As an ongoing practice in creativity, I investigate the world with magnified eyes. I have been using my iPhone as a lens to capture the rare moments where something strikes me as evidence of creativity, that is, symbols of the imagination unfettered by logic, stamped in the visual landscape. I click on that moment as… Continue Reading
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Being an Artist, Being Twenty-Something Years Old and the Roaring 1920s by Diana Rivera
“Chance is the one thing you can’t buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time.” –Robert Doisneau There are always access points on the grid of… Continue Reading
The 2012 of Creativity: Parisian Back Streets to the Imagination and Yann Tiersen by Diana Rivera
I have never met anyone with a developed sensitivity for films that abhorred the film Amelie. Sure there are people with gripes, but down right hate. No way. You’d have to be somehow cold-blooded, or at least luke warm, to not appreciate the capricious main character played by Audrey Tautou, the luminous Parisian cafes, and the… Continue Reading
Hedy Lamarr: Patent Beauty, Patent Invention by Diana Rivera
“I have not been that wise. Health I took for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized it’s true worth when I didn’t have it.” –Hedy Lamar Hedy Lamarr (1913-2000) is a Hollywood starlet in a luminescent observatory. She has been waiting for the… Continue Reading
Creative Miami: Nina Surel’s Studio, a Touch of the Feminine by Diana Rivera
On a recent trip to Miami, I came with a question: What is Creativity Today: Miami? Inside of me I was curious about the people and places that make up a synergistic artist community in the southern most cosmopolitan city of the United States, crowned and arranged in la hispanidad. Beyond Art Basel Miami, and… Continue Reading
The Art of Physics and Beethoven
Energy can be neither created, nor destroyed. It can only change form. This is a law of energy conservation and also a premise for creative activity. It could help to explain the energy it takes to create a product from one’s imagination, as well as the challenges artists overcome, to direct energy toward their artistic… Continue Reading
Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road’s Message about Creativity and Children
I am a ponderer. I’ll write something and I am mulling over things for weeks later. I discussed in the last blog, and consequently ranted for days later, about the nature of having a message in one’s art work. Does it give more sound to the painted colors on canvas? Does it give more texture… Continue Reading
Albert Einstein, Robert Wilson and Phillip Glass on the Beach by Diana Rivera
Did you know that Einstein interviewed poets to learn about the nature of intuition and imagination? It was a form of collaboration between artist and scientist (Einstein was in fact a versed violinist who would, in a moment of scientist block, play his violin to help him find an answer to his theories), and is… Continue Reading
Tool Box, Ladder and Lightning: the 3 S’s of the Co-Creator Series
I’m a total believer that when an achievable idea clicks, it happens quickly and effortlessly (at least at the beginning) and then it sticks. It’s as if the tick-tock of the inner clock finally strikes at the moment of some timed conception. It’s as if it was pre-designed, pre-orchestrated, pre-choreographed in the waiting room of… Continue Reading
Rite of Passage for the Creative
“In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art.” — E.M. Forster The… Continue Reading