April 3, 2007
VIDEO: Back From Atlanta
Back home again, gonna shake the cobwebs outta this place. You can go here to check out some of the oral histories we gathered in Atlanta, and sign up here to record your own at our current stop in Newark, New Jersey.
Posted by jsmooth995 at April 3, 2007 1:57 AM
Consume creative stuff and you will be able to spit back creative too.
That's my advice.
Posted by: Hashim at April 3, 2007 11:51 AM
My only suggestion on creativity: Embrace the absurd. of course that sounds absurd, but it really isn't. It's just a means to create some sort of provocation--some mental movement that leads you in the direction of new ideas. Reject nothing; try anything.
Posted by: veronica at April 4, 2007 11:25 PM
to me a big part of being creative is just creating...seems like this new video every day this week is a good way to jump start it. each piece doesn't have to be complicated, but to me it seems like the more you create, the more creativity comes to you.
dig back through themes and topics you've thought of in the past. look through what you've done in the past and bring us to where you are at on those topics now. seems like some things on here get poured over in detail, others get forgotten before we get to even dig into them.
Posted by: earwizzle at April 5, 2007 1:19 PM
You ever heard of Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt's Oblique Strategies? It's a deck of cards to be drawn from if you're having a block during creative decision-making. http://www.thraeryn.org/strategies/draw.cgi has them one at a time--hit Refresh to see different ones.
Posted by: Matos W.K. at April 11, 2007 5:45 AM
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