again watched the documentary Stephen Fry and Gutenberg Press on genius johannes gutenberg by bbc from 2008. i sincerely recommend it to everyone. it’s a great way to witness how important the invention of movable type was and therefore the mass production of books, rise of literacy. the amazing thing is that in the documentary everything was completely build up and made from scratch for the documentary: the paper, engraved letters (and matrices) and the great big machine (of which there was no illustration so they oriented and followed the example of one dürer’s illustration of a printing machine). and it truly is “Printing history goodness all round”. because documentary is subtitled the machine that made us i tried to follow the printscreen and sketch the title in blackletters.

among other things of the past days is the OLE “shout” from the ted talk by elizabeth gilbert below. and because i’m reading a book on grids i got kinda more sensitive to it. watching floor in my appartment, playing with toast …

interesting things all around. have eyes open. saluti!

i feel lost.
a word from a friend and this great talk on creativity kicked me in the butt. heading to make me a cup of coffee and grab a pencil. and sun’s boasting outside, after a long time. yes, i’ll have a long walk first. ole ole ole and hiphiphurray to nature and Elizabeth Gilbert!!





Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity

update: because i don’t check daily on the bookmarks, it was great when heading to ISO50 page (the blog of scott hansen, a remarkable guy) and found a great article overcoming creative block on how to get back in the working process when hitting the “creative block”. in the article there are presented 25 strategies how to overcome this, asking 25 most inspiring creative people.