All Around You
Yes Imagination is all around you, its energy moves through your mind, body and soul. There is no time you are not connected to Creativity, even if you think the connection has been turned off it is still on and waiting for you to tap into it.
You can take your Imagintion for a walk or put a saddle on it and ride it to the edge of Creativity. Ball it up and play a game of cosmic hoops that makes you the star of the universe. In another flash you can make your Imagination as small as an atom with 4 little wheels that will drive you around like a quantum taxi careening off electrons and quarks.
It may be everything or it may be nothing, it's up to you.
10 Minutes to a Finding It
where did I put my imagination
Well cheer up there are lots of ways to find that poor lost imagination of yours. What you need to keep in mind is that it's not lost, just misplaced.
Quick Content Links
Everything Came From Someones Imagination
Imaginative Inventions: The Who, What, Where, When, and Why of Roller Skates, Potato Chips, Marbles, and Pie (and More!)
Amazon Price: $11.55 (as of 11/28/2009)
In this edifying volume, Harper (When I Grow Up) explains how such everyday things as gum, skates and potato chips came to be, though she qualifies her research by noting that "creative storytelling and imagination were also used to tell these tales." For instance, piggy banks originated from vessels made of a clay called pygg; Harper speculates, "Some potter probably said,/ after giving it some thought,/ `What if I take my fine pygg clay/ and make a pig-shaped pot?
Imagination Poll
10 Things
10 things you can do to keep your imagination sharp
Daily Do Nothing Time
Set aside 15 or 20 minutes everyday to just sit do more...0 points
Go Somewhere, Do Something (NEW)
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Spark That Creative Part of You
Kaleidoscope: Ideas & Projects to Spark Your Creativity
Amazon Price: $16.49 (as of 11/28/2009)
Indulge your creative cravings! Explore dozens of stories, exercises and instructive projects, all designed to feed, encourage and sometimes flex your creative muscle. You'll tap into the joy of drawing, be encouraged to create art in bed, create your own folded-paper shrine, discover the liberation of stream-writing, practice idea brainstorming, make your own duct-tape purse, learn to quiet the negative voice in your head
Creative Blogs
- Creativity, Institutions, and Outsider Art | Escape Into Life
- In the image of authentic creativity found in Art Brut, as promoted by Jean Dubuffet, genuinely creative art is motivated by insubordination, and by a maverick self-assertion that is profoundly anti-social. Institutions do not foster ...
- Creativity Express | Giveaway | The Dirty Shirt |
- I have been given 9 copies of this wonderful software to giveaway away to some lucky Dirty Shirt readers.
- Can Creativity Lead to Success? » Oil Paintings, Art and Wall ...
- Can Creativity Lead to Success? - The value of creativity has been discussed by many of today's and yesterday's business visionaries. Michael Dell said It's through ...
- Role of Education in Developing Creativity Among Children
- Hence, it is necessary that parents and teachers provide healthy conditions at home and the school. This would enable children to express themselves and contribute something new for the society, which may be termed as creativity. ...
Creative Links
roads to recharge your creativity
- Buchheim Museum
- A single visit to the museum reveals only a fraction of what it really has to offer
- Imagination Playhouse
- Clowning, games, rhymes, cooties, and the usual funny antics of Sammie and Tudie!!
- Who Needs Imagination?
- An Interview with Professor Paul Harris
- Imagine The Universe
- Welcome to Imagine the Universe! (A NASA Site)
- Imagine Tours
- Imagine Tours, now in its 18th year, offers affordable and fun cycling escapes to scenic spots in the western US and abroad.
Jolt That Creative Mind
Caffeine for the Creative Mind: 250 Exercises to Wake Up Your Brain
Amazon Price: $11.55 (as of 11/28/2009)
For any designer or creative type who wants to quickly limber up their imagination on a daily basis, Wired helps readers get into the creative zone, from which all their best work springs. Packed with 15-minute simple and conceptual exercises, this guide will have readers reaching for markers, pencils, digital cameras, and more in order to develop a working and productive creative mindset.
Links to Inspire
see what others are doing and saying
- Wikipedia Definition
- The ever abundant take on the subject from Wikipedia.
- Scientific, Philosophical and Historical Approaches.
- A resource for the study of imagination and mental images.
- Art of Imagination Society
- We intend to assist the resurgence of interest in fantastic and visionary art and make the Art of Imagination accessible to all
- Library of Congress Imagination Gallery
- For Jefferson, Imagination was the realm of the arts.
- Theology, Imagination and the Arts
- The Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts (ITIA) is a research institute based at St Mary's College,
Creativity Poll
Brooklyn Art Project
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A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative
Amazon Price: $11.04 (as of 11/28/2009)
Roger von Oech's fully illustrated and updated volume is filled with even more provocative puzzles, anecdotes, exercises, metaphors, cartoons, questions, quotations, stories, and tips designed to systematically break through your mental blocks and unlock your mind for creative thinking. This new edition will attract an entire new generation of readers with updated and mind-stretching material.
Imagination at Wikipedia
Imagination, also called the faculty of imagining, is the ability of forming mental images, sensations and concepts, in a moment when they are not perceived through sight, hearing or other senses. Imagination helps provide meaning to experience and understanding to knowledge; it is a fundamental facility through which people make sense of the world,Norman 2000 pp. 1-2Brian Sutton-Smith 1988, p. 22Archibald MacLeish 1970, p. 887 and it also plays a key role in the learning process.Kieran Egan 1992, pp. 50 A basic training for imagination is the listening to storytelling (narrative),Northrop Frye 1963, p. 49 in which the exactness of the chosen words is the fundamental factor to 'evoke worlds....
Jump Start Your Imagination at Amazon
try writing, drawing or gardening
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Amazon Price: $10.20 (as of 11/28/2009)
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within (Shambhala Pocket Classics)
Amazon Price: (as of 11/28/2009)
New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Workbook: Guided Practice in the Five Basic Skills of Drawing
Amazon Price: $12.32 (as of 11/28/2009)
Creating Your Own Japanese Garden
Amazon Price: $23.36 (as of 11/28/2009)
Wide Open: Inspiration and Techniques for Art Journaling on the Edge (Book & Card Kit)
Amazon Price: $13.59 (as of 11/28/2009)
Creative Imagination for Businesses and Nonprofits
There is a lot of information at the website built just for Business Imagination and Creativity and I encourage you to check it out no matter what type of organization you work for profit or nonprofit.
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- science_fiction_novels_cyberpunk science_fiction_novels_cyberpunk Oct 25, 2009 @ 11:25 am
- I give the greatest importance to imagination and creativity. And I believe that they coupled with daring and sometimes rationality, are powerful instruments to succeed.
Helpful lens, that make me reflect. 5*, definitely
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- gmarlett gmarlett Sep 5, 2008 @ 10:11 pm
- My problem has always been a hyperactive imagination which has been a delightful pain in the a--! Great lens with some nice resources. Welcome to the Squidoo All-Stars Group.
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- jacquelinestone jacquelinestone Sep 4, 2008 @ 8:06 pm
- I don't think I've ever left my keys in a flower pot, but I certainly have found some imagination there!
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- Horseangel Horseangel Jun 7, 2007 @ 3:30 pm
- This is a great lens. I'm always losing my imagination! 5 stars from me for addressing this subject...I'm off to visit your website business lens now.
Blessings
Horseangel :)
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- meh meh May 24, 2007 @ 1:29 pm
- Ha! This is a fun topic to mull over!
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