Bibliography

Books, films and programmes that have informed my view of the world, my ideas on creativity and my approach to life.


LI Jan 2012 - The Glass Bead Game (Vintage Classics) by Hermann Hesse


WI Jan 2012 - The Killing - Season 1 [DVD] Starring Mirelle Enos, Joel Kinnaman, Billy Campbell, et al. (DVD- 2011)


WI Jan 2012 - Sherlock - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018ttws


WI Jan 2012 - http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-story-of-film-an-odyssey
Gorillas


WI Jan 2012 - How Art Made the World [DVD] (DVD - 2005)
We like exaggeration, we are persuadable, art comes from magic? bring people together to work on the same thing, feed them and water them, logo, costume, money, stamps, posters, make people think of you.


LI Jan 2012 - Catch-22 by Joseph Heller and Howard Jacobson 


RI Jan 2012 - How to Draw and Sell Comic Strips by Alan McKenzie
dip pens, typical story structures


RI Jan 2012 - How to be an Artist by Michael Atavar


WI Dec 2011- Rivers And Tides - Andy Goldsworthy Working With Time [DVD] [2001] (DVD - 2006)
Natural obsession leading to material understanding - reminds me of James Gleick's biog of Newton


RI Dec 2011 - Bounce: The Myth of Talent and the Power of Practice by Matthew Syed
Natural talent is less important than10,000 hours of practice, aim just beyond your reach, praise hard work not cleverness.


RI Dec 2011 - Breakfast At Darcy's by Ali McNamara 
Samhain, step by step, rely on the wonderfulness of others


RI Nov 2011 - The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Entrepreneurs, poets and the mysteries of success 


WI Nov 2011 -BBC Imagine - Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b016ycnn 


RI Aug 2011 - The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell


RI Feb 2011 - Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell


RI 2010 - Narcissus and Goldmund (Peter Owen Modern Classics) by Hermann Hesse
Different routes to knowledge


RI Nov 2010 - Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton 
The value of the crit


RI 2010 - The Artist's Way: A Course in Discovering and Recovering Your Creative Self by Julia Cameron
Some approaches to overcoming blocks to creativity


RI 2009 - Isaac Newton by James Gleick
Innovation from observation