux. ". [...]"
"[...] Pity for meat ! The meat is not a dead flesh, it has kept all the suffering and took on itself all the colors of the flesh alive. Both convulsive pain and vulnerability, but also charming invention, colors and acrobatics. Bacon does not say "pity for beasts" but any man who suffers is some meat. The meat is the common zone of man and beast, their area of indistinguishabilty, it is this "fact", this state where the painter identifies the objects of his horrors and compassions. The painter is butcher, but it is in his butchery as in a church, with the meat for Crucified. It is only in butcher shops that Bacon is a religious painter. [...]"
( Gilles Deleuze - 1981 - Logique de la sensation )
__________________________________________________
(...) J’essaie de montrer ce que c’est qu'une "ligne de fuite" en peinture. J’arrive à peu près à la définition du processus. Je prends des exemples.
Je prends par exemple la ligne de certains artistes très classiques, la ligne qui répond à la formule célèbre : "Il ne peignait pas les choses, il peignait entre les choses". La ligne qui passe entre les choses n'est pas la ligne qui cerne les choses, mais la ligne qui les assemble et les sépare à la fois.
Je prends un autre exemple extrême, chez un artiste récent : la ligne dite de Pollock. Ce qu’il y a d’extraordinaire avec cette ligne, c’est qu'elle récuse aussi bien l’abstrait que le représentatif. Qu’y a-t-il de commun entre l’abstrait et le représentatif ? D’une certaine manière, la ligne y est encore une ligne au moins virtuelle de mort.
Qu’est-ce que j’appelle "ligne de mort" ? Une ligne de mort est une ligne qui détermine, qui ferme, qui achève un contour. Alors la vraie différence, elle n'est pas entre abstrait et représentatif, elle est entre la ligne qui ferme un contour et la ligne qui procède autrement. Une ligne qui ferme un contour peut déterminer une figure concrète aussi bien qu'une figure abstraite. Que ce soit de l’abstrait ou du représentatif, il n'y a pas là de différence, vous avez toujours la ligne qui fait contour.
Pourquoi la ligne de Pollock n'est-elle ni abstraite ni concrète ? Parce qu’elle ne forme pas un contour. Comme on le disait à propos d’autres peintres, elle passe "entre" les choses. Elle ne va pas d’un point à un autre, c’est au contraire un point qui va d’une ligne à une autre, ou d’un segment de ligne à un autre segment de ligne, etc.
Je dis que la ligne de Pollock c’est une "ligne de vie", en effet. (...)
(...) I try to show what is a "vanishing line" in painting. I manage to roughly define the process. Let's look at some examples.
For example, I look at the line of some very classical artists, the line that meets the famous: "It does not paint things, he painted between things." The line that passes between things is not the line that turns around things, but the line which separates them and assembles them at once.
Another extreme example, is with a recent artist: the line said as the Pollock's line. What is extraordinary with this line is that it rejects both the abstract as the representative. What is common between abstract and representative ? In a way, the line is still virtually a "line of death".
What I call "line of death" ? A "line of death" is a line that determines, which closes, which is completing a contour. So the real difference, it is not between abstract and representative, it is between the line closing a contour, and the line proceeding otherwise. A line which closes a contour can determine a concrete figure as well as an abstract figure. Whether it is abstract or representative, there is no difference there, you have a line making a contour.
Why Pollock's line is neither abstract nor concrete ? Because it does not form a contour. As we said about other painters, she runs "between" things. It does not go from one point to another, in contrary, it is a point that goes from one line to another, or from a segment of line to another segment of line, etc.
I say that the Pollock's line is a "life line", indeed. (...)
( Gilles Deleuze - Cours Université PARIS 8 - "Anti-Œdipe et autres réflexions" )
__________________________________________________
rectO-persO | E ≥ m.C² | co~errAnce | TiLt
Skates made of wooden cars from IKEA.
The method of installation - socks. The product made by Natasha, almost 6 years old.
I've been asked: "How do you create your magical pictures...?"
Okay. This video is one of my answers.
I have learned so much by my flickr friends that I want to say THANK YOU ALL!!!
Now I will show what I have learned...
No need to keep secrets.
Enjoy your own creativity!
HKD
If you start photo manipulation, maybe you'll be inspired... :-))
HKD
If you like to see full length...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6mFXKc5tls
HKD