Want Creative Workers? Loosen The Reins, Boss

Philip Glass, the contemporary composer, works on his new compositions only between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. That’s the time, he says, when his creative ideas come to him. When filmmaker George Lucas needs to write or edit a script, he sequesters himself in a small cottage behind his house where he gets no calls or visitors.

Want Creative Workers? Loosen the Reins, Boss

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How Creative Commons saved Ficlets

Robotech sez, "In '07, Boing Boing covered Ficlets.com, a Creative Commons-based project with involvement by John Scalzi and Wil Wheaton, in which people could write stories in 1024-byte chunks, including ones based on other peoples' stories. In early 2009, AOL shuttered Ficlets--but the CC license came to the rescue, allowing its contents to be scooped and rehosted elsewhere. 3 mo. later, a new version of the site launched: ficly.com. I wrote this piece going into more detail about how the CC license saved Ficlets."

How Creative Commons saved Ficlets

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Adobe Forecast Tops Estimates on Creative Suite Sales

Dec. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Adobe Systems Inc., the top maker of graphic-design programs, forecast fiscal first-quarter profit that exceeded analysts’ estimates, bolstered by resurgent sales of the company’s desktop-publishing software.

Adobe Forecast Tops Estimates on Creative Suite Sales

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Advertising: Grey New York to Be Led by Its Chief Creative Officer

Tor Myhren’s promotion is the first time Grey New York will be led by its chief creative officer, a position he will keep.

Advertising: Grey New York to Be Led by Its Chief Creative Officer

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Creative Commons Xmas carol, "Please Share Alike"

Lawrence Lessig, Leo Laporte, Dick DeBartolo, Zadi Diaz, Kevin Kelly, and Mark and me sang along in "A Creative Commons Christmas Carol," a freely licensed Christmas carol.

Creative Commons Xmas carol, "Please Share Alike"

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Interview with Thomas Gayno of Google's Creative Lab about Wilderness Downtown

In September, when I first saw the Wilderness Downtown, the interactive music video by director Chris Milk and musical group Arcade Fire, I said it was the best piece of Net art I'd seen in over a decade. I stand by that. Working on this tour de force of HTML5, Milk had top-notch collaborators inside Google Creative Lab. My pal David-Michel Davies, exec director of the Webby Awards, recently visited with the Lab's marketing manager Thomas Gayno there and posted some notes from their conversation:

What would you say is the main goal for the Creative Lab in supporting and working on a project like Wilderness Downtown?

The Wilderness Downtown is part of ChromeExperiments.com, which is one of the first projects that my team created. The main goal here was to show what the browser can really do today. I remember a friend of mine who told me the other day that he found his daughter on his computer playing with one of Mr. Doob’s Chrome Experiments, an amazing drawing tool, and she was basically going crazy making unexpected things with it. That six-year-old girl was just having a lot of creative fun through the browser, without noticing or realizing what kind of technology was beyond that. It’s quite amazing to see that now, through the browser, you can let children make things and express their creativity – having a lot of fun playing with drawing tools. Real interactions are now possible...

It’s interesting that some of these developers are pushing further into the world of artistry. In a way, coding has always been an art, but it’s a very sort of mathematical art.

Yeah, it’s fascinating that we start seeing some of these works in contemporary art museums, such as Aaron Koblin’s Flight Patterns. Aaron modeled all the flights across the US to show you how the US air traffic was actually making a lot of sense. It is a beautiful, such simple and clean animation. Things like this are now paving the way for a new generation of people who could be called data artists. I’m curious to see how universities, art schools and museums will adapt themselves to that and create new programs that combine arts with computer science. 

"Behind the Scenes of Google Creative Lab’s The Wilderness Downtown"

Interview with Thomas Gayno of Google's Creative Lab about Wilderness Downtown

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