A path of research leading to project brief four; information gathered and ideas prompted by reading.
Negus, K & Pickering, M 2004, ‘Chapter 1: Creation’, in Creativity, Communication and Cultural Value, 1st edn, SAGE Publications Ltd., Thousand Oaks, CA, pp. 1-22.
- Where does creativity come from? Are your ideas really yours or do you just acknowledge and use them when they float into your head from some external source? Divine intervention – muses?
- John Lennon: “real music … the music of the spheres, the music that surpasses understanding … I’m just a channel … I transcribe it like a medium”
- Modern, self-initiated creativity hand in hand with sense of authenticity – why we despise plagiarism. Less of a problem in Shakespeare’s day, for example (he ripped off everything & was still a genius)
- Is the creativity in thinking of a new idea or improving an old one? Both? Neither? Are there any new ideas?
- Creativity and individuality – why do we look upon those who create in a group as lesser creatives? Obsession with assigning all great works to an individual, an auteur – even films to a single director, as if everyone else involved had nothing to do with the outcome
- Can anyone create alone? How much should other people be credited? Bouncing off ideas, asking the right questions, simply listening? A dog can listen, can a dog be a co-creator?
- Tension between real (dull) life and creative (vibrant) interpretation – are you then miserable if you can’t make or appreciative creative work? Do we expect too much because we’re raised on art? Happily ever afters, for example?
- Can never really express what’s in your imagination – the germ of an idea is always polluted when you try to put it into words