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The Creative Process: is this Month's topic featured
in weekly installments to help
creative business owners-
INTENT (#4)
How do you bring your creative vision into reality in a
fresh inventive way?
They say “there is many a road paved with “good intention”.
Before you get stuck on that road, you will want to ask yourself if you have
the time, resources, and money, to realize your vision?
If your missing these 3
key factors your creative process could potentially end right here.
What are you creating?
Have you created something like this before?
Has ANYBODY
created something like this before?
Do you have the time, resources or money to dedicate to this?
Do you have the time, resources or money to dedicate to this?
If your writing a song, it could take you only :45 minutes- just like quick Mick Jagger
when he penned Brown Sugar(1) , or it may be 5 years(2)
the reported amount of time Leonard Cohen took to create the masterpiece
“Hallelujah”.
Creating art
for me, is like creating little babies, some of them come quick, and
others take their time, you just can’t rush them being born- each one comes out when
it’s darned good and ready!
Make a mental determination whether you have the time, resources, or financing to
commit or not commit your “intention” to your creative endeavor.
DESIGN: (#5)
This is where the rubber hits the road, the point in time
where you combine your inspiration and identity with your vision, to create a
draft, proto-type, or model of your creative composition.
The design phase is where thoughts, ideas, doodles, and
plans converge to be arranged, tested and edited with the ultimate goal of
mirroring what was imagined in the creators mind.
Can you think of examples where a design fell short of your
expectations?
Apple a company not known for many failed products has had a
couple of missed opportunities, the Mac Newton (1993) which I believe was one
of the 1st PDA’s on the market, Priced higher than most computers at
the time the $700 Newton drew barbs for it’s poor handwriting recognition.
A more recent tech miss was Nintindo's Virtual Boy Anything but portable and easy to
use. If you blinked you may have missed this one!
Enjoy this beautiful example of Intent, Vision, Inspiration, and Design in Jeff Buckley’s interpretation of Cohen’s ”Hallelujah”.
Share a link to your recent realized design with readers in the comments
below.
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Article References
(1) They started running
down Brown Sugar the first night, but they didn't get a take. I watched
Mick write the lyrics. It took him maybe forty-five minutes; it was disgusting.
He wrote it down as fast as he could move his hand. I'd never seen anything
like it. He had one of those yellow legal pads, and he'd write a verse a page,
just write a verse and then turn the page, and when he had three pages filled,
they started to cut it. It was amazing!
-
Jim
Dickinson, in Keith Richards, Life (2010)
(2) http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/neilmccormick/6006529/Hallelujah_Leonard_Cohen_on_Hallelujah/
Jeff Buckley YouTube: http://youtu.be/y8AWFf7EAc4
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