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Embrace the Shake

It was an inspiring story of Phil Hansen who found his way back to art after an unruly tremor in his hand.

This disorder was the destruction of his dream of becoming an artist. He left art and art school but only until a neurologist suggested he “embrace the shake.” The piece of advice totally changed Hansen's point of view and sent him on a journey to invent different approaches to making art by embracing personal and universal limitations. He realized that he could still make art but have to find different approaches. After having single approach to art, he ended up having approach to creativity. he started painting with karate chops, instead of using brushes and other conventional toolkits.

This was the story of Philip Hansen who overcame his limitations and created unimaginable art.

What I learnt from 'embrace the shake' is to overcome physical , personal , and universal limitations in life. Also , limitations can help one in deriving a new way of living which is creativity. Even when he saw that its getting impossible for him to make straight lines, he with his inner confidence brought out the most amazing painting and portraits. According to Hansen you could become more creative then by looking for limitations. We need to first be limited to become limitless.

Hansen reminds us that when we just wait for final outcomes, we miss our present journey that lead us to the end.

By the end, it wasn't the doctor that helped him rather himself when he started embracing his limitation.

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4 Lessons in Creativity

In this, Julie Burstein shares her insights on what it takes all to be creative. She discussed four lessons she's learned from various artists about what encourages creativity.

She started taking about a Japanese pottery Raku, used for making Japanese bowl.

Julie teaches us the 4 lessons from art

1) Paying attention to the world -

you have to be open up to what's coming , even from broken things creativity glows.

we have to be open about all the insights, embrace experiences .

2) Learning from parts of life that are most difficult :

We all need to embrace the challenges we during our journey or in life. we need to learn and most importantly accept and face them.

3) pushing up against the limit .

Just like how Richard Serra, a sculptor, said he saw a painting that effect him so much. He knew he would never be able to make that . When he returned back, he picked up all his work and threw it all his in the river. He let go painting at that moment. But he did not discourage himself from giving up on art. He continue playing around and explore with art, and soon became a sculptor of modern art.

From this I certainly realized sometimes when we feel like we are not better and give up rather than just giving up we should work on weaknesses because only efforts can lead us to near perfection.

when we push us to cross out comfort / limit zone that's when we achieve something.

4) embracing the loss

''In his words, when we can look at those cracks, because they tell the story that we all live, of the cycle of creation and destruction, of control and letting go, of picking up the pieces and making something new.''

Loss is not also about losing but also about gaining something from it that i.e the learnings.

Creativity is essential part of all of our lives whether it be an artist, parent, scientist, teacher or a students. We all are part of the cycle of creation and destruction, of control and letting go, of picking up pieces and making something new.

There is so much to learn , inside these 4 learnings lies million more lessons. It is amazing how she makes notes that creativity is so important in all forms and not just art.

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Intricate beauty by design

In graphic design, Marian Bantjes says, throwing your individuality into a project is heresy.

After 20 years in graphic design she changed the way she was working and the way most graphic designers work to pursue a more personal approach of her work. She works as a graphic designer was to follow strategy, her work now follows her heart and interests with the guidance of her ego to create work that is mutually beneficial to herself and a client.

She started by creating a series of tiling units. And these tiling units, I designed specifically so that they would contain parts of letterforms within their shapes so that I could then join those pieces together to create letters and then words within the abstract patterning.

And found this very interesting, Because she can just flip them, rotate them and combine them in different ways to create either regular patterns or abstract patterns. And as you can see, it's extremely difficult to read so she was able to bring it to just the right point that it's puzzling for the audience.

They can figure out that there's something they have to read but it's not impossible for them to read.

Her goal has always been to create somethings unexpected . I love how she draws her deep relation with the letters also her manipulations with typography and design.

sometimes when we spend our time on things and think its worthless but now I know, when we spend time on the things and put efforts it's never wasted. we invested our time and learnt something from it. for me, something worth while for me is my personal involvement and seriousness towards work.

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A visual history of Knowledge

Manuel Lima - Over the past 10 years ,she have been researching the way people organize and visualize information .

How does knowledge grow? Sometimes it begins with one insight and grows into many branches; other times it grows as a complex and interconnected network.

Infographics expert Manuel Lima explores the thousand-year history of mapping data -- from languages to dynasties -- using trees and networks of information. It's a fascinating history of visualizations, and a look into humanity's urge to map what we know.

explores the history of information visualization. Since the beginning of times humans had the urge to rank, create an order and visualize information.

Originally people used the metaphor of a tree to map family relationships, animal species or the realms of human knowledge. However knowledge cannot always be represented in such way: it is too complex, intricate and interdependent.

The branching scheme of the tree was, in fact, such a powerful metaphor for conveying information that it became, over time, an important communication tool to map a variety of systems of knowledge. We can see trees being used to map morality, with the popular tree of virtues and tree of vices, as you can see here, with these beautiful illustrations from medieval Europe.

We can see trees being used to map consanguinity ,the various blood ties between people.

The metaphor that better represents knowledge is not a tree but a matrix, a network or a web. Hierarchy can show you the internal structure of an organisation, while a network is able to show the relationships and the connections between its members. Network visualization is becoming a syntax of a new language and the same matrix model, such as the radial converge, can be use to represent the most disparate things: from DNA to Facebook networks.