The Guardian and Observer Film Season: name the films challenge
/via guardian.co.uk
Can you name all 26 films? Some are recognizable immediately, some look familiar but not familiar enough to know the film, some are unrecognizable. Great animation.
(via @veryshortlist)
Diane Ragsdale on Surviving the Culture Change
/via vimeo.com
Diane Ragsdale’s Keynote at the Arts Alliance Illinois 2010. In 40 minutes Ragsdale delivers an accurate state of the performing arts, provides six well-informed, achievable steps to embrace cultural, technological and sociological change and encourages a forward-thinking vision of art-making. Another presentation that accurately explains my philosophy of art and how it should be supported and marketed.
The fine dopamine line between creativity and schizophrenia
/New research shows a possible explanation for the link between mental health and creativity. By studying receptors in the brain, researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have managed to show that the dopamine system in healthy, highly creative people is similar in some respects to that seen in people with schizophrenia.
High creative skills have been shown to be somewhat more common in people who have mental illness in the family. Creativity is also linked to a slightly higher risk of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Certain psychological traits, such as the ability to make unusual or bizarre associations are also shared by schizophrenics and healthy, highly creative people. And now the correlation between creativity and mental health has scientific backing.
“We have studied the brain and the dopamine D2 receptors, and have shown that the dopamine system of healthy, highly creative people is similar to that found in people with schizophrenia,” says associate professor Fredrik Ullén from Karolinska Institutet’s Department of Women’s and Children’s Health.
via sciencecodex.com
I am looking forward to the day when a small measuring device is attached to a willing subject and we can trace what exactly happens in the brain at the moment when a new idea occurs.
Launching the Smarter Creativity Resources Store
/Today we are launching the Smarter Creativity Resources Store. Powered by Amazon.com, the store features books and resources to encourage continued self-education.
Currently the store highlights recommended items in the following categories:
The Elements
Learn Something New Everyday
Your Creative Life
Your Creative Career
The Brain & Creativity
The Business of Creativity
Creative & Inspiring Fiction
Brainstorming
True Stories
Advertising
Design
Development
Transmedia
Writing
DVDs
El Tango de Antonio
New recommended items and categories will be added weekly. Explore and you may discover something new to learn from, or a new way of approaching your work. Our thanks in advance, any purchases you make through the store help support this blog.