tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6731383362544628080.post6954735790633822849..comments2024-01-29T11:56:08.613-08:00Comments on Soapstone's Studio: CreativitySoapstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615415471957675272noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6731383362544628080.post-86185629753247086472010-01-29T09:33:39.656-08:002010-01-29T09:33:39.656-08:00Creativity exists in a social context and in an in...Creativity exists in a social context and in an individual one. You have internal dialog, internal standards; let these not be confused with the social versions as you hone your crafts.<br />The discovery is no less valid when you find it for yourself than when some other found it centuries earlier.<br />The discovery's validity is not changed whether or not you were the first to record it for others to see and judge; it may be the same thought another had years earlier, to be found under a neat stack of stockings in Janet's parents' attic after her mother's death 23 years from now.<br />If the social context of creativity totally dominates the individual, then your personal work will regress toward the mean. Yes, those things that society does not deem valuable will probably fade away, but if you accept some god perhaps that god will know how awesome your work are, and in any case your personal standards have the potential to be satisfied during your lifetime.<br />So, your personal standards may be what is naturally selected by the meme pool, not your creativity. And the critical event of recording your creativity in a way that it may be socially judged is emphasized.<br />I wonder if you are trying to decide how valuable your you-ness is, trying to determine a comfortable balance between your individuality and the eyes all around you.Tony Chinnicihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15214391052982898689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6731383362544628080.post-12394279561477818612010-01-20T22:29:30.005-08:002010-01-20T22:29:30.005-08:00""We define creativity as putting togeth...""We define creativity as putting together disparate ideas in new and useful combinations." Wikipedia also allows in its definition "new associations of the creative mind between existing ideas or concepts." Ahhh...so...mashups are creative! And here I just considered myself an eclectic plagiarizer."<br /><br /><br />Hmm, not so different from taking a handful of mud and breathing into it the breath of life . . . <br /><br /> <br />Or taking a rib from the first bloke 'from Mars' to render something similar but also quite different, and therefore complementary, to be his partner 'from Venus.'es_trickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15511350526999060149noreply@blogger.com