#creatitivty

[kkoehn17]

Writing the 100 Pages Movie (Part 2)

You can read the first part of this series here. . “What is your next dream project? Your pie in the sky wish?” A group of us sat in our Airbnb, eating pizza and making conversation, buzzing with anticipation for the following day’s activities. It was the first time most of us had seen each other since that day in October, when we’d all clambered from different corners of the country to a…

[laurenathalasa]

So I was re-watching ‘Learning new things about ourselves’ and remember this scene?

Thomas: How did I used to learn things?

Logan: Textbooks

Roman and virgil: Mistakes...

Patton: Puppets!

Now, there’s an obvious difference between Logan and Patton- their answers are virtually the opposite of each other, because those two are a dichotomy; literally polar opposites. Moreover, they each explain a method of learning that applies to that particular part of the brain; Patton responds more to a creative way of learning, Logan a more logical way.

Have a look at Roman and Virgil though! They have the same answer, and in the past we had used that as evidence that Virgil was the dark side of Roman. With the introduction of the Duke though, we know this isn’t true. However!

It links back to the accepting anxiety video, where it is revealed that Virgil’s anxiety about Thomas fitting in led to Roman having more creative inspiration. Virgil acted as fuel for Roman, fundamentally. His fears created unique and wonderful worlds for Thomas to escape to, as, in the intrusive thoughts video, it is suggested that Roman only creates more PG friendly worlds, where good things happen. 

Let’s turn that to Virgil’s relationship with the Duke. In the intrusive thoughts video it is explained that Thomas is kept awake all night due to Virgil’s (and Patton’s) fear of the Duke’s intrusive thoughts, rather than the intrusive thoughts themselves. Once again, I think Virgil acts as fuel for the Duke’s power, just as he does for Roman. 

Ultimately, Virgil and Roman in particular are in their own way, working together just as Patton and Logan do. 

“The main reason for the connection between anxiety and creativity is imagination. The dichotomy lies in the fact that the same brain that conjures up inventive paintings, poetry, and music can also get trapped in repetitive thoughts and dreadful worries.”(sources below)

The use of the same answers and the sequence in accepting anxiety all but confirm it, and therefore a similar dichotomy must exist with Virgil and the Duke as well, which raise great questions as to who the light side that Virgil has supposedly replaced is. Perhaps, it’s simply childhood imagination.

https://www.mother.ly/parenting/understanding-fascinating-link-anxiety-creativity-kids-sake

https://evergraydigitalmedia.com/blogs/news/anxiety-an-creativity-the-link

[nsoteriou]

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[mymodernmet]

How to Combine Drawing and Writing into Deeply Personal Art Journals

[bang-tan]

i hope you guys all have your own creative outlet, whether that be drawing, writing, dancing, exercising, journaling, gifing, editing, whatever it is i hope you find it and use it to channel all your energy, good or bad, in creating good vibes for yourself

[thestorytellersdesigns-blog]

#Inktober chapter 9: Screech Read chapter nine on wattpad now! and check out the speed art on youtube!

[professionallimits-blog]

What even is creativity anyway?

The announcement of this assignement sparked some interesting - if irreverent - discussion among the masters group on the subject of creativity; of what it is and what it is not. It's not a chainsaw that you can take out at any moment and cut yourself a suitable blog post. It's not a gentle and fragile flower either. But nevertheless it is in some ways an almost insubstantial entity, hard to define, hard to teach and harder yet to measure.

I tried out several different so-called cretivity tests. In all honesty it's sometimes rather hard to see where the test results come from, or how they connect back to creativity. Admittedly it is a very hard quality to put into numbers, but ticking off associated words in a list, or trying to estimate one's approach to problems in work enviroment is both very abstract and very open to to personal interpretation. Problem-solving games like the thumbtacks and candle problem are more interesting - or perhaps it's just that I personally find them easier to derive coherent results from, in terms of how one approaches the problem and where (or if) they derive from the accepted "right" answer.

As for myself, I found my own response to the candlestick problem telling enough, for I spent some time considering the "right" answer, but got distracted by the practicalities of it and dismissed it as structurally unsound and a fire hazard - perhaps not necessarily a bad mode of thinking in an engineering-related field, but it's all too easy to dismiss a simple idea at hand and get bogged down to increasingly convoluted plots, which may or may not involve support frames made of shredded matchstick wraps.

While measuring creativity is a tricky business, teaching it is even more so. Boston area art educators Ellen Winner and Lois Hetland have done a study on the the learning methods and skills developed art classes and written about their results, in defense of the creative education in the framework of incrasingly standardised school systems. The results proved that learning a creative subject also improved the students' abilities of observation, visualisation and problem solving. None of this should come as a surprise, for when bared down to the essentials, this is exactly what creatitivty is. Yet it is undoubtedly encouraging to see such observations put into words and analysed - to see creativity being treated not as something exclusive to the artistically inclined and irrelevant outside of it, but as a serious and valuable skill, important in many aspects of life.

-Merit

[tiffheartstea]

You must put the value on your own work, or no one else will.

sage wisdom

[branddevelopmentblog-blog]

CHILEAN MINERS STAR IN POWERFUL WORLD CUP AD

Banco de Chile recruits the 33 miners who survived 69 days in a collapsed mine to give the Chilean national team one hell of a pep talk.

For all the manufactured emotion in both advertising and sports, this one is the real deal. In 2010, 33 miners were trapped for 69 days in a collapsed Chilean mine. In this new World Cup commercial for Banco de Chile (turn captions on), those survivors return to Camp Esperanza in the Atacama desert arm in arm to give their national soccer a team an epic pep talk that would give Herb Brooks goose bumps.

Chile is in Group B, the 2014 tourney's Group of Death, along with 2010 champs and runners-up Spain and the Netherlands, along with Australia. But miner Mario Sepulveda laughs in the face of so-called soccer death. They are sending earth from Camp Esperanza to Brazil to spread over the fields the Chilean team will play on.

"So we can show the world that nothing is impossible for a Chilean! Spain is hard? Netherlands is hard? We are not scared of the Group of Death. We don't care about death! Because we have beaten death before!"

Seriously. Chile may not get out of the group stages in Brazil, but this spot is the odds-on favorite for best World Cup ad of 2014.