Have you seen Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show? If you like watching witty celebrities banter with other witty celebrities (and can get past the incredibly long intro), you’ll probably enjoy it.
Anyway, I’d like to share a particular episode that features a (rather long) interview with Dana Carvey. As both Pollak and Carvey are comedians, they discuss [...]

J.J. Abrams, the creator of Lost and director of the new Star Trek, spoke at TED last year about what he calls his “mystery box.” Not just a physical box, but an idea that has driven his creative process over the years. In 18 minutes, Abrams manages to talk about his inspiration and what has [...]

The movie Where The Wild Things Are will be released this year after much anticipation, and the film’s creators – being the wonderful sharing people they are – started a blog that features all of the inspiration they find daily. If you’re interested in where Hollywood directors, producers, artists, photographers, musicians, costumers, actors and more [...]

Paul Duffield is the amazing talent behind the art of “Freak Angels,” a webcomic written by Warren Ellis; as well as a manga adaptation of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” and much more. In this interview posted on the Freak Angels website, Duffield talks about his beginnings as an artist, how his style has evolved over time, [...]

If you haven’t seen this talk by Elizabeth Gilbert from February’s TED Conference yet, you’ve been missing out. Liz made a splash when she gave a no-presentation-necessary, 20-minute talk on a different way to think about creative genius…and inadvertently got both a standing ovation, as well as one of the most emailed talks on the [...]

As mentioned on the “What is ArtBloom?” page, some of the inspiration for this website came from a video with Ira Glass of This American Life, originally hosted on Current.tv. While giving some advice on creation, Ira makes the point that all beginning creative professionals have a significant gap between what he calls their taste [...]