MetaFilter posts tagged with creative

100 Creative Business Cards.

grapefruitmoon — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:38:03 -0800

100 Creative Business Cards if that little white piece of paper just isn't doing it for you.

War Makes Monsters of Us All

netbros — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 08:46:04 -0800

The Warrior Writers Project brings together recent veterans and current service members to be in creative community and utilize art-making processes to express themselves. There is a deep necessity for veterans to create when so much has been shattered and stolen. A profound sense of hope comes from the ability to rebuild and transform.

Obama Aint The Only One Who Wants Change.

CunningLinguist — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:35:08 -0800

Creative beggars

Nurturing Creativity

The Devil Tesla — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:28:06 -0800

The Seven Vices of Highly Creative People vs. Elizabeth Gilbert on How We Kill Geniuses Previously, when only the text of Gilbert's talk was available. "7 Vices" is via Kottke.

You've Been Served

netbros — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:43:43 -0800

The Served is a family of sites that brings you a steady supply of top quality creative work in specific categories: Fashion, Industrial Design, Photography [some nsfw], Typography, and Motion Graphics. All projects are streamed directly from the owner's portfolios in the Behance Network, along with proper attribution and a direct link to contact information.

The Creative Mind of Tomas Mankovsky

jeanmari — Mon, 25 May 2009 19:32:35 -0800

Lonely, lovelorn robots (film). Tardiness and sharks (film). Creative sounds with dominoes. (audio) Using Tetris as the inspiration for interior design elements. (visual) Just a few fun things floating around in the mind of Tomas Mankovsky.

Makes me want a laser.

cjorgensen — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:57:36 -0800

Using one of these Jeremy Peterson makes things like a folded box, a hex connector toy, and a calling card (he makes his project files available). His photos are cool and his art doesn't suck. His music hurts my fillings (but YMMV). Be sure to check out his Image-a-day series on his blog (Shiny Toy Guns fans take note).

Starch and Sniff

Cobalt — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:58:24 -0800

During The Troubles in Northern Ireland, the SAS came up with a very creative way of identifying and apprehending PIRA bomb-makers: They set up a laundry.

YOU TOO can make crazy ideas turn into reality!

hal_c_on — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:48:50 -0800

I get a cut of your good Karma if you win. So Google has committed $10 million to fund up to five ideas selected by their advisory board.What's the kicker? Anyone can submit an idea. My idea will definitely be a Hummer that isn't driven by an douchebag. Either that or a moneyholder/lender that doesn't need a $700,000,000,000 bailout.

Business Guys on Business Trips

filmgeek — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:29:23 -0800

Business Guys on Business Trips. Cool set of web cartoons about the 'creative' field. Clients and projects and corporate doublespeak, oh my!

Here's an idea: I'll post more than a single youtube post, how's that?

parmanparman — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:10:33 -0800

Where creative juices come from. Now that you're in the mood, let's get down to some great new creative stuff! What is likely to be ripped off on College Humor next week! Learn how to interrogate a lemon! Previous creative goodness...

Chit Chat.

Extopalopaketle — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:37:56 -0800

Pecha Kucha - get to the point. 20 slides in 20 seconds. Talk about what you want. Your city probably has a night for it.

Heck of a job, Creative

ed — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:07:52 -0800

A geek named daniel_k wanted to help his fellow Vista users. He created a set of drivers that would get their Creative sound cards working under Vista -- something beyond the ken and expertise of Creative's engineering team. Creative VP Phil O'Shaughnessy, however, took umbrage. The results? A PR disaster with hundreds of users pledging to boycott.

Impracticality is the new practicality

Fuzzy Skinner — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:53:43 -0800

Get your creative juices flowing and challenge your thinking with a visit to trucdesign.com, a showcase of innovative, incredible, and often impractical products and concepts. Just a few direct links: Cardboard furniture for kids, CoffeeTime seating, Paper Airplane coffee table, Double-O cooking system, Carpet-lounge.

It's always funny until you're the one being made fun of

sdodd — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:20:14 -0800

"We need to make a comic so I can eat lunch." You're in your office sitting at your desk. There's a hot mic in the room. It's 45 minutes 'till lunch, your tummy's grumbling and you still have to write a comic. Fortunately your best friend -- who is also the co-founder of your decade-old business empire -- is sitting at his desk a few feet away. You are "Gabe" or "Tycho" of Penny Arcade, and the next 45 minutes will be captured on tape and published for all the world to hear as a podcast. But only if it's good. "Downloadable Content, The Penny Arcade Podcast" is practically a documentary on collaboratively authoring webcomics. The most recent episode is a particularly good example of that. The March 7th episode, "Our Crucial Pamphlet" [MP3], typifies the process. It starts with an informal brainstorming session to discover topics for the day's comic (and associated essay/blog post). The brainstorming is frequently interrupted by digressions. A short list of choices is produced. A topic is chosen and the layout, dialog, and action is discussed. The final comic is written out (dialog and description) panel by panel. One participant is the writer and one the artist, but you won't be able to tell who is who; no strong division of labor is evident in the give and take. Finally, the written description is read aloud, declared good and the recording ends. It's lunchtime. The March 3rd episode, entitled "PON PON PATA PON" [MP3], diverges from the pattern. But only in that the final comic is a Hitchcock-influenced horror scene with no dialog. We hear Tycho and Gabe remove lines of dialog one by one until only the action remains. The "pennyarcade" tag is alive and well here at MetaFilter, but the podcast has not yet been discussed. This is only my second post to the Blue, so criticism is welcome.

Serein v3

hama7 — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:18:08 -0800

Serein v3

HOMOPHONI

hama7 — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 18:19:19 -0800

HOMOPHONI

Sorry, kids. We're stealing your work and selling it

Unregistered User — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 21:34:49 -0800

Commercial exploitationTube? Creative Commies-Tube? Plagiarism® ? "…you hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the User Submissions in connection with the YouTube Website and YouTube's (and its successor's) business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the YouTube Website (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels…" moc.ebutuoy

whata circlejerk... Now where's my aeroflot and reversed copyright Tee-Shirt! and Negativland, Tape-beatles, EEC records. I'm ready for a copyfight !

RIAA's gonna cry yeah?

Sijeka — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 03:25:00 -0800

Today might be a good day to look at the bright side of 'teh internet' life. Lawrence Lessig (author of Free Culture), Jimmy Wales (founder of Wikipedia), various advocates of the Free Culture network organisation and others are all meeting at the iCommons Summit in Rio to discuss Creative Commons, open networks, non-restrictives licenses, global Digital Commons and the fact that maybe, in 2006, 'Sharing is Daring'. A similar summit has been taking place earlier this month in Thailand, under the name of Asia Commons. I for one thinks it's extremely exciting to see all kind of artists, collectives and record labels using the CC licenses for the work they publish. After all, we now all live in a 'Remixed Culture', since everything we ever use was once part of something else, wasn't it? openDemocracy has been publishing a solid set of articles & a debate about the topic.

illustrated journeys

madamjujujive — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 06:38:09 -0800

Kathrin2305's Moleskine slideshow The non-flash version. (via robot wisdom) -more-

Cows... that are creative...

shmegegge — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 14:44:16 -0800

Creative COW (Communities Of the World) seems to be a one-stop... stop... for help with After Effects, Combustion, and other industry software of just about any type. While some (nevertheless incredible) tutorials are a bit difficult to decipher, they could also be much worse. The focus looks mostly to be on After Effects and other Motion Graphics software, but the forums are invaluable for just about anything you might need. Of particular note would be the Demo Reels forum, where anyone from Editors to Directors of Photography, and even Game Developers (former or otherwise) can post reels for criticism and even be approached for work. Some of them are incredible, even if you're not involved in the industry.

Creative web

bobbyelliott — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:29:43 -0800

Blogs fulfill Berners-Lee vision of the World Wide Web according to this interview on BBC.

Geothermals make me sleepy...

lucien — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 04:05:22 -0800

Sci-fi writer and Marine Biologist Peter Watts puts his first two novels, Starfish and Maelstrom online under Creative Commons license. Behemoth to follow shortly. The most original and starkly vivid account of a dystopian future that I have read for years, made all the more enthralling by Watt's scientific background and knowledge. You will find some of his short stories at the link as well. Via BoingBoing

"Form follows data"

fatllama — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 19:55:37 -0800

Information Aesthetics is a weblog of experiments in visualization: a power cord that glows as one draws power, a crocheted Lorenz manifold, a live display of a computer thinking about chess, a color-changing flower that detects nearby wifi. To be sure, there are lots of old favorites here but probably some new ones as well.

Lobsters! Lobsters Everywhere!

jscalzi — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 09:38:46 -0800

Charlie Stross releases his new book Accelerando as a Creative Commons e-book, thereby buying in to the open source idea that offering up one's intellectual property (under certain circumstances) will result in greater sales of the physical object, not fewer (see: Cory Doctorow). In a time where promotional opportunities for new and "mid-list" authors seem to be continually shrinking, is offering up a complete work the current equivalent of the author interview or newspaper puff piece? Or is it simply a recognition that here in the 21st century anything can be pirated -- better to offer up your work in good will (and in a form where you have some control), and hope some of the kids will realize that behind the free content is a guy who needs to eat? And what happens if/when all books become digital books?