A Look At Art with Stephen Fry

In an increasingly infantilised world where so much seems to be split into good or bad, correct or incorrect, acceptable or unacceptable, where complex ideas are chopped up for public consumption like food chopped up for a child, where so much is hygienic, attainable, safe, sugared, assimilable, digestible, pasteurised, homogenised and sanitised, in such a world our appetite has never been greater for the complex, the ambiguous, the challenging, the untamed, the sharp, the peculiar, the surprising, the dangerous, the dirty, the difficult, the untameable, the elusive, the unsafe and the unknowable. In other words, for art.

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Speech Given at a Dinner for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition – 8th June 2010 by Stephen Fry.

The story of the legendary CalArts in a video produced by Walt Disney Productions

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So many creative legends began their careers at CalArts. This video is a brilliant historical look at the origins of the school. Plus the fashion section is a great deal of fun.

Discovering the Virtues of a Wandering Mind

For creativity you need your mind to wander,” Dr. Schooler says, “but you also need to be able to notice that you’re mind wandering and catch the idea when you have it. If Archimedes had come up with a solution in the bathtub but didn’t notice he’d had the idea, what good would it have done him?

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Mind wandering while trying to achieve a task activates various parts of the brain allowing you to, in essence, have multi-core processing.

Meryl Streep, Barnard Commencement Speaker 2010, Columbia University

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Almost always the most talented are also the funniest, most generous and humble, the most insightful.

History of Social Games

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Be sure to click the link to read a brief narrative history of social games. Games have always being an integral part of sharing and thinking about complex situations, as well as providing entertainment.