January 2009
6 posts
Creativity is making the usual, unusual
papanord:
It seems to me that creativity comes in two forms. The first is that brilliant flash of insight that changes the paradigm. The second is the long trek that uses learned competence to see or do things differently. Pianists that spend years perfecting their skills can take a piece of writen music and transform it into somthing the original composer had never envisioned. Ben Franklin...
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“I think GAP is over using Helvetica Neue Ultra Light, I’m just saying.”
– If you know the person who said this in a taxi at 1:00am last night then I don’t need to tell you that it was James Nord .
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African Mountains
Was it God’s fingers pressing up from the molten center that forced the mountains to awe us, more likely it was previously rolling water frozen in an instant, now algae covered. Perhaps, some great being saw it in his mind and spent a millenia carving his dream out of mineral. Did Zeus lose a bet only to be forced to throw acid on the rolling hills of this dark continent he loved so much to...
