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30 years of leading by example
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Fire disappeared from Japanese homes
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Turning the lights off, represents turning the lights on in your mind
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Nadine and Baz Ashworth are now friends
November 23
My first solo exhibition ... finally got around to organizing one ... is on from 2nd - 14th November, 2009 at MLC Gallery, 449 Harris Street, Ultimo, NSW. Opening night Wednesday 4th 7-9pm for any Sydney based artists that would like to come meet me…
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A photo by Baz Ashworth was featured
# The word that gives permission to do as you please. exclamation ... 1 used to give an affirmative response : “Do you understand?” “Yes.” • expressing agreement with a statement just made : “We can use credit” “Yes.” • expressing contradictio…
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I like conceptual art. It challenges and changes peoples perceptions of art and the world. We scoff its nativity and laugh at its occasional paradoxical stupidity but all this does is simply feed it. Its funny, entertaining occasionally prophetic and most usually insane.
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Who do you admire most?
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These symbols on my keyboard; # and @

how long did it take to design them, wow ...
What are your main influences and inspirations?
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FEET

Feet take you everywhere in life, they are the number one means of transport. As the naked foot is in direct contact with the earth, I believe it passes on personal strength and aura to the trodden ground.

Plus the whole thought process ...

WE’VE all heard the tales of the apple falling on Newton’s head and Archimedes leaping naked from his bath shrieking “Eureka!” Many of us have even heard that eBay was created by a guy who realized that he could help his fiancée sell Pez dispensers online.

The fact that all three of these epiphany stories are pure fiction stops us short. As humans, we want to believe that creativity and innovation come in flashes of pure brilliance, with great thunderclaps and echoing ahas. Innovators and other creative types, we believe, stand apart from the crowd, wielding secrets and magical talents beyond the rest of us.

Balderdash. Epiphany has little to do with either creativity or innovation. Instead, innovation is a slow process of accretion, building small insight upon interesting fact upon tried-and-true process. Just as an oyster wraps layer upon layer of nacre atop an offending piece of sand, ultimately yielding a pearl, innovation percolates within hard work over time.
The most useful way to think of epiphany is as an occasional bonus of working on tough problems, most innovations come without epiphanies, and when powerful moments do happen, little knowledge is granted for how to find the next one. To focus on the magic moments is to miss the point. The goal isn’t the magic moment: it’s the end result of a useful innovation.

Everything results from accretion, I didn’t invent the English language. I have to use a language that someone else created in order to talk to you. So the process by which something is created is always incremental. It always involves using stuff that other people have made.
Each of my creations is built on the work that went into making the previous one.

The aha moments grow out of hours of thought and study. If you look at my creations, there’s a common theme. I take something familiar, intuitive and ubiquitous and recast it in a manner that will redefine its use to drive profound change.

Sometimes I like to go to bed with one or more problems on my mind. “Typically, I’ll fall asleep chewing on it and then I’ll wake up at 4 in the morning with some sort of solution”

That’s a common theme in innovation, cognitive accounts of what happens during incubation assume that some kind of information processing keeps going on even when we are not aware of it, even while we are asleep, creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention.

There’s an aha moment followed by a ton of work to figure out what it is that’s actually going to work, it goes back to that old saw that invention is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. The idea of epiphany is a dreamer’s paradise where people want to believe that things are easier than they are. It takes a huge amount of determination and effort to follow through.

Businesses want to believe that a brilliant mind or a brilliant idea can make or break their innovation efforts. The myth of epiphany has a long history because it’s appealing to believe that there is a short, simple reason that things happen. The myth has staying power because there is a tiny core of truth within it.

But as soon as you dig into what happened five minutes before that magic moment, or a day, or a week, or a month, you realize that there is a much more complicated story in the background.

THAT more complicated story most often begins and ends with a determined, hard-working and open-minded person trying, and failing, to find a solution to a given problem.

Success doesn't wait until ‘the Muse kisses them’ and gives them a ‘bright idea’: It's hard work. Altogether I do not look for the ‘biggie,’ that creative work that will ‘revolutionize the world, create a ‘billion-dollar business’ or ‘make one rich and famous overnight.’

Those who start out with the idea that they’ll make it big — and in a hurry — can be guaranteed failure.

It’s not that these magical moments of epiphany don’t happen. In small ways, they happen all the time. But they’re not nearly as important as what the work done before — or ultimately does after — the magic light bulb goes on. As the French scientist Louis Pasteur once said, “Chance favors the prepared mind.”
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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd. -- Alexander Pope

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SPAM MAN HOW TO STOP IT

Unfortunately, any medium that makes itself so easy to use to promote yourself as today’s social media also makes it easy for idiots, jerks, and scam artists to promote themselves. As the cost of reaching out to thousands or millions of people goes down – to the point where today, it’s effectively free – the possibility to spam goes up.

Spam is any communication that purports to offer a benefit but is unwanted. Of course that means come-ons for cheap prescription pills, penis enlargment and mir… Continue

Posted on May 16, 2009 at 12:02am —

Baz Ashworth

Sex and the city: Tokyo's taxi drivers see it all



Tokyo is a city governed by speed. Bullet trains slice through its heart while subways dissect its underbelly. But these are faceless methods of transport. The true character of Tokyo’s roads can be found in its taxis, those ferries of the night that trawl through the neon-soaked streets. To some they are simply another method of getting from A to B. To the captains of those black, green, and beige sedans, however, drivin… Continue

Posted on September 21, 2008 at 3:03pm —

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An Intelligent System: How an artists brain works.

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An Intelligent System.

When we have feeling, we can create actions. When we have sensation, we create patterns. Actions and patterns create facts. Sensation and feelings create an utterance of fact. When I was fourteen years old, I thought to myself; Time Division Multiplexing on a disjointed network created multitasking, in fact if you take a front end processor and carry out TDM you create a multitasking system.

Then I thought to myself, well how do you parallelize this type of system? You… Continue

Posted on August 31, 2008 at 9:46am —

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Why most art is shit

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So art's for you? Well done. Congratulations on making the right choice!
Now here are a few tips to help you on the road to fame and fortune.

Firstly, join a school of art or the appropriate faculty within a university or college. If you have any difficulty in persuading the examiners of the quality of your chosen medium, just fall back on that old safety net, fine art. Exponents in this field will know that it covers most things from sculpture to painting and consequently, will offer you a w… Continue

Posted on August 31, 2008 at 9:32am —

Baz Ashworth

RUBBER 4 U?

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I’d like to erase you;
Remove you from my mind,
Delete the things you said,
That were false or unkind.

I’d like to rub you out;
For you’re just a mistake,
That I tried to befriend,
Before knowing you’re fake.

I’d like to undo you.
But there is no rubber,
To cancel you out with;
Much to my displeasure.

You’re a fault in the past.
I’ve moved on to what’s next,
While you’re there but not seen.
It’s like you’ve been Tipp-Exed.

Posted on August 31, 2008 at 9:30am —

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At 11:22am on June 8, 2009, Christopher Stewart said…

Hey Baz ! Thanks for the fixin' and connectin' ! :o)

Best wishes,
Chris

At 12:00am on June 3, 2009, Christopher Stewart said…

Hi Baz ! Thanks for the quick response ! And no worry about the virus, I never follow such links...

Blessings,
Chris

At 11:38am on March 16, 2009, Kathleen said…
boo!!!
At 1:39am on February 3, 2009, Christine-Joy (C J Lewis) said…
Hi Baz,
Apologies for not popping in to say hi last September when you left a greeting on my site ... seems, somehow my site has set up 2 sites on here ... one under Christine-Joy and the other under Chris ... how that happened is beyond me ... I've only just found the other one myself :) So, welcome and thanks for the greetings :))
At 4:41pm on October 27, 2008, Ross Naidoo said…
inaugral event sounds great barry please keep me up dated buddy and all the best with raising funds for the event and look forward to hearing more about the event and many thanks for thinking of BEMAC much appreciated cheers: Ross
At 8:18pm on October 23, 2008, Kathleen said…
the other one was being oppressive (I did send a message to everyone about it and asked for feedback)?

Suggestions?
At 11:34am on October 23, 2008, Ross Naidoo said…
Hi barry sorry for slow response - i did suggest that you e-mail director@bemac.org.au to see if their were some local indigenous artists available on the BEMAC database.
With myself Qld Government for the second year runing has disallowed funding for our organisation so I am going to be busy knocking heads politically again, looking for funding - from what I can see Arts Qld are not interested in supporting arts organsiations working with diversity communities or new australians they are only dedicating themselves to so called high quality events which even they dont know what it stands for - my perception is that they supporting the big end of town.
Last year I was actually afronted to see that Arts Qld funded a group of people (white/ Australians) who painted thier faces up and endeavoured to mimic Japanese Opera - all i could see was the Black & White ministerals all over again I thought we had left this type of stuff behind us but obviously not!
I would have thought as a point of policy that government was in the area of intervening in market failure not topping up the coffers of the big end of town. Sarah from artventure was in Brisbane but she ran out of time to catch up so I am hoping she will pass on her phone number so i can call in Singapore. Cheers for now and I hope you are well land of the raising sun side.
At 11:03am on October 20, 2008, Ross Naidoo said…
Hi Barry send an e-mail to director@bemac.org.au with a request for indigenous muscians if you go to the SBS web site and click on the first australians it relates to a wonderful documentary on the history of indigenous australians under white rule-last nights episode was so very very sad - one could help but weap for the Wurundjeri clan leader Simon Wonga and his oh so noble people who tried so hard to please the white fellas but with little or no outcome. If sadness were dollars the world would be aflood with liquidity.
cheers: Ross Aussie side
At 1:44am on October 20, 2008, Cindy Self said…
hello baz. why on earth would you ever come to el paso? why on earth would anyone come to el paso? why on earth would I be in el paso? ah, the ultimate question.
Cindy
At 11:11am on October 17, 2008, Ross Naidoo said…
Hi Barry I still have that phootgraph you took of me years ago in Springhill - it was developed on your own photographic paper it is still very very groovy and a work of art buddy though I have lost hair and packed on the kilos since then.
 
 

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