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Cross-pollination

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/// 1. The sharing of knowledge and ideas that results from collaboration between creative professionals of different backgrounds and areas of expertise.

Atelier Martino&Jaña: Tapping into the Collective Brain

Is your creative team maximizing its collective brain? Atelier Martino&Jaña explain how "the best individual skills create the best collective work."

Idea Attack: The Merits of Multiplying Your Options

Broadway producer Brian Swibel ("Xanadu") outlines the unsung benefits of having many irons in the fire and doing triple the work.

Hush: Structural Inversion

Everyday is "opposite day" at NYC content creation studio Hush, where they manage to keep the glass half full while constantly flipping the script.

MagicRockLA: Mixing Beats and Art

MagicRockLA discusses honing a craft, why celebrity DJs suck, and the all-important passion-for-your-profession factor.

Drop.io: Remaining Anonymous

Sam Lessin, founder of file-sharing service drop.io, opines on the benefits of being contrarian and the importance of privacy in a share-all world.

Marcelo Baldin: Fighting Giants

Marcelo Baldin, a seasoned São Paulo-based creative, talks about the necessity of tuning out, turning off, and (sometimes) even quitting.

Eric Steuer: Creative Commons

We talk with Creative Commons' Eric Steuer about his new "remixable music and art show" with LA's Dublab crew and how sharing really is caring.