And if that doesn’t work you can always get a free online e-course on how to make valentine’s day the best ever. Weird.
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If it ain’t broke, it might still be worth breaking…
Posted on February 13, 2009 by joeadamfry
…Or at least breaking a little bit…
I read this today, it is good: Margaret Boden’s ‘The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms‘, it’s good. talks about links between human creative processes and those of computers, asking can computers be creative? My top Boden topic though, as I’ve alluded to in previous posts, is creative boundaries. Just [...]
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Free Weed? It’s Pot Luck!
Posted on February 10, 2009 by joeadamfry
Promoters of the film ‘The Wackness‘, Revolver Entertainment are actually giving away the opportunity to win a bag of weed with the first 1000 copies of the DVD, a la Willy Wonka and his golden tickets. Ananova announce ‘The finder of the golden ticket wins a weekend for two in Amsterdam where they will collect [...]
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Looking Cool…
Posted on February 9, 2009 by joeadamfry
I was told this morning by one of the professors at my University that she’d used me as an example in a seminar…as ‘an organisational ethnographer who dressed appropriately to study advertising agencies and creative businesses’…and told me ‘not to be offended’. I don’t think I was; it’s a compliment in a way I suppose [...]
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New URL and Design Section
Posted on February 8, 2009 by joeadamfry
It seems maybe pointless to say this on the blog itself, but it is nice to mention. I bought joeadamfry.com today for £10.40 for the year, which seemed reasonable and stops anyone else from buying it. Coincidentally, my previous design portfolio site (http://www.joefrydesign.com) is presently parked, and so I thought I could easily open up [...]
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Define the Space: It’s all about Context #2: Interpreting Creativity through Changing Epistemologies
Posted on February 5, 2009 by joeadamfry
Aesthetics, for instance, has traditionally been the study of how to tell art from non-art and, especially, how to tell great art from ordinary art. Its thrust is negative, concerned primarily with catching undeserving candidates for the honorific title of art and keeping such pretenders out. The sociology of art, the empirical descendant of aesthetics, [...]
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Define the Space: It’s all about Context #1
Posted on February 3, 2009 by joeadamfry
This is a ‘fail’ from failblog: illustrating nicely how ads are defined by their context…
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Flow: Interpretations of Mihály Csíkszentmihályi’s Creativity & Flow…
Posted on February 1, 2009 by joeadamfry
“Flow is the mental state of operation in which the person is fully immersed in what he or she is doing by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity”.
According to Csíkszentmihályi, flow is this state achievable in work or play, characterized by the following seven requisites:
1. One [...]
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