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Extreme Whiteboarding

jted — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 05:57:08 +0000

Whiteboarding is a term often used in creative circles to describe a free-form brainstorming session where participants write their ideas on a… wait for it… white board. This animator uses the whiteboard to create a stream of consciousness style animation with perpetual innovation and refreshment of ideas. It is a brainstorm come to life. It is 10 ideas every 10 seconds. It is fabulous to watch, and I want to see more. I love it when the sun starts to set on his day and you can see the shadows and light come over the board.

UPDATE: For more information on this video, the artist and the music track, visit the ViralVideoHQ Wiki entry.

New York City Columbus Circle Fake Miniature

jted — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 05:26:18 +0000

Inspired by all the fake miniatures on Flickr, I decided to make my own. This is a photo taken from the Time Warner building of Columbus Circle at the SW corner of Central Park, and then treated with a series of blurs to fake a narrow depth of field which tricks your brain into thinking it’s very, very small.

The First 10 Creative People Who Come to Mind (in no particular order of importance or stature)

jted — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 04:14:42 +0000

1. Albrecht Dürer

2.Douglas Coupland

3. Dave Eggers

4. Edward Tufte

5. Nicholson Baker

6. Chris Ware

7. Hergé

8. Nick Bantock

9. Bruce Mau

10. Liam Lynch

This list was created very quickly and reveals more about me than it does about creativity. After a quick review I realize how highly I view authors and designers. 9 out of 10 on this list are authors, designers, or a combination of both. And then there’s Liam. I still can’t decide whether I truly like his work or am just fascinated by his ability to create volumes of material, without seeming to worry if it’s good or bad.
These people create more than they consume. Albrecht and Herge are dead, but the rest are probably working on something right now instead of watching American Idol. I would love to make a list of the top 1000 creative people in the world. We’d all need to agree on the criterion together: would it have to do with volume over time? Or based on the average critical review (like RottenTomatoes.com)? Or judgement by peers? Would we want to segment by category? Can you compare Jimmy Hendrix to Woody Allen? Would you want to?

Who are the first ten creative people to pop into your head?

Martin Redux

jted — Tue, 03 May 2005 19:56:17 +0000

“My father was Judge Gomery”

Check out this wonderful Prime Minister Martin Mash-up from the crazy-talents of Mike Nowland aka slowmotionlandscape aka Secretarial… Then poke around the site. You will be blown away by the volume and dope stylings of this blog of blogs.

Sorry, but you kinda hafta be Canadian to get this one…