by Nancy Hillis | Apr 4, 2021
Creativity, Turbulence & Holism Last week we discussed the following image, taken by a NASA probe near Jupiter. Scale A remarkable characteristic of this image is that, if I didn’t tell you what the scale was, it would be hard for you...
by Nancy Hillis | Mar 28, 2021
Turbulence: The Handmaiden Of Creativity We recently came across the following image, taken by a NASA probe near Jupiter. It struck us as very painterly, though it is not the work of any human artist nor of any common materials. It is Nature...
by Nancy Hillis | Mar 21, 2021
Creativity, Pareidolia & Finding Patterns This post is about the art of seeing what is not there. As we have mentioned in several recent blog posts, we have been playing online word games as one of many coping mechanisms during the pandemic. We’ve found...
by Nancy Hillis | Mar 6, 2021
The Search for Creative Perfection Why is perfection so hard? And why does it seem to get harder the closer you get? As a competitive swimmer in the late Pleistocene, Bruce noticed this in terms of the amount of time it took to swim a standard distance...
by Nancy Hillis | Feb 28, 2021
William Tell & The Spices of Creativity The other day, I was refilling spice jars. We go through a lot of herbs and spices here since cooking is serious business in this household- so much so that we contact our local hippie grocery store, The Herb...
