Holiday withdrawls? Not satisfied with the videogames under your tree?

moved to: January 22, 2011 (because of all the rain)

it looks like the following newly published photos… [more at NPR] Louis Armstrong, Paris 1960 Thelonious Monk, Minton’s Playhouse, New York 1949 as an NPR blogger noted: “It was taken inside Monton’s [sic] Playhouse, an intimate uptown after-hours room where Monk, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and others worked out the foundations of bebop — […]

photographer Cecil Beaton’s scrapbooks

a glimpse from the book Cecil Beaton: The Art of the Scrapbook from Assouline list price for the hardcover coffee table book is $250 which includes over 2,000 images. so here is 0.35% of $250 in imagery (which is about a bucks worth)…

Humor Fuels Creative Insights

[from the NY Times] A study from Northwestern University links humor to creative insight in problem solving. Humor may aid in problem solving by opening up minds to unlikely/unique/random solutions to puzzles. quote from a researcher @ Northwestern University to the NYTimes: “What we think is happening,” said Mark Beeman, a neuroscientist who conducted the […]