This week’s podcast was all about being creative. In honor of that — and in large part because Christopher has been sick all weekend and watching documentaries and surfing the Web in between 5-hour naps at all hours — here are some links to things he’s stumbled upon over the weekend.
PressPausePlay
Friday night, Christopher watched PressPausePlay, a documentary mostly focused on music, but heavily supporting all we discussed in Episode 5: Last Seen…Democratizing Content.
Even though the documentary leans toward music and film, if you paint, write, or do anything else creative, it’s worth watching. The gist: it’s a great time to be alive and creating, even though there are downsides to anyone and everyone creating and distributing their work.
Searching for Perfect Wood
All crude jokes aside (Huhuhuhuhuhuh…he said, wood!), this piece about cultivating forests and creating the perfect wood for instruments is a beautiful article about the past…and the future. It’s not many articles that end like this one…a tiny work of art in its own right!
Let it Kill You
Finally, there’s this article by pianist James Rhodes about giving in to your creative desires and letting them guide you. Perhaps you don’t want to go to the extreme that Rhodes goes to for his art — that’s fine because he still lays out an easy plan to get things done. Most of us have roughly 360 minutes a day to ourselves in some fashion.
What you do with that time is often the difference between creating a body of work and having regrets at the end of the year…
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