Read this article from AdWeek.

“If you look at the top-ranked sites online — Facebook, YouTube, Wikipedia, Blogger, MySpace — a surprising number have not been cracked by the creative industry. Sure, there’s media space on these sites and there has been the occasional one-off idea that’s been a hit with users or the industry press, but there hasn’t been much in the way of a repeatable, successful formula.

Display ads don’t work that great, Facebook apps are a media ghetto, paid YouTube ads have to compete with user-generated content that lawyers do not look at before the video is uploaded. It’s rough!”

Read this article from Movie City News

“Is the best art created when the artist isolates himself as much as possible from outside influences? Or is art, by its nature, collaborative?

Art isn’t made in a vacuum, and egos of artists aside, their visions are, at the very least, shaped and influenced by every experience they’ve had in their lives, by every person they’ve ever met, and by some things they may not even consciously remember. Art reflects the world surrounding its creator, refracted through the unique lens of the artist’s eye.”

Read this article from Nature Photographers.

“You may wonder why an essay on creativity follows an essay on inspiration. After all, is there really a difference between the two? If you ask yourself this question you are not alone because I wondered about this as well while I was working on this series of essays.

In fact, I originally titled the essay on Inspiration “Creativity and Inspiration.” However while I wrote this essay, I found it increasingly difficult to write about both inspiration and creativity at the same time. I found that although these two subjects are usually presented together, there are many things that separate them.”

Read this article from Bizzy Women.

“How is consciousness expanded? How do we become something more tomorrow than we are today? How do we tap into feelings, thoughts, inspirations, and dreams that previously were unavailable to us?”

Read this article from Richard Laermer.

“Over the years creativity has been assigned a limited role in business in general and marketing in particular. For the most part agencies do not influence decisions that affect business beyond the little ones right when the objects are being brought to market. Only a decade or so ago a guy in advertising would have called himself a partner with his marketing client and nosed his helpful self into everything from new-product development to retail distribution.”

Read this article from Lateral Action

“One of the buzzwords you hear a lot in the business world these days, is “Innovation”. Yes, it’s a genuinely worthy thing to aspire to. Genuine innovation creates lots of genuine value, every young intern knows this. Which is why people like to throw it around like confetti. It’s one of those words that sound good in meetings, regardless of how serious one is about ACTUALLY innovating ANYTHING.

Here’s some friendly advice for all you Innovation-buzzword fanboys: You don’t get to be more innovative, until you make yourself more creative FIRST.”

Read this article from Kevin E. Houchin.

“I’m an intellectual property lawyer and by many accounts I’m pretty good at it. Lately I’ve noticed a trend. I’ve been watching the pace of innovation increasing exponentially while the legal tools I can use to facilitate and protect innovation get left farther and farther behind.”

Read this article from Dr. Tian Dayton.

“Do that thing that only you can do, that’s how to be successful as an artist,” says, Steven Lavine, president of California Institute of the Arts. “Especially in today’s economy it’s important to be entrepreneurial with your skill set and adapt to the environment in which you find yourself.”

Read this article from Huffington Post.

“Don’t hold us in suspense!” After I published my first Huffington Post piece, “President Obama’s Arts,” on October 21, 2008, readers wanted to know what had happened to Mordecai Santiago – the ten-year-old boy from the Hell’s Kitchen projects who had a great talent for the piano, but no resources with which to pursue it. I’d deliberately left my audience uncertain of his destiny, implying that he might turn out to be “a great artist or a great criminal.” Now, I would like to set the record straight. Thanks to a marvelous public arts education and not-for-profit arts program, Mordecai is evolving into the former. “

Read this article from Affluent Artist

“I spent the past weekend at an internet marketing “buttcamp” with the famous Tom Antion. I learned how to build websites, run a shopping cart, and a lot of other things necessary to build a business around The Affluent Artist.”