by Amanda on May 28, 2009

I interviewed guerilla artist Keri Smith for my column on the POV blog. Smith is the author of several bestselling books about creativity, including How to be an Explorer of the World — The Portable Life/Art Museum and Wreck This Journal. We talked (over email) about whether she blogs for the same reasons she creates art, finding …
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by Amanda on October 10, 2008
by Amanda on August 26, 2008

This post was written by Kate Barrett, who you’ll remember from her guest-blogging stint here back in July, when she wrote about Heavy Metal Parking Lot, King of Porn and mining your dreams for ideas.
Bike messengers are part of that great flood of moving parts that pulses through a city’s streets: cars, buses, commuters, tourists, and so forth. And from their unique vantage …
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by kateb on July 23, 2008
by Amanda on April 6, 2007

Those of you who’ve been reading Creative DC for a while know that (a) I’m an improvisor, and (b) improv changed my life. By extension, that means Topher Bellavia changed my life, because he’s the reason I started improvising. He got me up on stage one …
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