To Find Your Way

“It’s my way or the highway!”

I know it. Realization of course when it comes to my own forged dilemmas.

Unfortunately procrastination can creep into a creative process and disrupt all endings.

How can I make it outstanding and perfect I ask myself?
I never cease to amaze myself. The picture is clear.

But you’re not done until your done. While failing isn’t an option.

Yet the finish line keeps moving. Beyond.

Sometimes, all it is, is a matter of knowing that it is OK and eventually you will find the way.
Your way.

Where’s Your Juice?

Creativity flows when we least expect it.

Don’t think of it as lazy thinking. Like someone I know sometimes preaches.

“Let it flow. Flow...”
Had the opportunity to attend my first Creative Mornings Vancouver at the W2 Media Cafe. It was an awe-inspiring event.

Seeing, hearing, talking – creative and creativity.

Yet somewhere in the morning whilst I wrote in my notes my mind fast-forwarded. It’s all real. Because we’re allowed to.

We’re in a place where creative juice flows all around us.

Often paralleled with outside the box thinking, the artistic types live to breath what comes out of their soul.

Yet, the speaker of the month – Alex Beim of Tangible Interaction spoke a different tact.
Creative doesn’t exist.

He then goes on to talk science. The magic act.

I agree. All of us have it inside of us. It’s a matter of getting it out. How it comes out depends on what kind of external or internal force ignites it. Which door opens.
It can be a compilation of things.

Someone said something, a word hung on – you saw a colour it stayed with you, then a shape before you. Suddenly your brain starts sparking and before you know it a kernel of an idea has hatched.

Soon it evolves. To something you’ve never seen or done before.

Like magic.

Writing a feature story for me is like working a piece of play dough. You shape it. That’s the gathering of the research, the quotes the anecdotes that make the story.
You roll it around, if you want to make it round – you feed it, need it.
Much like the story.

Till you get it just the way you want it.

All things creative are in our soul.

Finding your creative space - in my opinion, is a matter of process. Doing what’s right for you. Doing what feeds your inspiration and your passions. Your creative juice.

Open up and drink it up.

Technology and Creativity

Given I’m technologically challenged and irreverent when it comes to reading instructions, I think I’m doing pretty good.

In catching up to technology that is. Although from what I hear, as soon as I do - it will change.
Which makes me laugh.

But given once you know it, in most cases it’s transferable. Here’s hoping I’ll be OK.

Frequently, I’ve been heard to say in the middle of class, “That is so cool!”

We’re shown something on a screen on the wall. In front of us our very own computer.

Yet, when it comes to trying it by myself – well, I’m still learning.

Today I set out to finish my lamp-post banner design in Illustrator. A program completely new to me. The images floated around in my head. A colour palette came alive. Then I made my first, then second, then third, then fourth of which I later lost track of – attempts to formulate said design in my head.

No where. I was lost.

Back over to Google. The Idea Refinery. Seeking out tutorials. A classmate offered to assist. Yeah!

Then someone sent me and email and it was time to leave the school.

Technology and creative – yes they do go hand in hand. Just seems one is slightly easier then the other.