58 Shares Go create something. I don't care what, how much it cost, the purpose, or the form, but the result must be supremely innovative, worth every penny, and profoundly significant to the human race. Take your time. The reasonable person finds this overwhelming. Creativity's root is the tension filled conflict between the imagination and the physical: input and output, insight and achievement, learning and performing. Remove conflict and there is no need for creativity. Imagination v. reality – like a courtroom battle -- negotiation leads to creative solutions. In onerous jargon laden corporate speak: look for the win/win.
Look at Dad take pictures of little Joey go down the playground slide. Wait – hasn’t he taken about 100 shots of that little boy this morning? Oh yeah – digital – our lives are digital now. Content is overwhelming: words, images, sounds. That same proud Dad uploaded this week's most precious 150 images to the Joey’s Cute website, so all his dedicated fans can view the little darling. Those phone photographers are in play too. The phone is now a ubiquitous capture device making no one immune from the serendipitous photographer documenting our most inelegant moments. Unedited, they’re thrown up on Flickr.com for your viewing pleasure – often for everyone’s viewing pleasure. Pleasure? I’m not so sure. Just like those jokes we used to forward through email as web-neophytes, they swiftly become annoying. We learned only to forward those that were extra-specially, extraordinarily hilarious. The best ones traveled the internet like a virus, but as with a healthy immune system, minor viruses are cured. Who’s going to cure the information overload virus? Who's going to help me edit my life?
78 Shares We are all creative, but being “a creative” usually refers to someone for whom creativity is life’s goal: Illustrator, Architect, Advertising Art Director, Writer, Musician, Photographer, Designer, Etc. Scientists, Surgeons, Marketing Managers, CEO's and other problem solving discovery professions are among our species most creative members, but typically don’t get the label.
46 Shares It's difficult to discuss emotions relating to creative artistic expression without digging at the roots of emotions themselves, but it's not hard to experience the emotive nature of creativity. Artistic expression or performance has an emotional component: Etta James in full voice, an Ansel Adams retrospective, or a dance company performing the Nutcracker are good examples.
Craft is what we see, hear, read, taste and feel about creativity. It's the "Do" share of creativity. Craft is the vehicle of personal expression and innovation.
187 Shares Anguish, frustration, I'm so blocked. I'm not sure why writer's block is so notorious. Is the profession filled with vociferous whiners? Do they get creative block more than others, more than musicians, artists, web designers, research scientists, strategic planners, or Fortune 500 Marketing Directors?
