Archive for the ‘imagination’ Category

Brain break

Monday, September 19th, 2011

shhhh my ideas are sleeping by brock davis

Pete Dungey’s Pothole Gardens

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

Love this concept! Pothole Gardens by Pete Dungey On a related/unrelated note you may want to check out guerilla gardening

Things to make you smile.

Friday, November 27th, 2009

These things made me smile last week. I hope they make you smile too: By Erin Jang via ohjoy Newresolution (really must submit my own) via ffffound! Bird by Zhili Liu via dezeen Extra links: – Storycorps & National Listening Day – Spend 1hour listening to a story this thanksgiving & record it – Ghost [...]

Of All The People In All The World: Visual Mapping by Stan’s Cafe

Monday, August 10th, 2009

I’ve been cruising design sites of late (strange obsession of stuff and increased interest in design in general) and I saw this on designcrush and had to share. It’s not quite Chris Jordan but it’s certainly good! And what I love most is it also seems like a great exercise in statistics in a classroom [...]

Time to ride a magic carpet?

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Tonight I’m in the mood for a bit of magic and travel…and these Persian rugs seemed like the perfect place to start…So where do you want to go? …Enjoy your ride image sources 1 & 2 -via google images

How To Save Planet Earth

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

Been thinking about trying to make and submit a last minute entry for Pangea Day focused on bringing dialogue about Earth, what we are doing to it, and raising awareness for how everything is interconnected…the challenge for me is balancing the positive and negative – and also getting it done in time… Meanwhile,here is a [...]

Rumi – Guest House

Monday, May 21st, 2007

This being human is a guest house Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they are a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still treat each guest honorably. He may [...]

Visual Mapping – Another way to Story

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

Crop of The Spinner by Billy Houdek, painting of a woman who talks too much while in the act of retelling a story. Source The Hectare Lesson I recall years ago reading a scene in a book that has stayed with me since. I was about 11 and I think it was in one of Roald Dahl’s bio-works e.g. [...]

NanoTales – 6 Words Make A Story

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

"The world of two. Now one" – Natalie Shell More in storyworld – above is my first play with nanotales – 6 line stories and so forth. Certainly it isn’t Hemingway‘s: "Baby Shoes. For Sale. Never Worn"   But it is fun to practice and I thought it was a good entry into this article on [...]

Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

Saturday, December 9th, 2006

  You are never too old for Dr. Seuss! So I thought I would share this one - my favourite … Oh, the Places You’ll Go! Congratulations! Today is your day. You’re off to Great Places! You’re off and away! You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes You can steer yourself any direction [...]