Tag: creativity

  • Patents, Publishing and Innovation

    When is it better to “do it yourself”? What inspires creativity and what sustains it? I’m sure freedom is a factor, I’m not sure profit is.

  • Art Healing Tragedy; Reflections from NYC

    I love art for the way it helps heals us after tragedy. When the sheer facts are overwhelming, creative avenues may open up to keep us from despair. Ten years ago when I was on the bus in Manhattan on my way to work, the unthinkable happened here. And in the aftermath, I was among those rushing…

  • Writing, the Perfect Lover

    Writing is the perfect lover for me. She is magical, both ever present and invisible. And so no one can ever lure her away from me. I confess I have not been the perfect lover in return, often I have asked her to do things for others she may not want to do at all. Yet she…

  • Entropy and Community – The Beautiful Paradox

    Why is it that things tend to fall apart, but people tend to come together? Entropy. Who’s not thought of it as an enemy from time to time? The nature of things, according to physics and experience too, is to tend toward disorder. You think you’ve got it set, and it falls apart. The library…

  • No Apologies for Art

    I never apologize for anything I create. Do you? Products of the creative mind may offend, but my advice: never apologize. If I’ve created something then it came from somewhere. It came from me. Who can understand what lies inside of us? And if we cannot understand it, we are lucky at least to have…