1. [Turing tape] You need an idea notebook.
2. [Open-minded] Do not aim to solve some specific problem.
3. [Proliferate and select] You may need 10 to 100 ideas before you find a good one.
4. [Aloof] Avoid feeling part of any specific academic community.
5. [Be the boss] Avoid working for anyone, and that includes a granting agency.
6. [Data] Don’t publish without data.
7. [Sloth] Avoid all but the simplest experiments, and avoid building complex tools.
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Behold the world’s largest paper airplane, part of The Great Paper Airplane Project.
Also see how 20 prominent contemporary artists re-imagined the paper plane.
Although it may seem as though this just a video about the biggest paper airplane, it is actually so much more than that. It reminds all of us that if you have an idea, go for it. Who cares if it’s been done before, do it again but BIGGER. Who cares if other people think it’s stupid, they’re not the ones doing it. And if it does not seem plausible remember, before the first airplane took flight scientists thought it would be thousands of years before man could fly. Do what you want to do and do it without apprehension. Even if it crashes like the paper plane at the end, AT LEAST YOU DID SOMETHING.
-TK
24. This is me, in the lab. Besides the lab monitor and me, there is only one other person here. My eyes may look a little red and there may be bags underneath but on the inside I actually feel… I feel good. I’ve hit mile 3 and I’m now coasting. You know that runner’s wall where everything up to mile 3 is something you wouldn’t wish on anybody? However, when you stride past mile 3 you no longer feel pain, inhibition, or the spikes in your lungs due to little air flow.
I am here in the lab that is about to close and I feel pretty good considering the circumstances. I need to do this more often. I like knowing that I am making some dent in my life goals and daily to-do lists. Now it is off to the J-lab on 4th floor because they run 24/7!
24. This is me, in the lab. Besides the lab monitor and me, there is only one other person here. My eyes may look a little red and there may be bags underneath but on the inside I actually feel… I feel good. I’ve hit mile 3 and I’m now coasting. You know that runner’s wall where everything up to mile 3 is something you wouldn’t wish on anybody? However, when you stride past mile 3 you no longer feel pain, inhibition, or the spikes in your lungs due to little air flow.
I am here in the lab that is about to close and I feel pretty good considering the circumstances. I need to do this more often. I like knowing that I am making some dent in my life goals and daily to-do lists. Now it is off to the J-lab on 4th floor because they run 24/7!
24. This is me, in the lab. Besides the lab monitor and me, there is only one other person here. My eyes may look a little red and there may be bags underneath but on the inside I actually feel… I feel good. I’ve hit mile 3 and I’m now coasting. You know that runner’s wall where everything up to mile 3 is something you wouldn’t wish on anybody? However, when you stride past mile 3 you no longer feel pain, inhibition, or the spikes in your lungs due to little air flow.
I am here in the lab that is about to close and I feel pretty good considering the circumstances. I need to do this more often. I like knowing that I am making some dent in my life goals and daily to-do lists. Now it is off to the J-lab on 4th floor because they run 24/7!
24. This is me, in the lab. Besides the lab monitor and me, there is only one other person here. My eyes may look a little red and there may be bags underneath but on the inside I actually feel… I feel good. I’ve hit mile 3 and I’m now coasting. You know that runner’s wall where everything up to mile 3 is something you wouldn’t wish on anybody? However, when you stride past mile 3 you no longer feel pain, inhibition, or the spikes in your lungs due to little air flow.
I am here in the lab that is about to close and I feel pretty good considering the circumstances. I need to do this more often. I like knowing that I am making some dent in my life goals and daily to-do lists. Now it is off to the J-lab on 4th floor because they run 24/7!
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15. There are a multitude of things flowing through my head right now that would be hard to put onto paper. If I ever tried, you wouldn’t get them sooner but actually later. So instead of writing them down, I instead decided to look around. Find some more people that think like me and let them show you what we both see. Here is a video on the process of being creative, I couldn’t conjure up a word that rhymes with creative so just watch the friggin’ video.
12. Stay Calm Cool Collected and don't forget Creative
All the times that mom told me practice makes perfect, I am finally realizing that she may have been onto something. Now that I am older, I look around at the suavely creative people around me and envy how easy design flows from their brain to paper. When I try to do the same, it comes out a little… let’s just go with a little less than perfect. However, I have been practicing and trying my hand at doing SOMETHING imagninative each day. I am not at the level I wish to be, I find it when I am doing certain things that ideas come to me that much quicker! It feels good and it pushes me to continue on this unending quest of mine.
It also helps to have cool sites like this to give me ideas. I found this through a blog’s blogroll. It’s called Logo of the Day and it shows more than the Nike swoosh or the Target bullseye. Love how some of the symbols use the blank space to create their design or how they turn simple squiggles into the backbone for some letters. These people are not only thinking outside of the box, to me, it’s out of this world.
If you search through and find the logo for the company, Boundary, you’ll be looking at my favorite. It is simply crazy how effortless it looks yet it probably took a few hours to make.
OOOH I cannot wait to get to that level, and then break through to another.