What drives me? What drives you? Why do we have these deep seated needs that often others cannot connect with, or they just plain think we are crazy? The need to create and share? The need to write that film? Scribe that novel? Paint that painting? Act? Make that movie? What is it? I have […]
I love my job. I’m a semi-abstract expressionist artist. That means that I create paintings and illustrations that don’t look like reality, but you can kind of tell what it is. I love to create a painting for someone that expresses something they didn’t feel able to express for themselves. It’s a wonderful moment when […]
Twenty-Five year television veteran Frank Spotnitz is a big believer in luck. He was lucky that his parents never supervised their son’s voracious and indiscriminate consumption of 60s and 70s television, allowing him to build up a vast catalogue of narrative strategies in his mind. He was lucky that Chris Carter hired him for his […]
‘Creativity is not a talent, it is a way of operating’ John Cleese Following from my post a few days ago on strategies for manifesting creativity, I remembered this excellent seminar from the early nineties with John Cleese on the very same subject. It’s total gold dust from writers and filmmakers and you can listen […]
There is a reason Archimedes proclaimed ‘Eureka’ while in the bathtub! All the elements are present to manifest creative thoughts. Ideas often seem to appear at random, but I am not sure they are truly unpredictable, I believe there are ways to manifest creativity at will. I have come to this conclusion after noticing trends […]
I have just spent the last hour on the phone to an extraordinary artist whose work will shake the world. The only problem is, she only gets glimpses of her brilliance and power. So how do you cope with the urge to create when you feel shut down by judgement, often from yourself as much […]
I believe that I have a condition, a psychological disorder that sets me aside from most of my family, as well as the friends I grew up with. The condition is called ‘creativity’. What’s the cure to this ailment? Creating stuff of course. Beyond that, in my experience, there is no way to purge the […]
