Pinboard (matthewmcvickar) https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/public/ recent bookmarks from matthewmcvickar John Lee on Twitter: "Some things that Milton Glaser said to my SVA class." 2020-08-09T18:52:24+00:00 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1276721178841841664.html matthewmcvickarSome things that Milton Glaser said to my SVA class, which I still think are good. In no particular order: - It should be impossible to be in the arts and not be generous - One of art's highest functions is to prevent ppl from killing each other. - Fame & money are corrosive, and you need to recognize this early - Art is a survival mechanism - Make ppl feel like they have something in common; that they aren't alone - Every artist should view themselves as citizens, not illustrators, designers etc. - Drawing is one of the only times he sees things that are 'real' - It's one of the rare experiences that he creates for himself. "The noise disappears" - Drawing shows your brain - Drawing expressively and evocatively is harder than drawing realistically - Artists don't say "where do I begin?" They've already began. - Drawing is in the realm of the miraculous. It's a miraculous occurrence. - The most modest of subjects can come alive in a drawing - What is the distance between what you see, and what you draw? - ALL my work is personal work. The only boundary is how I determine how it's used. - You get nothing but problems when you do work that conflicts w your integrity. - In any design problem, your client has needs, your audience has needs, but you also have needs - You attract what you do - Everything is connected and has an effect on the world. - There is no such thing as coincidence - Whether you like it or not, your work is ABOUT social responsibility - Don't overprotect. Share your vision at all times]]> art creativity quotations https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:55d326028ff8/ Dave Makes on Twitter: "idk what this is yet but I had an idea…" 2020-08-09T18:17:03+00:00 https://twitter.com/davemakes/status/1090077970968936448 matthewmcvickar videogames creativity https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:658f24474ae0/ bored.solutions 2020-04-16T16:56:52+00:00 https://bored.solutions/ matthewmcvickarTimes are tough right now. We could all use a little help with ideas to stay active, healthy & happy. We’ll gradually add more ideas so come back every once in a while. Enjoy!]]> creativity fun covid19 https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:fd0e5c1a40b4/ 99% Invisible: Whomst Among Us Let the Dogs Out 2020-02-12T20:46:16+00:00 https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/whomst-among-us-let-the-dogs-out/ matthewmcvickarAll kinds of songs get stuck in your head. Famous pop tunes from when you were a kid, album cuts you’ve listened to over and over again. And then there’s a category of memorable songs—the ones that we all just kind of know. Songs that somehow, without anyone’s permission, sneak their way into the collective unconscious and are now just lingering there for eternity. There’s one song that best exemplifies this phenomenon— “Who Let The Dogs Out” by the Baha Men.]]> music creativity copyright https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:eca905c195a3/ Oliver Burkeman: This column will change your life: Helsinki Bus Station Theory (The Guardian) 2019-10-15T19:45:06+00:00 https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/feb/23/change-life-helsinki-bus-station-theory matthewmcvickarThere are two reasons this metaphor is so compelling – apart from the sheer fact that it's Finland-related, I mean. One is how vividly it illustrates a critical insight about persistence: that in the first weeks or years of any worthwhile project, feedback – whether from your own emotions, or from other people – isn't a reliable indication of how you're doing. (This shouldn't be confused with the dodgy dictum that triggering hostile reactions means you must be doing the right thing; it just doesn't prove you're doing the wrong one.) The second point concerns the perils of a world that fetishises originality. A hundred self-help books urge you to have the guts to be "different": the kid who drops out of university to launch a crazy-sounding startup becomes a cultural hero… yet the Helsinki theory suggests that if you pursue originality too vigorously, you'll never reach it. Sometimes it takes more guts to keep trudging down a pre-trodden path, to the originality beyond. "Stay on the fucking bus": there are worse fridge-magnet slogans to live by.]]> creativity work https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:79c7b3d4b7a2/ David Crenshaw: 2018-05-18 2019-07-20T23:45:13+00:00 https://crawshaw.io/blog/searching-the-creative-internet matthewmcvickarWhat I miss about my "90s internet" wasn't it specifically, with its slow data links, tiny JPEGs, buffering RealPlayer, or the tag. It did not have the tiniest fraction of the wonderful content the internet has today. What I miss is that I could "go on the internet" and be in a creative corner of the human experience. Today if you "go on the internet", that means you pulled your phone out of your pocket, dismissed some notification spam and start reading click-bait shared by people you have met on social media. Today you have to choke your way through the money-making miasma to find the joy. I wish the internet of creative people and their works had a front page and a search engine. Something that made finding the blog about the search for planet 9 easy to find, and the New Yorker article on it hard to find. [...] What is not clear to me yet is how those tools should work. How do we build a search engine that penalizes media outlets and promotes blogs and podcasts? How do we distinguish between a research paper or an article written by someone about their daily life aboard ISS on nasa.gov from their useless press releases?]]> creativity internet https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:a048203f3397/ Darius Kazemi: Thoughts on Small Projects 2014-06-18T02:22:01+00:00 http://tinysubversions.com/2014/05/thoughts-on-small-projects/ matthewmcvickarI don’t care about advancing the state of the art. I care about being a creative person who lives a good life and does projects that make me happy.]]> creativity https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:875c1c1edccf/ Ben Pieratt: A 3-step process for naming a project/product. (And some resources) 2014-02-20T18:59:22+00:00 http://blog.pieratt.com/post/77293289254/a-3-step-process-for-naming-a-project-product-and matthewmcvickarNaming a project is always an awful experience.]]> names creativity productivity https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:4a347f9a0131/ Linda Holmes: Hey, Kid: Thoughts For The Young Oddballs We Need So Badly (NPR) 2013-09-07T22:44:40+00:00 http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2013/07/19/203565597/hey-kid-thoughts-for-the-young-oddballs-we-need-so-badly matthewmcvickarLearn the difference between feedback and criticism. Feedback is primarily for you; criticism (in the sense of "a movie critic" or "an arts critic") is primarily not. Criticism is part of an ongoing cultural conversation that's designed to make everybody smarter and better and more thoughtful and to advance the art form itself; it's done even when the creator of a piece is long dead. It's not really for you. Feedback, on the other hand, is aimed at you to make you better, and that's the only kind of feedback worth paying attention to. If you can't listen to it and take it in without your hackles rising, you will never become good. Period, boom, g'bye.]]> advice art creativity criticism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:a163829a8cf1/ Andre Torrez: Learn to code? Learn to create! 2013-01-11T23:37:32+00:00 http://notes.torrez.org/2013/01/learn-to-code-learn-to-create.html matthewmcvickarKnowing how to program has been one of the most fulfilling skills I have acquired in my life, but I believe having the ability to ship something into the world for people to use is much more important.]]> advice creativity education programming https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:aaae0bc1268a/ Lindsay Zoladz: How To Not Not-Write 2012-10-04T09:56:02+00:00 http://lindsayzoladz.tumblr.com/post/31203662171/how-to-not-not-write matthewmcvickarI am starting to think that the best advice—the only advice, maybe—you can give comes out of your own haphazard, irregular, lucky, accidental experience.]]> advice writing creativity https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:e248862b8d72/ Mack Hagood: (misread) study of the day (mactrasound) 2012-06-23T07:09:06+00:00 http://mactra.tumblr.com/post/25584455634/misread-study-of-the-day matthewmcvickarYesterday at Atlantic.com, Hans Villarica posted “Study of the Day: Why Crowded Coffee Shops Fire Up Your Creativity,” a rundown of a research study that alleges moderate noise is beneficial to creativity. While I’m intrigued by the question of noise and individual cognition in public(ish) spaces, the Atlantic post exemplifies the way that research loses its contextual trappings as soon as it enters “the cultural conversation” to become the kind of free-floating “news you can use” that inevitably gets “contradicted” in subsequent studies, undermining people’s faith in the academy.
…even the most cursory skim of the actual journal article provides contextual information that undermines Villarica’s pithy, straightforward advice.
]]> sound research journalism reporting creativity society https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:60d7e0936aaa/ Andy Baio: Criminal Creativity: Untangling Cover Song Licensing on YouTube (Waxy.org) 2012-05-21T00:59:57+00:00 http://waxy.org/2012/05/criminal_creativity_untangling_cover_song_licensing_on_youtube/ matthewmcvickarThere are millions of cover songs on YouTube, with around 12,000 new covers uploaded in the last 24 hours. Until recently, all but a sliver were illegal, considered infringement under current copyright law. Nearly all were non-commercial, created out of love by fans of the source material, with no negative impact on the market value of the original. This is creativity criminalized, quite possibly the most popular creative act that's against the law.]]> music copyright creativity https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:5cc8633788c5/ Jesse Thorn: Make Your Thing: 12 Point Program for Absolutely, Positively 1000% No-Fail Guaranteed Success (Transom) 2012-03-05T03:54:40+00:00 http://transom.org/?p=24153 matthewmcvickar entrepreneurship inspiration life work creativity https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:d306d9b9e7cb/ 37signals: Advice from Coudal on how to transition from client work to products 2011-04-05T19:43:31+00:00 http://37signals.com/svn/posts/975-advice-from-coudal-on-how-to-transition-from-client-work-to-products matthewmcvickar startups work creativity inspiration freelancing https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:7df4aeff68c1/ Seth's Blog: Bring me stuff that's dead, please 2011-03-15T01:45:31+00:00 http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/03/bring-me-stuff-thats-dead-please.html matthewmcvickar internet creativity technology writing https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:98ee6073c947/ The Chronicle Review: The Pleasures of Imagination 2010-06-07T00:20:19+00:00 http://chronicle.com/article/The-Pleasures-of-Imagination/65678 matthewmcvickar brain consciousness culture creativity fiction imagination play psychology fantasy https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:7cb0666e50e3/ BBC News: Creative minds 'mimic schizophrenia' 2010-05-31T04:47:24+00:00 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/10154775.stm matthewmcvickar brain creativity health neuroscience psychology science mental https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:c45e4b3033e9/ Milton Glaser: Things I Have Learned 2009-09-04T20:20:47+00:00 http://www.miltonglaser.com/pages/milton/essays/es3.html matthewmcvickar design art business inspiration creativity philosophy productivity life advice work wisdom miltonglaser https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:92678142d258/ David Shrigley: Photographs 2009-06-02T19:58:53+00:00 http://www.davidshrigley.com/list_photographs.html matthewmcvickar photography outdoorart humor art inspiration weird creativity gallery portfolio https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:54e689fda02c/ Bruce Mau Design: Incomplete Manifesto 2009-03-12T22:10:24+00:00 http://www.brucemaudesign.com/incomplete_manifesto.html matthewmcvickar affirmations inspiration art creativity philosophy life manifesto https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:4d8e100c979f/ NYTimes.com: I LEGO N.Y. 2009-02-03T22:39:16+00:00 http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/02/i-lego-ny/?em matthewmcvickar lego design humor art inspiration creativity games nyc buildings photography https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:6d1e071745fc/ the show with zefrank: washington, ideas, brain crack 2009-01-31T00:35:07+00:00 http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/07/071106.html matthewmcvickar humor video inspiration creativity zefrank comedy https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:9ed0c95cbc74/ Technology Review: Blogs: Ed Boyden's Blog: How to Think 2008-12-08T22:36:02+00:00 http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/boyden/21925/ matthewmcvickar technology inspiration education creativity lifehack psychology productivity ideas mind brain thinking learning https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:3a7abe1352e9/ EepyBird's Sticky Note Experiment 2008-09-12T12:30:54+00:00 http://vimeo.com/1700732 matthewmcvickar video creativity officesupplies art fun color https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:6747ea786e01/ Psychology Today: The Creative Personality by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 2008-08-20T11:41:07+00:00 http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/index.php?term=19960701-000033 matthewmcvickar psychology people inspiration creativity research https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:167763f92e00/ Nick Veasey 2008-07-11T20:48:18+00:00 http://www.nickveasey.com/ matthewmcvickar xray photography art portfolio creativity graphics design https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:2e6fadf2a442/ whytheluckystiff: Kids Invented the Gun Machine in No Uncertain Pixel Paints 2008-06-17T14:57:03+00:00 http://whytheluckystiff.net/clog/wander/kidsInventedTheGunMachineInNoUncertainPixelPaints.html matthewmcvickar art humor weird invention creativity children https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:886c4b06810e/ Kevin Kelly: The Technium: Scenius 2008-06-11T17:21:53+00:00 http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/06/scenius_or_comm.php matthewmcvickar community creativity culture society people https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:1c7d3ffd0f26/ Clay Shirky: Here Comes Everybody: Gin, Television, and Social Surplus 2008-05-24T04:23:27+00:00 http://www.herecomeseverybody.org/2008/04/looking-for-the-mouse.html matthewmcvickar books creativity culture future society newmedia technology people https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:d65c18273e6e/ Flickr: Ryan Junell: You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb 2008-03-17T07:37:20+00:00 http://flickr.com/photos/ryanjunell/sets/72157604082575875/ matthewmcvickar music video photography creativity inspiration https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:957da55da5be/ A List Apart: "On Creativity" by Andy Rutledge 2008-03-15T02:21:21+00:00 http://www.alistapart.com/articles/oncreativity matthewmcvickar creativity business design philosophy webdesign https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:ba4aa24743de/ Design Museum: Jonathan Ive - Celebrating 25 Years of Design 2007-09-18T15:20:03+00:00 http://www.designmuseum.org/design/jonathan-ive matthewmcvickar apple mac jonathanive design technology art ipod inspiration interview creativity https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:40d084efcaba/ Kim Cameron: Emperor of the Amateurs 2007-09-03T00:09:40+00:00 http://www.identityblog.com/?p=853 matthewmcvickar internet newmedia media creativity ugc bookreview https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:b284dac2cc87/ Coudal Partners: What We Do 2007-08-29T22:45:40+00:00 http://www.coudal.com/splaining.php matthewmcvickar design webdevelopment creativity inspiration https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:5d235e25af86/ Graphic Define Magazine: How To Think Like A Great Graphic Designer 2007-08-14T21:32:45+00:00 http://www.graphicdefine.org/issue4/thinklikeadesigner matthewmcvickar design inspiration creativity https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:7241583d4bcf/ TED: Talks 2007-06-14T19:00:44+00:00 http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks matthewmcvickar video technology talks ted inspiration ideas creativity design business future media science presentation people speech web https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:940db6176fca/ cecil vortex: An Interview with Ze Frank 2007-06-02T03:57:44+00:00 http://cecilvortex.com/swath/2007/03/29/an_interview_with_ze_frank.html matthewmcvickar zefrank creativity psychology https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:30cb67911298/ Learning To Love You More 2007-05-05T15:48:24+00:00 http://www.learningtoloveyoumore.com/index2.php matthewmcvickar creativity art diy projects community fun https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:3a1934e0f9d7/