Cultured people feel less stress

Stressed? Head to the nearest art gallery. People who go to museums and concerts or create art or play an instrument are more satisfied with their lives, a study finds.
http://news.discovery.com/human/culture-happiness-art-110524.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1

When should you teach children and when should you let them explore?

http://www.economist.com/node/18741484

US Economic Innovation: Lessons for NZ?

Why Johnny Can't Innovate: The American Economy's Most Surprising Deficit
From Ian Fletcher in the Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ian-fletcher/us-innovation-economy-_b_868504.html?ref=fb&src=sp

Last Paradise

A movie by local film maker Clive Neeson featuring Kiwi sporting innovators and showing some scenes from my home, Taranaki, and its mountain and beaches.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knl3ifbfcCE&feature=share

John Jay of Weiden-Kennedy talks creativity

Fast Company offers us an exclusive video featuring John Jay of world renowned advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy. In the short clip, John speaks about creativity, including why Wieden+Kennedy has kept strong relationships with clients and why you should never adhere to someone’s particular terms or be put into a specific silo.
http://hypebeast.com/2011/05/john-jay-of-wiedenkennedy-talks-creativity/

Evaluative pratices in creativity

Alan Black shares a blog by Keith Sawyer . . . .
http://keithsawyer.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/evaluative-practices-in-creativity/

Can creativity be taught?

A brief blog from August Turak in Forbes.
http://blogs.forbes.com/augustturak/2011/05/22/can-creativity-be-taught/

Facing the biggest enemy of your inner genius

Dr Detlef Reis is the founding director and chief ideator of Thinkergy Limited (http://www.thinkergy.com), an ideation and innovation company in Asia.
Check out his article from the Bangkok Post.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/print/238967/

Natural Architecture

Tara Grey Coste shares . . .
http://www.designboom.com/contemporary/naturalarchitecture.html

Use art to turn the world upside down

JR, a semi-anonymous French street artist, uses his camera to show the world its true face, by pasting photos of the human face across massive canvases. At TED2011, he makes his audacious TED Prize wish: to use art to turn the world inside out. Learn more about his work and learn how you can join in at insideoutproject.net.
http://www.ted.com/talks/jr_s_ted_prize_wish_use_art_to_turn_the_world_inside_out.html