Goosing Your Muse

Whether or not we’re still in school or working at a ‘regular job,’ we all look forward to Summer vacation because it signifies a time to play. Personally, I’d rather see us integrate more play into our daily lives … and here’s a great article to back me up with the reasons why! “Play is [...]

Heard a great story on NPR (National Public Radio) this morning. You can listen to the audio clip … When pianist Laura Rosser performs, she hears more than sounds. She hears colors — each note has its own associated hue. Rosser has a rare neurological condition called synesthesia. Stimulation of one sense produces the sensation [...]

To mark its 70th anniversary, the British Council asked more than 40,000 people in 102 countries to come up with the most beautiful words in the English language. See the 70 most popular words from that survey. My guess is many of these words were chosen based on how fun they are to SAY, not [...]

Here’s a blast from the past — especially from those school days in Spring — when Summer vacation just couldn’t come fast enough — and you passed the time with a buddy, playing Hangman. This time it’s digital, and you can choose which topics interest you — and you can say you’re exercising your right [...]

A portion of what I teach in my Goosing Your Muse creativity workshops is “How Ideas Are Formed.” If you slow down the process of how ideas are formed, and look at each step, it helps to establish some vocabulary useful to creative people who collaborate on projects. This makes it easier to identify more [...]

Here’s a quick checklist of things you can do to stir up your Creative Juices, from An Artsy Fartsy blog by Scott Thigpen … some of which made me chuckle. Many thanks to Douglas E. Welch for letting us know about this.

Some people love IQ Tests and performance quizzes. They find them useful to answer such questions as, “Am I creative?” or “How creative am I?” Personally, I like tests more for what I can learn by taking them, but I don’t advise setting your clock by them. But if you are one of those people [...]

I once took an evening art class at Walt Disney Imagineering provided by concept consultant and pro artist, Ron Pekar, where we explored various art forms and techniques. It had been a long time since I’d touched any art supplies, and it was in this class I fell in love with watercolors. I admit I [...]

I’ve featured Danny Gregory’s blog before, Everyday Matters, (and no, I don’t know him), but I think he does such a good job illustrating his writing — or writing about his sketches and watercolors — that I just had to bring this site back to your attention. Everyday Matters is a series of occasional essays [...]