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The Column Archive
The Column is a monthly feature that explores the world of creativity and aesthetics.

Previous Issues

Use one of the links below to read a previous issue of The Column at AbleStable.

The Column | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 |

062 April Brecon Beacons: Mountain and Sky: Impressive landscape photography is as much about good fortune as sound technique, a fine camera, and a good eye. Like any creative activity, you must become an extension of the medium to achieve any success in it.
     
061 March How To Be Creative: Creativity is not confined to the chosen few who articulate their experiences in words, music, or another medium. We are all creative. Finding the time to encourage that creativity in ourselves is however often a challenge, but if we fail to flex our creative muscles, the enemy of inertia grabs a hold. This column provides a compact first aid box for that circumstance and aims to counter any uncertainty that your creativity is boundless.
     
060 February Creative Credits: Do you stay for the end credits when you go to the movies or are you one of the majority that gets up and leaves as soon as the last scene fades from view? Perhaps your take of the credits is an endless list of names that are primarily for the benefit of industry insiders. There are however good reasons why you should stay those few minutes more after the movie comes to a close.
     
059 January creative i world: today sees the launch of creativeiworld, a new Internet destination where anyone who has produced original work is given the opportunity to share their work with others. I talk here of my motivation and reasons for launching creativeiworld as a distinct site rather than integrating it with AbleStable, and my vision of how creativeiworld will develop.


Previous Issues of The Column


The Column 2007

The Creative and Artistic Director

Money and the Vocational Artist

The Tyranny of Homework

Time and Creativity

Snap Happy

The Need To Make
The Ethical Robot

Good Taste, Bad Art

Ten Good Things

The Never Ending Draft

The Final Draft

Killer Gaming: The Instinct of Aggression


The Column 2006

Selling Products and Making Art

Cracks, Hacks, and Piracy

Impress Me Mr President

Want To Take A Ride?

How to Save the Planet

Being Successful
The Creative Marketplace

Kite Flying

Happiness & Creativity

Science and Creativity

The Future Creative

Creative Zeal


The Column 2005

Dementia and Creativity

Girls, Software, and Gaming

Ethics and Creativity

Inspire Me

Finding Balance

Good Art, Bad Art
No Talent? No Problem

The Purpose of Art

Emotion and Creativity

A thing of beauty

Sharing Movies

In the face of despair


The Column 2004

When Something Isn't, Is

The Freedom to Give: Part 1 | Part 2

Defining The Artist

Man As Mother

Freeware and Freewhere

The Value of Art
Creative Ambition

Painting By Numbers

Lego Building: Art or Design

Write from the Heart

Creative Sense

The Creative Gamble


The Column 2003

A Tale of Creation and Destruction

Are Computers Creative?

Fool's Art

The Creative Spark

Madness and Creativity
Play: Being Creative

Opening Windows

Primate Art

Becoming A Rich Artist

How Good Am I?


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