Eventhough I've been working on a number of things for the last few weeks, its funny how I sometimes feel that my creative activities aren't complete without having blogged or tweeted about them. This is an age where the process (the How) is as important as the product (the What) - if not more. I have a tremendous amount of respect for those that can use both to engage their audience. We live in times of transparency, fueled by a healthy flow of information from various media. And as I'm thinking of which examples I should list to illustrate my point (there are many), I run into this...Below is a LIVE video stream of Stephen Wiltshire, an autistic artist from the UK, drawing a detailed skyline of New York City...completely by memory. Amazing. I found this from www.designboom.com by way of Greg Washington on Twitter. I don't think I need to say much else.

This is a live stream, so it won't work in a few days when the drawing is complete. Direct link here.

When I was growing up, TV wasn't really a big part of my life. I actually only started watching when I was about 10, and that was back when I lived in the Middle East. Even then, all I really got was a censored version of TV channels in the US and Europe - at the time, that meant Full House, random cartoons (Centurions what!), and crazy British shows like "The Crystal Maze".

The Maze was like a massive Japanese game show, complete with an acid-fueled host and setups straight out of Rube Goldberg's wet dreams. In the game, teams of contestants worked their way through 4 worlds - Aztec, Industrial, Futuristic and Medieval. Each world had different types of games - Physical, Mental, Skill or Mystery. Winning a game got you a crystal, and the objective of the game was to collect as many as possible. Simple enough right? Yeah, keep reading.

This is when the writers really must've been shrooming. Each Crystal counted towards time in a giant glass dome called, well, The Crystal Dome. It came complete with an industrial fan (probably stolen from an Aston Martin aerodynamics facility) that blew around thousands of little gold papers in the dome. The team that grabbed more than like 50 papers (!!) in the dome within a few minutes won a prize. The worst part of this is that hardly ANYONE ever won the grand prize (in the history of the show) - most were just sent home with a souvenir.

Anyways, I actually loved this show (explains a lot...ha). Check out a clip - there's tons more on Youtube: