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I've moved!

My blog, she has moved.

Click here and come on over.

Thanks! - Jay

Feb 6, 20121 note

August 2011

2 posts

Aug 16, 20112 notes
Tap into an unending stream of creativity...

My guest post for lauraroeder.com, “Improv Tips for Entrepreneurs”,   dropped today. Use improv comedy skills to boost your creative output - even on your own!

Give it a read & let me know what you think.

- Jay

Aug 1, 20111 note
#Improv #Blog #Post #Creativity #Innovation #Business Improvisation #Applied Improvisation #Jay Olson #Laura Roeder

July 2011

6 posts

Dismantling Status...

My leadership essay, “Dismantling Status”, is on Seven Sentences: A Creative Blog for Creative People. Feedback is not only welcome, it’s encouraged! Please read, comment & share. Thanks!

Please join me on Facebook.
Jul 30, 20111 note
#Business Improvisation #Creativity #Essay #Jay Olson #Leadership #Seven Sentences #Status #Inspiration
“The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.” —Frank Barron
Jul 29, 20119 notes
#Creativity #Imagination #Innovation #Play #Improv #Business Improvisation
Holler at me on Facebook! → facebook.com

Click “Like”, enjoy my welcome video & introduce yourself. See you there!

- Jay

Jul 19, 20111 note
#improv #facebook #creativity #Jay Olson
Get Physical! Second Session Added

Session 1 of GET PHYSICAL! for the iO Theater Summer Intensive is sold out. A second session has been added on Saturday, July 30th.

Contact the iO Training Center to reserve a spot: classes@ioimprov.com or (773) 880-0199.

GET PHYSICAL! for regular iO students happens on Saturday, August 20th. Hope to see you there!

I plan to lose 30 pounds just from teaching this workshop 3 times in a row. Realistic?

- Jay

Jul 18, 20112 notes
#improv #improvisation #io theater #Jay Olson Teaches
Jul 11, 201111 notes
#Steven Segal #Anger #Indignation #Aristotle #Leadership #leadership wednesday #Improv #Business Improvisation #Jay Olson
GET PHYSICAL!

I am teaching my GET PHYSICAL! improv workshop especially for iO Theater Summer Intensive students.

Friday, 7/22, 12pm-2:30pm. $20.

Contact the iO Training Center to sign up: classes@ioimprov.com or (773) 880-0199. Not a summer intensive student? You’ll get your chance in August! Stay tuned…

When plugged into the Improv Matrix we can do anything we want. So why are we standing in a line talking – again? From blocking a simple 2-person scene to creating full-cast spectacle, emotion will be our guide to creating scene work – that moves. Talk less, do more, go further. GET PHYSICAL!

“I LOVED your workshop!! It was awesome, and I still have the carpet burn to prove it! :-)” – Amanda  Chapel Hill, NC

“Jay’s energy is infectious and his ability to read and critique scenes is one of the best I’ve worked with…his coaching is like injecting improv adrenaline straight into your mind veins.” – Bethany  Chicago, IL 

“Thanks a bunch for a GREAT class! I learned and re-learned a lot thanks to your brave, profanity-laden insights.” – Steve  Chicago, IL

“I loved the positive energy and positive approach…Longer longer longer. More more.” – Hannah  Oxford, England

Join me on Facebook!     jayolsonimprov.com

Jul 5, 20114 notes
#Improv #Improv comedy #Improvisation #Improv Training #Improv workshops #iO theater #jay Olson #Jay Olson teaches #Physical #Physicality #Get Physical #Chicago Improv #Fun #Improv Classes

June 2011

6 posts

Jun 29, 2011
“Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.” —Ray Bradbury
Jun 13, 20112 notes
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Jun 9, 2011
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Jun 3, 20112 notes
#Community #Friends #Social Animal #Jay olson #TED #Video #Inspiration #TED talks
“Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts … good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt. They’re not painful. That’s not just with somebody you want to marry, but it’s with the friends that you choose. It’s with the people you surround yourselves with.” —

Michelle Obama (via soul-surfer)

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Jun 3, 2011794 notes
#Michelle Obama #Jay Olson #Friends #Community #People #Life #Quotes
“There’s no point in saying, ‘I don’t have an idea today, so I’ll just smoke some drugs.’ You should stay alert for the moment when a number of things are just ready to collide with one another… The reason to keep working is almost to build a certain mental tone, like people talk about body tone. You have to move quickly when the time comes, and the time might come very infrequently – once or twice a year, or even less.” —

—Brian Eno on the creative process (via flavorpill)

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Jun 3, 201171 notes
#Creative #Creativity #Creative process #Jay Olson #Brian Eno #Innovation #Team Building

May 2011

21 posts

May 31, 20111 note
#Games #Improv #Business #Leadership #Fun #Jay Olson
May 28, 20114,573 notes
#zen #soul pancake #Jay Olson
Holler at me. Shiny new Facebook page: → facebook.com

I originally typed “Faceboof” and then “Faceboog.” I am a total Faceboof.

May 27, 20111 note
#community #friends #Jay #Jay Olson #Facebook
Excellent piece on late night TV indie-rock → pitchfork.com

” Being on these shows doesn’t necessarily catapult you into fame, but your family and people you went to high school with think you’ve become a rock star.”

- AC Newman

miw:

lotsa words, lotsa links…just the way I like my internet journalism.

also raises some interesting question about the value of music on late night talk shows.  If it doesn’t really help the show…or the artist…then…who exactly is it for?

May 25, 20111 note
#Music #Indie Rock #New Pornographers #Odd Future #David Letterman #Jimmy Fallon
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May 25, 201115 notes
#Improv #Learning #Education #Leadership #Schools #Public Schools #Teachers #Teaching #Students #Creativity #Jay Olson Teaches #Video
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