Wednesday
May192010
Wednesday, May 19, 2010 at 5:15PM Wednesday, May 19, 2010 at 5:15PM Tuesday
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010 at 12:35PM Tuesday
May112010
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 at 7:37AM "I love Twitter", Kate said, "It's turned us all into storytellers."
She's wrong obviously... humans have always been storytellers. But I like the idea, because Twitter IS a story ecology... and it's fascinating to watch our tales, spread, grow and eventually fall back.
Monday
May102010
Monday, May 10, 2010 at 11:50PM Sunday
May092010
Sunday, May 9, 2010 at 4:32PM "Why do the party men look so sad Daddy?", said the little boy. "Have they lost their cake?"
It's worse than that. The Party Leaders have not even got to the "party" yet... their still trying to figure out what to wear.
It's good though, the UK is getting a lesson in the politics of PR, for better or for worse. Always good to have a practical before you take a test.
Friday
May072010
Friday, May 7, 2010 at 11:00PM Thursday
May062010
Thursday, May 6, 2010 at 7:56AM “British elections are safe and democratic,” he told the UN Observer, “all our election fraud happens before polling day.”
I wrote this before we knew that some people who wanted to vote, would not actually get the chance.
Wednesday
May052010
Wednesday, May 5, 2010 at 7:51PM Annual portrait of a dad playing his son at football: Love, pleasure, approval, pride, surprise, disbelief, indignation, denial.
I remember when I used to indulge my son at football and let him win. Now he's 9... and that seems like a very long time ago... the little beggar.
Wednesday
May052010
Wednesday, May 5, 2010 at 7:45PM The child stood alone in the playground.
Nothing sadder.
Wednesday
May052010
Wednesday, May 5, 2010 at 7:56AM Tuesday
May042010
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 at 8:09AM Flashes of inspiration versus work at the coalface
In the "Confession" section of the book I mention my belief that Creativity isn't so much a talent as a result... the result of hard work. Properly creative people aren't waiting for the flashes of inspiration (like I do), they are getting down to work.
... Yes...that's much more like me, thinking about lunch.
Tuesday
May042010
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 at 8:00AM Monday
May032010
Monday, May 3, 2010 at 8:00AM Sleeping Beauty "retold". She "kissed" her Prince, but only after he'd signed a prenup and taken certain medical tests.
Romance isn't dead, but it is undergoing a brutal evolution.
Sunday
May022010
Sunday, May 2, 2010 at 4:43PM 90 Second Video - see the story unfold.
A RV Story in 90 Seconds from Nick Warren on Vimeo.
P.S. Extra points if anyone can tell me why the very last edit, a word substitution, makes me kind of a jerk.
Saturday
May012010
Saturday, May 1, 2010 at 5:15PM Interview: Nick on Work, Play and Creativity
Yep, I was interviewed for Creative Pool last week by the amiable John Fountain.
Check out the results over on the Creative Pool website.
Saturday
May012010
Saturday, May 1, 2010 at 11:48AM “Forgive me” the note said, “It’s not going to work between us. You want to tell stories, I want to live them. Don’t follow me.”
I love telling stories... but that's nowhere near as cool as living them. Gotta work on that...
Saturday
Apr242010
Saturday, April 24, 2010 at 10:57PM “Creativity is bollocks”, she said. “A few people work at their art, most don’t. That’s it.”
One of the things I've learned doing this little side-gig... creativity isn't really a skill, it's a result.
Yes there is the odd creative genius among us, and yes we all get flashes from time to time. But over any meaningful length of time creativity starts to look an awful lot like something else... hard work.
See the "confession" end of the Restless Voices eBook.
Saturday
Apr242010
Saturday, April 24, 2010 at 10:56PM Modern Day Prayer: Mighty Google, thy will be done. Deliver me from obscurity, and to page 1 of thy bountiful listings. Amen.
Google... like God, is unfathomable.
Saturday
Apr242010
Saturday, April 24, 2010 at 10:54PM "I have the attention span of a butterf..." she said.
... Says the guy who writes 140 character stories...
Friday
Apr232010
Friday, April 23, 2010 at 10:52PM "Our experiment to create telepathy in mice has failed," he said. "Once the females are given the gene they refuse to breed."
Telepathy will never develop in humans. Evolution will not allow it. To put it another way... no woman would ever sleep with a man if she could get inside his head. Just my opinion.
