Do you ever feel overwhelmed with information overload? Do the number of choices you face as a creative artist sometimes petrify you while at other times they inspire you?

If you ever find yourself at a loss after spending too much time trying to digest too much information, you can model innovators and artists from other eras to discover some surprising ways that the artistic spirit has turned ugliness into beauty, squeezed solutions out of problems, or laughed the fun out of failure.

Pioneering visual artist Andy Warhol and legendary writer Charles Bukowski serve as springboards for this SOS episode in which JP searches for his own music and meaning in the midst of noise and nonsense.

 

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Tags: alchemy, beauty, Bukowski, digital revolution, incrementalism, information overload, inspiration, instinct for meaning, reframing, tea, twitter addiction, Warhol

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