Author: JD Stewart

How do you become more creative? The answer is simple. Are you ready? Practice! Yep! That’s it. Sorry no magic spells with this one. You just have to keep trying. There is a great debate as to rather or not creativity can be taught. If something has been done then there should be no doubt…

There are a lot of popular show on television you the do it yourselfer, from the long lasting “This Old House” to craft show on PBS. In the technology area Linux and open-source software are allowing people to take charge and do it themselves. The latest DYI  is education. Ordinary people taking their education into…

A recent post on Intellectual Property Watch is a very good article on how corporations don’t get innovation. Even if you buy a piece of property e.g. an iphone you can not innovate with it. Quoting  Leander Kahney, editor of Cultofmac.com and author of Inside Steve’s Brain “Apple is selling directly to consumers, who aren’t…

I recently came across a book The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron that reminded me of a method my high school English teacher taught to increase creativity. It works and it works well. I don’t know why I forgot it. Here it is. Write. Yep it is that simply.…

I get a chuckle from some of the websites I see where some magicians advertises “Magic for Any Occasion.” Oh yeah, what about a funeral.  I have a wide range of shows. I perform for a wide range of audiences in a wide range of venues and situations. But, a funeral is one of those…