creativity

Lemonade

More than 130,000 advertising professionals have lost their jobs in this Great Recession. Lemonade is about what happens when people who were once paid to be creative in advertising are forced to be creative with their own lives. You can watch the whole thing online for free until tomorrow by subscribing. HT: Cruciformity

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How do you repeat the extraordinary?

Continuing yesterday’s post “What have you done for me lately” Whether you’re a leader, an artist, or an every day working person – after basking in the glow of doing something extraordinary, the inevitable question always starts to cloud over – “How will I ever top this?” How can you possibly win gold again?  How [...]

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What have you done for me lately?

A friend was recently commenting on how Eminem sucks now because his latest releases have been garbage and nothing has ever compared to his second album. While it’s debatable by some whether Eminem’s work is ‘art’, it bothers me when we treat people like products. What we produce is a part of who we are, [...]

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Creativity yet to be seen…

I’m fairly blown away by this video below from Ukraine’s got talent. No it’s not one of those funny ones, the artist Kseniya Simonova retells the story of Russia’s ‘Great Patriotic War’ against the Nazis in the 1940’s. Definitely check it out. My thoughts were, wow. How do we get her to do something for [...]

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Vision over visibility

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Photo Credit: paolomargari Since my last post about U2′s song “moment of surrender”, there’s been a number of verses that provoke me, but the line “vision over visibility” has really stuck with me. Is there something that you see, that others can’t?  A vision, a reality of what could be, that others don’t seem to [...]

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Suspended Space

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What is Solar Crash

For those of you who are new to the site, a bit on what Solar Crash is. Some of you might know it as an event that occasionally emerges  in Toronto, and others simply as “Lon’s blog”, but when I grabbed the domain solarcrash.com the name was loaded with meaning for me. SOLAR refers to [...]

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Can the church regain it’s glow?

A couple weeks ago I preached a message working through Van Gogh’s art and the inbreaking of the Kingdom of God. It was a really fun one, partly inspired by this book. My favorite bit was on Van Gogh’s famous Starry Night painting. Van Gogh was really intentional with his colors using blue for mystery [...]

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