Creative Something
Creative Inspiration
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What does it mean to be creative?
Being creative means solving a problem in a new way. It means changing your perspective.
Being creative means taking risks and ignoring doubt and facing fears. It means breaking with routine and doing something different for the sake of doing something different. It means mapping out a thousand different routes to reach one destination. It means challenging yourself every day. Being creative means searching for inspiration in even the most mundane places. It means you’re asking stupid questions. It means creating without critiquing. Being creative means you know how to find the similarities and differences between two completely random ideas.
Being creative means you’re thinking.
Artwork by Sylvia Park.
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Artists take over doomed market estate.You’ve got to watch this inspirational video today.
More than 75 artists have moved into a condemned housing block in north London, transforming its empty rooms and flaking walls into vibrant works of temporary art. On the eve of their public show – which lasts for one day only before the bulldozers move in – artists and former residents give us final, lingering look around.
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What happened to Aha!?
Remember that great idea you had last Fall, just before the trees became naked and you locked yourself inside your home for the winter? What happened to that idea?
You were doing something not very important and then that idea suddenly struck you. “Aha!”, you exclaimed. You convinced yourself that it was a remarkable idea, an idea that would surely change the world. The more you thought about that idea, the better it became. You practically danced at the thought of how great that idea was.
You must have spent at least a good, solid hour thinking about the potential of that idea.
Who could blame you? That idea, that one you had last Fall, is brilliant!
Err, it was a brilliant idea, anyway. But something happened to that idea. Work or family or friends or other projects got in the way and you very quickly forgot about how great that idea was. Sure, you still think about it from time to time, but it’s just not the same.
What happened to that idea?
More importantly: what happened to that feeling you had when the moment of “Aha!” occurred? That brief moment when that old idea and the problem it solved occurred to you felt incredibly good, didn’t it? So what happened to that feeling of sudden inspiration? The trees are about to grow new leaves and it’s been months since you thought about that idea and the moment it occurred. How can you get that feeling back?
Are you even trying?
Photo by Kito von Visceral.
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The feeling that something is missing.
Kanye West wrote a little something about creativity (read it here). While the original post isn’t incredibly easy to ready, the fine folks over at Put This On have reposted a much easier to read version of Kanye’s post right here.
The gist of what Kanye thinks of creativity is summed up in the last few lines:
For me the hardest thing is to ‘just’ agree and that is what sparks creativity, the feeling that something can be better, the feeling that something’s missing. The feeling that something’s needed.
If you’re looking for something to fuel your creativity, something to make a difference, all you have to do is find things that you think could be improved.
So, what opinions do you have of things that you think could be better? What is something that you feel is needed?
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Why you should buy art.
Access to contemporary art is often restricted by high prices, including my own, that put it out of reach of the majority of people who love art…Art, in many ways, is a luxury commodity and the larger question remains, “what is enough?”
I love this print by William Powhida. It’s selling out quickly so if you want a copy you’ll have to act fast! As of this writing there are only 370 or so 14“x11“ prints left for $50 each.
