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Category Archives: Play
Safety or Play? Why Battlestar Galactica Picked Play
“We still are attracted to things that scare us and that represent the possibility for failure. Which is hopefully a good thing because oftentimes you get into a comfort zone of a show doing well, like this one has begun to, and you stop doing that. And we’re not, for better or for worse.” -David [...]
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Taking a chainsaw to the best show on television – rethinking The Wire
“We tried to say something with each of the characters. we tried to say something with the story as a whole. I think we tried not to repeat ourselves, which is not easy. There’s a lot of impulse that says, ‘do what you’ve done before’ and what’s worked. A lot of TV shows are like [...]
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Let the Beauty You Love Be What You Do
“Let the beauty you love be what you do.” – Rumi Let’s look at the boundary line of our work and the beauty we love. Let’s see if we can dissolve that border between the two. A good first step is to cross back and forth between the two worlds more often in the day. [...]
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What are the perks of being a wallflower?
The movie The Perks of Being a Wallflower joins Where the Wild Things Are (and Let the Right One In) in my little book of movies that explore what it is to play as a youth. Wild Things explores being a young boy. Perks explores being a teenager. Both bring us empathically into the experience [...]
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Pick a quote to help you let play trump perfection
Here are some quotes I found that could help you free your work up to play it imperfectly. Which quote will be your helper today? “The artist who aims for perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.” ~ Eugene Delacroix “As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so will it become clear that [...]
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What do Japanese tea ceremony bowls and Quentin Tarrantino have in common?
“The most valued bowls for tea ceremony are irregularly shaped, and have some gold patches here and there accentuating (rather than concealing) damage suffered at the hands of long ago owners. Asymmetry and irregularity allow the possibility of growth, but perfection chokes the imagination.” ~ Donald Keene, translator and interpreter of Japanese literature and culture [...]
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The lower the stakes, the easier it is to play
It’s easier for me to write blog posts than write a book. Of course, I may be doing both at the same time, but things seem friendlier, more relaxed if the stakes are lower. It’s why team building works so well for teams – teams can play with concepts and ideas that will be valuable [...]
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Why is perfect the enemy of play?
The soundtrack to Where the Wild Things Are is exuberant…and rough. The kids chorus is out of tune. It’s wild, not polished. The musicians took their cue from the amazing The Langley Schools Music Project – a 60-voice children’s chorus recorded in 1976 in the gym of their elementary school in Vancouver. Here’s their version [...]
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Jazz Guitarist Bill Frisell on How Complexity is Trumped By What You Bring