The Idea Factory aims to inspire and conspire.  The Idea Factory is about ideas explored, examined, cherished, challenged, reviewed, revised, renewed, opposed, imposed, exposed. Change your mind. Learn something else. Explore the world around you. Find a new hobby. Take creativity seriously.  Laugh more. Expand your consciousness. Meet artists and writers and offbeat thinkers. Be inspired to create.

The Idea Factory is one small window to the world.  Look through it. Agree, disagree, explore, pick up your crayons and make something.  Learn something new.  History, spirituality, science, art, literature.  The Idea Factory is modern anthropology for artists and other anomalies.

The IF at www.ideafactorymagazine.net is a brand new forum for creativity on the world stage- with roots right here at home in Toronto. Writers, artists and photographers will especially enjoy its offerings, an eclectic blend of positive curiousity. IF encourages creatives to submit their stuff- visual art, writings, poetry, reviews, interviews with forward-thinking people, photography and more. Or simply get inspired by reading through a medley of diverse material, gorgeously illustrated by talented visual artists.

The current issue features an interview with Toronto poet and songwriter Julie Ann Bertram, as well as a review of her new album and her article reflecting on Rumi. There’s a photo essay on breasts, and a stellar story by Toronto photographer Jay Morrison on the Bethlehem Steel Mills: he shares some amazing pics of the place. Deinstitutionalized shows the photography and reflections of Ian Ference, who specializes in snapping shots of abandoned asylums. Krissy Darch tells us about her work in Ghana, and Star C. Spider’s story about Scotland is told in some of the most beautiful prose I’ve ever read.

In the archive, don’t miss my story Why Marshall Matters, about Eminem as a poet, and Jamyang Khedrup’s story about being a monk in Taiwan. Ontario photographer Kent Waddington showed photos of New Orleans in What’s Left of Me, and you can learn more about Nikola Tesla, who some say invented electricity. Tesla’s statue is erected in Niagara Falls in honour of his discoveries here. I’ll also show you a great poetry web site where you can read a poem a day.

The Idea Factory is all about participation, so get involved by sharing your ideas and adventures. It’s truly a smorgasbord that encourages talent of all kinds to share their best, an oasis for inspiration and connecting with new ideas.

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Lorette C. Luzajic is a Toronto-based writer, marketing her work through www.thegirlcanwrite.net. She is the author of The Astronaut’s Wife: Poems of Eros and Thanatos, available through indigo.ca. She writes for websites, magazines, and individual clients. Lorette is currently at work on her second book, a collection of irreverent essays, due out later this summer. Contact her at  This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .