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NUCA Degree Exhibition
100 Bears
by
Magali Bardos
published 2014 by Flying Eye Books
Let me introduce you to Flying Eye Books, if you aren’t already pals with them. Their books are fairly new to me, but are consistently striking and interesting and a different sort of fare than some more commercial offerings.
Case in point: this post by Danielle Davis over at This Picture Book Life (you know her, right? Her posts are a work of art and always a celebration of the picture book form. I’m lucky to know her in real life, not just on the internet.) and this look at their current season (and an interview!) by Travis Jonker. 
100 Bears is a counting book with some actual narrative to it. The pace starts off sweetly but then 9 gunshots and an escape leads to a madhouse of 23 knocked over chairs and 37 or 38 bits of confetti…
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The Importance of Making Space
Making space for your creative work is almost as important as making time for your creative work.
When you have a work space that feels inviting and inspiring — even if it’s just the corner of a room — turning to your creative work feels like a delightful retreat, rather than just another item on your endless “to-do” list.
In her fabulous book, The Creative Habit, Twyla Tharp notes: “To get the creative habit, you need a working environment that’s habit-forming.” When you have a space that calls to you, it’s easier to go there regularly. Regularity, as Tharp points out throughout her book (as the title would suggest), is the heart of creative output.
We all know Virginia Woolf’s famous dictum that “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” Woolf was speaking about the feminist need for independence…
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Your Creative Intentions: The Monday Post ~ April 14, 2014
A regular creative practice — a daily practice, if possible — is key to staying in touch with how you make meaning. Key to living, not postponing. (Let’s all agree to give up on “someday.”)
What are your plans for creative practice this week? Given the specifics of your schedule, decide on a realistic intention or practice plan — and ink that time in your calendar. The scheduling part is important, because as you know, if you try to “fit it in” around the edges, it generally won’t happen. An intention as simple as “I will write for 20 minutes every morning after breakfast” or “I will sketch a new still life on Wednesday evening” is what it’s all about. If appropriate, use time estimates to containerize your task, which can make a daunting project feel more accessible.
Share your intentions or goals as a comment to this post, and let…
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Thinking, Feeling, and Creating
Meme of the Week
So true. I’ve been falling into that severla times.
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Sara
Written by my husband to our best friend Sarah.
For my beautiful friend Sara.
Sara
By Josef
These tears are evidence of love
waiting on the cheek
for someone who never came
waiting for someone to care
I can’t sleep from the burning of the tears,
which roll on an everlasting waterfall.
Hospital phobia,
death is winking at me,
we sang old hymns,
and told Her it was ok to go.
Back in 1996,
your first kiss,
(a lifetime flashing)
increasingly reclusive:
I couldn’t stop for death
LOVE ME NOW, WHILE I STILL KNOW
(2013)
RhOksh 