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Inspiration for Creative Process in the New Year
The New Year always has new potential. In many ways, it offers you an opportunity to start off on a clean slate so here are some inspirational ideas for filling your mind with creative ideas, as discovered on Feeling Fuzzy, The Creative Process Explained and through Rory O’Sullivan and Simon Bruyn’ video called, Rethink Scholarship at Langara. Although this video is from the start of 2010, coincidentally enough, I think it is a timeless approach to creative thinking. The innovative way it is described here, makes it all the more memorable. Because I like the music, although I don’t know what it is, I’ll keep it for Kick Starting the…
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Guédelon
I became completely curious when I first learned of this fascinating endeavor to build a new Medieval Guédelon Castle in the town of Treigny, in Burgundy, France. The work was to simulate original Medieval construction methods. Even the workers must wear Medieval clothes to closely mimic how the labor was affected by all the details. The work was conceived in 1996 and began in 1998, when a French landowner, Michel Guyot , who happens to own a real St. Fargeau castle, wondered what if a new Medieval castle could be build from scratch the way castles were originally constructed. The project holds academic weight to give insight into Medieval Times.…
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Fall 2010 Art & Exhibit Roundup
It will be hard to remember amidst all the upcoming holiday activities but here is the latest roundup of exhibitions to keep your eye on and hopefully attend this fall. These are just three that I’ve parceled out from an ongoing list previously mentioned (still time to catch a couple through Jan 2). 1) Palladio and His Legacy: A Transatlantic Journey — National Building Museum until January 9 Featuring many of Palladio’s drawings and pairing them with American examples that used the style of his architecture, like The White House, for instance. In fact there so much of his Classical ideas pervade the great buildings of American Architecture that it’s…
