The Love Competition

Valentine’s Day brings with it this pretty amazing video from Wholphin about the neurochemistry of how we love. Enjoy.

Get Your Mind Out

Came across this print by Geoff McFetridge (one of our favorite artists) and wanted to share it with you all. Your mind doesn’t do you any good if you’re not speaking it into the world.

Things Will Never Be the Same

Nice little snippet from an old Steve Jobs’ interview that says it all.

Creative Mornings with Christoph Niemann

Another gem from Creative Mornings, this time with guest Christoph Niemann, Berlin-based illustrator and creative. Appreciate the humor.

Getting Past “Box Fresh”

The Procrastinators – episode 7 from Lernert & Sander on Vimeo.

This is a nice little video series by Dutch design team Lernert & Sander on procrastination. Over the past year, they interviewed a variety of their fellow countrymen – artists, writers, musicians – to see how each tackle the issue of postponing their day to day work. Why don’t we just do things? Why do we put them off for a later time?

Besides the beautiful, simple video, the series speaks to some universal elements that we all face as creatives. This video in particular spoke to us, not only because it’s been translated into English, but also because of the artist’s discussion of “box fresh,” a story about how he never wanted use his new colored pencils or new paints because they were too beautiful to mess with. The beauty of these things, from the brand new paints to the blank writer’s page, are all things we as artists need to get past, for creativity is really about getting dirty.

If you’re a Dutch speaker, check out the rest of The Procrastinators’ series at Limboland. Or just check them out for the great video.

Whatever you do, don’t put it off.

Everyone Has a Little Room

Something about the words in this simple White Stripes’ song we really like. Listen close.

The McGurk Effect

Although we talk a lot in Fishbird about the power of awareness and choice, this fascinating example of our brains’ hardwiring showcases the fact that being aware of something does not always allow us to choose something different. We’ve been watching this video for the past week and we still can’t get over it.

Ba. Ba. Ba.