7 posts and columns on creativity

How Does Valve Decide What to Work On?

The same way we make other decisions: by waiting for someone to decide that it’s the right thing to do, and then letting them recruit other people to work on it with them. We believe in each other to make these decisions, and this faith has proven to be well-founded over and over again.

– From page 13 of the Valve Handbook for New Employees

Party On, Tim! AOL Hooks Up With Chuck Close for 25th Anniversary.

in News on May 11, 2010 at 4:33 pm PT

What in the world is AOL CEO Tim Armstrong up to now? A “Project on Creativity With American Artist Chuck Close,” according to a party invite for the iconic online service’s 25th anniversary that the company just sent out. I have calls in to the chiseled-cheekbone exec find out what that means. But extra points for putting AOL and creativity in the same sentence without even a trace of irony!

Viral Video: "Eat Pray Love" (Plus Elizabeth Gilbert's "Doomed" TED Speech)

in News on March 24, 2010 at 2:53 am PT

While the film adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert’s hit book, “Eat Pray Love,” has exactly zero rock-em-sock-em blockbustery feel, unlike all the others being released this summer, its trailer is gaining in popularity online. The movie, which stars Julia Roberts, is about a woman in search of, well, herself, via copious travel.

BoomTown Heads to Sundance Film Festival in the Fifth Annual Meet-the-Geeks Pilgrimage

in News on January 21, 2010 at 5:19 am PT

Today, BoomTown is loading the wife and kids, along with mom, into our tricked-out All Things Digital Winnebago and heading to Park City, Utah, for the 26th Sundance Film Festival. Now, what I know about independent filmmaking could fit neatly into a thimble, with room to spare. But what has brought me back there for five years running is the chance to introduce those auteurs gathered on the frozen tundra to a slice of what’s to come from the digital world.
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