They Work Long Hours, but What About Results?
LIMIT MEETINGS Internal meetings can be a huge waste of time. A short meeting can be useful for discussing a controversial issue, but long meetings — beyond 60 to 90 minutes — are usually unproductive. Leaders often spend too much time reciting introductory material, and participants eventually stop paying attention.
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REDUCE READING You don’t need to read the full text of everything you come across in the course of your work, even if it comes directly from the boss. Though reading a long article from cover to cover might make you feel productive, it might not be the best use of your time.
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WRITE FASTER Even if you need to create A-plus work for a project, it needn’t be perfect right off the bat.
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Robert C. Pozen, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, is the author of “Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours” (HarperCollins).
[Verdict]: Read the full article, it’s great.
“Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.” —T.S. Eliot
Artist Creates Minimalist Posters That Document Color Changes
For her graphic design project, New Orleans-based artist Marin Deariehas created minimalist posters “to highlight the various color changes that occur in nature, popular culture, and elsewhere”, she wrote.
In her series, entitled ‘Shades of Change’, Dearie documented color-changing spectrums of tea brewing, an octopus’ dark ink, Lil’ Kim’s hair, Michael Jackson’s skin, a smoker’s lungs, the growth of an egg to a chicken, and a human tongue when licking a tootise pop.
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![“Supreme achievement and outstanding capacity are only rendered possible by mental concentration, by a sublime monomania that verges on lunacy.”—Stefan Zweig (1881 - 1942) / novelist, playwright, journalist
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“Supreme achievement and outstanding capacity are only rendered possible by mental concentration, by a sublime monomania that verges on lunacy.”
—Stefan Zweig (1881 - 1942) / novelist, playwright, journalist
[photo credit: Atrium Press]
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Austin Kleon (Steal Like an Artist), Maria Papova (Brainpickings), Maris Kreizman (Slaughterhouse 90210), and Maud Newton (herself) at McNally Jackson talking about creativity in the digital age. [May 30, 2012]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4w0p7lbSb1qjsf5ho1_500.jpg)
Your interwebz IRL
Austin Kleon (Steal Like an Artist), Maria Papova (Brainpickings), Maris Kreizman (Slaughterhouse 90210), and Maud Newton (herself) at McNally Jackson talking about creativity in the digital age. [May 30, 2012]
Classic Works of Art Made with Jelly Beans
A few years ago, California-based artist Kristen Cumings was commissioned by candy company Jelly Belly to produce several pieces of jelly bean art to add to its collection ‘Jelly Belly Masterpieces of Confectionary Art’.
Cumings recreated classic works of art using 9,000 to 12,000 jelly beans and 50 to 60 hours, for each 4x6-feet mural.
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“A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.” —Michelangelo
“All art is autobiographical.” —Federico Fellini
“Art is not a thing; it is a way.” —Elbert Hubbard
“Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” —Twyla Tharp
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
—Scott Adams
“Every good painter paints what he is.” —Jackson Pollock
“Great art picks up where nature ends.” —Marc Chagall
“I don’t want to be interesting. I want to be good.” —Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
“Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.”
—Edgar Degas
“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”
—Dorothea Lange
“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.” —Pablo Picasso
“There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.” —Ansel Adams
“This world is but a canvas to our imagination.” —Henry David Thoreau
“Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.” —Arthur Schopenhauer
“What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.” —John Berger
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TOUR SKETCHBOOK
by Austin Kleon
I’ve spent the past three weeks on the Steal Across America tour — other than my iPhone, my sketchbook is the most important thing I carry. I use a large Moleskine sketchbook because it has heavy bristol-like pages that don’t tear, it’s big enough to stick a boarding pass in the pages, and it has an envelope flap in the back for travel receipts.
