Celebrate Creativity

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Creativity - Episode 433 - Cataloging the Sensual I left off talking about Whitman's use of free verse, and now I'd like to say a little bit more. about his technique of cataloging - away in which you might say that he glorified the common place. In his catalogues, such as the one in "I Hear America Singing," Whitman elevates the ordinary w...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Creativity - My name is George Bartley and this is episode 432 - Flowing and Swelling This episode is the second in a series of podcast episodes about Walt Whitman’s unique approach to free verse. Now a good example of Walt Whitman's free verse - one that celebrates the messy, vibrant, and expansive reality of the modern world is from "Crossing Brook...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 431 - A Patient Spider From a week of Shakespeare to a series of podcast episodes about Walt Whitman - not as big jump as you might think. You see, Walt Whitman and William Shakespeare are two of the most influential poets in the English language, and while they lived in different eras and had vastly different styles, they share some key commonal...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Creativity - Episode 431 - Yesterday and Tomorrow I mentioned that it was necessary to have a list of name signs when signing a play by William Shakespeare in an earlier podcast episode.  And I want to say a final note about that here.  What I always did when interpreting a play at the black fires Playhouse, I printed a sheet on my computer with ready set go -...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Creativity Episode 429  Playing with Language Snce the auditory characteristics of a Shakespearean play (such as puns and meter) are outside the frame of reference of a Deaf audience, puns can be shown in “plays on signs,” instead of “plays on words.”  Meter can be communicated though smooth and regular signs – the jerky interpreter who is searching for words...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Creativity - Episode 429 _ How to Say No Name Signs as Clarifiers: Which Side Is He On? One common practice when interpreting a play is for t when mythological references are used the interpreter needs well needs to be able to be creative yes be creative add to avoid finger spelling and therefore breaking the meter the interpreter excuse me just a second here...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Creativity - Episode 427 -  Yesterday and Tomorrow Let's get back to a brief look at American Sign Language - remember American Sign Language or ASL is the natural language of the deaf. It might be a good idea to review the five parameters of American Sign Language.  Asl They are Location: Where on the body the sign is made. Movement: The way the sign mov...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Creativity - Episode 427 - Hear the Hungry Lion When we left the previous episode I was working with Gemini to make my Master thesis about interpreting Shakespeare's place for the deaf more understandable.  And Gemini said - Okay, here's the next section, revised for a seventh-grade reading level. I've broken down the longer paragraphs and used...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to celebrate creativity - episode 426 - Signing Shakespeare In graduate school, I did a master thesis called Signing Shakespeare regarding interpreting the works of Shakespeare and Performance into American Sign Language for the deaf.  Now the problem is that the language of the paper was certainly appropriate for graduate School, but way over the head of the normal, avera...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to celebrate creativity - Episode 425 - From Stratford to London. Today, we're going on a very special Elizabethan journey, not into one of Shakespeare's plays, but into the writer’s very own life - a life that was surprisingly simple. Who was the man who created all these amazing characters and stories? Where did he come from? And then we will look at his w...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to celebrate Poe  episode 417 - Why Dickens Still Matters, Part One This first quote is from a George Gissing in 1898 - he famously said - I suppose that for at least five and 20 years of his life, there was not an English speaking household in the world where his name was not as familiar as that of any personal acquaintance, and where an illusion to characters of his crea...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to celebrate creativity episode 422 - Dickens and london, part two Sure, Charles Dickens was a master at portraying the poor population of London, often with a mix of stark realism, deep pathos, and sometimes even a touch of grotesque caricature to highlight their plight. He didn't just describe their outward appearance; he delved into their living conditions, their d...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to celebrate creativity - pisode 423 - Poe the Swimmer I am going to be taking some time off from this podcast - I think I have had almost 30 episodes in the past month - and devote the time to just doing podcasts and doing them right - with the sound effects and some really fascinating subjects.   As of today this podcast has had almost 23,000 downloads in nearly 100 coun...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Creativity - Episode 424 - Things to Come - If you are listening to this podcast episode, that means I have a few more minutes on my podcasting hosting time - just enough for this episode. I am taking some time off from recording to concentrate on writing episodes that are more Direct, interesting, and just generally a better experience. One of the subjects th...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Creativity Episode 419 Why Does Dickens Matter,  Part 2 We begin this podcast episode with a few more excerpt by Dickens that showcase his masterful description of the common person. 1. The Hard-Working, Overwhelmed Clerk (from A Christmas Carol) Here's Bob Cratchit, Scrooge's clerk, illustrates the quiet dignity and hardship of the working poor: &qu...

Send us Fan Mail This is the third and final installment - for now - of my online conversation with Gemini concerning Charles Dickens the man. Gemini began with  Let's zoom in on the very essence of our podcast's title: creativity, specifically in the context of Dickens's own development. How did this extraordinary mind first show signs of his unparalleled creative genius, and how d...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to celebrate Poe  episode 417 - Why Dickens Still Matters, Part One This first quote is from a George Gissing in 1898 - he famously said - I suppose that for at least five and 20 years of his life, there was not an English speaking household in the world where his name was not as familiar as that of any personal acquaintance, and where an illusion to characters of his crea...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to celebrate creativity formally celebrate pro - Episode 416 Why Use Gemini - In this podcast, one of the areas I want to emphasize is writing an effective prompt, and the information that can be gained from it.  Now I had used Google Bard, Chat GPT, perplexity.ai, and Gemini (which I found out was originally Google bard and has become my favorite of the major AIs out ther...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Creativity - Episode 417 - Creativity for Dummies In this episode, I want to go out of my way to keep things basic - to delve into the elements of human creativity. I asked Gemini - could you use clear and basic language to explain what creativity is using simple and basic language. Sure - Think of creativity not as some magical dust that automatically happens...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Creativity, Episode 414 - Childhood Creativity, Part 1 First I'd like to say that I have a new cover art for this podcast series. It is of course the title, celebrate creativity, and an AI graphic rendition from some basic text prompt of a child whose face is full of wonderment and creativity. And I think his expression perfectly captures the wonderment o...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to celebrate creativity - episode 415 - childhood creativity, part  two   Well, let’s start off with a brief look at How Adults Can Cultivate More Flow in Their Lives: Identify Your "Flow Activities": What are the tasks or hobbies where you already feel this sense of deep absorption? It could be anything from cooking, playing a sport, writing, painting, problem-s...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Creativity - Episode 412 - Talking to Your Computer I guess you could say, in some areas, I can be sort of an overachiever. All the research papers that I had to do for undergraduate school thesis - amounted to almost 1000 pages - and my thesis for my masters degree was over 200 pages - and I had to revise it thee times - and each of my podcasts is at least 10...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Creativity - This is Episode 413 - AI for a Heat Stroke Now I know that up til now - I have basically been giving you fanciful examples of what might go into a prompt for some imaginary purposes - Edgar Poe applying for a job at a pet rental company or Edgar Poe 6th and Emily Dickinson 6th writing a book - that was DEFINITELY role playing with imaginary charac...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Creativity episode 411 - poe and Emily In this episode, I want to take another look at an AI prompt that is basically an example of role-playing - see if you can follow the ebb and flow of the concepts.  I do a podcast where I am introducing some AI principles - such as the purpose of a prompt.  In this rather outlandish example, I want to do a faux prompt or...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Creativity - Episode 408  - Rent a Black Cat! Hopefully this will be a really fun episode of Celebrate Creativity.  I want to illustrate what constitutes an effective prompt in the most entertaining way, - probably your prompt will be for business, literary, and other educational purposes - but here I am using the imaginary situation of Edgar Allan Poe applyin...