There is a wonderful, simple post over at White Hot Truth by Danielle LaPorte. It claims that there are 11 productivity tips that creative types already know. Whilst this may be true, I also think that it is a list of 11 tips that we could all do with being reminded of.
So go, take a look and make sure that you all 11 are inhabiting somewhere in your creative world.
There’s something happening in the bird world that we should take note of. No, I’m not talking about the destruction of the rain forests and the extinction of exotic species, that’s beyond the remit of this blog. I’m talking about Aviary.
Aviary provides a suite of online applications for a growing number of your creative needs. The first applications were image based, photo editing and vector image creation. But now they have moved into audio editing.
Myna, is the latest edition to Aviary. It is a reasonably specced audio editor. You can import or record audio onto separate tracks before mixing away and rendering your final audio creation.
To see exactly what it is capable of have a look at the video below and then let your creativity run free.
Need to try out a quick tune but don’t have your USB keyboard with you?
Then pop along to kisstunes. This little app turns your computer keybaord into a music keyboard at the load of an app.
It can even record what you play! What more do you need when the inspiration strikes.
An amazing online colour /color tool app can be found at colorschemedesigner.com .
The tool is great for trying out what colours work well. It is simple to use, free and does exactly what it says on the URL.
Found this via Moleskinerie and had to share it. The YouTube blurb has the following to say:
Radiolab presents: Moments by Will Hoffman. This film is a celebration of life that was inspired by David Eagleman’s book, Sum.
Over recent years I think I have signed up to each and every task management tool that has come online. They are all pretty good and to be honest not too much difference in the way they work. Have goal / project and create some to do / next actions for it et voila.
So when I saw another task management tool that was on the net I thought I needed that like a hole in my head. The Big Picture is the tool and like all the rest it works in pretty much the same way. Create a goal and then assign some tasks and actions etc.
But
The Big Picture does this in a wonderful, visual way, and is totally dragable. It is a breath of fresh air in a pretty stagnant development arena. I love it. I can’t really explain it so check out the video below. And while you’re off doing that I am going to get the obviously needed hole in my head.
The slight negatives at the moment are:
But these are slight negatives. Now to plan my creative future…
A new report on Scientific American has confirmed what many of us naturally realised, you can be more creative if you ‘distance’ yourself from the situation. Read the article for the science and some practical ideas.
These are uplifting as well as inpsirational. 12 videos from Vimeo to blow on your creative spark.
Just when I thought I could concentrate on getting some work done. Along comes this wonderful online sequencer. It feels like I’m back in the 80s, albeit via a flash interface and firefox.
Plug and play and have lots of fun
If this list from smashing magazine isn’t the ultimate writer’s directory, then it comes pretty close. From grammar to spelling, headlines to word rhymes, this list has it all. But don’t take my word for it.
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