I’M NOT SAYING THAT IT’S EVIDENCE OF ANCIENT ALIENS, BUT IT’S EVIDENCE OF ANCIENT ALIENS:Ancient cave carving depicts six-legged mantis-man.
Creativity, it is said, is intelligence having fun. It’s the ability to generate ideas, solutions or insights that are strikingly original, and yet feasible: in cognitive terms, a compelling creative idea doesn’t break down if one were to systematically tease apart its logic. At the same time, it weaves together concepts that were never before part of the same fabric.
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It’s worth doing – and worth sharing.
120,000 Film Industry Workers Laid Off
The film and TV industry worldwide has experienced a near-total cessation of activity, with thousands of largely freelance crew laid off at short notice with little or no financial compensation. Scores of productions, ranging from studio shoots such as the Avatar sequels and Fantastic Beasts 3 toindependent films such as Paul Schrader’s The Card Counter, have been halted. – The Guardian
Music Moves To Streaming Live – But First To Figure Out What Works
On an individual level, innumerable artists and bands have rearranged tours or scrapped them altogether. With streaming still offering low royalty rates for artists, most musicians rely on essential revenue from touring. So can a livestreamed show be a feasible replacement for the real thing? – The Guardian
Be The Curator. New Online Tool Lets You Create Your Own Show
The charity Art UK, which lists every publicly owned oil painting on its online database and is in the process of adding every sculpture, has announced details of a new curation tool. It will allow members of the public to curate their own online shows, choosing from more than 200,000 oil paintings and 16,000 sculptures in UK galleries from the Shetlands to Scilly. – The Guardian
You Might Not Be Born With Talent, But You Can Learn Creativity
It’s tempting to ask if we can learn to be more creative. Creativity does havesome genetic heritability: talent – mathematical, musical – runs in families. For example, the Dutch identical twins David Oyens and Pieter Oyens were both successful 19th-century painters. But, given that the human brain is plastic, constantly learning and changing, can we also learn to be creative, based on our experiences? – Aeon
Personal Postscript — I move beyond Longfellow’s metaphor by offering my own: I guess we are not supposed to take ourselves too seriously during these difficult days. We are, we are told, merely bit players who travel across the stage for a small moment in a bigger drama; the director has everything under control, we are told, but who really is the director, and what are the director’s motives?
Furthermore, on a somewhat different note, I wonder if worldwide economic health is being unnecessarily sacrificed in the name of public health. Don’t misunderstand me. No one should needlessly die from a virus. But millions of businesses and personal economies should not be destroyed. Governments are out of control! They are exercising authorities they do not morally possess. God help us all!
“Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come."
The tide rises, the tide falls,
The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;
Along the sea-sands damp and brown
The traveller hastens toward the town,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
Darkness settles on roofs and walls,
But the sea, the sea in the darkness calls;
The little waves, with their soft, white hands,
Efface the footprints in the sands,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls
Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls;
The day returns, but nevermore
Returns the traveller to the shore,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
Personal Postscript — I move beyond Longfellow’s metaphor by offering my own: I guess we are not supposed to take ourselves too seriously during these difficult days. We are, we are told, merely bit players who travel across the stage for a small moment in a bigger drama; the director has everything under control, we are told, but who really is the director, and what are the director’s motives?
Furthermore, on a somewhat different note, I wonder if worldwide economic health is being unnecessarily sacrificed in the name of public health. Don’t misunderstand me. No one should needlessly die from a virus. But millions of businesses and personal economies should not be destroyed. Governments are out of control! They are exercising authorities they do not morally possess. God help us all!
“Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come."
