Halloween – the amuse bouche of the holiday season is upon us. Shop windows have been transformed (Orange and black is the new black). Funny things are appearing on restaurant menus… well, just the same things with silly names… skeleton bones, bat wings, creepy crawly pasta. Spiders and cobwebs have become THE THING, suddenly adorning […]
Oh to be in the desert this week for Burning Man An epic adventure of Alice in Wonderland proportions. Giant structures. A kaleidescope of colour. Creative anarchy. A tribal gathering of people committed to a different way of life – one filled with spontaneity, self-expression and fun. One unrestricted by the conventions of the 9-5. No […]
My neighbour asked about the creativity course. “Oh” she said, her brow furrowing “I thought it would involve things like decorating cupcakes”. A popular misconception about creativity is that it’s something you do in your spare time as a hobby, or after you have retired from ‘real work’. There are two things wrong with this. […]
I’m in France, land of a thousand churches. To be more exact there are actually about 40,000 of them, built mainly in the middle ages. With a medieval population of around 6 million this would mean one church per 150 people. I think we can safely assume that religion was more popular than a Led Zeppelin gig […]
On the whole we’re pretty macho with our creativity. We don’t like the airy-fairy nature of the ephemeral. We talk about wresting our creative demons to the ground and showing them who’s boss. Creativity isn’t something we do, it’s something we are. For way too long masculine energy has ruled the world. At first this […]