by Avery White | Jan 15, 2018 | Challenges
…maybe that’s a little dramatic. But here in Thailand, I use Google Translate a lot. And in that use, I’ve noticed that the longer the sentence, the less accurate the translation. In fact, I frequently find myself summarizing my thoughts down to a single word so...
by Avery White | Oct 9, 2017 | Challenges
I think… that sometimes we get so caught up in trying to say something profound, that we forget to say anything at all. This harms our creativity. It’s not about painting a Mona Lisa every time we sit down to craft something – the point is that we...
by Avery White | Oct 2, 2017 | Challenges
Life does not give receipts… So what if, for the moments however brief, we are given to create something we choose to be grateful for them? Would our creativity be encouraged by the idea that there are others out there prohibited to express any of it for want of...
by Avery White | Sep 27, 2017 | Challenges
The Pirate of 1831 Wanting to keep today’s post short: 1) Like Russia, Liechtenstein, Germany, Norway, and America go pirate a copy of that 1619 classic tune to Britain’s “God Save the Queen”. 2) Grab a pen 3) Like Samuel Smith in 1831, crank...
by Avery White | Sep 25, 2017 | Challenges
Starting Someplace The creative brain falls between a laboratory and an easel. It is the overflowing sketchbook, the jot file, and sticky note thinking that occasionally yields an idea worth exploring. My creativity works in cycles. A friend of mine said recently...
by Avery White | Apr 12, 2017 | Challenges
Background Track: Adam N – (CC0 1.0) Echo. The legacy of sound reverberating through silence with power to change reality, identity, and perception. Ugly. Unwanted. Insufficient. A spoken cruise missile to the psyche crippling our self-perception beyond any hope...
