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The Marginalian
Hello. My name is Maria Popova and The Marginalian is a record of my reading and reckoning with our search for meaning: sometimes through science and philosophy, sometimes through poetry and children’s books, always through the lens of wonder. Founded in 2006 as an email to seven friends under the outgrown name Brain Pickings and…
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Trashtopia – Michael Goldrei Photography
Trashtopia Trashtopia is my series of street photography of the street itself. While travelling through Cuba at the end of 2016, I started noticing discarded items in the street that looked very different to those back home in England. I decided to see whether you can tell the character of a place by its waste.…
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Sean Scully at Sant Cecília
Please see the earlier video below which was made at and by the Museu de Montserrat and is more direct by way of a depiction and sense of place and intervention by the artist. In July 2016, during a visit by Sean Scully to the Romanesque church of St. Cecilia, a video was recorded in which…
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Creativity
Creativity is the ability to form novel and valuable ideas or works using the imagination.
Products of creativity may be intangible (e.g., an idea, a scientific theory, a literary work, a musical composition, or a joke) or a physical object (e.g., an invention, a dish or meal, an item of jewelry, a costume, or a painting).
Creativity may also describe the ability to find new solutions to problems, or new methods of performing a task or reaching a goal.
Creativity therefore enables people to solve problems in new or innovative ways.