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Robb Montgomery![Offline]( "Offline")  Founder Joined: 07 Mar 2004 Total posts: 1497 Location: Chicago Age: 43 Gender: Male
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 11:21 am |
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Two questions to make you think.
1. What is creative for you?
2. What helps you be creative?
Please share your answers in replies to this thread.
I'll kick off things with my answers at the bottom of this post.
Answers to these questions were asked of me recently by Chris Edwards, a journalist, photographer and professor of visual journalism in Santiago, Chile who was also the moderator for the recent SND/S Stockholm workshop.
Yep, Anna had this amazing guy from Chile run the program in Sweden. A genius move.
Via e-mail he asked all the speakers these two questions and I thought they were provocative enought to ask you too.
Here's my answers.
1. What is creative for you?
1) The creative state for me exists at the nexus of inspiration, collaboration and humiliation. To embrace the creative process requires one to be open to the often guileless and occasionally radical manipulations of these forces.
2. What helps you be creative?
2) I plug my Les Paul into a really loud guitar amplifier.
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steve bodycomb![Offline]( "Offline")  Tiki Lounger Joined: 07 Jan 2005 Total posts: 11 Location: Kent Messenger Group, Kent, UK Age: 44 Gender: Male
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 3:44 am |
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What is creative?
The ability to create order from chaos and chaos from order. To look at things and life differently and not be limited by what's possible. To look beyond the horizon and visualise what's there. To realise that problems cannot be solved by using the same type of thinking that created them. To not believe anything whilst believing everything
What helps you be creative?
Spending time with my children. When they play they have all the above attributes. And joining in with their games keeps you young as well and fit! But also to spend time on my own on or besides the water
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Robb Montgomery![Offline]( "Offline") Founder Joined: 07 Mar 2004 Total posts: 1497 Location: Chicago Age: 43 Gender: Male
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Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 8:52 am |
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Creative last night was hand coding in BBEdit from scratch the PHP file that renders the home page for Visual Editors.
The site should load MUCH faster and look nicer to boot.
OK - so please continue the conversations!
(See? You can be a geek and still be creative)
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Joe Greco![Offline]( "Offline")  Juke Box Hero Joined: 24 Jun 2004 Total posts: 36 Location: Chicago burbs Gender: Unknown
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Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 9:48 am |
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What is creative for you?
What is creative to me is making the common uncommon, the everyday unique. As everyone here knows, it's a daily challenge to push into uncharted territory for visual solutions — but that's what being creative is all about.
What helps you be creative?
In this business, knowledge helps me be creative — knowledge of the story, the subject, the process, the who, what, when, where, why, how. Outside this business, what helps me be creative is spending time with my 2 1/2-year-old son Dylan, Watchiing him play with his toys — cars, trains, blocks, whatever — brings me back to a time when everything is new. Innocence equals open-mindedness. For me, that's the creative challenge — to bring an open-minded approach to a story that is based on facts.
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Jon Williams![Offline]( "Offline")  Action Figure Joined: 25 Jun 2004 Total posts: 28 Location: Poulsbo, Washington Age: 47 Gender: Male
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Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:44 am |
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Every time I need something, I think about how it's made. I ask myself, can I design it, and make it myself? Can I make it different than what I can buy at the store? A chair, table, lamp, bike rack.... an illustration for the books page... creativity starts to become a lifestyle and it doesn't just happen at work (most folks have already pointed that out).
But if you think of everything in terms of, "...how can I make this, rather than buy it?" you end up saving lots of money and forcing yourself to be more creative in filling your needs.
Don't get me wrong, I do buy things such as saws and cool power tools... and lots of ingredients.... but the fun part is, you end up going to places you normally wouldn't go. For instance I went to a cobbler last month get a strip of leather. He looked puzzled and asked me why I needed a strip of leather (not a typical request for him, I guess). I got to reply, "I need the leather because my door-bell broke and I'm making a gong-bonger to hang next to the gong I hung in front of my door to replace the doorbell."
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