So many people have written interesting things about how the new Peter Jackson documentary, The Beatles: Get Back, shows off the creative process…
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…but the most original take I’ve heard came from my wife, Meghan. She said it was like watching 100 Foot Wave, the surfing documentary.
This insight inspired me to draw a zine about surfing as a metaphor for creative work. (Scroll to the end and there’s a link to download and print it.)
I started thinking about this surfing/creativity connection while reading William Finnegan’s fantastic surfing memoir, Barbarian Days. There’s a great sentence in that book that sums things up: “You just have to know where to go when.”
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