Short Films and Long WALKS
This week on Substack: On sauntering in the name of creativity, an Eames video on the Polaroid SX-70, artists’ rituals and my grandad.
Walking for creativity
While we’re on the topic of creative output, I have long been interested in the connection between walking and creativity.
It’s no secret that many of the world’s great thinkers, writers, composers and artists — despite their different routines (get up early vs. nightowl, health freak vs bon vivant, write in cafés vs. locked away in a shed/hotel room/office) — have or had some kind of walking habit.
“Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow.” – Henry David Thoreau
I’ve just started re-reading “Walking” by the man who writes like he probably walked: meandering. You either like it or hate it.
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