Catalyst Ranch’s
Creative Juice Blog
Our friends at Stuart-Rodgers Photography have come up with a fantastic idea for keeping their creativity flowing and are willing to share it with all of us non-professionals. Here are the details in their own words: Membership is free and the rules are simple. Create a new piece of art every day for one year. Our club understands the [...]
One of the common misconceptions about play is that it is necessarily purposeless, and therefore can’t possibly have any place in business. Harvard scholar and jazz pianist (and mentor) Frank Barrett calls improvised play a form of “disciplined imagination” reminding us that play can also be wildly productive and innovative. Pamela Meyer wrote a new book, [...]
The next time you pick up your stapler and mindlessly staple a stack of papers together, why don’t you give that stapler a closer examination and really think about your technique? Are you really as handy and dexterous with its use as you think you are? Are you ready to go up against Baptiste Debombourg staple [...]
Are you always coming up with great ideas or tinkering in your basement developing your next invention but don’t know how to bring them to market? Or are you involved in new product development and are interested in tapping into some great brains who don’t happen to work for your company? Well, IdeaConnection is a company [...]
Here’s a very easy and fun way to start a meeting, using the talents in the room to redesign the environment and give it some pizzazz. Assignment: Draw the missing half of a face of a person. Allotted Time: 5 minutes Go through a bunch of magazines and cut out interesting photos of people. [...]