Bye bye Blogger

I finally got to merging all the bits and blogging pieces from Blogger to here. Thank you WordPress for such an easy process of importing.  

I have 4 or 5 more at blog-city. If only I knew how to import these I would be extactic. Anyone?

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Are You Validating Your Creativity by Blogging Your Journey?

Are You Validating Your Creativity by Blogging Your Journey?

The Blossoming of a Creative Life Comes by Way of Habit

By Chris Dunmire

If you are regularly blogging your creative journey, I would like to hear from you.

When I started quasi-blogging pieces of my creative journey on the Creativity
Portal in July 2003 in a feature named "Inner Diablog", something unexpected happened to me. I found that the more I engaged in my own inner dialogue through writing, the larger my creative appetite grew. You would think just the opposite would happen — that I would eventually exhaust my energy and run out of things to write about. Not so.

I read a remarkable thought about the nature of creativity in an article by Alan Cohen that describes this phenomenon. He wrote:

Will you ever run out of creative ideas and expressions? Ha! The more creative ideas you have, the more you will discover. Creativity is a tree with countless branches that never stop blossoming.

I find this to be true in my life. The more creative things I do, the more my creativi-tree blossoms. No wonder why so many creativity coaches encourage making *whatever* creative thing you enjoy doing a regular habit. Once you do, you won't be able to stop!

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On museums and web 2.0

Emerging trends in art

HobbyPrincess

On museums and web 2.0 Some time ago Virtueel Platform organized a workshop called Take Away Museum to discuss new emerging ways to engage people in conversations with exhibited artwork and artifacts. The central question was: what is Web 2.0 for museums?

In general there seem to be four basic ways for organizing the relationship between an exhibited artifact and a museum visitor. The simplest one is the basic visit to a museum: we buy the ticket at the entrance, go in, take a tour, perhaps an audio guide, follow the arrows, read the texts beside the works, and that's about it. Let's call this reactive consumption.

When we make an effort to search information about the exhibition or the artists beforehand, we are moving towards some sort of proactive consumption. We might study art books, conduct an online search, go and see a documentary about the artist we like, etc. In this case, we know what we are interested about and we actively choose how we want to know about we want to know.

Table: From consumption-centered to production-centered museum visits

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