Creative Think

Quick Preview of Creative Whack Pack App

Here is a short preview of the Creative Whack Pack app for iPhone.

Wally Learns the Stairs

Here's a short video (35 seconds) of Wally, one of our Corgis, when he was ten weeks old and learning how to go down the stairs from my office.

Moral: Be persistent, and practice makes perfect.

The Amazing X-Ball®: My Newest Product

I'm pleased to announce my latest invention and newest product: the X-Ball®, a set of 30 X-shaped magnetic design pieces (available from Creative Whack Company). The X-Ball is a companion product to the award-winning Ball of Whacks.

 
 

The inspiration for the X-Ball is the "skeletal" icosidodecahedron, an orb-like geometric figure long admired for its beauty (it was one of Leonardo da Vinci's favorite shapes). 

The X-Ball comes with a 96-page page creativity guide that's filled with exercises and brainstorming tips. It's lots of fun to play with!

Use the X-Ball in a creativity workshop.

Use it to design and create new shapes.

Use it as a relaxation aid to free your mind from other concerns.

The X-Ball: it'll put "white caps on your gray matter."

Postcard from Patagonia

Several weeks ago, Wendy and I were in Argentina. I did a seminar for Pepsico (South American Foods) at the Andean town of Bariloche.

The highlight of trip was the time we spent much farther south at the Perito Moreno Glacier near El Calafate.

 

El Calafate is located on Lago Argentina in the very south of Patagonia (see map, above left).  On the right is a Google satellite photo showing the Perito Moreno Glacier heading into Lago Argentina.

 

We drove for 75 minutes from El Calafate to an embarkation point in Glacier Nat'l Park. Then we took a 30 minute boat ride.

 

And then — wow! The Perito Moreno Glacier.

It's one of the few glaciers that's actually growing each year. It is 3 miles wide. It rises 200 feet out of the water (and is 400 feet underwater for total thickness of 600 feet). It advances about 6 feet a day and loses mass at almost the same rate.

We saw the glacier "calve" four or five times while we were there. Huge chunks would break off into the water and send big ripples far out into the lake. The sound was loud.

 We spent 2.5 hours climbing on the glacier (wearing crampons, of course). What a thrilling experience!

The water was quite tasty. And the blues — well, they were glacier blue! Here's Wendy drinking some very fresh glacier water.

Late afternoon return from the glacier. One of my top twenty days ever.

Creative Whack Pack App Rises to #1

The Creative Whack Pack App rose to Number 1 in the Business Category of the iPhone App Store (as of yesterday, April 8). Needless to say, I'm thrilled! Thanks to all of you who have supported this product!

On Robert Scoble TV

I called up noted industry pundit Robert Scoble on Saturday morning, told him about the new Creative Whack Pack iPhone app, and he said, "Come on over to Half Moon Bay."

I thought we'd chat for about 15-20 minutes. Instead, he put me on his TV show and we went for about 45-50 minutes (in two parts as we lost sound temporarily in the middle).

We talked about the old days of Silicon Valley, innovation, and creativity. What fun!

Here are the links to it if you are care to watch it.

Part 1: http://www.kyte.tv/ch/6118/396110

Part 2: http://www.kyte.tv/ch/6118/396117

Completely out of the blue!

Creating With the Ball of Whacks

What can you make with the Ball of Whacks — the set of 30 magnetic design blocks? This one-minute video should give you some ideas!

The Ball of Whacks: it'll put “white caps on your gray matter!"

Available at Creative Whack Company.

(Video by Andrew Drinnan.)