Written by: ~Leah~
why is it all the really talented people go first? They don't seem to understand what they meant to people. Everyone has a story to tell............
Written by: Mr Majestik
how creative can you be called when all you do is use tools someone else created (a camera, acrylic paints, guitar)? i dont get creativity.
IMO (and no offense intended) i think depression leads to a search for emotional/mental satisfaction, or maybe thats what depression is. anyway, this search is a result of dis-satisfaction with the statusquo, so depressed people will go out and find something they can call all their own. which i still find to be conformist because they usually use all the methods created by other people from their society. maybe people recognise this futility and thats what keeps the cycle going.
Written by: Mr Majestik
how creative can you be called when all you do is use tools someone else created (a camera, acrylic paints, guitar)? i dont get creativity.
Written by: jungleboy
Paradoxically many times praise does not relieve depression or even satisfy, it is simply the act of creation that is like a soothing balm.
Written by: c42f
Hmm, this doesn't make much sense to me I'm afraid. The logical conclusion from this point of view would be that in order to be "truly creative" we would have to start with a rock and a handful of grass. Of course this is possible, but the results would be vastly inferior.
In some sense you have an important point though: what we really do is to build apon the creativity of others (thousands of years of this in fact!), but that doesn't mean our own creativity "goes away". Rather, the end product is far better than it could have been otherwise.
Written by: c42f
I think this has a lot to do with what response you usually get from people regarding the things you create - the way I percieve praise or criticism depends strongly on the usual response by that person to that particular creative activity. OTOH, the act of creation itself is independent of other people's response and I enjoy it independently of them.
--pogo (pat) [forever and always]
"but have you considered there is more to life than your eyelids?"
jointly owned by Fire_Spinning_Angel and Blu_Valley
Written by: Mr Majestik
its hardly original if people have been doing it (creativity) for all of known history.
Life's too short to worry about where you put your marshmallows
Written by: Mr Majestik
its hardly original if people have been doing it (creativity) for all of known history.
maybe all i'm saying is that constantly building on something (something!) using creativity hasnt been getting us anywhere. after all, its been going on for so long and we still keep doing it, maybe we forgot what we set out to do.
I had a dream that my friend had a
strong-bad pop up book,
it was the book of my dreams.
"God *was* my co-pilot, but then we crashed, and I had to eat him..."
Written by: Tao StarWritten by: Mr Majestik
its hardly original if people have been doing it (creativity) for all of known history.
maybe all i'm saying is that constantly building on something (something!) using creativity hasnt been getting us anywhere. after all, its been going on for so long and we still keep doing it, maybe we forgot what we set out to do.
and there you've hit the nail on the head!!! what people have been saying previously in this thread is that they don't get creative to 'set out to do' anything...it's not being used to make anything, just as a process. like crying -people have been doing that for years but you'd hardly tell them to stop, they know what it will produce but it's the process that needs to be gone through. final results are (or can be) pretty much irreleant.
--pogo (pat) [forever and always]
"God *was* my co-pilot, but then we crashed, and I had to eat him..."
Written by: andrealee
I dont understand your comment about process orientation making creativity a " Knee jerk" reaction, can you please explain?
"God *was* my co-pilot, but then we crashed, and I had to eat him..."
To do: More Firedrums 08 video?
Wildfire/US East coast fire footage
LA/EDC glow/fire footage
Fresno fire
What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
Thoreau
To do: More Firedrums 08 video?
Wildfire/US East coast fire footage
LA/EDC glow/fire footage
Fresno fire
"God *was* my co-pilot, but then we crashed, and I had to eat him..."
"but have you considered there is more to life than your eyelids?"
jointly owned by Fire_Spinning_Angel and Blu_Valley
What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
Thoreau
What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
Thoreau
Hoppers are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
"I used to want to change the world, now I just wanna leave the room with a little dignity..." - Lotus Weinstock
Faith
Nay, whatever comes one hour was sunlit and the most high gods may not make boast of any better thing than to have watched that hour as it passed
Hoppers are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
"I used to want to change the world, now I just wanna leave the room with a little dignity..." - Lotus Weinstock
Written by: Neon Shaolin
How many people have listened to, let's say, Nirvana or more topically - emo music and said 'oh quit your whining and get over yourself'?
Written by: Neon Shaolin
I have often asked myself - which would I prefer? Mental health or unlimited creativity?
--pogo (pat) [forever and always]
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