Issue 1 (6/4/02)

Introductions

I've started this column over several times already. Attempting to be clever or metaphorical, but just not getting the right… "something." In the first issue of a new magazine dedicated to the creative process, one might expect words of great eloquence and wisdom. At least that's what I was expecting to write. Looking at the blank screen in front of me, I realized I was trying to create from the wrong source. So, off with the beret and black mock-turtleneck, on with the jeans and golf shirt.

Hi. My name is Kristian. Nice to meet you.

This place kind of evolved into being. I had been blogging for a bit and found that my writings kept going back to the same subject. My passion is creative thinking, you see. I found that as I had given myself a virtual microphone, the only thing I wanted to talk about was what goes on inside the right-side of our brain. The thought of taking those writings and making them a base for an online magazine kept rolling around in the back of my head. It was the kind of thought that keeps nagging you. I finally gave in.

"I felt that as a painter I was much better off to be influenced by a writer than by another painter." This quote from Duchamp helped me visualize the format.

This is a place for creatives of all species to gather. Writers, designers, painters, whomever. The idea here is that each brings a very different perspective to the process and we can all be enriched by it, following Duchamp's example.

Please come by often, there will be a new issue about every 2 weeks. Send you friends over for a visit, too. And if you happen to have a nugget of an idea rolling around in your head, something about the creative process that intrigues you, please write it down and send it to us.

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