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A part-time account planner and a part-time musician, a part-time thinker and a full-time hedonist. Ryo is the name, and I've set up this blog as a way to sip on my tea, play with my cat while exploring the ideas, passion, and personalities behind creative expression in art, music, photography and advertising.

I believe in the creativity behind the creativity, and I strive to make this an informal, yet informative space where I share some of my recent inspirations for the (VERY) personal aim of becoming more aware, and thus become more spongely absorbent of those ideas that seep deep into my own psyche..

Awareness? Psyche? Chihua-WHAA??

When you encounter something great, you just go DAMN. When you delve a bit deeper, you start seeing the little pieces, the elements: the leaves, the branches and the root. The posts here are simply little notes of these elements, which I write and return to to develop a clearer vision on how I could further evolve as a creatively conscious being.

If in the process, any of the posts here provoke some thoughts into the creative community of tumblr-ers/any of you forward-thinking artists or "art prosumers", that would be high-five-worthily fantastic!

You can learn more about this project here.

(all views and opinions expressed on this blog are mine, based on my diabolically misguided presumptions and in no way reflects the true intentions of the artists/people responsible for the work)

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Posts tagged Creativity
“ An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
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Edwin Land
“ I don’t think there’s any artist of any value who doesn’t doubt what they’re doing.
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Francis Ford Coppola

Steve Jobs: Remembering death to live life

I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I’m about to do today?” If the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I have to change something. Remembering I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything, all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death.

- Steve Jobs, 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

“ A clear horizon: when all negative emotions are removed you can look forward, the road is clear ahead and now you’re going to create something. I think that’s as happy as I would ever want to be.
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Alfred Hitchcock (Film maker, b. 1899).
“ Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
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Scott Adams (American Cartoonist, b. 1957).

(via sonnysayssmile)