Creative spit and polish
This is taken from an interesting blog post from a couple of years ago by one of my favourite authors - Douglas Coupland. He of Generation X, Microserfs and J-Pod fame.
For reasons that are explained in his blog, he spent a dry-mouthed week personally chewing up the pages of a copy of Generation X and using the pulp to create his impression of a wasps’ nest.
The point of bringing it to attention here, aside from the geeky appeal of Microserfs, is to say that there really is no substitute for, and nothing quite as exhilirating as, pure, original, lateral creative thought.