Have a project or big idea you’re working on and want to find an awesome programmer, illustrator, writer or designer to help out? CollabFinder is a new site for finding that collaborator.
The iPad gets a bad rap as a device designed specifically for consumption. After all, its main purpose is to keep you connected to the world. Despite that, the iPad has risen up as a creativity tool and serves as an integral part in many people’s toolkit. To get an idea of when these devices are being used, we talked with a cadre of creative types to find out not just how they’re using iPads to make things, but why.
Starting something new is scary. Putting yourself in the path of criticism can be painful. Video blogger extraordinaire Ze Frank is back, thanks to a hugely successful Kickstarter campaign, and he’s tackling your fears of beginning and dishing inspiration like Baz Luhrmann on GTD-flavoured Four Loko. Hooray!
I’m having trouble dating this video (though the consensus is 1991), but I can tell you it’s from Video Arts, a UK e-learning company founded in 1972 by John Cleese and other “television professionals”. In this particular clip, Cleese delivers a lecture on creativity, infused with his own brand of humour.
Consider the question in the image above. I found this spreading on Facebook the other day and it took me a few minutes to solve. Go on. Try. (If you want to know the answer. It’s at the end of the article.)
If you’re working on a group project it’s easy to keep your mouth shut when you don’t know the exact answer to a question. However, new research from Utah’s David Eccles School of Business suggests that you may be smarter than you think and those tiny pieces of information are key to solving a problem as a whole.
iPad: If you’re a sketcher, note-taker, or all-around paper lover who happens to own an iPad, download Paper from FiftyThree right now. This beautiful app gives you digital notebooks to capture all your ideas quickly and intuitively. And it’s free.
The moment you get effortlessly lost in work goes by any number of names: focus, concentration, escapism, flow and countless others. It’s the point where you’re able to blur the world around you and calibrate your brain to pay attention to one single task. It’s your sweet spot. It’s when you Get Things Done. Your entire cognitive effort is concentrated on one task and when you’re in that moment the outside world disappears.
Letting your mind wander from time to time can actually help your brain process information. It can also serve as a workout for your “working memory” or your mental capacity for handling multiple thoughts and dealing with competing issues simultaneously.
We usually think of loopholes in terms of ways to get around the law, but Forbes suggests they’re also a way to find that breakthrough moment to turn a good idea into a spectacular idea.
