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Creative Construction Company was an American jazz ensemble active briefly in the early 1970s. The ensemble recorded two albums for Muse Records and was composed of six noted improvisationalists: Wadada Leo Smith , Anthony Braxton , Leroy Jenkins , Muhal Richard Abrams , Richard Davis , and Steve McCall .
Oblique Strategies. Oblique Strategies (subtitled Over One Hundred Worthwhile Dilemmas) is a card-based method for promoting creativity jointly created by musician/artist Brian Eno and multimedia artist Peter Schmidt, first published in 1975.
Creative Construction Company Vol. II. (1976) Creative Construction Company (also referred to as CCC) is a 1975 album by the jazz collective Creative Construction Company, originally released on the Muse label, and later reissued as Muhal on the Italian Vedette label. [1] [2] [3]
One such solution comes from Finland, where a company called Block Solutions is revolutionizing the construction industry by utilizing plastic waste to create interlocking Lego-like building blocks.
Functional fixedness is a cognitive bias that limits a person to use an object only in the way it is traditionally used. The concept of functional fixedness originated in Gestalt psychology, a movement in psychology that emphasizes holistic processing. Karl Duncker defined functional fixedness as being a mental block against using an object in ...
A pallet of "8-inch" concrete blocks An interior wall of painted concrete blocks Concrete masonry blocks A building constructed with concrete masonry blocks. A concrete block, also known as a cinder block in North American English, breeze block in British English, concrete masonry unit (CMU), or by various other terms, is a standard-size rectangular block used in building construction.
Block Communications Inc. (also known as Blade Communications) is an American privately held holding company of various assets, mainly in the print and broadcast media, based in Toledo, Ohio. The company was founded in 1900 in New York City when Paul Block, a German-Jewish immigrant who came to the United States in 1885, formed an ad ...
Block, Inc. (formerly Square, Inc. [9]) is a U.S. listed company founded by Jack Dorsey and Jim McKelvey in 2009. It is a financial technology conglomerate. The company reportedly serves 56 million users and 4 million businesses, and processes payments worth US$ 228 billion annually as of 2023.