creativity

A group representing over 5,000 users of vector drawing software FreeHand has filed a class action lawsuit against Adobe Inc. in the California District Court for antitrust violations. Adobe almost acquired FreeHand in 1994 when it acquired Aldus, but the Federal Trade Commission put a...

An American-style diner, a museum and a house for a hobbit are among the entries for this year’s Shed of the Year competition. And you thought a shed was simply somewhere to store tools or keep your bike... Others up for the 2011...

Getting down on one knee during a romantic meal or at the top of the Eiffel Tower was obviously not original enough for Corey Newman, who instead proposed to his girlfriend Marlowe Epstein using a crossword puzzle. Newman, 28, arranged with the Washington Post to pop...

Do you enjoy being random, or just plain weird? Perhaps you are tired of being just like everyone else, and long to be unique. Here are some ideas on how to be weird. Steps 1 Don't be someone who you are not and say whatever you think. If you copy another person you may be labeled as a...

A photographer has got the bug for creepy-crawly close-ups – and the resulting pictures are definitely an eye-full. Thomas Shahan uses just a digital camera and zoom lens to capture macro images of spiders and insects, zooming in on the creatures’ eyes and producing images that show...

A pair of playful stilettos can make a woman feel young again -- especially if those high heels are covered in tiny toys from her childhood. Last month, British artist Finn Stone unveiled one seriously funky fashion accessory at the Affordable Art Fair in London: a pair of stilettos covered...

A man is able to write calligraphy by holding pen using 43 different body parts. Cao Ruiqin, 44, can form the elegant markings using his eyes, ear hole, nostrils, finger gap, wrist, armpit, belly button, elbow and knee joints. Now he wants to apply for a Guinness World Record to have...

Workers at Asda, Tesco and Morrisons are being driven crazy by pranksters who rearrange the herb pots to spell out rude words. In what has become a craze among Facebook users, Supermarket Scrabble players take advantage of the fact that stores emphasise the first letter of the herb in...

A painting of a large penis on a bridge in Russia's second city St Petersburg has been dropped from the shortlist for an art prize, the organisers said. The painting, which pointed skywards when the bridge was raised, was painted last June by opposition Russian art group Voina, or War, to...

It can only hold two teaspoons of water, it can sit in the palm of your hands, and there's only room for the smallest of fish in it - it's the world's smallest aquarium. It might not be the most spacious environment - it's a far cry from, you know, the Amazon or the Atlantic Ocean - but the...

Link Removed The Department of Defense will employ hackers under a brave new scheme pioneered by a hacker gone straight, but will it work? Since the dawn of computing there's been a cold war between those who run computer systems and those who attack them. And never the twain shall meet...

Make a penny, leave a penny. That's how one cash-strapped Michigan woman obtained the 84,000 pennies she used to construct a gigantic replica of a 1-cent coin, which won her artistic acclaim and allowed her to share her inspirational story. Wander Martich says she only started building her...

Find out the deets on MIX this year by tuning in to the Countdown show with Link Removed and Link Removed each week. The inaugural show gives an overview of the conference this year, but let’s fast forward to the good stuff: how do you get your hands on that complimentary ticket? Well, MIX is...

Guerrilla Art: An Artistic Whodunnit in Boulder, Colorado BOULDER, Colo. -- An artistic whodunnit that involves 500-pound sculptures appearing overnight and cryptic drawings delivered by mail is delighting this university town. The mystery began last month when Donna Coughlin glanced out...

'Singing Patient' Creates Some 'Sick Music' In order to have a successful music career, you sometimes have to be patient. In the case of Carla Ulbrich, she had to become a patient -- a medical patient. In the 1990s, Ulbrich was a singer-songwriter who toured all over the eastern...

Link Removed - Invalid URL You have, contained between your ears, an extraordinary potential that contemporary neuroscientists believe is “virtually limitless”. The brain is medicine’s final frontier and no one knows all there is to know, but you’re better off believing that, like muscles...

Computer Generated Graphics (Desktop Wallpaper) I would like an opinion on these Computer Generated images I created to use as Desktop Wallpapers. Is there any merit in persuing this Concept of Computer Generated Graphics. Every one is free to copy and use these illustrations.

As we wind our way down to PDC, it’s time that you meet more of the team behind the scenes as they’ll share with you each week some of their favorite things to see and do in the Seattle area. First up isLink Removed, who represents the Eastside (the term for the Eastern suburbs of Seattle that...

In this episode, you’ll see how three very creative people use Microsoft Office to realize their ideas. Joannie Stangeland uses OneNote 2010 and a digital pen to capture inspiration and organize her poetry. David Salaguinto uses a Visio template to create comics for his popular “Office Comic.”...