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Aug 14, 2022

Creative Rebellion Essays: Creative Courage in a Time of Uncertainty

My painting show, Chuushin, ends on 8/14/22, and on 8/13/22 I gave an art talk entitled “Creative Courage in a Time of Uncertainty.” You can see the archived Instagram live stream here. The essay below is from the speech. — - In the end, all stories end the same “Every…

Artofcreativerebellion

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Creative Rebellion Essays: Creative Courage in a Time of Uncertainty
Creative Rebellion Essays: Creative Courage in a Time of Uncertainty
Artofcreativerebellion

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Jul 10, 2022

Chuushin exhibition July 29 — August 14, 2022

In my book, The Art of Creative Rebellion, I write about doing something beyond your day job — engaging with a pursuit that is strictly for yourself, not for monetary gain or fame. It’s an uncomfortable place for many of us to be as we feel that any time that…

John S Couch

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Chuushin exhibition July 29 — August 14, 2022
Chuushin exhibition July 29 — August 14, 2022
John S Couch

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Sep 5, 2021

Creative Rebellion Essays: Community and connection in the Zoom age

“Ah man, let’s just do an old-fashioned phone call,” my screenwriter friend, Chris, said to me when we were coordinating a catch up. “I’m burned out from Zoom and Facetime. At least I can multitask if we do a call, rather than being stuck to a screen.” Like many of…

Zoom

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Creative Rebellion Essays: Community and connection in the Zoom age
Creative Rebellion Essays: Community and connection in the Zoom age
Zoom

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Aug 30, 2021

Creative Rebellion Essays: Shakespeare, Standup Paddleboarding and a Learning Mindset

It was an hour before I was to stand up on the massive outdoor stage of the Theatricum Botanicum and I still hadn’t gotten my lines memorized, or “off book” as they say. All I could think of was that my wife and daughter would be in the audience soon…

Creativity

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Creative Rebellion Essays: Shakespeare, Standup Paddleboarding and a Learning Mindset
Creative Rebellion Essays: Shakespeare, Standup Paddleboarding and a Learning Mindset
Creativity

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Mar 13, 2021

Creative Rebellion Essays: ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

My last day as VP, Product Design for Hulu was Monday, February 8th. I worked at that remarkable company for five years and one month. It’s a strange, exciting and liberating feeling to move on to new things. It’s scary and filled with unseen potential. During my time at Hulu…

Art Of Creative Rebellion

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Creative Rebellion Essays: ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
Creative Rebellion Essays: ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
Art Of Creative Rebellion

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Dec 22, 2020

Creative Rebellion Essays: What’s the point of it all?

This is my last essay of 2020. A tumultuous and trying year, to say the least. We all know the issues. But the upside is that this year has allowed me to consider and reflect on what is truly important to me. Yesterday, December 21st, was the winter solstice: the…

Meaning

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Creative Rebellion Essays: What’s the point of it all?
Creative Rebellion Essays: What’s the point of it all?
Meaning

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Nov 23, 2020

Creative Rebellion Essays: Creativity, Inspiration, and Design

On November 20th, I participated in the inaugural Rotman Business Design Initiative event by the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. The theme was Decoding Design for Innovation. …

Bruce Mau

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Creative Rebellion Essays: Creativity, Inspiration, and Design
Creative Rebellion Essays: Creativity, Inspiration, and Design
Bruce Mau

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Oct 31, 2020

Creative Rebellion Essays: Change

I’ve been remiss in my weekly essays recently as my schedule was overwhelmed with work and changes. It’s all good but it’s a reminder of the always, in-flux nature of reality. I’ve been thinking about how I might comport myself during these times, navigating the changes in life, in work…

Change

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Creative Rebellion Essays: Change
Creative Rebellion Essays: Change
Change

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Oct 12, 2020

Creative Rebellion Essays: mastery and improvisation

I was walking around my backyard this morning, thinking about what this week’s essay should be about when my good friend Tim Kring texted me that I should check out Jack White’s performance on Saturday Night Live. He wrote: “…He (Jack White) is working within an art form that he…

Mastery

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Creative Rebellion Essays: mastery and improvisation
Creative Rebellion Essays: mastery and improvisation
Mastery

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Sep 30, 2020

Creative Rebellion Essays: Belonging and being the Other

On September 29th I hosted an internal company webinar for Alain Sylvain, who gave an extraordinary speech entitled “The Currency of Otherness.” Alain heads up Sylvain Labs and I met him (virtually) at the 99U Conference at which we both were speaking a few months ago. …

Other

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Creative Rebellion Essays: Belonging and being the Other
Creative Rebellion Essays: Belonging and being the Other
Other

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John S. Couch is Vice President, Product Design at Hulu.

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