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TOOLS

Imagination
Creativity
Thinking Thinking Thinking

Artist Journal - Notebooks

Talking Talking Talking

Looking Looking Looking

Artists tools 
Audacity- free sound recording software 
Google search engine
Wikipedia encyclopedia
mr site - cheap easy to build your own artists web site 

Prezi presentation tool

Blogg's and Tumblrs
Mindmaps
Delicious book marks
VAS virtual artists gallery space
Cmaps - good for mind mapping