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10 Fake Self-Help Books
I love self help books. They are filled with strange human systems and ideas. I also hate them. There is usually a small seed of an idea that is broken down and then blown out over hundreds of pages. More often than not, the author could have explained everything you needed to know in a small brochure. Here are some of my self-help book ideas. Please send me your fake book cover illustrations if you feel inspired (see below):
Note: This list was created using the patented 10 Ideas In Ten Minutes™ creative method. (You can read about it in my Creative Method and Systems presentation, slide 97)
- Don’t Be A Clippy - How to help people without becoming really, really annoying
- The Third Place - Working from Starbucks and other stories of caffeinated entrepreneurship
- The Holy Bible (Star Wars Edition featuring the NEW! Book of Jedi)
- [Update Available] - Living with perpetual iterations of self, society, and socialmedia
- The Off Button - When to turn off, tone down, and go out
- Living in Your Car for Fun and Profit!
- WTF is Wednesday Thursday Friday? - Web acronyms made easy
- The Porno Diet - Master weight problems by thinking about sex
- It’s All About You - The world’s first personalized print-on-demand non-fiction best-seller (featuring everything we could dig up on you and your friends through social media websites)
- 15 Minute Warning - How the desire for instant fame is creating a generation of disillusionment
Email me your fake book covers for these fake books and I will publish my favourites here later.
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The Creative Method and Systems v2
This update to my original Creative Method is more geared toward strengthening your creative weaknesses. I presented this at the inaugural NXNEi conference in Toronto on June 15, 2010.
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The Jogging Chair
Sometimes irony is the best policy. As I was researching for my upcoming Creative Method and Systems presentation at NXNEi this year, and pondering how to engage with my Facebook group more, I came across this pithy quote from productivity geek Merlin Mann: “Joining a Facebook group about creative productivity is like buying a chair about jogging.”
Joining a Facebook group about creative productivity is like buying a chair about jogging.
Merlin Mann
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Btw, Merlin, there is such a thing. ;-)
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Frankenstein Monster is a Cut Up, Brundlefly is a Mashup
A few nights ago I presented Red Riding Hood Remix: Innovation Through Storytelling wherein I discussed creative methods for looking at things from different perspectives. One of those methods was the Cut Up. The Cut Up is very simple: take a few sheets of paper and “cut it up” in quarters or eighths. Then mix up the pieces and paste them together randomly. Rewrite the randomly placed words, filling in gaps and adjusting for disruptive grammar. Turn it into poetry.
This should not be confused with Mashups. A Mashup is very similar to a Cut Up, but it requires a different set of skills. A great Cut Up artist, like William S. Burroughs (author of The Naked Lunch), can turn random words into psychedelic prose through it’s jarring and disharmonious nature. A great Mashup artist, like DJ Earworm, must listen to different material and find synchronous (or similar) elements first and THEN make precision cuts (samples) to re-fit and overlap into one harmonious track. One is a tearing apart and reconstructing, the other is fusing together and blending.
It’s kind of like the Frankenstein Monster (cut up) versus Brundlefly (mashup). One is patched together from various body parts dug out of a graveyard by a humpbacked assistant (from Mary Shelly’s book Frankenstein), and the other is genetically spliced together with the DNA of a common housefly during teleportation (from David Cronenberg’s remake of The Fly). I realize that neither of these examples make Cut Ups or Mashup very visually appealing. But perhaps this will:
DJ Earworm mashed together the top songs of 2009. There is something uncanny about mashing 25 songs into a catchy four-and-a-quarter minute song, but he manages to squeeze in the entire Billboard Top 25, and make a decent video at the same time. And it doesn’t sound like a mess, it sounds like a legitimate chart-topper on it’s own (borrowed) merit. At present it has close to ten million views on YouTube. Who says you can’t splice and dice and make something beautiful? (I now have The United State of Pop 2009 mp3 on my iPhone)
I am going to add Splice and Dice as another Creative Method to use during ideation: harmoniously fuse elements of similar mediums together, and if they don’t quite fit, use a shoehorn (or pitch-shifter or teleporter).
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Frankenstein Monster is a Cut Up, Brundlefly is a Mashup
A few nights ago I presented Red Riding Hood Remix: Innovation Through Storytelling wherein I discussed creative methods for looking at things from different perspectives. One of those methods was the Cut Up. The Cut Up is very simple: take a few sheets of paper and “cut it up” in quarters or eighths. Then mix up the pieces and paste them together randomly. Rewrite the randomly placed words, filling in gaps and adjusting for disruptive grammar. Turn it into poetry.
This should not be confused with Mashups. A Mashup is very similar to a Cut Up, but it requires a different set of skills. A great Cut Up artist, like William S. Burroughs (author of The Naked Lunch), can turn random words into psychedelic prose through it’s jarring and disharmonious nature. A great Mashup artist, like DJ Earworm, must listen to different material and find synchronous (or similar) elements first and THEN make precision cuts (samples) to re-fit and overlap into one harmonious track. One is a tearing apart and reconstructing, the other is fusing together and blending.
It’s kind of like the Frankenstein Monster (cut up) versus Brundlefly (mashup). One is patched together from various body parts dug out of a graveyard by a humpbacked assistant (from Mary Shelly’s book Frankenstein), and the other is genetically spliced together with the DNA of a common housefly during teleportation (from David Cronenberg’s remake of The Fly). I realize that neither of these examples make Cut Ups or Mashup very visually appealing. But perhaps this will:
DJ Earworm mashed together the top songs of 2009. There is something uncanny about mashing 25 songs into a catchy four-and-a-quarter minute song, but he manages to squeeze in the entire Billboard Top 25, and make a decent video at the same time. And it doesn’t sound like a mess, it sounds like a legitimate chart-topper on it’s own (borrowed) merit. At present it has close to ten million views on YouTube. Who says you can’t splice and dice and make something beautiful? (I now have The United State of Pop 2009 mp3 on my iPhone)
I am going to add Splice and Dice as another Creative Method to use during ideation: harmoniously fuse elements of similar mediums together, and if they don’t quite fit, use a shoehorn (or pitch-shifter or teleporter).
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Frankenstein Monster is a Cut Up, Brundlefly is a Mashup
A few nights ago I presented Red Riding Hood Remix: Innovation Through Storytelling wherein I discussed creative methods for looking at things from different perspectives. One of those methods was the Cut Up. The Cut Up is very simple: take a few sheets of paper and “cut it up” in quarters or eighths. Then mix up the pieces and paste them together randomly. Rewrite the randomly placed words, filling in gaps and adjusting for disruptive grammar. Turn it into poetry.
This should not be confused with Mashups. A Mashup is very similar to a Cut Up, but it requires a different set of skills. A great Cut Up artist, like William S. Burroughs (author of The Naked Lunch), can turn random words into psychedelic prose through it’s jarring and disharmonious nature. A great Mashup artist, like DJ Earworm, must listen to different material and find synchronous (or similar) elements first and THEN make precision cuts (samples) to re-fit and overlap into one harmonious track. One is a tearing apart and reconstructing, the other is fusing together and blending.
It’s kind of like the Frankenstein Monster (cut up) versus Brundlefly (mashup). One is patched together from various body parts dug out of a graveyard by a humpbacked assistant (from Mary Shelly’s book Frankenstein), and the other is genetically spliced together with the DNA of a common housefly during teleportation (from David Cronenberg’s remake of The Fly). I realize that neither of these examples make Cut Ups or Mashup very visually appealing. But perhaps this will:
DJ Earworm mashed together the top songs of 2009. There is something uncanny about mashing 25 songs into a catchy four-and-a-quarter minute song, but he manages to squeeze in the entire Billboard Top 25, and make a decent video at the same time. And it doesn’t sound like a mess, it sounds like a legitimate chart-topper on it’s own (borrowed) merit. At present it has close to ten million views on YouTube. Who says you can’t splice and dice and make something beautiful? (I now have The United State of Pop 2009 mp3 on my iPhone)
I am going to add Splice and Dice as another Creative Method to use during ideation: harmoniously fuse elements of similar mediums together, and if they don’t quite fit, use a shoehorn (or pitch-shifter or teleporter).
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