About

Hi, we are Mark and Lynn Barger Elliott.

Our mission at Blue Lobsters Creative is to create projects that foster greater curiosity, imagination, and hope.

Through global events, documentary films, and small books with big ideas, we invite people to see the world—and one another—in ways that expand our sense of what is possible.

Our documentary work includes Lost Boy Home, The Last Songwriter, and the upcoming global documentary project Solstice Bells.

Our upcoming publications include: 

1. Life Equations: Formulas for a Life that Adds Up
2. Life Architecture: On Designing Emotions, Decisions and Purpose
3. Write Human: A Field Guide for Creators in the Age of AI
4. Calling Calder: Rediscovering the Art of Living by Living Like an Artist

Our Blue Lobster Miracle

Blue Lobsters Creative was born beneath a dock in Provincetown when our family encountered three blue lobsters in 48 hours—a reminder that the miraculous can appear in our very midst.

Since then, as a documentary storyteller, a professor of leadership, a tech co-founder, faith leaders, and authors, we have dedicated our work to exploring and sharing the joyful, faithful, hopeful, and hidden dimensions of human life.

Here is our story.

One day in Nantucket we visited a small aquarium and saw a blue lobster scurrying about in a six foot round pool. A young woman informed us a blue lobster is an anomaly: only one out of every 2 million lobsters is born blue.

I mentioned to my then 12 year-old son that statistically this meant the next time he would come across another blue lobster he would be about 2,700 years old (loosely counting days).

Twenty-four hours later, strolling along a beach in the port village of Provincetown, our family happened to walk under a dock, the kind with missing boards and stray posts. Our heads were positioned downwards as we scanned the beach for slipper shells and horseshoe crabs, but what we came across, of all things, was two more blue lobsters. 

These weren’t swimming in an aquarium, but sitting together on a post, side by side, facing us. Now, if encountering a single blue lobster is a one in a 2 million event, how do you calculate the odds of stumbling upon three such lobsters within twenty-four hours? Two of them arranged on posts, as if displayed in a museum. As if someone had put them there for us to find.

Sometimes the rarest and most inspiring things in life are not hidden at all. They are simply waiting to be discovered, seen, and celebrated.