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This video asks how culture, society, and technology continue to affect creativity. A worthwhile question to ask in our own lives.

There is a lot to enjoy in this, so here is something to get you started: “The writer has to be responsible to signs and dreams. If you don’t do anything with it, you lose it.”

This wax instillation of a life size home will be manually melted over 30 days to celebrate the history of the neighborhood where it now resides. Form your own opinion about what it all means.

In this snippet from PBS’ Blank on Blank, Wilder gives some very wise advice from his childhood and explains why sometimes staying at home is the best.

We put words to so many things, sometimes it’s good just to appreciate and get lost in the image. French illustrator Anne Brugni takes her collage work to the next level in this book.

This might remind you of an unforgettable scene from Goodfellas, but there’s so much more in this very contained ode to insanity.

Professor Neri Oxman created a thing of magnificent beauty by combining digital and natural resources. Try not to be awed by this video.

Sachs’ art project Space Program recreated many of the objects of the Nasa era using households items and a sense of humor including this lunar module that comes replete with a vodka bar.

You won’t find this catalog of books and prints on Amazon. This store is a great place to get lost and discover what you didn’t even know exists.

Famous authors on the creative benefit in keeping a diary. All stories start with a single word.

This isn’t US Weekly or even the New Yorker, it’s the LSD of magazines. Highly intellectual think pieces to contemporary poetry to weird links on Lego art, Cabinet has it all. If it doesn’t open your third eye, nothing will.

Working together is sometimes the only way things actually come together – chemistry between two parties can be more powerful than individual genius.

Researcher Charles Limb wanted to know the answer, so he used some jazz musicians and an MRI to find out.

Play around with these blocks designed to push your boundaries and come up with your next great idea.

When you can’t think of anything you want to work on yourself, maybe it is time to see what other people are working on, studying and debating…

Want to feel like you’ve taken drugs without the actual drugs? This song is perfectly expansive and experimental like all art that inspires and gets you thinking.

So much of music is predictable that when you find something strange and erratic like this tribute from Fool’s Gold, you can’t soon forget it.

This song came out of nowhere and loudly announced it’s own greatness. Over 8 minutes long and heavy on inspiration, Prince teaches a great lesson: just do whatever you want to do…that’s the point of creativity.

Design team Confetti System does handmade paper installations that will take your breath away and remind that you can awe with the simplest of materials.

Stevie Wonder has so much excess creativity maybe he should pass some around to the rest of us.

This is the perfect example of how changing the one thing can truly make a difference.

A plane, a long flight, great thinkers and big problems…filmmaker Tiffany Shein gives a glimpse at what could be possible.

Before all the beautiful weirdness that was the film career of Stanley Kubrick, he was a young man with a tremendous photographic eye. This book is a treasure.

Every brain can fall prey to cobwebs. This online learning service is easy and affordable. You can learn everything from hand drawn typography to how to run your own business, and all the classes are taught by people actually working in the industry.

Kalen Holloman take snippets from magazines, and with nothing more than her hands and a camera makes them come to life. We should all be so resourceful.

Ken Robinson explains why creativity needs to be nurtured in our schools, not tamped out.

Conceptual artist Jenny Holzer’s project began as a distillation of a reading list in college, but grew into so much more.

Listen to back hours of Know Wave radio – music, chatter and all things random – taped in NYC’s West Village.

Israeli author Etgar Keret relays his ten rules for writers, they are so simple they might actually startle you. Pick up a pen and get to work.

The artist describes the inspiration of his most famous paintings – the origin of which is as sexual as you knew, but a lot sillier as well.

Former member of Moldy Peaches Green now creates wild and wonderful paintings as well as an original production entitled Aladdin.

Being and staying creative isn’t magic, it’s work. This diagram breaks down how to get it done.

So many of the things that make you creative can also make you have a tendency to wallow, but there are ways make them work to your advantage.

If you don’t know what you want, how on Earth are you ever going to achieve it? Sometimes the first step is just figuring that out.

Music Supervisor Andrew Kahn knows a thing or two about mixtapes. Find something new, weird or that one song you forgot about on his blog.

Nina Simone’s song is both defiant and joyous. It ebbs and flows under the basic premise: you don’t need anything except to be alive. Something we’d all do good to remember in a time of conspicuous consumption.