Then I read Jack Kerouac’s List of 30 Beliefs and Techniques for Prose and Life again. Since I’ve never had any “literary, grammatical or syntactical inhibitions” anyway, I was encouraged. Here’s the list with some of the items that impacted me the most:

Jack Kerouac’s List of 30 Beliefs and Techniques for Prose and Life

1. Scribbled secret notebooks and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
2. Submissive to everything, open, listening
3. Try never get drunk outside yr own house
4. Be in love with yr life
5. Something that you feel will find its own form
6. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
7. Blow as deep as you want to blow
8. Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind
9. The unspeakable visions of the individual
10. No time for poetry but exactly what is
11. Visionary tics shivering in the chest
12. In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
13. Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
14. Like Proust be an old teahead of time
15. Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog
16. The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye
17. Write in recollection and amazement for yourself
18. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
19. Accept loss forever
20. Believe in the holy contour of life
21. Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
22. Dont think of words when you stop but to see picture better
23. Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning
24. No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge
25. Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it
26. Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form
27. In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
28. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
29. You’re a Genius all the time
30. Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven

Scribbled secret notebooks: For me these were sketchbooks. I remember a very wise professor in college telling us that there would be periods in life when art-making would be possible and other times when circumstances simply would not permit it. She had just lived through nursing her mother through her last year of life, so this truth was raw for her as she spoke. “But,” she said,”never stop sketching and journaling because the opportunity will open up again in due time and you’ll refer to everything you recorded. Trust that.” Steinbeck advised to just get stuff down on paper. Even if it’s crap. “You can always edit later,” he said. That’s where the “secret” part comes in. After so many years working as a designer and creative director I know creativity is a a quantity (vs. quality) game. You’ve got to be fearless in panning for gold without the threat of being panned before you find it. The privilege of epically sucking and running endless scenarios before presenting work to a generally unappreciative world.

Write what you want: Not what you think you should write.

No time for poetry but exactly what is and Believe in the holy contour of life: This relates to the comments about truth, your unique truth, above. Believing in the holy contour of life means accepting who you are, where you are and when you are, and therefore what you see as perfect. Then all you have to do is document that.

Accept loss forever: This one is wide open for interpretation, but here goes. Loss happens, then pain happens, then grief happens. In that order, not constantly, thank God, but still over and over in our lives. Accepting loss, or better, accepting it forever, patinas your insight. It adds the shadows and darkness that contrasts your light and like chiaroscuro in painting gives birth to new form. New form is absolutely what we seek as artists. Accepting loss, not easy, frightening even, grows deeper roots into existence.

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Pixar’s creative process, according to President Ed Catmull, simply involves going from “Suck to Nonsuck.” This essentially means embracing a messy process by which films are storyboarded and iterated upon until they emerge as swans from ugly ducklings in the final phases of production. “That’s because Catmull and Pixar’s directors think it’s better to fix problems than to prevent errors.” Read more about their process on Fast Company’s

Pixar’s Motto: Going From Suck to Nonsuck

View on QIdeas.org’s website.

About Bobette Buster from her website: After serving as creative executive for Tony Scott, Larry Gelbart and Ray Stark, Bobette Buster continues to consult for Hollywood’s leading decision makers and creatives at leading studios including Pixar, 20th Century Fox, Disney Animation, and Sony Animation. Bobette conducts seminars for the most elite film school programs around the world.

Bobette’s well-known and inspiring lectures have elicited extraordinary reactions from professional audiences around the world. Leading film industry figures, writers, communications leaders and other storytellers have also cited the effect it has had on the transformation within their own lives.

To read more about Bobette, please visit her site bobettebuster.com

“Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared.”

“Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared.”

Watch global design and innovation consultancy IDEO’s vision for the future of the book. What new experiences might be created by linking diverse discussions, what additional value could be created by connected readers to one another, and what innovative ways we might use to tell our favorite stories and build community around books?

The Future of the Book. from IDEO on Vimeo.

“The only unique contribution that we will ever make in this world will be born of our creativity.” Brené Brown

“More than 500 galleries have displayed their wares at Affordable Art Fairs around the world since Will Ramsay pioneered the idea with a debut show in Battersea Park in 1999.” View the full article on The Telegraph.

For more info see the Affordable Art Fair

by Carl Richards

More fun sketches at Behavior Gap

For the lazy curator. My show is called, “Breaking Illusion: Achieving and Undermining Juncture.”