by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Designers | Mar 22, 2016
Sometimes you go back to go forward There’s a noun that is oftentimes used in contemporary parlance: “creatives,” as a description for those that work in creative and maker space. It’s an interesting idea, using an adjective as a noun, but it works. I was sitting at a...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Aug 18, 2015
The Journey of Mystery — Finding Soul, Designing Creativity, Building Solutions. Finding What Can’t be Known I revisit this earlier journal entry. Part of my history, as some know, is a viral curiosity that takes me to some unlikely places. Looking for answers,...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Apr 3, 2014
WHEN YOU GO BACK, TO A PLACE OF QUIET, IN THAT PAUSE, RE-CREATE. The journey of creativity is an ebb and flow of the fluency of finding the beauty that is right for you, that you could find, discovering — and that you could make yourself, in your recreation. We...
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, General, Motion Pictures | Sep 24, 2012
The Genius of Invention, the Infection of Enthusiasm Weeks later, I’ve been thinking. I was shocked to read about Tony Scott’s passage, in the manner of his so-called choosing — and more critically, not knowing the truth in, about, any of it. Who...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Jan 24, 2012
the creative hunger, the force of passionate making raven, verb i"m thinking about the hunger that is beneath the hunger. I’m talking less about food and more about the notion of the food beneath food — that is, what drives the hunger itself?...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Oct 18, 2009
The real of the senses: a journey into the heart of the book, experience design and the librarian instinct of content. I won’t pretend to be a scholar on this matter, let alone offering anything but the obvious. But this past week, working in Bend, speaking at...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People, General | Jun 6, 2009
Photograph Peter Haley ©2009 The creation of sound, in place, made Decades ago, I was both a student, then instructor at Fort Worden. There were some amazing encounters — George Tsutakawa, Karen Guzak, Mary Ann Peters, Barbara Schwartz, Elaine DeKooning, Sam...
