Do you Notion? I had been hearing a lot about this new notes/ productivity tool, but I resisted trying it for a long time. I’ve been using Evernote for over a decade to take notes, and I have a task manager that I like (TickTick, though I have also used Todoist for years). Why would…
Category: creativity
Can you be a productive creative?
I have a complicated relationship with “productivity.” I learned as a kid that I am not very good at productivity in the traditional sense. I struggled to keep up with homework. I procrastinated and ignored household chores. Even as a surly teen, I thought there must be something wrong with me. I tried to implement…
Seattle Moves… or at least half of Seattle
Yesterday a colleague and I (both of us women) went to a panel discussion on video and motion graphics at Northwest Film Forum, called Seattle Moves. We were intrigued, because we are both involved in motion graphics and video projects from time to time, and they promised to show some of their latest work. It’s…
pointless creative work is not pointless
My mom bought me a cassette by Harry Nilsson when I was about six. Besides being an excellent example of 70’s folk-rock, it is also a narrative about Oblio, a boy born with a round head in the land of Point. Oblio is eventually banished to the Pointless Forest where he soon realizes that everything…
working hard or hardly working?
I’ve been reading Twyla Tharp’s The Creative Habit on the recommendation of the Internet’s beloved Merlin Mann (take the time to watch the video). Tharp is a renowned choreographer, but the book has little do do with dance (except in reference to her medium and her creative problems, but not really the point). Every kind…
Plumb Wonderful 