gapingvoid: how to be creative
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Gapingvoid on how to be creative
Gapingvoid on how to be creative
08/01/2004 09:32 PM
Hugh, aka Gapingvoid has a great po
st on creativity. He's one of the few artists/cartoonists who have
taken advantage of blogs and has been successful in creating his own
back of a business card cartoon format.
I use a blog card designed by him.
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collaborating with gapingvoid
collaborating with gapingvoid
01/22/2004 03:04 AM
gapingvoid and I
are going to collaborate on combing our twisted humor and his
cartoon skills...
www.gapingvoid.com : Hugh MacLeod
www.gapingvoid.com : Hugh MacLeod
08/02/2004 03:22 PMNew Cartoons Drawn on the Back of Business Cards .. Daily cartoons by
Hugh MacLeod .. gapingvoid.com cartoons .. [gaping void] ..
cartoons
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gapingvoid: seek out the exceptional
minds
gapingvoid: seek out the exceptional
minds
08/27/2004 03:40 PMbasic mantra .. Hugh
MacLeod
gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000936.html
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"BBC Creative Archive licensing to be
based on Creative Commons -
Digital-Lifestyles.info"
"BBC Creative Archive licensing to be
based on Creative Commons -
Digital-Lifestyles.info"
05/27/2004 09:08 PMCreative Manager Pro, Agency Management
Software for the Creative and Design
industries, announced new interface
enhancements and over 400 functional
improvements in its forthcoming version
7.0.
Creative Manager Pro, Agency Management
Software for the Creative and Design
industries, announced new interface
enhancements and over 400 functional
improvements in its forthcoming version
7.0.
06/09/2004 02:31 AMCreative Manager Pro, Agency Management Software for the Creative and
Design industries, announced new interface enhancements and over 400
functional improvements in its forthcoming version 7.0. [PRWEB Jun 9,
2004]
BBC Creative Archive Based On Creative
Commons
BBC Creative Archive Based On Creative
Commons
05/26/2004 04:39 PMHow to be creative.
How to be creative.
08/01/2004 08:21 PM
Ho
w to be creative. Hugh "cartoons drawn on the back of
business cards" Macleod gives some excellent advice on how to do
those creative things you've always wanted to do.
vis
boingboing.net "how to be creative"
"how to be creative"
08/01/2004 03:10 PMHow to be creative
How to be creative
08/01/2004 10:13 AMHugh Macleod, who draws the great "Gaping Void" toons on the backs of
business cards, has posted a long and very good rumination of the
formation, nurturing and execution of creative ideas -- complete with
comment boards.
10. The more talented somebody is, the less they need the props.
Meeting a person who wrote a masterpiece on the back of a deli menu
would not surprise me. Meeting a person who wrote a masterpiece with a
silver Cartier fountain pen on an antique writing table in an airy
SoHo loft would SERIOUSLY surprise me.
Li
nk
(
Thanks, Hugh!)
Round Up: Being creative
Round Up: Being creative
06/17/2004 11:39 AMnewmediazero Jun 17 2004 4:04PM GMT
Do You Own a Creative Audigy?
Do You Own a Creative Audigy?
03/22/2005 04:23 PMIf you purchased a Creative Labs Audigy series soundcard before the
end of 2004, you can get 25% of the purchase price back in a class
action lawsuit. The offer ends September 25th, 2005 so hurry! Go to this
website address for legal documentation.
Here is more from the Inquirer ..
Creative claimed that the products in question could handle 24-bit
audio at 96Khz – indeed this was stated on the product boxes in
bold letters, and in all advertising. But complaints filed in 2003
pointed out that this was only true in a very limited set of
circumstances, and pretty much all of the audio passing through the
cards would actually be processed at lower
quality… Owners of all of the original
Audigy series are included in the proposed settlement. This includes
the Audigy ES, Audigy Platinum, Audigy Platinum eX, Audigy Gamer,
Audigy MP3+ and also the original Extigy external USB sound module.
Creative did not admit liability, but graciously agreed to settle the
embarrassing case. Anyone, anywhere who purchased one of these
products before the end of 2004, and is unhappy with the audio
processing, will be able to get 25 per cent off the cost of their next
purchase from Creative's website, up to a limit of $62.50.
Creative Class War
Creative Class War
02/16/2004 08:04 PMThis terrific article, Creative Class War, details how the tightening
of visas after 9/11 and the general anit-knowledge bent of...
Creative Commons
Creative Commons
06/12/2004 06:10 AMSparked by the copyright discussion raging
elsewhere in this blog, I decided to license the content of
this weblog under a
Creative Commons
Attribution - Share Alike license. In essence, what this means:
You are free:
- to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work
- to make derivative works
- to make commercial use of the work
Under the following conditions:
- Attribution. You must give the original author credit.
- Share Alike. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work,
you may distribute the resulting work only under a license identical
to this one.
- For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the
license terms of this work.
For the full text of the license, click here
for the English version, or in Finnish - the Finnish version being the legally valid one,
since this blog is physically located in Finland and written by a
Finnish citizen.
Note that this license does not affect whatever rights you have under
the law - it's still completely okay to quote this blog without
relicensing under CC, for example.
Creative Commons at the W3C
Creative Commons at the W3C
03/06/2004 01:53 AMBen
Adida, one of our tech advisors, will attend the
Semantic
Web portion of the
World Wide Web
Consortium Plenary Session this Thursday and Friday in Cannes,
France.
RDF,
the technology we chose 18 months ago to build our machine-readable
licenses,
recently became a
finalized W3C recommendation.
UK take on Creative Commons
UK take on Creative Commons
09/21/2004 06:23 AM
Cory Doctorow:
Becky sez, "My piece on Larry Lessig and the BBC Creative Archive was
published in the New Media Guardian today. The in-depth article
discusses copyright in the digital age and the Creative Commons
project.
"Unfortunately, to read the article you need to register."
Reg Req'd Link, use
"feeshfeeshfeesh@hotmail.com/feeshfeesh"
(Thanks, Becky!)
On "Creative Communities"
On "Creative Communities"
05/07/2004 12:08 PMJoe Buck commented on one of my earlier posts that when we (or I) use
phrases like "creative communities" we tend to slight coders. "Besides
the fact that a lot of geeks resent it, it builds unnecessary walls.
Many on Jack Valenti’s side of the divide treasure their creative
freedom and fight like dogs against any who would block it," Buck
writes.
I could not agree more. I guess I assume too easily that when we
discuss copyright, Free Culture, and creativity, we are discussing the
vast array of human creative activities. And I assume (perhaps
incorrectly) that my audiences see creativity flowing over arbitrary
barriers as I do. After all, "convergence" is not just a marketing or
engineering concept. It is the essense of stunning creativity, whether
embodied in a Picasso sculpture, a Mozart opera, or a phat video game.
So I guess we need to make this point more overtly. After all, as Buck
points out, each sub-audience of creators (musicians, composers,
screenwriters, directors, hackers, coders, photographers) tend to see
these issues in their local contexts -- "how does Kelly v. Arriba
affect me?"
When I speak publicly, I try to get musicians, for instance, to see
that Alice Randall's experience with getting The Wind Done Gone
published is something they might have to experience themselves. And
that as cultural citizens, they should be concerned about her
experience anyway.
BTW, in
The Anarchist in the Library, I make the case that the
appeals court had to cheat to get The Wind Done Gone published. It is
not a parody of Gone with the Wind. It is a transformative work that
should have been allowed on those grounds. But the court was not
willing to move beyond the narrowest reading of Campbell v. Acuff
Rose. So we are stuck trying to force non-parodies into parodic
costumes just to avoid prior restraint.
Creative destruction
Creative destruction
04/30/2004 07:59 AMWith his new novel, "The Zenith Angle," Bruce Sterling abandons the
cyborg future for the more terrifying present of amoral terrorists
and capitalists
How to Be Creative -- the book
How to Be Creative -- the book
12/28/2004 05:28 AM
Cory Doctorow:
Back in August, I
bl
ogged about Hugh Macleod's "How to Be Creative" project. Hugh
draws cartoons on the backs of business cards and works in
advertising; his How to Be Creative is a meditation on creativity,
individualism and commercialism, and it's full of pithy, clear,
no-nonsense advice.\
Now Hugh has expanded the piece into a short book, which is online in
its entirety. He's found an agent and the agent is shopping the book
-- I'd certainly buy a copy!
Chaos can be a positive thing. Chaos is inherently part of the
creative act. To embrace creativity means you must also embrace chaos.
Things don't happen when everything is neat and "just so". Creativity
is all about distruption. The people who tell you that creativity is
pain-free are liars. The people who tell you they've got a plan are
liars. There is no plan. There's just you, God and the need to invent.
And this uncertain world is what most of us now find ourselves
entering, willingly or otherwise.
Creativity equals chaos. Chaos equals creativity. Embrace it or die.
I've already done so. I know all about it. It almost cost me my liver
but like I said, education is expensive.
The Creative Age is upon us. The Chaotic Age is upon us. We are
scared. Damn right, we should be scared. But out of the terror comes
the amazing opportunities for us to expand both on the material and
spiritual level. The fewer safety nets there are to save us, the less
choice we have to be anything other than ourselves, the less choice we
have besides doing what is meaningful to us. And finding ourselves,
doing what matters, becoming the person we were born to be, this is
what God put on this earth to do.
We live in amazing and interesting times. If we're lucky, while on
this earth we can do a damn good job proving i
Li
nk
Creative Commons 2.0
Creative Commons 2.0
05/26/2004 04:43 PMAfter considering a lot of the feedback and statistics from the
original Creative Commons licenses, we (I personally was only a small
part of this) have launched the 2.0 licenses which I think make them
easier to use and easier to understand. Congratulations and thanks to
the team for all the work and an excellent step forward.
The details
are on the Creative Commons page.
Get Creative, Get Rich
Get Creative, Get Rich
04/22/2004 01:25 PMCould Creative Commons be "the key to a new multibillion-dollar
industry"? Andy Raskin of
Business
2.0 takes a close look at how declaring "some rights reserved"
can boost the bottom line.
Creative Commies
Creative Commies
01/06/2005 12:14 PMXeni Jardin:

Following up on
yesterday's Boing Boing post about Bill Gates describing
free culture advocates as a "modern-day sort
of communists," reader
Jaime
whipped up this bit of Soviet Constructivist goodness. Further the
cause, comrade!
Link
to full-size.
Creative Prodikeys
Creative Prodikeys
04/16/2004 01:04 PMvnunet.com Apr 16 2004 5:44PM GMT
Creative or Reactive
Creative or Reactive
06/10/2004 04:57 AM
If the history remembers me, I would like to be remembered as
someone who constantly
struggled against the limits of creativity. While I have been
accused of excessive
creativity by many, I am constantly and painfully aware of how
incidental creativity
is.
My mental model of human brain is a bed of wax on which a steel
ball of consciousness
rolls about. The model captures my belief that thinking
itself changes the person
and affects how the person thinks in the future. More one
travels the same path,
the channel of habitual thoughts deepens and thus raises the
necessary force needed
to escape the channel into new areas. Events happening around
us affect the
direction and momentum of the moving ball.
From this perspective, being creative means possessing a oddly
shaped mind that
reacts in uncommon ways to common events and brainstorming
aggregates oddity for higher
yield.

Creative Commonists?
Creative Commonists?
02/01/2005 09:12 PMCriticizing Creative Commons for undermining an artist's ability to be
paid for work puts the ignorance of the critic on display. Creative
Commons, with whom we share office space, helps solve a different
problem than artist compensation, namely how to enable a voluntary,
more flexible regime of sharing creative work....
FC Now: Creative Transparency
FC Now: Creative Transparency
04/05/2005 06:49 AMLast night, I watched the Japanese film "All About Lily
Chou-Chou." It is a brutal tale about 14 year olds in Japan. More
astonishing is that before the film was made, the director/writer
Shunji Iwai started it as an online...
I'm a "Cultural Creative"
I'm a "Cultural Creative"
06/17/2005 03:52 PMJust as Aaron posted, I too will use the "World View Quiz" to post
something! You scored as Cultural Creative....
What is the Creative Zen Nano Plus?
What is the Creative Zen Nano Plus?
04/13/2005 08:57 AMMike writes:
I was skimming the stores in search of a
good mp3 player deal [I lost all my friends trying to get one for
free] and I stumbled upon something called a Zen Nano Plus. It's a 1
GB player, and it comes in the usual array of candy colors we've come
to expect from Creative.
Some Google searching reveals
only prices, capacity, and colors, and it looks a lot an iPod shuffle
fighter, to me—512MB and 1GB sizes for $100ish and $150ish,
respectively.
But the real question is: will it have a screen?
Catalog Page [TechDepot]
Uncommonly Creative
Uncommonly Creative
03/13/2003 10:16 AMCreative Commons launches on December 16th. RSS 1.0 users can get
going already, of course, with the Creative Commons RSS...
Creative Zen Xtra
Creative Zen Xtra
04/27/2004 06:14 AMvnunet.com Apr 27 2004 10:13AM GMT
Creative MuVo NX
Creative MuVo NX
12/03/2003 06:21 AMvnunet.com Dec 3 2003 5:42AM ET
Creative usage of SMS
Creative usage of SMS
05/15/2004 03:49 PM (for those of you who have trouble with the norwegian language, the
board says “Border Control? Do you want...
Creative MegaWorks THX 6.1 650
Creative MegaWorks THX 6.1 650
11/11/2003 12:52 PMCNET Nov 11 2003 11:35AM ET
Creative MuVo NX MP3 player
Creative MuVo NX MP3 player
10/28/2003 11:07 PMReg Review The Flash drive reborn
Creative MuVo 2 4GB MP3 Player
Creative MuVo 2 4GB MP3 Player
04/26/2004 09:06 AMReg Review Best compact HDD-based kit
yet?
Creative Commons For Science
Creative Commons For Science
12/29/2004 11:48 AMAdobe Creative Suite 2.0?
Adobe Creative Suite 2.0?
01/03/2005 11:59 PM
Think Secret reports that Adobe may announce Creative Suite 2.0, with
Photoshop CS 2.0 (Photoshop 9) and Illustrator CS 2.0 (Illustrator
12), as soon ...
Creative Commons in Sweden
Creative Commons in Sweden
08/19/2004 11:03 PMIt just keeps growing:
the International Commons (iCommons) expands
to Sweden, under the leadership of the premier law firm Lindahl and man-about-the-Net Mikael
Pawlo. Public
discussion of the Swedish drafts of the Creative Commons licenses
has begun.
Creative bath ad shocker
Creative bath ad shocker
04/22/2004 06:33 AMLetters Readers dead
angry
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