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Refrigerator Art
I read a lot about creativity. I see myself as a creative person, but not in a field that is traditionally seen as “creative”. But what is creativity? Creating. You create something for some reason and put it out there.
Then what is software? That’s creating code to teach a crystal with lightning how to show the internet. I digress. This isn’t a post about why software is a creative trade.
Back to reading. I’ve found a pattern of books that spark my creative interest: they focus more about sharing your work or making space in your head to make the work than anything else.
Both Show Your Work by Austin Kleon and Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte talk about this concept of bite sized work. They call this work “stock” or “intermediate packets”, respectively. And respectively? I hate those terms.
So I’m going to make refrigerator art. Refrigerator art is bite sized, something you see when your main point isn’t to Observe Art™, and there is no pressure on quality. If a 6 year old can make art deemed worthy of the refrigerator in a day, then so can I.
I’m not sure what medium this will take—infographics, mini blog posts, water color, lil doodles, whatever. But it doesn’t matter. The sheer fact that this refrigerator art is coming from my brain means it is a cohesive body of work. I’m what ties it together!
But maybe you can expect a more deep dive into these books I’ve found creatively intriguing. But also this isn’t an assignment to me. I CAN DO WHAT I WANT.
It’s Refrigerator Art ✨
(Find all books from graphic on my list on Bookshop.org)
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It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Manoush Zomorodi. Today on the show, wheat & wheat by-products. Can they be trusted?
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By being bored you can be a creative problem-solver
When I’m bored or anxious I bite my nails. Everyone who has known me for any length of time has at some point tried to swat my hand away from my mouth. I’m like a little kid that way. It is the worst habit ever. But then again, it might not be.
According to journalist and ted talk podcaster Manoush Zomorodi boredom can be good for you. She gave a Ted Talk based on neuroscience research which has…
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The art of doing nothing
Twiddling your thumbs is often associated with wasting time. But feel shame about thumb-twiddling no longer.
In a world of calendars and to-do lists, something has got to give. We so often fear doing nothing, missing out, or getting behind. Our smartphones make it increasingly hard to disconnect from the attention economy. But studies show there are benefits to dilly-dallying when it comes to your work and your health.
Why is it so hard to do absolutely zilch on any given day? How can we try to reap the benefits of doing nothing at all? We bring together a panel to discuss.
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Jenny Odell birdwatcher; author, "How to do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy" and "Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock"
Manoush Zomorodi host, NPR's Ted Radio Hour and the new series, "Body Electric;" author, "Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Creative Self"
Sharon Salzberg co-founder, Insight Meditation Society at Barre, Massachusetts
LISTEN 46:03 https://the1a.org/segments/the-art-of-doing-nothing/
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How boredom can lead to your most brilliant ideas
How boredom can lead to your most brilliant ideas
Do you sometimes have your most creative ideas while folding laundry, washing dishes or doing nothing in particular? It's because when your body goes on autopilot, your brain gets busy forming new neural connections that connect ideas and solve problems. Learn to love being bored as Manoush Zomorodi
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How boredom can lead to your most brilliant ideas
How boredom can lead to your most brilliant ideas
Do you sometimes have your most creative ideas while folding laundry, washing dishes or doing nothing in particular? It's because when your body goes on autopilot, your brain gets busy forming new neural connections that connect ideas and solve problems. Learn to love being bored as Manoush Zomorodi
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How boredom can lead to your most brilliant ideas
How boredom can lead to your most brilliant ideas
Do you sometimes have your most creative ideas while folding laundry, washing dishes or doing nothing in particular? It's because when your body goes on autopilot, your brain gets busy forming new neural connections that connect ideas and solve problems. Learn to love being bored as Manoush Zomorodi
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How boredom can lead to your most brilliant ideas
How boredom can lead to your most brilliant ideas
Do you sometimes have your most creative ideas while folding laundry, washing dishes or doing nothing in particular? It's because when your body goes on autopilot, your brain gets busy forming new neural connections that connect ideas and solve problems. Learn to love being bored as Manoush Zomorodi
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Disconnection Notice
I don’t know what to do with myself without social media.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t even post a lot. But I get sucked in on the endless and mindless scrolling. It fills up a lot of my lull time and has become my pacifier.
When I look at my life now, I can say that it’s uneventful -- and I can’t even attribute that to me choosing to stay home. It’s the lack of things that I do at home because I am consumed by my doom scrolling.
One of the artists I follow said this on her vlog about disconnecting from social media for a month:
“Because I couldn’t find the new shiny thing on my phone, I started becoming way more interested in finding new things in my life that were interesting. It was almost like I was high on life. I became really interested in history and art history and other people's art career and I started becoming way more interested in things that I haven't done before and wanting to learn new things because yet again, I wasn't like I wasn't feeling overwhelmed and like over stimulated like sensory stimulated by my phone.”
this is what happened and how it changed my art practice, Fran Meneses
I don’t want to continue being the person who says “I just laid down this weekend” but I also don’t want to push myself to go out when I prefer staying in. I am paying subscription for YouTube and Netflix, but I rarely use it. I have new art supplies, but it feels so tiring to clean the mess afterwards. I’ve accumulated books from the past months (or years) but I say I haven’t got the time to read them.
I want to be bored, and not default to reaching for my phone to scroll on Facebook or Twitter. I want to be bored and enjoy films, series, and documentaries again. I want to be bored and create that artwork I pinned on Pinterest. I want to be bored and reach out for that book that’s been on my bedside table for months now. I want to be bored and do something that I loved. Manoush Zomorodi, author of Bored and Brilliant, said this in her TED talk:
“So the next time you go to check your phone, remember that if you don't decide how you're going to use the technology, the platforms will decide for you. And ask yourself: What am I really looking for? Because if it's to check email, that's fine -- do it and be done. But if it's to distract yourself from doing the hard work that comes with deeper thinking, take a break, stare out the window and know that by doing nothing you are actually being your most productive and creative self. It might feel weird and uncomfortable at first, but boredom truly can lead to brilliance.”
How Boredom Can Lead to Your Most Brilliant Ideas, Manoush Zomorodi
I need to re-learn what I loved doing before being trapped in this digital era. In my head, I think I’m bored. But truthfully, I am just distracted with my phone. There is so much stuff to do and things to explore. Disconnection notice is here though, time to live life outside my shiny doom box.
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Movie studios hire her when they have a film that is set in the future and they want it to look fanciful and far-out, but still believable. (...) Corporations also hire King to predict their consumers' habits decades from now.
Rita King’s job as described in Bored and Brilliant by Manoush Zomorodi
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Dream Journal 2017-08-05: Status Updates From NPR And My Wife Starts Shitposting (And She’s Really Good At It)
That’s not a picture of my wife in the header image. That’s a photo of Manoush Zomorodi, host of the Note To Self podcast and radio personality for WNYC. I was listening to NPR in the dream (something that I often do in real life), but I didn’t hear what I was expecting. Instead of normal broadcasts about the economy and world events, there was a looping message in Manoush’s voice:
“The radio personality you are expecting has left for today. She will be back in tomorrow.” And then there was a few seconds of elevator music before the message started up again.
Oh, no! NPR is not providing the quality informative content I have come to expect from such a venerable institution! Better turn to internet sources for my news. But for some reason I decided that 4chan was a good place for news and went to the site commonly known as “the butthole of the internet” (in more polite words).
I’m scrolling through the boards when I discover that my wife has created an internet art project called “The Interactive Mood Simulacrum.” Yes, it was literally called that in the dream. And yes, I’m aware that my brain sometimes uses really pretentious words.
Shitposting, for those of you who aren’t aware of its definition, is the act of posting something mildly amusing but generally unfunny, completely random, and not related to any discussions. My wife decided that she was going to learn to shitpost, and that’s how The Interactive Mood Simulacrum came into being.
The Interactive Mood Simulacrum (TIMS from here on out) is a post on a message board that says something along the lines of “Guess my mood.” Somehow I am aware that this is something that my wife created to learn about how shitposting works. People respond to the message with a potential mood, and TIMS spits back a response that always incorporates a food item and a word that starts with the same sound as the food item. Also the responses don’t really make sense. Here are some of the ones that I remember:
“That’s cool like a quesadilla”
“You’re tipsy like a tomato”
“I’m balanced like a bean”
Supposedly TIMS incorporated some math that looked at the last few digits of each person’s post ID number to determine how to respond. But the infuriating trick was that you could only get TIMS to validate your guess if the last 2 digits of your post ID number matched the last two of the original TIMS post. So basically someone would get a “yes/no” every hundred posts or so. And in order for the mood to be guessed, it would have to be spelled exactly as it was written in the original TIMS programming. The odds of that happening (given the terrible spelling abilities of the internet and wide number of emotional possibilities) were pretty close to nonexistent.
Nevertheless, the internet became enamored with TIMS and tried for hours and thousands of posts to guess the mood. All of the guesses were unsuccessful. And I couldn’t convince my wife in the dream to tell me offline how she was feeling, because it would apparently ruin the appeal of her carefully constructed inaugural shitpost. My wife drives a hard bargain, but thanks to spamming the messageboard, someone managed to figure out the mood of TIMS.
TIMS was feeling “taco” today. No, “Taco” is not a real emotion. But it was according to TIMS. Truly my wife and TIMS are shitpost masters. My hat is tipped to their abilities.
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Picture of Manoush Zomorodi taken from her website at manoushz.com
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Real OKCupid message: “Hi, good evening, nice photos. You are not fat.” It’s rough on dating apps. Can romance survive? Eric Klinenberg wrote Modern Romance with Aziz Ansari. This week, he joins Manoush to make the case that dating apps have killed romance. Featuring a mystery dater, reporting from the frontier of 21st century love. ------- Subscribe to our Wednesday morning newsletter for info on new episodes, our must-reads, and the news you need to get just a little geeky. Follow us on Twitter @manoushz and @notetoself, or on Facebook. Email us any time at [email protected] - we love to hear from you. Responses from real humans, not bots, promise.
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BREAKING THE BLACK BOX
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