Some of you may not know that I have dabbled in the visual arts for fun. Yeah…I have some paintings, drawings, inventions and photos that have actually attracted some international attention. Why? Not sure. Most of it is extremely childlike. (I guess blame it on the CHRONIC CREATIVITY? ) Take a look at this chicken scratch drawing [...]
I spent quite a bit of time thinking about jazz tonight….what it is, why it appeals to me so much, favorite jazz perfomers, etc…and came up with a darn good definition for jazz on my facebook wall: ” Definition of JAZZ: intentional, improvisational, expressionistly independent, intuitive, syncopated chaos defying gravity. It’s the musical rebellion that leads [...]
An excerpt from “COLORS OF THE SPIRIT…The Creative Process of Turning You Into a Work of Art” (c) Angela K. Mack 2000 (Based on the breastplate mentioned in the Bible Exod 28:15-29) Aaron’s breastplate hint’s about God the artist and creator. God did not sloppily throw together just any stones on the breastplate. He specifically [...]
(c) February 2010 Angela K. Mack It was Gallery Night in the Third Ward of Milwaukee. We went into the Artasia Gallery. Tucked away in the back of the store there must have been hundreds of wooden and cloth asian puppets lying in a heap on a table. I was totally mesmerized. I sat and stared [...]
“When Angela Mack first approached me in late 2004 with her Chronic Creativity excerpts, I found her ingenious way of describing the condition Chronic Creativity in diagnostic terms metaphorically apt. It didn’t take long into reading about the first symptom, Claustrophobia, that I realized Angela possessed a perspective on “being perpetually creative” that I identified [...]
The arts: Organizing v. Creating August 19th, 2008 (c) angmack I was having a discussion with my husband tonight who is very visually artistic. He works in the computer field as his occupation and longs for the day when he has more time to create. I, too, have books to write and songs to compose. However, [...]
“Idea Makers”….an excerpt from my latest book this section was previously published in my http://www.creativeconnectionarts.com blog but the entire shpeal can be viewed on Creativity Portal. This is taken from my latest book, Intangible Assets (c) Angela Mack 2007 “Idea makers carry a unique entrepreneurial or visionary spirit. They have special problem solving and intuitive [...]
With this current economic crisis, we are learning that money is not as sure as we once thought it was. The dollar has been worshipped for so long….too long….and we have exhausted ourselves trying to climb the corporate ladder. We have forgotten a lot since the days of “Little House on the Prairie”. We have forgotten [...]
Around 2004, I started to write a book called “Chronic Creativity: A Diagnostic Look at the Condition and How to Become Infected” by Angela Mack. It has been graciously up on the http://www.creativity-portal.com website ever since. (Much thanks to Chris Dunmire!) It’s sort of a humorous take on creativity as it relates to medical topics [...]