Stuff I've done

STUFF I'VE DONE: Took bus to college with my big art folder. I made it look like a huge air mail envelope. Bus (cont) http://tl.gd/6ujsjj

STUFF I'VE DONE: Worked for another News Ltd paper in the ad dept. Lochlan Murdock didn't pop in either. (Like father, like son).

STUFF I'VE DONE: Worked in a Graphic Design dept of a News Ltd paper. When Rupert Murdock came for a visit, he never popped in to say hello

STUFF I'VE DONE: As Commercial Artist at my 1st newspaper job, some days were so quiet, I would draw jet cars all day.

STUFF I'VE DONE: Of course I loved art class in high school but they didn't grade art so some kids just messed around.

STUFF I'VE DONE: Kids used to get me to illustrate their school projects. They got good marks for initiative but low marks for effort.

STUFF I'VE DONE: The art on my heading pages in my school exercise books were so detailed that I kept the art & through away the books.

STUFF I'VE DONE: When I was 14 & 15, my school made me illustrator for the annual school magazine.

STUFF I'VE DONE: I used to draw so much that my school exercise books looked more like art journals.

STUFF I'VE DONE: By the time I was 12, I had over 50 model planes hanging from the lounge room ceiling. (It was my own air show)

STUFF I'VE DONE: When I was 10, I made an army tank from 'my' junk. It had an old toilet seat as the hatch.

STUFF I'VE DONE: When I was 5, I lived in flats that had a huge junk pile. My 1st playground. One day it was all gone. I was devastated.

STUFF I'VE DONE: I used to make the best cubby houses. Kid next door was so jealous but we had the best junk.

STUFF I'VE DONE: As a kid I used to jump off the house roof with a big plastic bag as a parachute. (I was a paratrooper)

STUFF I'VE DONE: As a kid I used to make a wall of boxes in a door frame & smash through. (I was Superman)

STUFF I'VE DONE: When I was 12, I made a town on my bedroom floor using small boxes, toy cars & soldiers for people. (Young urban planner).

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In the old days (when everything was still in black & white) ...actually, that sums up the newspaper I worked for. 

To be fair, newspapers did have color. You could have red or blue. But that was a lot of extra work.

In an early newspaper job, I would keep the drawings & photos in this thing called a Filing Cabinet.

Change is normal; I was a Paste-Up Artist for a newspaper. Yes, thats real 'Cut & Paste' people.

Be open to change. I worked for a newspaper that went from 'hot metal' typesetting to full digital workflow in 4 years. 

Imagination

Photography is such a wonderful thing. It's not what's in the picture. It is our desire to be in these far off places too.

If it doesn't capture your imagination any more. It's time to explore new mediums and subjects.

People only say, "You're out of your mind", when your imagination has escaped.

Imagination is sweet. Progress should be sweeter.

Only your imagination is perfect. Your work is progress. That's enough.

Never compare your work to others. Not even to your own imagination.

The artist see's the worts, the audience see's beauty.

Perfectionism is toxic. It will poison everything.

Your aim shouldn't be perfection, but progress.

Imagination creates new realities.

Imagination: Your right to freedom of thought.

For me, the key that unlocks my imagination is.....a pencil!

When no one is looking, our imagination comes out of it's hiding place.

Imagination is a creative mind at play. We all have it.

Making connections; they're the games creative minds play.

A visual imagination makes better connections. It's the stuff that ideas are made if.

Don't need to think more. Just connect.

In a repetitive world, everyone prefers to be in a world of their own.

I'm sure, without imagination, we would all slip into a semi conscious coma.

People generally question the imagination of others & themselves.

I'm a figment of my imagination.

The world is the solidification of imagination & elements.

People who can imagine the unseen, recognize each other. They see it in them.

Not everyone has the imagination to see that your ideas are possible.

People think of their imagination as just a small, wild creature that got into their roof space.

Wild imagination is an endangered species. Should be protected.

My imagination has gone too far. Doesn't it know it's limits?

It's just me, my imagination & I.

"It's just my imagination". ("It's just something in me that wants to improve my reality").

My imagination is running away from me. I really should keep up.

You're not limited by your imagination. Your imagination is limited by you.

People quickly become bored without electricity. Have we forgotten how to think for ourselves?

For many, a good imagination has been replaced by a good connection or good reception.

Entertainment should spark imaginations. Not replace it.

Some people can't imagine what they can do without an output device. They could do a lot & output a lot.

We have wild imaginations. Our intuition is our instincts. Creativity, our wilderness to explore.

If we loose our imagination, we loose track of who we are.

The thing that sparks your creativity is the flint of imagination.

Imagination is a strange machine. It's kind of a 3D augmented virtual reality x-ray holographic daydream projection device.

Without imagination, a lot of knowledge would be wasted.

Knowledge is gained in activity, imagination in stillness.

Knowledge is the distillation of the ages. Imagination is the essence of the individual.

Knowledge is earned, imagination is a free gift.

Knowledge is a seed. Imagination waters it.

We are given imagination so we know what our talents are for.

Drawing is a better way to imagine, & to communicate your ideas.

A drawing is proof of your imagination. The hardcopy of your hopes.

An active imagination is exercise for a healthy mind.

Imagination is a way to escape the present, & a way to chase the future.

A creative perspective often sees what is imagined, interacting with what is seen.

Imagination includes things to what you see, that seems missing from your view.

Imagination is the alternate reality overlaid onto your present reality.

 

We see with out brains. Our imagination are the doodles we draw on those mental images.

Imagination is the transparency that overlays your visual perception.

Knowledge comes by reading, research & revision. Imagination comes by reflection.

Knowledge trickles. Imagination flows.

Very little appears possible without imagination.

What boosts imagination, lifts the world. What infects imagination, makes it afraid.

People who were ahead of their time, allowed their imagination to run ahead of them. Then they ran after it.

Creativity is...

• Creativity is the opportunity to make something possible.
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  The world says, "How is that possible?". Creatives say, "How can I make it possible?".
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• Creativity is great therapy. Rediscover the joy of writing, image making or music.
  
  If it wasn't for Everyday Creativity, I wouldn't feel too creative some days.
  
• Creativity is for today. Imagination is for this moment.
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• Before the innovation age, you had choices. You could pick potatoes, pumpkins or cotton.
  
  What would the world be like without creativity? An out-house without toilet paper.
  
  If it wasn't for creativity, half of us would be farm-hands & factory workers now.
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• Fortunately the world is full of 'fads' that never went away.
  
  Without 100 years of creativity you would most likely be collecting firewood about now.
  
  Why is creativity important? We have electric light because someone burnt the midnight oil.
  
  Is creativity important? When was the last time you handwashed your clothes with whale sope?
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• Nothing focuses creativity more than the point of a pen.
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• Creativity is firstly the process of forming new connections, associations or repurposing ideas, objects & even people.
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• Creativity is active optimism despite the obstacle.
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• Creativity is like a volcano: an eruption followed by disruption.
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  History: Man coping better with nature. Creativity: Man coping in advance.
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• Creativity is thinking outside the half empty square : )
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  Creativity is when new relationships between ideas & people are encouraged to form.
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• Creativity without action isn't creative.
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• Creativity isn't about escaping reality. It's about reclaiming it.
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  Chaos is a word for order we don't understand yet.
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  If everyone agrees with, chances are, you're not doing anything original.
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  Creativity is proving yourself wrong about what you know is impossible?
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• Creativity isn't just a way of thinking. It's a way of living.
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• Creativity is applied optimism.
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  Creativity is hope in action.
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• The purpose of being creative is to repurpose. 
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  Research is finding connections. Creativity is making them.
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• Discovery is a jigsaw puzzle, creativity is a mosaic.
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• We all construct patterns of thought but creativity seeks to remove them.
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  The three levels of creativity: 1/Repurposing, 2/connection & 3/metaphor.
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• Intelligence looks for a quick solution. Creativity looks for possibilities.
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• Creativity is the ability to consider multiple options.
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• Creativity: Man V's time.
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  The artist: Man V's todays trend.
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  An artists dream: Man V's 'common sense'.
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  Drama: Man V's an adversary.
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  Comedy: Man V's gravity.
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• Creative thinking if fine but it's the creative heart of one person that becomes the agent of change.
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• Creativity is the way you relate to the world. It isn't a force or power or energy. Creativity is personal and human.
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• We create relationships with our ideas, our surroundings, our medium, subject, field, career, audience & our art.
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  Creativity is a relationship with many things.
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• Creating is like breathing: Observation (in), record ideas (out), verify (in), public expression (out).
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• High IQ's seize the day, Creatives change tomorrow.
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• Creativity is: Just connect. Make connections between unrelated things. Create a relationship between unrelated objects, ideas & knowledge.
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• There is an unbroken line of emotion from the very first song to the latest.
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• Creativity happens at the intersection of conscious & subconscious. And left & right brain.
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• Creativity is compensation for lack of money.
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• Creativity is the continuous dissolving of partitions. Crazy people just take it way too far.
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• Creativity is to play with combinations. Of colours, ideas, words, images & concepts... Let's play.
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• Creativity finds new expressions of faith, hope & love.
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• Creativity is finding new ways to share your enthusiasm.
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• A metaphor, it's like when you say 'It's like...."
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• A metaphor is the unfamiliar clothed in the familiar.
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• Interesting things happen when you expand your definition of creativity, design or art.
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• Creative people create connections, communicate connections, repurpose connections.
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• The less you have, the more useful creativity is.
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• Creativity is life's element of surprise.
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• Creativity is failing to be normal.
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• Destructiveness makes life complicated. Creativity makes life simpler.
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• Creativity makes things simple to understand, & makes great skill look easy.
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• Tools overcome physical limitations, Creativity overcomes environmental limitations.
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• Creativity is like nature: It's adaptive, it adhores a vacuum, it sustains us, & it's interconnected.
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• Life is wonderful complexity. Creativity is wonderful simplicity.
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• Creative people define popular culture. Imitators just popularize it.
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• Creative is Cool. Cool in not creative.
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• Times of intense creativity won't make you crazy. Even if average people think you are.
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• Creativity would strike more people if they weren't earthed to common assumptions.
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• If you want creativity to strike, your pen is the lightning rod.
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• Creativity is like static electricity. We unknowingly collect it as we rub shoulders with life.
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• Creativity is like a capacitor, collecting a charge slowly, but often released all at once.
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• Creativity blurs the lines between seeing & imagining.
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• Curiosity is the opportunity to learn interesting things that you didn't intend learning.
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• Creativity questions common assumptions. It's doesn't agree with the 'wisdom of crowds'.
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• Creativity makes new connections. Intuition senses that potential connections are closer than normal.
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• Creativity exists dispute social & cultural normalization.
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• The best creativity is one that encourages more creativity.
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• Creativity flows in fluid situations.
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• Physically, man isn't remarkable. Creatively, man is incredible.
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• Man learns to use tools (Skill). Man uses tool for new purpose (Creative). Man makes new tool (Invention).
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• Creativity is an unpredictable thing, that makes the future less unpredictable.
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• Creativity takes me places I haven't been. It prepares me for a future I haven't seen.
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• The power of creativity is love, The effectiveness of love is creativity.
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• There's only one thing greater than a creative spirit, & that is a spirit of love.
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• Logic likes to understand. Creativity likes to be puzzled.