Creativity Lab Report #13: Cycle, share, flow, explode
Welcome to our January lab report... in June! To make this 6-month story short, we moved from Ontario to beautiful British Columbia at the beginning of this year. We're happy to report that this place feels so much like our childhood home that sometimes it feels hard to believe that we just moved here. After living in four cities over three countries, we felt inclined to write a blog about the effects of moving on the brain. We highly recommend moving around!
We've been busy settling in, exploring the surroundings and their majestic beauty, working on new projects, making new connections and restructuring our small business model. Hence the delay in sending this email. Our time away made us re-think our newsletter format, frequency and length. So we'll include the top-5 things in our neighbourhood, lab, bookshelf, browser, and minds every month, hoping to get some email replies and interesting private conversations with readers, away from the over-crowded social media chatter. Don’t be shy, and hit reply.
Neck of the woods
Seymour Demonstration Forest, which is part of Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve. A sublime destination that left us utterly speechless and full of gratitude. The park hosts several hiking trails stemming from a 10 km paved bike path that undulates through the forest. It gifted us with humbling views of the mountain, wildlife and an intense state of wonder.
Creativity Lab
We continue transitioning towards more editorial print work and less advertorial digital work. We discovered that what fascinated us the most about our photography career was hearing about people's journeys and serving as "timekeepers" of their memories. Realizing it created a disconnection between our advertising work and the editorial one. We’re not too interested in serving the cold-hearted advertising industry, instead, we aim to support those who want to make the world a better place.
We created a new avenue for ourselves to preserve and share stories that inspire us. This is the beginning of a life-long pursuit to understand the things and people around us, an indie magazine about craftsmanship and nature created with care, simultaneously as we continue helping self-published authors leave their mark through beautifully crafted books.
For more information about the magazine, check Hamaka Mag, and for information about our publishing offerings for authors, check Hamaka Creativity Lab.
Bookshelf
Why we swim by Bonnie Stui. This book is about much more than swimming; it is about survival, ancient traditions, the infinite healing powers of large bodies of water, and the traces of salt water in our blood that make us feel deeply connected to the sea. Bonnie's words beautifully intertwine emotion with science as she explains human motivations, the bliss of achieving a flow state through swimming and life lessons to apply in and out of the water.
Browser
We try to be conscious of our screen time during our spare time, so we don't watch much TV. However, the musical film Tick tick Boom was a Tick Tick Treat. It was an inspiring way to spend a rainy Sunday morning with a hand-knit blanket and a herbal tea. It is the semi-autobiographical story of Jonathan Larson as he composes his play called Superbia. A romantic tale that unravels amidst the chaos of his creative process during the AIDS crisis in the 1990s.
Minds
“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.” – Will Durant
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