http://blogs.geniocity.com/jack Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:16:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In his Geniocity.com blog, Arts-Entrepreneur Resources,  Matt Charboneau takes a look this week at the steadily rising pool of resources for Northeast Ohio artists. The latest wave in that pool is something unique, but not just to the Cleveland area: The arts-project loan program launched last week by NoteWorthy Federal Credit Union may be ... http://blogs.geniocity.com/jack/2010/03/what-do-you-need-to-be-creative/ Every once in a while, I hear this from an artist or scientist or tech whiz: "I don't pay any attention to politics. I just want to make my art/ do my experiments/ invent cool new stuff." (Actually, something similar emanates from about 92 percent of everybody in the U.S., who just want to watch their fake ... http://blogs.geniocity.com/jack/2010/03/creativity-is-political/ Today on our roster, you'll find a new blog that's about a subject at the very heart of creativity: education, which at its worst can crush and deaden the human impulse to invent and, at its best, can encourage and develop it.  We think the blog No Mind Is an Island: Imagination, Innovation & Interconnectedness,  will help readers ... http://blogs.geniocity.com/jack/2010/03/geniocity-coms-education-blog-debuts/ Interesting back-to-back editorial pieces in The Plain Dealer yesterday: Brent Larkin 's story about the growing  panic among Cleveland City Council members over the fact that that their city is declining more and more rapidly, they know radical change is needed, but no one's stepping up to make it happen;  and Harold ... http://blogs.geniocity.com/jack/2010/02/creative-but-chicken/ Fascinating story in Duke Magazine about the abrupt changes taking place in the culture of reading. I think it's especially interesting that not until the very end of the discussion, and then only obliquely, did anyone touch on the idea of reading as an aesthetic experience involving the senses as well ... http://blogs.geniocity.com/jack/2010/02/is-innovation-wiping-out-reading/ How do you systematically redesign a place that's already filled up and covered over with stuff you may not want, but can't easily get rid of? The answer is: Maybe you don't. And that's no fun to hear when all you really want to do is level the mess, haul the rubble away and ... http://blogs.geniocity.com/jack/2010/02/grassroots-the-agent-of-green-change/ [caption id="attachment_2917" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Image by Neil Wilkinson"][/caption]   Small is big. But it needs to get bigger. A lot of people don't have a clue about this yet - they're still operating as if the Earth were a planetary version of Lewis Carroll's Mad Tea-Party, where anytime they soil or use up the ... http://blogs.geniocity.com/jack/2010/02/shrinking-by-design-reinventing-civilization-for-our-own-survival/ [caption id="attachment_2896" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Photo by Thomas Hawk"][/caption]   For at least a decade now, we've been told that our civilization is going paperless. Most of us have heard that prophesy, looked around at the stacks of Kleenex and 8-by-11-inch printer sheets we go through, and had ourselves a good snicker. Even if newspapers, magazines and ... http://blogs.geniocity.com/jack/2010/01/art-and-green-building-innovation-rolled-into-one/ My husband and I marked our 23rd anniversary this weekend. Before going out to dinner, we went to the art museum in hopes of catching the big touring Gauguin exhibit before it closed. It was sold out for the day, but that was ok - we stayed to revisit the fabulous ... http://blogs.geniocity.com/jack/2010/01/got-mlk-for-some-that-glass-still-isnt-full/ The U.S. arts-and-culture sector has been searching for a long time for the most effective way to tell its own story - the story that will finally and reliably convince Americans that arts and culture matter tremendously to our society, provide real benefits for everyone and deserve to be nurtured and ... http://blogs.geniocity.com/jack/2010/01/can-arts-and-culture-make-waves-with-ripple-effect/