Creativity and Pig Entrails
The post below is by my friend and fellow blogger Katie Jett Walls, who writes over at One Per Week. We’re both participating in the 2010 Wordcount Blogathon, and today’s assignment was to swap blogs with someone; we chose each other. Awww….
Angling for Guest Blogger of the Year, Katie made rice pudding today in honor of Tastee Pudding
My name is Katie, I’m a Fire Dragon, and I’ve been friends with Amanda since sometime along the way in our mutual flirtation with improvisation. We were briefly neighbors, and we’ve been drunk together on many nights. She gave me marvelous champagne flutes as a wedding gift. She writes, about her blog Tastee Pudding: “In the search for the creative life, the proof is in the pudding.”
I got to wondering how exactly how we came to say this phrase, “the proof is in the pudding” (maybe I only wondered because of fellow blogathon writer Joann Mason, who writes about the origins of English idioms). I sort of know what it means - it means you know a thing is good if it holds up to it’s promise, or if the experience lives up to the expectation.
I thought there might be more than that. (more…)
Food, Inc. and Creative Activism
When I started my last blog, Creative DC, with its stated mission of “inspiring and showcasing creative living in Washington, DC,” the question quickly arose: What, exactly, is creativity? My friend Jaime was quick to point out that activism is a form of creative expression, and I couldn’t agree with her more. At its core, creativity is about the expression of something inside you – a feeling, an idea, a belief. While some people express themselves through paint, or film, others choose activism as their medium. For example, here’s a photo of a protester I saw at a peace march on the National Mall, back in 2007:
Protesting "sleepy corporate media"
Of course, sometimes the line between art and activism isn’t so clear. (more…)
The Art of Health
Artist Christi Nielsen asked friends and family members what they thought of when they heard the word “diet” – here’s the result:
Photo by Christi Nielsen on Flickr
“Deprivation” pretty much captures it for me (as much as I hate sounding like a spoiled Westerner). Documenting everything I eat – an activity that most diets require – robs eating of its sensuous pleasure; it’s hard to savor the taste of something when I’m calculating serving size, and savoring my food is a a source of tremendous satisfaction for me. But this blog post from Art21 made me realize that perhaps keeping a food diary has some creative potential (more…)
