One way you can use the picture is to apply the Stepping Into a Picture technique to help you see some aspect of an issue that lies between you and another person; one that you may not have understood before. To do this, you:
Think about a situation you want resolved between you and another person.
Imagine you step into the picture, with or without that person.
What would you say?
What would you do?
If the other person is with you, what do you think he or she might say or do?
Let your mind be open to what might happen.
The other thing you can do is to tell a story about this picture by Lynne Fearman, which is titled “My Lost View.”
What does the title mean to you?
What does the scene say to you?
What do you think happened before you saw this
What do you think will happen next?
Gets your brain cells working, doesn’t it?In about a month, after I’ve returned from my vacation, I’ll give you another painting (or perhaps a photo I’ve taken on my trip) to see how you can again expand your brain’s creativity.
Whoever created this art technique must have been drinking a lot of coffee when he or she saw a pattern in cups sitting on the table.
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Flew into Paris yesterday. Today and tomorrow we’ll work on getting over jet lag as we take a hop-on-hop-off bus around the city. Looking forward to sitting outdoors at those quintessential little outdoor tables. On Friday we’ll start an eight-day river cruise on the Seine.
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An easy way to create posts while I’m gone is to use videos and photos I have found pleasing, inspiring or funny. Let’s call them “Video and Photo Take-a-Breaks.” Enjoy them while I am enjoying my vacation.
I would never have thought to create this Mona Lisa on a sidewalk in Sydney — or figured out how to do it.
3,604 cups of coffee were each filled with different amounts of milk to create the different tones and shades!
You can see other pictures of this original artistic style at:
Challenge your sense of color. Sort hues into graduated boxes.
Vacation Update:
If you read the August 10 post, you will know that I am on a two-week trip with our grandson by car, plane and sailboat.
Today is the last day in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. By now we’ve learned all we are going to learn about sailing and will drive down to Boston to fly out tomorrow back to San Francisco and pick up our car that we’ve left at my brother-in-laws. On Sunday we’ll drive up to northern California and return our grandson to his parents.
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HOW GOOD IS YOUR SENSE OF COLOR?
My artist friend, Lynne Fearman — who has given me permission to use her pictures for the Step Into Pictures feature on Support4Change — recently sent me a link to a fascinating color game. It could become a little addictive, I suppose, but even done once, it is great fun to see how proficient you are in selecting the right colors.
At the ends of four lines with squares of colors are two colored boxes that cannot move. In between, there are twenty colored squares that are moveable. The goal is to drag and drop the colors in each row to arrange them by hue order. Amazing how much difference a little change in hue can make.
Use a picture to be creative and/or help resolve a problem you have.
On Support4Change there is a technique for resolving relationship conflicts that I call “Stepping Into Pictures.” When I started to write this post, I was planning to give you a painting by my friend, Lynne Fearman.
Then, when I saw this one, I decided to suggest you could do a couple things with it. In both cases the suggestions can fit under the name of a new feature on the blog that I’ll call “Fire Up Your Brain.”
the purpose is to jump start your creative juices and explore something you may not have thought about before. Build a few more connections in the creative section of your brain. In fact, if you spend a few moments actually doing this mental exercise, I’ll be that you’ll notice you are more creative after you leave this page and do something else.
I’d try something a little different. So I am starting
You can use this picture in two ways (in addition to just appreciating the painting)
Use the “Stepping Into a Picture” technique to help you see some aspect of an unresolved issue between you and another person that you may not have seen before. In that case, do the following:
Think about a situation you want resolved between you and another person.
Imagine you step into the picture, with or without that person.
What would you say?
What would you do?
Let your mind be open to what might happen.
Or, you may want to tell a story about the picture, which is called “Last Day on the Farm.” What does the title mean to you? What does the scene say to you? What do you think happened before you saw this? What do you think will happen next?
Technology is progressing at such a pace that it almost feels as though anything is possible. Aside from machines not yet able to produce human babies, what do you think is totally impossible for machines to create?
Watch this short video for something that was completely unimaginable when I was born. Well, that was an awfully long time ago, so let’s say that it probably wasn’t thought possible when you were born either.
I am particularly interested in this video for two reasons.
First, I am always fascinated with factory tours. I love to see how things are made. Maybe that’s because I’m technically challenged, or maybe I just like to know more about how the world works.
And I am particularly pleased with the video because I had a personalize tour of this contraption several years ago by my son-in-law, who is one of the engineers there. Absolutely great to see these machines up close.
However, the second reason I was glad to see the video is because they didn’t have the capacity to scan in a tool or other item. As I understand it, they had to have an engineer write a program for the “printer” to read.
The one thing they don’t mention is the cost. This is unlikely to be a home device for a very long time. But then, they said that about the first computers, didn’t they?
Creativity | Arlene Harder September 26, 2011 | 
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