Creative Slacking

Though I personally have been in something of a creative lull for months now, I am trying to encourage myself to get back on the saddle. Part of that process is of course, reading books on being a creative. I'm about half-way through a really great one by Ellen Langer called On Becoming An Artist. My original thought, when I saw that title, was that I already am an artist so why would I need to read this book? But the title has more to do with what the author learned about becoming an artist than how the reader could become an artist. Anyway, so that should get my juices going a bit.

And I love this quote that the author included:

"The important thing is never to let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries; to continue steadfastly on one's way without letting oneself be either defeated by failure or diverted by applause." -Gustav Mahler

Meanwhile, this is a project we recently finished at work. It's not my best work, I think, but for the short time-frame in which we had to get it done, and the basic idea comes across pretty well.



Until next time...keep creating!

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