Earlier this week I saw a blog post by “indie-rock-star” blogger Ken Robert about deciding not to start a second blog for a new idea, but instead incorporating it into Mildly Creative. I follow Ken’s blog closely so I was surprised he referenced a prior post asking for feedback from his tribe on this question. I hadn’t seen the previous post so I read it and immediately thought…
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Thanks, Dr. Judy, for pointing us to this video.
Be sure to strap your a$$ on pretty good, because you might laugh it off otherwise.
I got the link to this video from my friend andsmall business coach Janet Slack. She posted it on Facebook.
It shows an elaborate Rube Goldberg machine, one of those things where a single action sets in motion the next action and so on, and they involve levers and rolling balls and often dominoes. This one is spectacularly choreographed so it’s a blast as a piece of staging, as an artistic composition, and as a little piece of film.
Demonstrates how massive projects can be broken down to one step at a time, because that’s how the machine progresses. Shows the focus of purpose and intention and the creative power of playfulness. Enjoy!
This post first appeared April 23, 2007, on the original Blogger format for this blog. I’m reposting it on this hosted site as I slowly move the blog to its new home. I rearranged it, edited it, and rewrote a bit, but only the parts that really bothered me. I left a lot of the crummy stuff intact.
Do you know a middle school or high school student who has had a group project assigned, been told their individual grade is based on the group’s performance, and then been stuck in a group with the unavailable slacker who won’t do his part? If you’re a parent you know exactly what I mean. Your A or A/B student got her summary paragraphs done and e-mailed some photos to the person who was supposed to print things out for the presentation, or put together the PowerPoint. A night or two before the presentation, your child and the other two productive group members are scrambling to create the visual part of the project because the slacker can’t cowboy up.
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This post first appeared April 12, 2007, on the original Blogger format for this blog. It addresses what were immediate news events at the time: the dismissal of the criminal case against the Duke lacrosse players and Don Imus being fired for sexist and racist remarks. And how does that have anything to do with Respect?
What a weird, paradoxical day it was in the news! Yesterday two windows focused the country on the deep and complicated wounds of racism and sexism.
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This post first appeared April 4, 2007, on the original Blogger format for this blog. As I move the blog to this hosted site I will be reintroducing past posts along with new content.
So I was driving along Grapevine Highway with my 16-yr-old son in the car and we passed this new ice cream place, “Woolley’s.” Actually, it’s frozen custard, which I think means a little softer and a lot more fattening than ice cream.
I told him, “I finally got to try that place the other day when I took your little brother.”
He said, “I know you’ve been there. You took me. Remember?”
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Over the years I’ve been accused of being nice. I used to feel very worried when I heard that, thinking that somehow I had misrepresented myself and given people the wrong impression. Don’t blame me, I would think. I didn’t do anything to give you that idea. I figured that comments like that came from people who had only seen a little bit of me trying to put my best foot forward, or were simply too hasty in their judgment.
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