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[ Business ]
Boosting Our Creative Sparks
By Dr. Lynda
Have you ever had one of those moments in the shower when a light bulb goes on in your brain, on something you’ve been wrestling with? Turns out our creative brain can be boosted! Remarkable fun insight here today!
10 minutes
[ Art ]
Underwater Wonder Combining Sculpture & Conservation
What happens when we create art that interacts with its environment? What happens when art and conservation combine? Jason deCaires Taylor’s underwater sculptures inspire wonder!
8 minutes
[ Art ]
Kinetic Sculpture: A Surreal Journey…
How can moving art impact its surroundings? How can art introduce us to new forms of life? Find out how artist Anthony Howe is making this possible with the most amazing kinetic sculptures.
10 minutes
[ Art ]
“Gulp”: The World’s Largest Stop-Motion Animation
By Dr. Lynda
What do you get when an entire beach is the stage for stop-motion animation plus incredible sand-art talent? Gulp: the world’s largest stop-motion set!
5 minutes
[ Art ]
Tricycle to Transform Reality
The urban landscape can be a canvas! Find out how when two animators strap a projector onto a tricycle!
17 minutes
[ Art ]
Painting in a Pool of Milk?
By Dr. Lynda
From the earliest cave paintings, humanity has been refining the artistic impulse by experimentation and in today’s article, Alexa Meade takes innovation to another level.
8 minutes
[ Art ]
Strange Happenings Under the Ice in Finland
By Dr. Lynda
If you enjoy a good mind-bending bit of creativity once in a while, today’s video-share is just that. Here’s some fun!
10 minutes
[ Creativity ]
Sound and Vision: When Bowie and Beck Combine
By Dr. Lynda
When was the last time you had a “music experience”? Today, we’ll add one to your list by sharing an amazing piece created to engage your brain in a remarkable way. Take a little journey!
8 minutes
[ Art ]
Bacteria as an Art Form?
An MIT scientist studying how bacteria can detect cancer is teaming up with an artist to make living art. The results and their story are fascinating!
5 minutes
[ Creativity ]
Beyonce and Free Diving Create Music Video Wonder
What happens when Beyonce’s vocals team up with a mind bending underwater music video?
12 minutes
[ Art ]
Diving in a Wheelchair: Art to Alter Possibility
Artist Sue Austin shatters the boundaries and assumptions of life in a wheelchair; proving the immensely transformative power of art.
7 minutes
[ Art ]
Moving Creations for a Breathing Earth
By Dr. Lynda
When the right artist harnesses the wind, we can see it as a wonder of creation. This artist’s work is a marvel, even if you are not an “art person.” Take a look!
6 minutes
[ Art ]
Stone Testament to a Chinese Proverb
Using stone to make human necessities and artistic expressions has been part of our impulses for tens of thousands of years. Meet an amazing person who carries that torch with sublime results.
18 minutes
[ Art ]
Subway Acrobats and Street Dancers
By Dr. Lynda
There’s not enough fun in the world. Maybe these guys are on the leading edge of bringing it back!
25 minutes
[ Art ]
Candyrat Records
By Dr. Lynda
Some musicians create things that seem otherworldly. Over at Candyrat Records, they are making that the norm!
22 minutes
[ Creativity ]
2CELLOS are Thunderstruck
By Dr. Lynda
I used to think there was a chasm between AC/DC and Classical Cello music, and their fans. Not any more! Take a look as something amazingly innovative!
9 minutes
[ Creativity ]
Augmented Reality Illusions
Marco Tempest doesn’t do magic… he combines it with “augmented reality” technology. Find out more in today’s mind-bending article.
11 minutes
[ Art ]
Solipsist: Growing our Comfort Zones as the Edges
By Dee Christie
Even if you don’t think of yourself as an “art lover”, take a look at the mind-bending creativity we are sharing today! If the best art strikes a chord in most of us, does that have to be the same chord?
12 minutes
[ Creativity ]
Music’s String Theory
By Dr. Lynda
Thunderstruck has been done by many, but not quite like this, by a single musician. This is what happens when talent and artistic innovation combine.
14 minutes
[ Art ]
The Balance Goddess
By Dr. Lynda
Here’s yet another extraordinary person with her own take on finding balance. This is so mesmerizing that you may have to relax yourself when it’s over!
11 minutes
[ Art ]
Stomp, Percussion Performance at Its Best: “Brooms”
By Dr. Lynda
You might have heard of the dance/percussion group known as Stomp, but have you ever seen them in action? Today, EWC has a treat for you as we bring you a 9-minute performance of Stomp’s “Brooms!”
19 minutes
[ Art ]
NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert Series
By Dr. Lynda
What are your music tastes? Check out your favorites up close and personal and try out the best of other genres intimately in NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert Series!
14 minutes
[ Art ]
Fun With Levitation: A Do-It-Yourself Guide
By Dr. Lynda
Levitation. Think it’s possible? Today we look at Tokyo artist Haryashi Natsumi’s incredible levitation photography work on top of some of our own, as well as a quick “how-to” video so you can join in the fun when we challenge you to share your own wonderful photography technique that anyone can do with a friend anywhere.
14 minutes
[ Art ]
The Best Strobe Photography Ever!
By Dr. Lynda
Today we look at the fascination of strobe photography and slow motion video, thanks to the master works of pioneer Harold Edgerton.
22 minutes
[ Creativity ]
Can We Increase Our Creativity?
By Dr. Lynda
We all enjoy those rare moments when a long held hunch becomes a huge break-through. But what if there were ways to increase the power of our hunches? Find out more in today’s EWC feature.