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tips for living a creative lifestyle

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volume 1 | fall 2007

Each autumn thousands of pumpkins sacrifice themselves so we can inject a little more orange into our lives.

Welcome to the first issue of nido-zine, a quarterly ezine for people living and looking to live the creative lifestyle.

Living a creative lifestyle doesn't mean one has to be an artist or a writer. Creativity in our definition simply means making lemonade with the lemons you're given, and doing so with panache. That's not to say you have to slap a Picasso on the side of your garage or whip up Eggs Benedict in a pink boa. Without being too terribly eccentric (though we do enjoy a little well-placed eccentricity ourselves), we're all given the chance to flex our creative muscles every day. Think of this as a chance for those of you who know how to help those who don't.

So what has a picture of pumpkins got to do with any of this? Absolutely nothing, and at the same time, everything. Orange is the color of creativity. Which begs the question--is fall then the season of creativity? We don't know the scientific answer to that, but we're taking advantage of all this available orange to launch our own little creative effort. Hope you get as much out of reading it as we did out of creating it.

in this issue...

In honor of our inaugural issue, the theme of Volume 1 is (what else?) "Creativity."

Frank Cappello and the co-stars of He Was A Quiet Man, Elisha Cuthbert & Christian Slater (click on image for larger view)

And speaking of creativity, here's a guy with loads of it. Film maker, screenwriter, songwriter, musician, and special effects wiz Frank Cappello talks about his latest project, He Was A Quiet Man, starring Christian Slater, Elisha Cuthbert, and William H. Macy, in our Spotlight section.

Atlanta photographer Neva Spell shares her unique vision of the world in Eye Candy, and in Projects we show you how to dip into your stash of scraps and trinkets to create one-of-a-kind artwork and gifts.

We look at our fave fall TV debuts, what's new on DVD, a holiday movie delight for the dysfunctional in all of us, and Christopher Moore's The Stupidest Angel in Reviews. Then we serve up recipes for treats for the dogs and birds in our life in Mother Nature, while pancakes and martinis are on tap in Sustenance. And on the subject of taps, Soul Food offers tips on tapping your creative potential through meditation, tap the cobwebs off your muse for the first Night Writer Challenge in Brain Food, and let the Diva of Divining, Miss Joelle Carlyle, tap some tasty advice for avoiding unwanted holiday dinner guests in Ask Miss Joelle.

call for submissions

As much as we love to hear ourselves talk, this doesn't work without contributors. That means you talented people out there. If you have something you think other people would like to see, read, or experience, we want to hear from you.

The theme of the Winter 2008 issue will be "new beginnings." If you have anything that you feel would be pertinent to this theme, refer to our submissions page to find out how to get it to us. Deadline for submittals for the winter 2008 issue is January 31st. We're still kind of fluid around here, but if all goes as planned, the Winter edition will available on the site in mid-February.

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