Diane Mehta

Links to my stories on how creative people approach their work, how they figure out and refine their ideas, and how they make them work.

DETAILS: The new edition of the psychiatrist’s bible, the DSM-5, will forever change the definition of kinky sex.

“In a free country, a certain amount of bad shit is going to happen,” says Baum. Gun Guys: A Road Trip documents Baum’s walkabout to meet his fellow gun lovers —- and his attempt to confront his inner conflict over his love of guns.

The Propeller Group discusses Vietnamese graffiti, infiltrating the advertising world and their upcoming show at the Guggenheim.

Is there any down-side to in-app game purchases that let kids short cut the “hard work” of the game?

My 8-year-old son and his friend spent untold hours playing a massively multiplayer online game over the past summer — and I didn’t care.

Fast Company: Visual effects guru Alex Alvarez builds the film industry’s hottest new talents, one geek at a time.

via CNBC: After a decades-long boom, the art market has dramatically downshifted, but what will it mean for the auction houses?

Fast Company: Robert Lepage has elevated the Metropolitan Opera’s La Damnation de Faust to a new level—four of them, actually.

Fast Company: The creative crazies at Motion Theory turn the video world topsy-turvy.