by Dan Hunter | Sep 19, 2018 | You Can Only Imagine
“Halloa! Halloa! Mr. Phonograph are you there?” Chicago, May 1878 The call rang out in a Chicago Methodist Church as if they were contacting the dead in a séance, coaxing ghosts to speak. With all eyes fixed on it, the machine distinctly repeated the call....
by Dan Hunter | Sep 13, 2018 | You Can Only Imagine
“What can you do when you always walk in the same setting, if not dream? As a distraction, in my dreams I built a fairy palace.” — Ferdinand Cheval, the postman builder of the Palais Idéal Ferdinand Cheval quit school at age 12 to be a baker’s...
by Dan Hunter | Aug 30, 2018 | You Can Only Imagine
I visited Fu Yue, bestriding a dragon, Joined in marriage with the Weaving Maiden, Lifted up Heaven’s Net to capture evil, Drew the Bow of Heaven to shoot at wickedness, Followed the Immortals fluttering through the sky, Ate of the Primal Essence to prolong my...
by Dan Hunter | Aug 29, 2018 | You Can Only Imagine
Each year on December 10, royal blue carpet is spread across the stage of the Stockholm Concert Hall. Carpeted risers with blue arm chairs are set in two wings. The risers are filled with men dressed in natty penguin style: white tie, white waistcoat and black...
by Dan Hunter | Aug 17, 2018 | You Can Only Imagine
Business people often say that they want creative employees. But, they can’t agree on what that means. (They can’t agree because what becomes creative is unknown, defined after the fact.) They don’t know what it is, but they want it. In the quest for innovation,...
by Dan Hunter | Aug 17, 2018 | You Can Only Imagine
Most people believe that time and imagination cannot be coordinated. A good idea seems to appear unexpectedly, on no schedule at all. And when an idea doesn’t come, we feel stagnated, desperate for a fresh breeze of insight that doesn’t come when we want it. Then...
