Benevolent Quotations

Part of what horror is, is taking risks and going somewhere that people think you're not supposed to be able to go, in the name of expressing real-life fears.  from  Jordan Peele - Actor, Producer, Writer I like to watch a good horror film as much as the next person.  I am fascinated that a genre which exercises the amygdala  has the bones to layer on creativity.  BOO! becomes ingenious, revealing, thought provoking, and cathartic.  Jordan's film, Get Out , was kitschy, creative, funny, and exposing while being entertaining. I picked today's blog topic because I just finished listening to Jordan's interview on NPR:  Jordan Peele Looked Into The Mirror And Saw The Evil Inside "Us."  ( stupid, idiotic American grammar rules ).  One of the quotes that I liked was:  'So that is what this movie is about to me, is that: Whatever your "us" is, we turn "them" into the enemy, and maybe "we" are our own worst e

W e need a little bit of that  divergent information to cross the  borders within our minds from what we  know to what we haven't yet thought about.  from Giovanni Corazza - TEDx Roma - founder of the Marconi Institute of Creativity I teach two students about design.  They are both 9th graders and come from relatively privileged backgrounds.  They are both smart and clever, like design more than their other classes at school, and yet they are not moving forward with the speed I believe they have.  One of the students' issues is procrastination and I am not writing about his situation today. Creativity is the issue of the other student.  Simple questions, like "What would you change about your room?", seems to paralyze him.  And yet, he would like to create new products/furniture. Though talking with him, he does realize that he has an issue.  While he resists new things, he will try new things if he sees a need.  For example, he believed that