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Video: 29 Ways to Stay Creative

This has been circulating a while but here is a great video with 29 tips to stay creative. I can personally relate to pretty much all of the advice.

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Curious happenings at the remotest part of the day: 4am

I stumbled across this little gem a few months back while under the addictive influence of TED videos. Poet Rives has uncovered that 4am had impressed itself on the minds of many great creatives, when wanting to communicate that most unearthly hour of the day. This nine minute clip is both funny and entertaining and highly worth watc...

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Kickstarter's CEO Perry Chen and How Ideas Can Be Funded

In an era of global austerity there are still ways to fund your creative ideas. When it comes to funding, the paradigms are shifting. I've mentioned Kickstarter before, the site that uses the crowd funding model and draws on your fans to fund your visions and work. Perry Chan the founder of Kickstarter recently gave a talk at...

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Inspiration: Alex Katz at Tate St Ives

I have been meaning to share more of others' work, that I find inspirational. Helen and I had a rare child free morning last Saturday so we headed to Tate St Ives. Tate are currently exhibiting the work of New York painter Alex Katz, showing a collection of painting spanning from his early work in the 1950s right up to very recent la...

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Old 1900 Paris Map on 20x200

When I released Old Maps of Paris and Old Maps of New York projects my ambition was that they would come in useful and educate. I am pleased to see that 20x200 are selling one of the Paris maps from oldmapsofparis.com to raise money for their Artist Fund (that helps promote artists worldwide). Although I have done some cleanup and pr...

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