Great art and great science involve a leap of imagination into a world that is different from the present. The rest of society often views these new ideas as fantasies without relevance to current reality. And they are right. But the whole point of art and science is to go beyond what we now consider real and create a new reality. At the same time, this “escape” is not into a never-never land. What makes a novel idea creative is that once we see it, sooner or later we recognize that, strange as it is, it is true.

Most of us assume that artists – musicians, writers, poets, painters – are strong on the fantasy side, whereas scientists, politicians, and businesspeople are realists. This may be true in terms of day-to-day routine activities. But when a person begins to work creatively, all bets are off.

Taken from “The Creative Personality” via The New Shelton Wet/Dry

Image by Wang Qingsong

I spent my free Monday being a bum with my dad, we washed our cars and ate snacks. The K is for Kevin, that’s his name! – this photo is from a couple months ago.

Also: Days With My Father by Phillip Toledano – this is really sweet and beautiful, it will break your heart.

This month at work we created the promotional materials for the American Music Festival. This is the big labor day event so we got to do not just a poster, but a ton of ads, a billboard, brochure, even 20ft high banners for the actual event. It was really fun to work on and we got to see Billy Idol! I had hoped to meet him and get an awesome photo, that didn’t happen – he was awesome though, wouldn’t have believed he was 52. Also, his hair was not blonde.

Download audio file (BillyIdol-DancingWithMyself.mp3)

Here is Seven hanging with the latest addition to my room. I have Ginny to thank for pretty much everything on my walls. Coming soon: boring pictures of my fancy new mattress.

Looks as if Muxtape is over and done, here is something new! Simplify Media is an application that allows up to 30 friends streaming access to your Itunes, including playlists. There aren’t a whole lot of options, you share the whole library or nothing at all. My username is aliciatheduffhome if you’d like to try it out and add me.

This band I don’t know much about, Department of Eagles had this song out last year that i loved. Apparently it was just a demo! Below is the official album version as well as the title track of their new album, In Ear Park. They say it’s members of Grizzly Bear, so maybe I ought to listen to that too.

“No One Does it Like You” Download audio file (DOE-noonedoesitlikeyou.mp3)

“In Ear Park” Download audio file (DOE-InEarPark.mp3)

Also, I still love the Selby.