Turn It On: Mastering the 24/7 Creativity Switch

Can we declare today Create Something Day? Or how about this week?

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I bring it up because I'm feeling inspired, and David Morneau is my flashing beacon. Every day for the past year David has produced a new 60-second composition, and his personal creative marathon is over today! Congrats, David! 

Like the most irritating news reporter, I rode along side him during the home stretch and shouted out some questions from the air-conditioned pace car. Morneau must not have been even slightly winded, because he gave me some of the most thoughtful and inspired answers I've heard in a long while. Now I really want to make some art myself. And I think some serious deadline pressure is what it's going to take to make it happen.

[cue theme music]

Get the Morneau creativity pep talk here and listen to the music here.

June 30, 2008 12:10 PM | | Comments (3)

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David says that "ScrubM" (October 27) is one of his favorite pieces of the 365. But does he have a singular favorite? Also: What's his birthday, and what's the piece for that day?

Corey -- it's very hard to pick one as a singular favorite, there are so many that I really love. One that is definitely a candidate as my favorite piece is Hot (July 18). Almost a year later it still makes me laugh.

My birthday is May 2, the piece that day (Big Feet Birthday) is a collage built from a song that my uncle recorded for the occasion of my thirteenth birthday.

:-)

Nice work, David. John Oswald should be proud!

Can you set these pieces up as a podcast feed by any chance -- a daily feed that would reset each year? The podcast could consist of the 60-second piece followed by a voiceover of you reading the description from your blog followed by an encore of the same 60-second piece. Alternatively, can you set up a URL where people can click a button to randomly select one of the 365 pieces?

I ask these questions because I have a slight case of "too many choices" anxiety when I think of selecting a sampling of pieces to listen to. (That's partly why I asked for your favorite and for your birthdate.) Something like a podcast or a random date-generator might help to assuage that "too many choices" anxiety.

At any rate, carry on! There's still the special bonus leap-year piece that needs creating, yes?

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