Want To Be Creative?
How come every other week someone there's another study that says bring drunk makes us more creative? Or we get our best ideas when we're sleepy? Or in the shower?
On Trying To Be Creative
To instill change in others, and yourself, it often involves being creative. And let me tell you, being creative every single day isn't easy.
Smoke and Mirrors
Photographer, Li Wei, creates cutting-edge photography using low-tech techniques. Li Wei is changing the way we look at photography through the creative use of good old fashioned special effects. Creativity pushing boundaries at its finest.
Telectro Future
Globalization. Think it's a new idea? Think again. More than a century ago, Victorian engineer Alexander Stanhope St. George devised plans for an enormous telescope, called the Telectroscope, that would allow visitors to see from one side of the world to the other through an immense underground tunnel.
Change Is The Only Absolute
Change is the only absolute. This was the subject of a memo I received less than two years into my first job.
Blood Bath
The creative folks at Jung von Matt ad agency created some spine-tingling interactive advertising for the Action and Suspense Channel in Hamburg, Germany to promote their exclusive horror films.
Miracles Can Happen, Just Passing Through
A MAN NAMED PEARL is an awe-inspiring documentary film about the self-taught topiary artist, Pearl Fryer. A film that tells the true story of a man against all odds thats uses his passion to transform an entire community.
The Art Of Things
Last week RPK took an afternoon to tour the newest addition of the remodeled North Carolina Museum of Art. The sleek aluminum exterior is surrounded with sculptures, fountains and seating areas. Upon entering the brightly lit and clean white foyer, I almost thought I’d walked back into RPK.
Liquid Wood?
German scientists have developed what could be a solution to the chemical laden, non-biodegradable and possibly carcinogenic toxin known as..... plastic. Norbert Eisenreich from the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology in Pfinztal, Germany and his cronies have invented a substance known as Arboform, or to us right brained folks - liquid wood.
Test Tube Steak
Peta is offering $1 million prize for "commercially viable" test tube meat.
A Wink And A Drink
A drink containing nicotine is being launched in Britain to help smokers beat the pub ban on cigarettes.
General Motors Unveils Electric Car
GM introduced its Volt, an extended-range electric car. The company hopes the Volt will become the first mass-produced, plug-in electric car in 2010.
Innovation That Changed The World
From Thomas Edison's first commercially viable light bulb to the first X-ray machines, GE presents a timeline of innovation that changed the world.