This month's issue of Boldtype, an online book review that devotes each of its monthly issues to a specific theme, explores "creativity", and it's one of my favorites so far. (Lately, Boldtype seems to be getting better and better.)
The design header is an image of a painting by Henry Darger, the mysterious outsider artist whose work is the subject of a three-part exploration, entitled Intensely Darger, that's jointly sponsored by Dance Theater Workshop and the American Folk Art Museum, and kicks off March 17th.
I picked up Osho's Creativity the other night at the Bodhi Tree bookstore. Normally, the Osho series would be too fruity for me, but someone who I like and respect was reading one not too long ago ("Intuition") and so I thought I'd check it out, and I'm glad I did. I'm only a few pages in, but I already like one of the main points so far, which is basically, "stay away from smokers; they are deeply bored people". This is a patently true assertion.
If you're at all interested in the creative process behind Lux Lotus, you can check out my del.icio.us feed, which is a loose assortment of links that I come across -- clipping, saving and sometimes discarding them as part of the daily endeavor to produce fresh and intellectually invigorating content for this blog.
It's sort of like a scratch pad, although I have plenty of those too (e.g. Fish Magic 1925: "a magical realm where the aquatic, the celestial and the earthly intermingle"; oh right, Klee at the Philadelphia Museum of Art last week. Or, "white muses w. black eyes, courtly flourishes; dress, fan, violin, hunting dogs." Yes, of course: Marie Laurencin's "Women in the Forest" (1920) at the Hammer Museum on Sunday). Pictured here: her Femme Aux Fleurs dans les Cheveux.
Also, take a peek at: Elle Decor's "Truth In Decorating: The 10 Most Dynamic Desks" (I'm most fond of the Ondine Desk by Salon Moderne, but, truth be told -- only by a hair), the hello, can you see me? people, and everything MUJI @ MoMA, especially the colored pencils.
Related from the LL Archives: The Creative Process + A Sense of Place.
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