Amy Burvall
#rawthought: What’s the Big Idea? A Thematic, Inter-disciplinary Approach
“It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea,...
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Amy Burvall
- Mar 4, 2018
- 1 min
#girlgroupgraffiti : My New Women’s History Month Project
Just a quick post to prep for my new March Women’s History Month project. I’ve done a few in the past, including Greek black figure-style...
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Amy Burvall
- Jan 16, 2018
- 7 min
Mushroom Moments: Art and the Hawaii Ballistic Missile Alarm
from my #digitalDADA #mushroommomments collection For a while now I’ve been at extreme unease regarding the possibility of nuclear...
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Amy Burvall
- Nov 15, 2017
- 5 min
#rawthought: The Only Two Things We Should Teach
Forgive me, but I was a bit tricksy in the title of this post. I’ve been thinking about this for years, probably, but as I see society...
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Amy Burvall
- Oct 14, 2017
- 5 min
#rawthought: Autonomous Art?
This morning I woke to a post on my Twitter feed sharing an article from Prospect Magazine – “How the Human Got His Paintbrush”. It’s...
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Amy Burvall
- Oct 4, 2017
- 3 min
Visual Thinking: Image is Everything and Mad for Metaphor
One of my favourite workshops I’ve developed is “Image is Everything”. It’s a visual thinking experience that can be anywhere from 1-6...
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Amy Burvall
- Oct 2, 2017
- 10 min
#rawthought: 10 Ways We Can Do Cancer Differently
my minimalist self portrait It’s my ten year anniversary of being diagnosed (ironically in October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month), with...
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Amy Burvall
- Sep 29, 2017
- 4 min
Thinking Like an Artist: Be Porous, Push Past, and Play
What seemed like ages ago I did my first TEDx talk – TEDxHonolulu 2011 – with my creative partner from “History for Music Lovers”, Herb...
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Amy Burvall
- Apr 10, 2017
- 3 min
#neruDADA and #DADAdelrey for #poetrymonth
‘It’s not Dada that is nonsense–but the essence of our age that is nonsense.’ One of my favourite creative movements (really more...
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Amy Burvall
- Apr 7, 2017
- 5 min
#rawthought: In Defense of Black Stars and Blue Hearts
image taken from a vintage book on my shelf The other day I came across this shocking (or sadly, perhaps not so shocking, but rather,...
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Amy Burvall
- Dec 10, 2016
- 2 min
Holiday Gifs: Bringing Magic to the Still Sketch
Just a quick tip with an appsmash (credit that word to @gregkulowiec). I recently chanced upon a series of Christmas / Winter / Holiday...
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Amy Burvall
- Apr 22, 2016
- 6 min
Artistic Voice: Get Your Dirt In It (with Homage to Prince)
Prince died today. He was one of the people from my heyday, though I was more in the Cyndi Lauper camp at the time (note that he did...
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Amy Burvall
- Apr 18, 2016
- 2 min
#gridsgestures with Nick Sousanis and #ds106 Daily Create
Last week I really enjoyed a little collaborative creativity exercise proposed by Nick Sousanis, author of Unflattening, and taken up by...
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Amy Burvall
- Apr 12, 2016
- 3 min
#rawthought: Learning Curve: Mondrian or Gaudi?
Today I had the pleasure of watching (and reading) Howard Rheingold’s interview with Unflattening author Nick Sousanis. Like Howard, I am...
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Amy Burvall
- Apr 7, 2016
- 5 min
Getting Picasso on Learning Technologies
my version: bull with wifi A few weeks ago I was in one of my favourite Twitter chats – #EDENchat – with Steve Wheeler (@timbuckteeth) as...
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Amy Burvall
- Apr 4, 2016
- 7 min
Making like Charlemagne: Paper 53 Takeover on Instagram
This weekend I had the supreme privilege of doing a #53takeover of the Instagram account of my favourite app – Paper, by Fifty-Three...
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Amy Burvall
- Mar 31, 2016
- 5 min
From the Lips of Vincent: Life Lessons from Van Gogh
Today is Vincent Van Gogh‘s birthday…and there are so many thoughts going through my head. Perhaps the most spot on thing I’ve ever...
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Amy Burvall
- Feb 24, 2016
- 1 min
#getsmART spotlight: Lessons from Andy Warhol
In honor of the day Warhol passed away, I created this little film. It’s an extension of my #getsmART: Lessons from the Artists keynote I...
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Amy Burvall
- Jan 13, 2016
- 10 min
An Artful Year: Getting Serious with the Series
typographic art by Sean Ziebarth (@MrZiebarth) I few blog posts back I took inventory of my various “series” on the Web – and even...
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Amy Burvall
- Nov 28, 2015
- 2 min
She’s Alive!!!!! My Frankenstein Experiment with Motion Portrait app
This week I discovered the new Motion Portrait app. Basically, it takes a 2D image (ideally a face) and renders it so it looks 3D and the...
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Amy Burvall
- Dec 28, 2020
- 6 min
Also....Advent (an Alternative Advent Calendar, 2020)
This year I decided to once again use the digital Advent calendar creation site https://tuerchen.com/ However, I noticed that they don't...
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Amy Burvall
- Nov 29, 2020
- 1 min
The #globalthankswondercut project
If you were to write a love letter to the world what would it be? A Crowdsourced Creativity Project In the midst of this global pandemic...
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