Tuesday, January 6, 2009

The Library of Human Imagination

Last month I wrote a post about Jay Walker’s Library of Human Imagination. A video of Walker talking about his library is available here.

Like the old cabinets of curiosities, Walker uses his collection to find hidden connections between things.

He says:

How do we create? … We create by surrounding ourselves with stimuli, with human achievements, with history, with the things that drive us and make us human …