A New Creative Spark: Dave Newman

The very coolest thing about blogging over at CreateMixedMedia.com is that if I get this way-cool idea that I love, I can usually get other people to play along with me. Y'all already know about my tiny little obsessions about where ideas come from and how people capture them and what they do with them. So now I'm doing these blog posts called "The Creative Spark" where people talk about that. The one that went up this morning makes me really happy. Not only is Dave Newman's stuff really cool, and not only does he seems like a guy you'd want to know, but I love it that he's someone I haven't heard about before, someone who's been out there in the world doing this totally cool stuff but who hasn't been interviewed by everyone on the planet already. I love that. Not only is it just fun to introduce people to each other--readers to writers, viewers to artists--but I love knowing that there are more fabulously cool people out there doing amazingly inspiring stuff, people I haven't met yet, people who are going to spark ideas in my head and tell me stuff I hadn't thought of before. That's the secret to an interesting life:  knowing there are people and ideas and things out there that you haven't experienced yet. It's the opposite of thinking you've seen and done and heard it all. That's what makes a life boring. Knowing there's a ton of new-to-you stuff out there? That's what keeps it endlessly exciting.

So go here and read what Dave has to say about the creation of Regular #5. Then go to his website and take a nostalgic trip through one of my favorite parts of the country. We've driven along Route 66 (and I have the coffee mug to prove it!), and his work just makes me happy. Oh, and make sure you click on the links across the top of the page:  they make the coolest sound~~are you old enough to even recognize it? Scary that someday people will hear that sound and go, "Huh? Is that crickets? Or what?"

Thanks to Jeanie Thorn for introducing me to Dave's work~~XO