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Creative Doldrums - Don't Let Them Fool You
#creativity #motivation
https://muz4now.com/2021/c…

Creative Doldrums - Don't Let Them Fool You
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Deep Associations, High Creativity: A Simple yet Effective Metric for Evaluating Large Language Models
Ziliang Qiu, Renfen Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12110 https://

Deep Associations, High Creativity: A Simple yet Effective Metric for Evaluating Large Language Models
The evaluation of LLMs' creativity represents a crucial research domain, though challenges such as data contamination and costly human assessments often impede progress. Drawing inspiration from human creativity assessment, we propose PACE, asking LLMs to generate Parallel Association Chains to Evaluate their creativity. PACE minimizes the risk of data contamination and offers a straightforward, highly efficient evaluation, as evidenced by its strong correlation with Chatbot Arena Creative Writ…

Survey: 50% of US adults are more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life; 53% say AI will harm people's ability to think creatively (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2025/09/17/…

How Americans View AI and Its Impact on People and Society
Americans are worried about using AI more in daily life, seeing harm to human creativity and relationships. But they’re open to AI use in weather forecasting, medicine and other data-heavy tasks.

'Incubation', the unconscious process that leads to creativity #creativity

The Lovelace Test of Intelligence: Can Humans Recognise and Esteem AI-Generated Art?
Ewelina Gajewska
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11371 https://arxiv.org/pd…

The Lovelace Test of Intelligence: Can Humans Recognise and Esteem AI-Generated Art?
This study aims to evaluate machine intelligence through artistic creativity by employing a modified version of the Turing Test inspired by Lady Lovelace. It investigates two hypotheses: whether human judges can reliably distinguish AI-generated artworks from human-created ones and whether AI-generated art achieves comparable aesthetic value to human-crafted works. The research contributes to understanding machine creativity and its implications for cognitive science and AI technology. Particip…

Author Adelaide Faith on the fear and joy of total artistic freedom
https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/author-adelaide-fai…

Author Adelaide Faith on the fear and joy of total artistic freedom – The Creative Independent
Author Adelaide Faith discusses managing work, parenting and creative time, sticking to a schedule, and choosing a day job that makes a difference in the world.

"Margaret Boden, a British philosopher and cognitive scientist who used the language of computers to explore the nature of thought and creativity, leading her to prescient insights about the possibilities and limitations of artificial intelligence, died on July 18."
https://www.nytimes.com/202…

Margaret Boden, Philosopher of Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88
A cognitive scientist, she used the language of computers to explore the nature of human thought and creativity, offering prescient insights about A.I.

This article is a good example of why I’m fed up with the “if used responsibly” argument:
https://thejournal.com/articles/2025/08/07/the-brain-drain-how-overreliance-on-ai-may-erode-creativity-and-critical-thin…

Cognitive scientist Margaret Boden, whose books helped shape the philosophical conversation about human intelligence and AI, passed away on July 18 at age 88 (Michael S. Rosenwald/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/science…

Margaret Boden, Philosopher of Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88
A cognitive scientist, she used the language of computers to explore the nature of human thought and creativity, offering prescient insights about A.I.

VLMgineer: Vision Language Models as Robotic Toolsmiths
George Jiayuan Gao, Tianyu Li, Junyao Shi, Yihan Li, Zizhe Zhang, Nadia Figueroa, Dinesh Jayaraman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12644

VLMgineer: Vision Language Models as Robotic Toolsmiths
Tool design and use reflect the ability to understand and manipulate the physical world through creativity, planning, and foresight. As such, these capabilities are often regarded as measurable indicators of intelligence across biological species. While much of today's research on robotic intelligence focuses on generating better controllers, inventing smarter tools offers a complementary form of physical intelligence: shifting the onus of problem-solving onto the tool's design. Given the vast …

Tracer: A Forensic Framework for Detecting Fraudulent Speedruns from Game Replays
Jaeung Franciskus Yoo, Huy Kang Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10848 https://

Tracer: A Forensic Framework for Detecting Fraudulent Speedruns from Game Replays
Speedrun, a practice of completing a game as quickly as possible, has fostered vibrant communities driven by creativity, competition, and mastery of game mechanics and motor skills. However, this contest also attracts malicious actors as financial incentives come into play. As media and software manipulation techniques advance - such as spliced footage, modified game software and live stream with staged setups - forged speedruns have become increasingly difficult to detect. Volunteer-driven com…

Cycle of Creativity – Inspire, Create, Rest, Repeat #creativity #inspiration https://muz4now.com/2023/cy…

Cycle of Creativity - Inspire, Create, Rest, Repeat
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

"“Day science is the executive part. You have the idea and to test it, you do controlled experiments,” says Yanai. “Night science is the world of creativity, the world of ideas"
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01913-3

Filmmaker and artist Cauleen Smith on valuing community over status – #creativity and #community

Filmmaker and artist Cauleen Smith on valuing community over status – The Creative Independent
Filmmaker and artist Cauleen Smith discusses the gift of failure, making small moves, and the enduring wisdom of Sun Ra.

TinyTim: A Family of Language Models for Divergent Generation
Christopher J. Agostino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11607 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.11607

TinyTim: A Family of Language Models for Divergent Generation
This work introduces TinyTim, a family of large language models fine-tuned on James Joyce's `Finnegans Wake'. Through quantitative evaluation against baseline models, we demonstrate that TinyTim V1 produces a statistically distinct generative profile characterized by high lexical diversity and low semantic coherence. These findings are interpreted through theories of creativity and complex problem-solving, arguing that such specialized models can function as divergent knowledge sources within m…

This article is a good example of why I’m fed up with the “if used responsibly” argument:
https://thejournal.com/articles/2025/08/07/the-brain-drain-how-overreliance-on-ai-may-erode-creativity-and-critical-thin…

This article is a good example of why I’m fed up with the “if used responsibly” argument:
https://thejournal.com/articles/2025/08/07/the-brain-drain-how-overreliance-on-ai-may-erode-creativity-and-critical-thin…

Towards Smart Workplaces: Understanding Mood-Influencing Factors of the Physical Workspace in Collaborative Group Settings
Tzu-Hui Wu, Sebastian Cmentowski, Yunyin Lou, Jun Hu, Regina Bernhaupt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11335

Towards Smart Workplaces: Understanding Mood-Influencing Factors of the Physical Workspace in Collaborative Group Settings
Group mood plays a crucial role in shaping workspace experiences, influencing group dynamics, team performance, and creativity. The perceived group mood depends on many, often subconscious, aspects such as individual emotional states or group life, which make it challenging to maintain a positive atmosphere. Intelligent technology could support mood regulation in physical office environments, for example, as adaptive ambient lighting for mood regulation. However, little is known about the relat…

DiffRhythm : Controllable and Flexible Full-Length Song Generation with Preference Optimization
Huakang Chen, Yuepeng Jiang, Guobin Ma, Chunbo Hao, Shuai Wang, Jixun Yao, Ziqian Ning, Meng Meng, Jian Luan, Lei Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12890

DiffRhythm+: Controllable and Flexible Full-Length Song Generation with Preference Optimization
Songs, as a central form of musical art, exemplify the richness of human intelligence and creativity. While recent advances in generative modeling have enabled notable progress in long-form song generation, current systems for full-length song synthesis still face major challenges, including data imbalance, insufficient controllability, and inconsistent musical quality. DiffRhythm, a pioneering diffusion-based model, advanced the field by generating full-length songs with expressive vocals and …

We worry, quite rigthly, about the Gaza Genocide and Trump bombing ships on the high seas yet at the same time Sam Altman is doing systemic harm to the rest of the world unchecked.
"Pupils fear that using artificial intelligence is eroding their ability to study, with many complaining it makes schoolwork “too easy” and others saying it limits their creativity and stops them learning new skills, according to new research.
The report on the use of AI in UK schools, commissione…

Hope and imagination aren't just a nice things. Authoritarianism is rooted in doom. Authoritarianism is naturally unstable. It's naturally weak. It's extremely complex and fragile. Authoritarian regimes often collapse rapidly and catastrophically. They keep people pinned in place by removing hope. They heap trauma on their victims because trauma destroys hope and reduces creativity. So hope and imagination are the most powerful weapons against authoritarianism.
The regime tells you that things can only get worse. The regime needs you to believe it. They want you to fight on their terms, so they can pick you off, or to run or freeze, so they don't have to fight you at all. Authoritarianism must kill the creativity of it's victims, because authoritarianism has already killed it's own creativity. When you respond with hope and creativity, the system cannot adapt.
It is not simply that we should imagine what could be because we may have the opportunity to create it. It is that hope manifests the opportunity to create what we've imagined.

Human creativity peaked at Nyan Cat
#nyancat

Opening Musical Creativity? Embedded Ideologies in Generative-AI Music Systems
Liam Pram, Fabio Morreale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08805 https://arxiv.org…

Opening Musical Creativity? Embedded Ideologies in Generative-AI Music Systems
AI systems for music generation are increasingly common and easy to use, granting people without any musical background the ability to create music. Because of this, generative-AI has been marketed and celebrated as a means of democratizing music making. However, inclusivity often functions as marketable rhetoric rather than a genuine guiding principle in these industry settings. In this paper, we look at four generative-AI music making systems available to the public as of mid-2025 (AIVA, Stab…

Writer and activist Daniel Sherrell on finding joy in a difficult journey
#creativity

Writer and activist Daniel Sherrell on finding joy in a difficult journey – The Creative Independent
Writer and activist Daniel Sherrell discusses discipline, balancing activism with creative work, and when to listen to let yourself rest

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.HC. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.HC/new
[1/1]:
- Creativity Benchmark: A benchmark for marketing creativity for LLM models
Ninad Bhat, Kieran Browne, Pip Bingemann

New superpower unlocked: procrastinate until a solution suggests itself over night. I think I'll change my middle name to “Calvin”?
#AcademicChatter

Human-Aligned Procedural Level Generation Reinforcement Learning via Text-Level-Sketch Shared Representation
In-Chang Baek, Seoyoung Lee, Sung-Hyun Kim, Geumhwan Hwang, KyungJoong Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09860

Human-Aligned Procedural Level Generation Reinforcement Learning via Text-Level-Sketch Shared Representation
Human-aligned AI is a critical component of co-creativity, as it enables models to accurately interpret human intent and generate controllable outputs that align with design goals in collaborative content creation. This direction is especially relevant in procedural content generation via reinforcement learning (PCGRL), which is intended to serve as a tool for human designers. However, existing systems often fall short of exhibiting human-centered behavior, limiting the practical utility of AI-…

Musiversal, which enables booking musicians for remote recording sessions for $249 per month, raised a $6M Series A led by Iberis as it plans a US expansion (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/10/musiversal-music-collaboration-sessions-book

Exclusive: Musiversal raises $6M for online music collaboration
The platform keeps human creativity at the center in the AI era.

FlexMind: Scaffolding Flexible Ideation Workflows with AI in Creative Problem-Solving
Yaqing Yang, Vikram Mohanty, Nikolas Martelaro, Aniket Kittur, Yan-Ying Chen, Matthew K. Hong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12408

FlexMind: Scaffolding Flexible Ideation Workflows with AI in Creative Problem-Solving
Divergent thinking in the ideation stage of creative problem-solving demands that individuals explore a broad design space. Yet this exploration rarely follows a neat, linear sequence; problem-solvers constantly shift among searching, creating, and evaluating ideas. Existing interfaces either impose rigid, step-by-step workflows or permit unguided free-form exploration. To strike a balance between flexibility and guidance for augmenting people's efficiency and creativity, we introduce a human-A…

Get Creative With These Simple Strategies  #creativity #inspiration https://muz4now.com/2024/get-creative-

Get Creative With These Simple Strategies 
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Art and rules #art #creativity

Art and rules
Pablo Picasso was a chauvinist– a real misogynist. So the Modern Lovers song that Bowie covered (arguably, better) doesn’t exactly hold up- the lyrics, I mean. I figure lots of people p…

Challenge: "Name 20 female authors you admire, 1 per day"
Day 15:
Jenni Fagan
She is like a volcano of creativity - 4 novels, numerous books of poetry, film, sculpture, painting ... she is amazingly productive, and unique in her style and voice.
I particularly enjoyed The Sunlight Pilgrims and some of the things in it helped explain odd things I'd notice when I moved to rural Scotland. Can also recommend her first novel The Panopticon.

Multiplicative Turing Ensembles, Pareto's Law, and Creativity
Alexander Kolpakov, Aidan Rocke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04167 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Multiplicative Turing Ensembles, Pareto's Law, and Creativity
We study integer-valued multiplicative dynamics driven by i.i.d. prime multipliers and connect their macroscopic statistics to universal codelengths. We introduce the Multiplicative Turing Ensemble (MTE) and show how it arises naturally - though not uniquely - from ensembles of probabilistic Turing machines. Our modeling principle is variational: taking Elias' Omega codelength as an energy and imposing maximum entropy constraints yields a canonical Gibbs prior on integers and, by restriction, o…

Mögen Anne Ameri-Siemens und Many Ameri an ihrem Geld doch ersticken.
Und ihre "We explore the things that make us human: curiosity, creativity, empathy, exchange"-Agentur gleich mit.
https://www.morgenpost.de/bezirke/pan…

Generalization and the Rise of System-level Creativity in Science
Hongbo Fang, James Evans
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03240 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.0324…

Generalization and the Rise of System-level Creativity in Science
Innovation ecosystems require careful policy stewardship to drive sustained advance in human health, welfare, security and prosperity. We develop new measures that reliably decompose the influence of innovations in terms of the degree to which each represents a field-level foundation, an extension of foundational work, or a generalization that synthesizes and modularizes contributions from distant fields to catalyze combinatorial innovation. Using 23 million scientific works, we demonstrate tha…

Sad to hear that Maggie Boden has passed away. Her work on creativity e.g. her book "The Creative Mind" framed much of my work when I was a research student, bridging philosophy, psychology and computer science.
https://staff.sussex.ac.uk/news/articl

Habits for Creativity – Investing in Yourself for Improved Mental and Physical Health #creativity #inspiration #motivational

Habits for Creativity - Investing in Yourself for Improved Mental and Physical Health
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Evolutionary Computation as Natural Generative AI
Yaxin Shi, Abhishek Gupta, Ying Wu, Melvin Wong, Ivor Tsang, Thiago Rios, Stefan Menzel, Bernhard Sendhoff, Yaqing Hou, Yew-Soon Ong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08590

Evolutionary Computation as Natural Generative AI
Generative AI (GenAI) has achieved remarkable success across a range of domains, but its capabilities remain constrained to statistical models of finite training sets and learning based on local gradient signals. This often results in artifacts that are more derivative than genuinely generative. In contrast, Evolutionary Computation (EC) offers a search-driven pathway to greater diversity and creativity, expanding generative capabilities by exploring uncharted solution spaces beyond the limits …

OpenAI launches its first extended ad campaign for ChatGPT featuring three 30-second cinematic ads with a focus on everyday AI use cases in the US and the UK (Tim Nudd/Ad Age)
https://adage.com/creativity/creative-strategy-tactics/aa-chatgpt-firs…

Inside ChatGPT’s first major brand campaign—OpenAI marketing leaders discuss the work
Cinematic spots, made with agency Isle of Any, show everyday uses of the AI assistant helping people “learn, create and grow.”

Death of the Novel(ty): Beyond n-Gram Novelty as a Metric for Textual Creativity
Arkadiy Saakyan, Najoung Kim, Smaranda Muresan, Tuhin Chakrabarty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22641

Death of the Novel(ty): Beyond n-Gram Novelty as a Metric for Textual Creativity
N-gram novelty is widely used to evaluate language models' ability to generate text outside of their training data. More recently, it has also been adopted as a metric for measuring textual creativity. However, theoretical work on creativity suggests that this approach may be inadequate, as it does not account for creativity's dual nature: novelty (how original the text is) and appropriateness (how sensical and pragmatic it is). We investigate the relationship between this notion of creativity …

Re-reading my post "Lights Out" about acting and impermanence.
#acting

Lights Out
ephemeral nature of our work

The Limbs of Starfish: Mental Regeneration through Radical Creativity https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/08/20/the-limbs-of-starfish-mental-regeneration-through-radical-creativity

Lately I've felt my creativity and motivation returning. I'm excited to resume and explore bigger #coding projects again. I'm so excited to be excited :) #mentalhealth

Joking aside, this advice is generally pretty good. Reducing social media usage *definitely* improves my mental health. The less time I use my phone, the better my focus is. Dopamine purges *really* help increasing creativity. Most of the things he's saying are pretty spot on, but I literally can't finish some tasks without help. My brain is just wired in a way that makes listening to a podcast while doing chores basically necessary. I just can't go to a normal gym. I go to a climbing gym because it make exercise actually interesting.
There are a lot of hacks ADHD folks have to use to do "normal" stuff. Neurotypical folks just can't seem to comprehend that.

Cycle of Creativity - Inspire, Create, Rest, Repeat
#creativity #CreativeLife
https://muz4…

Cycle of Creativity - Inspire, Create, Rest, Repeat
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CV. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CV/new
[2/3]:
- POET: Supporting Prompting Creativity and Personalization with Automated Expansion of Text-to-Ima...
Evans Xu Han, Alice Qian Zhang, Haiyi Zhu, Hong Shen, Paul Pu Liang, Jane Hsieh

I thought I was close to finishing my blog post about creativity that I've been working on for quite a while, and I made a lot of progress on the bulk of the text of the draft, but ironically I still require more creativity to organize, edit and wrap it up cohesively
#blogging

One of the best /ai pages I've found so far has to be Procreate's https://procreate.com/ai
"Creativity is made, not generated."

GlyphWeaver: Unlocking Glyph Design Creativity with Uniform Glyph DSL and AI
Can Liu, Shiwei Chen, Zhibang Jiang, Yong Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08444 https://

GlyphWeaver: Unlocking Glyph Design Creativity with Uniform Glyph DSL and AI
Expressive glyph visualizations provide a powerful and versatile means to represent complex multivariate data through compact visual encodings, but creating custom glyphs remains challenging due to the gap between design creativity and technical implementation. We present GlyphWeaver, a novel interactive system to enable an easy creation of expressive glyph visualizations. Our system comprises three key components: a glyph domain-specific language (GDSL), a GDSL operation management mechanism, …

Style Over Story: A Process-Oriented Study of Authorial Creativity in Large Language Models
Donghoon Jung, Jiwoo Choi, Songeun Chae, Seohyon Jung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02025

Style Over Story: A Process-Oriented Study of Authorial Creativity in Large Language Models
Evaluations of large language models (LLMs)' creativity have focused primarily on the quality of their outputs rather than the processes that shape them. This study takes a process-oriented approach, drawing on narratology to examine LLMs as computational authors. We introduce constraint-based decision-making as a lens for authorial creativity. Using controlled prompting to assign authorial personas, we analyze the creative preferences of the models. Our findings show that LLMs consistently emp…

Last year after I broke my ankle, I discovered that not all piano playing requires the sustain pedal...
Sustain Creativity - Pushing Too Far - part 2
#CreativeLife #piano

Sustain Creativity - Pushing Too Far - part 2
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

The Shape of Surprise: Structured Uncertainty and Co-Creativity in AI Music Tools
Eric Browne
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25028 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.2…

The Shape of Surprise: Structured Uncertainty and Co-Creativity in AI Music Tools
Randomness plays a pivotal yet paradoxical role in computational music creativity: it can spark novelty, but unchecked chance risks incoherence. This paper presents a thematic review of contemporary AI music systems, examining how designers incorporate randomness and uncertainty into creative practice. I draw on the concept of structured uncertainty to analyse how stochastic processes are constrained within musical and interactive frameworks. Through a comparative analysis of six systems - Musi…

Singer-songwriter, model, and writer Indigo Sparke on abandoning a timeline
(Yeah, I can relate.)
#creativity #CreativeProcess

Singer-songwriter, model, and writer Indigo Sparke on abandoning a timeline – The Creative Independent
Singer-songwriter, model, and writer Indigo Sparke discusses motherhood in many forms, freeing her mind to let inspiration enter, and valuing the simple things.

Cycle of Creativity – Inspire, Create, Rest, Repeat #creativity #inspiration https://muz4now.com/2023/cy…

Cycle of Creativity - Inspire, Create, Rest, Repeat
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

With the ongoing war on creativity, I'm not quite sure how to pivot away from it now after 18 years.
Maybe this IS the end? Feels like a LOT of experience to give up on though.
Perhaps I need a careers advisor? Or a magic genie... 😅

Top-H Decoding: Adapting the Creativity and Coherence with Bounded Entropy in Text Generation
Erfan Baghaei Potraghloo, Seyedarmin Azizi, Souvik Kundu, Massoud Pedram
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02510

Top-H Decoding: Adapting the Creativity and Coherence with Bounded Entropy in Text Generation
Large language models (LLMs), despite their impressive performance across a wide range of tasks, often struggle to balance two competing objectives in open-ended text generation: fostering diversity and creativity while preserving logical coherence. Existing truncated sampling techniques, including temperature scaling, top-\$p\$ (nucleus) sampling, and min-\$p\$ sampling, aim to manage this trade-off. However, they exhibit limitations, particularly in the effective incorporation of the confiden…

Habits for Creativity – Investing in Yourself for Improved Mental and Physical Health #creativity #inspiration #motivational

Habits for Creativity - Investing in Yourself for Improved Mental and Physical Health
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Music writer, producer, and podcaster Dylan Tupper Rupert on envisioning alternatives https://thecreativeindependent.com…

Music writer, producer, and podcaster Dylan Tupper Rupert on envisioning alternatives – The Creative Independent
Music writer, producer, and podcaster Dylan Tupper Rupert discusses growing up in the Seattle arts scene, dealing with music industry hierarchy, and imagining the ideal conditions for creativity.

TraitSpaces: Towards Interpretable Visual Creativity for Human-AI Co-Creation
Prerna Luthra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24326 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.243…

TraitSpaces: Towards Interpretable Visual Creativity for Human-AI Co-Creation
We introduce a psychologically grounded and artist-informed framework for modeling visual creativity across four domains: Inner, Outer, Imaginative, and Moral Worlds. Drawing on interviews with practicing artists and theories from psychology, we define 12 traits that capture affective, symbolic, cultural, and ethical dimensions of creativity.Using 20k artworks from the SemArt dataset, we annotate images with GPT 4.1 using detailed, theory-aligned prompts, and evaluate the learnability of these …

Sustain Creativity – Pushing Too Far – part 2 #brokenankle #composer #musician

Sustain Creativity - Pushing Too Far - part 2
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

3 Ways FaceBook Can Kill Your Creativity
#creativity #inspiration
https://muz4now…

3 Ways FaceBook Can Kill Your Creativity
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Meta says it'll update AI chatbot rules to prevent inappropriate chats with teens and let teens access only AI characters that promote education and creativity (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/29/meta-upd…

Meta updates chatbot rules to avoid inappropriate topics with teen users | TechCrunch
After a bombshell report on Meta allowing its AI chatbots to have sensual chats with minors, the company is updating its policies.

"Why Creativity is More Important Than Ever"
- not a new article, but still so true -
#creativity #CreativeLife

Why Creativity is More Important Than Ever
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Filmmaker and artist Cauleen Smith on valuing community over status – #creativity and #community …

Filmmaker and artist Cauleen Smith on valuing community over status – The Creative Independent
Filmmaker and artist Cauleen Smith discusses the gift of failure, making small moves, and the enduring wisdom of Sun Ra.

Envisioning Generative Artificial Intelligence in Cartography and Mapmaking
Yuhao Kang, Chenglong Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09028 https://arxiv.org/p…

Envisioning Generative Artificial Intelligence in Cartography and Mapmaking
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), including large language models, diffusion-based image generation models, and GenAI agents, has provided new opportunities for advancements in mapping and cartography. Due to their characteristics including world knowledge and generalizability, artistic style and creativity, and multimodal integration, we envision that GenAI may benefit a variety of cartographic design decisions, from mapmaking (e.g., conceptualization, data preparation, map design, a…

Musician Shura on finding something to say
https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/musician-shura-on-finding-something-to-say/?utm_source=flipboard&…

Musician Shura on finding something to say – The Creative Independent
Musician Shura discusses overcoming writer’s block, creating things without simultaneously editing them, and never doing the same thing twice.

Composing Detours - How Pauses Help Creativity
#creativity #composing
https://muz4now.com/2021/…

Composing Detours - How Pauses Help Creativity
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Cracks in the Silence - from Friedrich Zettl Fine Arts
https://zettl.blog/2025/08/perspective-as-philosophy/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=muz4now/magazine/art, creativity%2…

Cracks in the Silence Friedrich Zettl Fine Arts
paintings, graphics, calligraphy by Friedrich Zettl

Filtering for Creativity: Adaptive Prompting for Multilingual Riddle Generation in LLMs
Duy Le, Kent Ziti, Evan Girard-Sun, Sean O'Brien, Vasu Sharma, Kevin Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18709

Filtering for Creativity: Adaptive Prompting for Multilingual Riddle Generation in LLMs
Multilingual riddle generation challenges large language models (LLMs) to balance cultural fluency with creative abstraction. Standard prompting strategies -- zero-shot, few-shot, chain-of-thought -- tend to reuse memorized riddles or perform shallow paraphrasing. We introduce Adaptive Originality Filtering (AOF), a prompting framework that filters redundant generations using cosine-based similarity rejection, while enforcing lexical novelty and cross-lingual fidelity. Evaluated across three LL…

Musician Harrison Patrick Smith (The Dare) on being part of a scene – #creativity https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/musician-har…

Musician Harrison Patrick Smith (The Dare) on being part of a scene – The Creative Independent
Musician The Dare discusses competition as a motivator, taking time off to refresh his approach, and the right kind of provocation.

Poet and writer Daniela Naomi Molnar on art as an antidote to loneliness
https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/poet-and-…

Poet and writer Daniela Naomi Molnar on art as an antidote to loneliness – The Creative Independent
Poet and visual artist Daniela Naomi Molnar discusses writing through the difficult things in life, the transformation from saying yes to saying no, and how delegating leaves more room for art

Get Inspired: 10 Great Articles and 4 Great Tools
#inspiration #creativity
https://muz4now.com…

Get Inspired: 10 Great Articles and 4 Great Tools
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Beyond Brainstorming: What Drives High-Quality Scientific Ideas? Lessons from Multi-Agent Collaboration
Nuo Chen, Yicheng Tong, Jiaying Wu, Minh Duc Duong, Qian Wang, Qingyun Zou, Bryan Hooi, Bingsheng He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04575

Beyond Brainstorming: What Drives High-Quality Scientific Ideas? Lessons from Multi-Agent Collaboration
While AI agents show potential in scientific ideation, most existing frameworks rely on single-agent refinement, limiting creativity due to bounded knowledge and perspective. Inspired by real-world research dynamics, this paper investigates whether structured multi-agent discussions can surpass solitary ideation. We propose a cooperative multi-agent framework for generating research proposals and systematically compare configurations including group size, leaderled versus leaderless structures,…

Why Your Creative Project Never Turns Out the Way You Plan
#creativity #CreativeProcess
https://

Why Your Creative Project Never Turns Out the Way You Plan
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Musician Meme del Real on understanding your connection to the process
#creativity
https://thecreativeindependent.com/peo…

Musician Meme del Real on understanding your connection to the process – The Creative Independent
Musician and producer Meme del Real discusses the benefits of chaos, when to let go, and the beauty of collaboration.

Integrity, Self-discovery, and Self-deceit
#BeBetter #DoingGood
https://muz4now.com/2019/integ…

Integrity, Self-discovery, and Self-deceit
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Musician Colin Miller on focusing on the small things
#creativity
https://

Musician Colin Miller on focusing on the small things – The Creative Independent
Musician Colin Miller discusses sentimentality for material objects, caring about where he's from, and learning from art that affects him.

Sound designer Helena de Groot on the unglamorous parts of creative practice
https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/s…

Sound designer Helena de Groot on the unglamorous parts of creative practice – The Creative Independent
Audio creator and sound designer Helena de Groot discusses asking difficult questions, paying attention to the banal, and finally doing The Thing

Generative AI and the Musician, Creativity and the Human Element
- #LLM #NoAI -
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Generative AI and the Musician - #LLM #NoAI
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Feeling All Of The Feels - Finding Expression
#creativity #CreativeProcess
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Feeling All Of The Feels - Finding Expression
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Musicians Alexis Krauss and Derek Miller (Sleigh Bells) on practicing patience
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Musicians Alexis Krauss and Derek Miller (Sleigh Bells) on practicing patience – The Creative Independent
Musicians Alexis Krauss and Derek Miller (Sleigh Bells) discuss the piecemeal assembly of a song, being inspired by younger peers, and what keeps their 16-year creative partnership together.

Sustain Creativity – Pushing Too Far – part 2 #brokenankle #composer #musician

Sustain Creativity - Pushing Too Far - part 2
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Meditations on Pushing a Creative Project Too Far #brokenankle #creativity #improvisation #inspiration

Meditations on Pushing a Creative Project Too Far
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Building Empathy Through the Sounds of 'a World in Motion'
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Building Empathy Through the Sounds of 'a World in Motion'
Audiences at Crossing Borders concerts come to understand refugees and other marginalized communities in a whole new way.

Duos - Scales of Collaboration
#creativity #collaboration
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Duos - Scales of Collaboration
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Staying On Track – Detours Galore #creativity #inspiration https://muz4now.com/2025/staying-on-tr

Staying On Track - Detours Galore
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Musician and writer Greta Morgan on resisting the expectations of others
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Musician and writer Greta Morgan on resisting the expectations of others – The Creative Independent
Musician and author Greta Morgan discusses finding balance after loss, leaning into your strangeness and getting grounded with meditation

Crossroads - Giving Up To Get
#creativity and #LettingGo
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Crossroads - Giving Up To Get
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Author and actor Yrsa Daley-Ward on balancing the public and the private
#creativity
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Author and actor Yrsa Daley-Ward on balancing the public and the private – The Creative Independent
Author, actor, and screenwriter Yrsa Daley-Ward discusses trusting her work, finding ways to self-regulate, and debunking the illusion of an Instagram persona.

Visual artist David Hendren on building community as an introvert – #creativity and #community http…

Visual artist David Hendren on building community as an introvert – The Creative Independent
Visual artist David Hendren discusses dealing with rejection, sustaining an art practice, and working with intention

Painter Megan Rea on opening yourself up to chance
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Painter Megan Rea on opening yourself up to chance – The Creative Independent
Painter Megan Rea discusses repurposing failures, not striving for beauty, and working as an artist in the service industry.

Begin - 3 Ideas for Actually Starting Creative Projects
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Begin - 3 Ideas for Actually Starting Creative Projects
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Musician Kacy Lee Anderson on finding your voice and accepting it will change
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Musician Kacy Lee Anderson on finding your voice and accepting it will change – The Creative Independent
Musician Kacy Lee Anderson discusses learning from your younger self, taking inspiration from tradition, and facing the fear of a new venture.

Staying On Track – Detours Galore #creativity #inspiration https://muz4now.com/2025/staying-on-tr

Staying On Track - Detours Galore
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Collaboration: two heads are better
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Collaboration: two heads are better
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

I derailed myself again, so I decided to set limits on it…
Creating Through Limitations - Scales of Creation
#creativity #MusicTheory

Creating Through Limitations - Scales of Creation
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Staying On Track – Detours Galore
- Hey, anyone have a map? -
#creativity #distractions
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Staying On Track - Detours Galore
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

The world’s on fire… why should I make art?!
#artist #creativity
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The world’s on fire… why should I make art?!
At the time of this writing, there are so many crises in the world that we share a responsibility to address, from famine in Gaza, Mali, and Sudan, to political strife and climate emergencies. And …

Comedian, musician, and writer Morgan Bassichis on embracing your playful side https://thecreativeindependent.com/peo

Comedian, musician, and writer Morgan Bassichis on embracing your playful side – The Creative Independent
Comedian, musician, and writer Morgan Bassichis discusses using humor and creativity in movement organizing, working on many things at once, and finding wisdom in what you don’t like about yourself.

Healthy #Piano Technique
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Healthy Piano Technique
A healthy technique empowers us to fully realise our musical intentions and communicate our creativity, all without sustaining injury. Pianodao includes a growing series of articles addressing these topics and more.