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Storytelling

Storytelling in the round – experiments in 360 video

This post was originally published on Inspiring Learning, where I do most of my worky blogging. It’s not often we get to do overseas work in this job, but last weekend I was at the international digital storytelling conference in Greece, running a workshop on digital storytelling using 360 video. I’m going to hold my […]

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Creativity

OK Go – creativity and pushing the limits of one-shot promos

OK Go have released another promo video this week that pushes the limits of the one-shot format, a prime example of creativity within constraints.

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Creativity

Tony Visconti – Making Bowie’s “Heroes”

This is one of the best things I’ve seen on the web for ages. Tony Visconti, David Bowie’s legendary producer talks to BBC Arts about the recording of Heroes in Berlin in 1977. It’s a fascinating view into a particular creative process and quite emotional given Bowie’s recent death.

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Creativity

A way to talk about creativity

Too many people say they are not creative when what they actually mean is they can’t draw, dance or play a musical instrument. Creativity is not synonymous with artistic skill. This video of a talk by Aza Raskin shows that creativity is about how you operate within a set of constraints.

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Creativity

Scott Adams: The best way to kill creativity

Scott Adams, creator of the awesome Dilbert strip, has blogged about why the best way to kill creativity is to encourage it. The creative impulse will out, usually as a response to discomfort or insecurity. Creating an environment which is “condus…