Music & other Art – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

AI will go rogue due to good intentions and a lack of imagination

2025-01-17

Good intentions and not being able to image how things can really go wrong will lead to AI disasters.
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Interesting older Movies (pre-2000)

2024-11-24

Sometimes it's strange which movies «the young generation» know and which they do not know. Well, here are a few that are well-worth watching.
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Earplugs in a Ballet Performance

2024-11-24

If you are watching a ballet performance, ear plugs might be surprisingly useful.
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Downloading m3u8 streams as .mp4 Videos

2024-11-24

Using ffmpeg (or vlc) to download m3u8 streams.
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A Tale of Two Car Ads

2024-11-22

Two different approaches to advertising cars.
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Best Star Trek DS9 Episodes

2024-11-18

Personal recommendation of the best funny vs. serious Star Trek DS9 episodes.
Image: Captain Sisko in Star Trek DS9: «In The Pale Moonlight»
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Beauty Alerts

2024-11-18

Given all the emergency warning and disaster alerts, how about an App the «warns» when something beautiful is happening?
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Interesting Manga Museum in Kyoto

2024-08-17

Shout-out to an interesting museum in which you can actually touch and read the artworks — mangas.
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Kyoto Garden of Fine Art

2024-08-17

Interesting idea to show paintings outside by transferring them onto stone.
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Recommendation: Mandrake Stores in Japan

2024-08-17

If you love books, inkl. Mangas, this is the store for you.
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BTW, posts can get updated after I published them if I spot spelling errors (not a native speaker) or think a different wording might improve precision and clarity.

This blog is not focused on a single topic, or method. As long as it is relevant to improving creativity (or allowing it in the first place), it's fair game.
Some postings on this blog deal with freedom, as I think that we need freedom of thought, of speech, of association, etc. pp. to solve mankind's problems. Thus, some postings may seem a bit remote when it comes to organizing creativity. Freedom is, however, the bedrock of creativity.
The heterogeneity of the postings can make reading this blog a bit cumbersome, at least if you are only interested in one topic. You can either use the search function (above), or use the categories or the tags to narrow down the postings you see.