Casey A. Gollan: Notes + Links

On Myself, Beginning to Make Connections, and Starting a Box

In the spirit—or, rather—habit of Twyla Tharp, I’m starting a box. It’s tentatively called: Creativity Box. The thoughts have been stewing and now I’m psyched to officially get the ball rolling on whatever this might lead to.

Anything I want to drop in the box will be tagged “creativity-box.” I also changed my sidebar text, to reflect this refined trajectory: 

These images, quotes, videos, and sounds spark something within me, so I’m collecting them. I don’t know what they’ll amount to, but I think that it’s important to keep track of my influences and the connections between them. Call this a tagged, searchable database of inspiration.

And here’s the first thing I’m throwing into the box:

This is a combination of writing from my notebook in the past week, and thoughts from tonight’s coversation, which I partially, semi-secretly recorded, and am transcribing.

I am an impractical person. I am an idealist. I am a hypocrite.

However, I’d rather apologize, time and time again, for being an impractical, idealist, hypocrite than try to justify it with somber grown-up logic. I want to call upon the simplicity of how toddlers can make intellectual arguments: “Because yes,” “Because no,” or “Because I am.”

Thank you Merlin Mann (for Twyla), Twyla Tharp (for boxes), Paula Scher (for somber vs. serious), and John Maeda (for intellectualizing toddlers).