Creativity
What happens when an NGO admits failure?
International aid groups make the same mistakes over and over again. At TEDxYYC David Damberger uses his own engineering failure in India to call for the development sector to publicly admit, analyze, and learn from their missteps.
Oh so much to learn from this sort talk from David Damberger....Organisations defend so rigorously against failure (or admitting it at least). Its worth speculating about what our systems might be like if we admitted to being 'ordinary' rather than aiming for spectacular results ...
On regret
Kathryn Shultz is a wrongologist and in this TED talk she encourages us to learn to live with regret and the lessons it can teach us We need to learn to love the flawed, imperfect things that we create and to forgive ourselves for creating them. Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly. It reminds us that we know we can do better.
Viewing art is an irrational process
So now there is research to confirm what many have always known - our reaction to art is irrational. We really don't know what we're looking at and we want to believe that what we are seeing is the genuine article.
Our study shows that the way we view art is not rational, that even when we cannot distinguish between two works, the knowledge that one was painted by a renowned artist makes us respond to it very differently.
The fact that ...
Making the case for the arts – case conference
On Thursday 30th November I will be presenting some of my work at the monthly case conference at IPTAR. The notice is below and it would be great to see you there.
The Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR)
Center for Socio-Analytic Studies
Monthly Case Conference
Wednesday, November 30
11:30-1:00
Annette Clancy, MSc
Organizational Consultant, Psychotherapist &
Doctoral Candidate University of Bath (England) School of Management
'In the so-called arts it has always been acknowledged that many of the things we value most — the gods and God, love ...
It’s ok not to like things…and feel alright about it
I hereby nominate this video and this song to serve as an invocation to every professional arts conference in 2012. It's short. It's to the point. It carries an important message. And it sticks with you (boy, does it stick with you). Hat tip Andrew Taylor
He made things beautiful
It's not possible to be in the world this week without encountering the many reflections on Steve Jobs' life and death. One Twitter colleague commented that Jobs had been a significant part of his small child's life though Toy Story, the animated film his child watched repeatedly on his father's iPad. As a Mac, iPod, iPhone and iPad user I'm a member of the self-confessed Apple generation (although I only took the belated leap about 3 years ago). What so ...
Slavoj Žižek on Freud and the Marx Brothers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=G-IUyHZaSks Just when you thought that Freudian theory was dead, it makes a comeback, thanks to Slavoj Žižek, our favorite Slovenian philosopher and critical theorist. Above, Žižek offers a reading that finds Freud’s model of the psyche at work in the Marx Brothers. Hyper Groucho is the super-ego; rational Chico, the ego; and mute Harpo, the id. The footage you’re watching comes from the Marx Brothers film Duck Soup (1933). Hat Tip Open Culture
Amanda draws pictures…
Amanda Lyons draws pictures. Not just regular pictures (although I'm sure she does that as well), but pictures that capture the essence of the people she's with. I know because she drew some pictures while we were having coffee as she lured me into talking about what brought me to NYC and what I was doing here and what I want to achieve in the future. We only scratched the surface but her visual representation of our conversation stopped me ...
A secret book shop in New York City
This gorgeous video from Andrew David Watson about Michael Seidenberg and the story of how his bookshop (Brazenhead Books) had to move due to the high cost of real estate - not to a cheaper neighbourhood - but into his home is both poignant and inspirational. Made with tenderness and care, the video highlight's Seidenberg's love of books and the career he has had for most of his life and then asks the question (without asking the question) - what happens when the ...
the difference between collecting curating
I enjoyed this post from Frank Chimero on the difference between collecting and curating. Frank summarises many responses to his tweeted question
Thinking about collecting vs. curating, and how the internet is muddying the line between the two.
as
Collection is additive. Curation is subtractive. Collecting is for yourself, curating is for others.
and expands the thought to
I think the thing that separates the two is intent, not in the size of the pool of stuff or in the presence of an audience, but rather ...
