On creating and collecting phases

Nikolaus Gradwohl2016-09-08T05:25:37+00:00

As you might have noticed, I haven' t written many blog posts in the last few weeks. I usually write posts when I have created something and want to share what ever I have created or explored, how I did it and sometimes even what materials I used and how I did it. But lately I didn't feel like creating at all - hence no blog posts. This situation started to frustrate me and so I started to analyze what has changed and I came to the conclusion that in fact nothing has changed - I am still trying to learn stuff about new topics. What has changed is that I do collect information, material, impressions, references, ideas currently instead of using them up. I always have cycled through phases of creating and collecting - the only thing that really has changed is that I forgot to balance these phases and I got further into the collection than usual.

So to keep this blog from drying up and to bootstrap myself into a more creating mode I will start write posts with collections of links, books I've read, references I collected, topics that interest me and short random thoughts on topics I want to explore further.

In a way this is similar to the experiment series I've done for blender or processing in the past

collection phase

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DIY Idea Cards

Nikolaus Gradwohl2011-10-04T06:12:27+00:00

This weekend I made myself a set of Idea Cards. I always wanted to try working with one - and It was the ideal project to use my new pencils and marker :-)

So far I made 66 cards and I'm sure there are more to come.

idea card box

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