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Question:
How do you come up with
all your ideas?
What is Creativity and how
does it work?
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action
connection
deviation
quantity
ideation
quality
problem-
solving
originality
innovation
Elements of
Creativity
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do
glue
skew
explode
connect
configure
action
connection
deviation
induction phase
analysis phase
synthesis phase
Elements of
Creativity
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Nothing
writer’s block
creative constipationblank out
the fear
idealess
tabula rasa
uninspired
emptiness
inertia
mental barriers
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“Unpredictable
behavior so sensitive
to changes and
conditions that it
appears random”
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Chaos Theory
infers that
the Universe
was determined
from the spark
of conception
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“Quantum physics
indicates that
uncertainty is an
inherent feature of
the physical world.”
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Any given particle
could be anywhere
in the Universe until
it is ‘needed’ or
observed
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“I like to
believethat
the moon is
stillthereeven
ifwedon’tlook
at it.”
-Albert Einstein
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It took a full three
minutes before the Universe
was cool enough for light
to shine
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If you removed
the empty space
from the atoms
that make up all
humans on
the planet,
then you
could fit all
6 billion of
us inside a
single apple.
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“Jumping that
gap between
zero and one”
Creativity is…
-Ze Frank
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10
chaos order
nothing something
infinite singular
potential reality
creation
action
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Universal
Chaos
action
connection
deviation
do
glue
skew
Elements of
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Before I knew what this was going to become, I wrote:
Presentation Stream:
Thisinitialstream
ofconsciousness
becametheseedformy
entirepresentation:
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Before I knew what this was going to become, I wrote:
Presentation Stream:
"Unexpected life events, miracles, tragedies,
random occurrences, freak accidents,
remembered dreams, screw-ups, messes,
falling leaves, falling in love, craziness,
evolution, madness, traffic snarls, boredom,
depression, lottery winnings, overdoses,
auditory elation, media fixation, crashes,
television snow, soft wind, shutter clicks,
bliss, refracted sunlight… how does
creativity respond to chaos?How can chaos
be channelled to make your work/art better?
Jason Theodor has a few crazy ideas."
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Creative Methods
The Law of 1%
10 Ideas in
10 Minutes
tools for ACTION
Streaming
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Diagnosed withALS just beforehis wedding, atage 21
He is given
two to three
years to live
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Dr. Hawking now
concedes that time
travel is a scientific
possibility
This may
explain how he
has lived to be
68 so far…
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“The deeper that
sorrow carves
into your being,
the more joy you
can contain.”
On External Chaos:
-Kahlil Gibran
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subtitle goes here
There’s a
reason over
half*of all
literature,
movies,
television,
etc. are
tragedies
* This is a completely made up statistic, but
I’m sure it is true to some measure…
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External
Chaos
action
connection
deviation
do
glue
skew
Elements of
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While creating this presentation I:
MyOwnExternalChaos
quit my job
went to multiple interviews
created and presented a separate lecture
interviewed bathroom contractors
picked tile and tub designs
worked on 2 creative pitches
dealt with a family illness
flew 7hrs in a plane with no power outlets
lost my notebooks in transit
no internet at the hotel for first day
recovering from a cold
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Creative Methods
tools for CONNECTION
Content on
Content
Connect the
Thoughts
Through the
Looking Glass
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If I had written a
boring book, there’d
be no criticism. No
conversation. Ask
yourself how you can
create something that
the critics will criticize?
From “Tribes”
-Seth Godin
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Some artists
feed and
strengthen
their demons
while other
artists try
to starve
them.
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Title goes here
subtitle goes here
All
media is
available
to us
every-
where
at all
times
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25 Songs at a time: Billboard’s Top 25 in 1 Mix
DJ Earworm
The Black Eyed Peas - BOOM BOOM POW • Lady Gaga - POKER FACE
• Lady Gaga Featuring Colby O’Donis - JUST DANCE • The Black
Eyed Peas - I GOTTA FEELING • Taylor Swift - LOVE STORY • Flo
Rida - RIGHT ROUND • Jason Mraz - I’M YOURS • Beyonce - SINGLE
LADIES (PUT A RING ON IT) • Kanye West - HEARTLESS • The All-
American Rejects - GIVES YOU HELL • Taylor Swift - YOU BELONG
WITH ME • T.I. Featuring Justin Timberlake - DEAD AND GONE • The
Fray - YOU FOUND ME • Kings Of Leon - USE SOMEBODY • Keri Hilson
Featuring Kanye West & Ne-Yo - KNOCK YOU DOWN • Jamie Foxx
Featuring T-Pain - BLAME IT • Pitbull - I KNOW YOU WANT ME
(CALLE OCHO) • T.I. Featuring Rihanna - LIVE YOUR LIFE • Soulja
Boy Tell ‘em Featuring Sammie - KISS ME THRU THE PHONE • Jay Sean
Featuring Lil Wayne - DOWN • Miley Cyrus - THE CLIMB • Drake -
BEST I EVER HAD • Kelly Clarkson - MY LIFE WOULD SUCK WITHOUT
YOU • Beyonce - HALO • Katy Perry - HOT N COLD
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Never make excuses
I don’t have time
I’m too busy
I want it to be
perfect first
It’s too late
I’m not ready
I have kids
I don’t make
enough money
I don’t have the
right equipment
I’m not good
enough yet
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Celebrate what
makes you different
because that is
what makes you
interesting
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Questions I asked myself constantly before presenting:
MyOwnPersonalChaos
Will I finish this on time?
Will anyone find this as interesting as I do?
Couldn’t slide x have a better image?
Will people notice how badly designed this is?
Is there too much text?
Are there too many slides?
Will I sweat too much on stage?
Is this even interesting?
Is it too short/too long?
Does this even make sense?
Will it all come together, or fall apart?
Will the audience laugh?
Will the equipment work?
Do I really know what I’m talking about?
Will anyone show up without being paid?
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Personal
Chaos
action
connection
deviation
do
glue
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The trick is the
doing something else.
-Tom Peters
Life is pretty simple:
You do some stuff. Most
fails. Some works.
You do more of what
works. If it works big,
others quickly copy it. Then
you do something else.
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"Milky Way from Apollo Bay" (detail)
Flickr photo by ccdoh1
in no rational order
Credits
"Smoking gun" (detail)
Flickr photo by daliborlev [too cold to shoot]
Stormtrooper performed by Courtney Cruz
photo by Shannon Cottrell
"The Dark Blue Bird" (detail)
by Edward Lear (1812-88). Ink &
watercolour, one of six. England, 1880.
"Tyler Durden" (detail)
by Mark Brooks
"Can Do" (detail)
From “And the Pursuit of Happiness”
Opinion series for The New York Times
by Maira Kalman
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"Guernica" (detail)
by Pablo Picasso
in no perceivable order
Credits
"Picasso’s Guernica in 3D" (detail)
by Lena Gieseke, July 2008
"Dinosaurs" (detail)
by Eye4pie, 2009
"United State of Pop 2009" (mp3)
DJ Earworm
"Mind the Gap" (detail)
flickr photo by Andy Wilkes
"Proto Tools"
flickr photo by Usonian
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"The Joy of Tech Feb 11" (detail)
by Nitrozac and Snaggy
for Geek Culture 2010
in no reproducible order
Credits
"Chaos on black" (detail)
flickr photo by daliborlev [too cold to shoot]
"NO CHAOS" (detail)
flickr photo by alles-schlumpf
"4 Pretty Ponies of the Apocalypse"
t-shirt design by George Lampman
"Times Square Collage" (detail)
flickr photo by leonardo.bonanni
"Arcing Event" (detail)
flickr photo by St Steve
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"Four Horsemen of Apocalypse" (detail)
by Viktor Vasnetsov, 1887
in no certain order
Credits
"Uprisings" (detail)
by kozyndan, digital, 2003
"The Great Wave off Kanagawa" (detail)
Katsushika Hokusai, colour woodcut
c. 1829-32
"iChair + MacinTalk”
flickr image by jted (that’s me!)
"book"
flickr photo by Eddi 07- Free Stock
"Waxing Gibbous Moon 69 Percent 26Nov2009”
flickr photo by mikebaird
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"Nuclear War?! There Goes My Career!"
by Mark Vallen
in no semblance of order
Credits
New Unfinished Comedy and Tragedy
Item#: VX2800-12
"Nuclear War Launcher" (USB Hub)
Reg Hardware
Famous Literary Drunks & Addicts (series)
LIFE.com
"MC Hawking - QuakeMaster" (mp3)"Big Red Button Grand Chair"
by Onur Çobanli, 2009
for OMC2 Design Studios
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"Banana Jr. 6000"
by Berkeley Breathed for Bloom County
in no possible order
Credits
"shells redux"
flickr photo by Darny
"Pencil shavings"
flickr photo by quinn.anya
"Super Positions" (detail)
flickr photo by Compound Eye - In
Business First Magazine
"START / STOP" (detail)
flickr photo by Compound Eye - In
Business First Magazine
"Balancing Act"
flickr photo by bitzcelt
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"Time Changes Everything...." (detail)
flickr photo by left-hand
in no probable order
Credits
"91 variations on a theme" (detail)
flickr photo by kevindooley
"Butterfly Wing"
flickr photo by Pikaluk
"alone"
flickr photo by zappowbang
"Sunrise"
flickr photo by Krug6
"Depressed" (detail)
flickr photo by kingfishpies
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"Light drawing during insomnia" (detail)
flickr photo by Lucas Janin
in no regrettable order
Credits
"Apple II" (detail)
flickr photo by wolfgang.wedenig - wuschL
"IMG_0235" (detail)
flickr photo by Dakota Blue Harper
"SCRAM button"
flickr photo by ukslim
"Baby with the Bathwater"
flickr photo by angus mcdiarmid
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