Bliss Fund

This article touches for a brief moment on the beauty of creation under constraints (as opposed to the later-George Lucas everything-and-the-kitchen-sink approach):

In one study Schwartz and his team conducted, kids were randomly divided into two groups and then asked to draw a picture. Kids in one group were asked to choose a marker to use from among three; kids in the other group were asked to choose from among 24 markers. Afterward, when the pictures were evaluated by an elementary-school art teacher who did not know which group had produced which pictures, the drawings rated the “worst” were by and large created by kids in the 24-marker group.

I like the quote at the end:
“Every band is just some guy.”

“One of the surest tests [of the superiority or inferiority of a poet] is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn.”
TS Eliot

This has been remixed into:

Good artists borrow.
Great artists steal.

Which gets attributed to TS Eliot and sometimes Picasso.

Either way, in the spirit of theft, I stole this video link from my friends’ blog and posted it here.

People doing things.

Best cover of Power of Love I’ve heard. Ever. Feast those ears.