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		<title>The importance of carrying a sketchbook</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2019 15:29:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Illustrator Jack Fletcher on the importance of using a sketchbook: “My creative process is hella eclectic,” says Jack. “It jumps from digital to pen and paper to screen-printing, at times. It is kind of whatever I feel works with what i’m doing at the time. The one constant thing for me is carrying round a&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://idleformat.wordpress.com/2019/07/29/the-importance-of-carrying-a-sketchbook/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The importance of carrying a&#160;sketchbook</span> <span class="meta-nav" aria-hidden="true">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Animator Phil Tippett&#8217;s idea scrapbooks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2019 07:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In The Creative Brain (Netflix) Animator Phil Tippett shows the ideas scrapbooks he curates that he can then revisit when he needs inspiration: These are a series of books I put together &#8230; This was a thing I came up with to just, kinda, break what I was thinking. I would just randomly cut out&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://idleformat.wordpress.com/2019/07/17/animator-phil-tippetts-idea-scrapbooks/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Animator Phil Tippett&#8217;s idea&#160;scrapbooks</span> <span class="meta-nav" aria-hidden="true">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2019 07:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[From The New Yorker: Bach immersed himself in music at an early age, as had generations of Bachs before him. An obituary prepared by Bach’s son Carl Philipp Emanuel speaks of his father’s “unheard-of zeal in studying.” That claim is buttressed by a discovery made a decade ago, of the teen-aged Bach’s precociously precise copies&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://idleformat.wordpress.com/2019/06/13/bach-never-ceased-being-a-student-of-his-art/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Bach never ceased being a student of his&#160;art</span> <span class="meta-nav" aria-hidden="true">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2019 20:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One evening in May 1960, Julius Shulman, regarded as the world&#8217;s greatest architectural photographer, took this photo of architect Pierre Koenig&#8217;s Stahl House. The glass-enclosed house in the Hollywood Hills, with Los Angeles sprawling below it, was one of 36 experimental Case Study Houses designed to extoll the virtues of modernist theory and industrial materials&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://idleformat.wordpress.com/2019/05/31/julius-shulmans-glass-house-in-the-sky/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Julius Shulman&#8217;s glass house in the&#160;sky</span> <span class="meta-nav" aria-hidden="true">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>We need to unlearn not being creative</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2019 18:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Author, Ben Okri: Creativity is our normal and fundamental way of being. It is everything else – our education, our social conditioning, our cultural mores, our upbringing – that imprisons our creativity. If you don’t believe me, watch a child at play. To them all things are possible because they have not learned that some&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://idleformat.wordpress.com/2019/05/26/we-need-to-unlearn-not-being-creative/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">We need to unlearn not being&#160;creative</span> <span class="meta-nav" aria-hidden="true">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Where creativity comes from</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2019 18:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Tom Dixon, designer: It’s putting yourself into unfamiliar worlds that does it, looking at something from a naive perspective. I’m lucky enough to travel a lot. I go to the local museums and like being exposed to the worlds of sculpture or cooking, or music – anything that is not my core area of design.&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://idleformat.wordpress.com/2019/05/26/tom-dixon-on-where-creativity-comes-from/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Where creativity comes&#160;from</span> <span class="meta-nav" aria-hidden="true">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>On being human in your work</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2019 12:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Writer Jason Reynolds: I’m kind of old school in terms of the way I think about the work that we do. I don’t believe in any of the romance involved with being a writer. Writing is one of those strange crafts where everybody romanticizes it. We grow up looking at these images and photographs of&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://idleformat.wordpress.com/2019/05/26/on-being-human-in-your-work/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">On being human in your&#160;work</span> <span class="meta-nav" aria-hidden="true">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Creating art out of past experiences</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2019 09:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The New Yorker on director Joanna Hogg: She didn’t release her first feature film until a decade ago, when she was forty-seven, and “The Souvenir” is only her fourth movie. This summer, Hogg is shooting “The Souvenir: Part II,” a continuation of the story of Julie’s early adulthood. Together, the films will implicitly tell another&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://idleformat.wordpress.com/2019/05/21/creating-art-out-of-past-experiences/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Creating art out of past&#160;experiences</span> <span class="meta-nav" aria-hidden="true">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Robert Macfarlane on his preference for physical notebooks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2019 10:26:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Author Robert Macfarlane on his preference for physical notebooks over digital notes: People sometimes ask me why I don’t use a phone to take notes when I’m ‘out’ in the field. The answer is that phones smash, while notebooks bend. I also like the way that notebooks record where they’ve been not just in terms&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://idleformat.wordpress.com/2019/05/15/robert-macfarlane-on-his-preference-for-physical-notebooks/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Robert Macfarlane on his preference for physical&#160;notebooks</span> <span class="meta-nav" aria-hidden="true">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2019 21:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As we go through our lives we take on the expanding burden of our own distress – as we are abandoned, broken apart, betrayed, isolated, lost and hurt. This is essentially part of what it is to live. This despair will overwhelm us and turn inward into bitterness, resentment and hatred &#8211; worse, we will&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://idleformat.wordpress.com/2019/05/13/nick-cave-on-the-key-to-living/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Nick Cave on the key to&#160;living</span> <span class="meta-nav" aria-hidden="true">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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