1.6 OPM; or, the value of creativity.
So I DID manage to take a successful nap last night-woke up, and all-but it did result in some very strange (if very nice) dreams afterwards. My good friends Lu, Es and Prog, did we not discuss this issue very carefully? We do not want any repetitions of last year's Hikoboshi Incidents. Settle down, give it a few years. We'll all get satisfaction eventually. I hope. Sneaking Ultraman into those dreams does nothing. Particularly if you snuck in Gekiden trading cards and Mebius Burning Brave figures, but a pirated Taro that looked nothing like him. Tch. I thought better of my subconscious.
So I promised y'all I'd keep a count of how many times Rico Chan said 'okaaay' in the first two hours of his lectures, right? Well, it wasn't so bad. He didn't drag it out, and he only started inserting it every third word when he got excited. It was a fun sharing session, anyways. All in all, he said the word over 100 times, and his final count is about 1.6 okays-per-minute. (Of course, I should talk. If I was relating this to you verbally, every third word would have been 'like'. :P)
Aaaanyway. Part of the lecture involved asking people what creativity was, and what the value/purpose of creativity was. As the lecturer put it, why do clients hire us? After much debate up and down and various oh-so-close(?) answers, he delivered his answer: it makes more money. And really, that's all there is to it.
Somehow, this doesn't sound right to me. I mean, sure, we're all going to end up creating commercial art of some sort; that's how we're going to earn our rice/bread/carbs. But that can't be the be-all and end-all of things. Even if you are creative, and you make piles of money, if you hate your work, hate what you do and have to drag yourself to the computer/easel/storyboard every morning...I hate to break it to you, but you probably shouldn't be doing this for the next 30 years. Call me a bit idealistic, but the last bit is common sense. If you're going to be slogging, it might as well be for something you really love. Then it won't even be a slog. To me, the greatest value of creativity is that it improves the quality of life. I figure that counts as making you happy, making things easier and serving as a coping mechanism. The world stops dead without its engine of imagination and thought.
And don't tell, but one thing I did want to define creativity as was 'eating dirt and shitting diamonds'. ;)
So I promised y'all I'd keep a count of how many times Rico Chan said 'okaaay' in the first two hours of his lectures, right? Well, it wasn't so bad. He didn't drag it out, and he only started inserting it every third word when he got excited. It was a fun sharing session, anyways. All in all, he said the word over 100 times, and his final count is about 1.6 okays-per-minute. (Of course, I should talk. If I was relating this to you verbally, every third word would have been 'like'. :P)
Aaaanyway. Part of the lecture involved asking people what creativity was, and what the value/purpose of creativity was. As the lecturer put it, why do clients hire us? After much debate up and down and various oh-so-close(?) answers, he delivered his answer: it makes more money. And really, that's all there is to it.
Somehow, this doesn't sound right to me. I mean, sure, we're all going to end up creating commercial art of some sort; that's how we're going to earn our rice/bread/carbs. But that can't be the be-all and end-all of things. Even if you are creative, and you make piles of money, if you hate your work, hate what you do and have to drag yourself to the computer/easel/storyboard every morning...I hate to break it to you, but you probably shouldn't be doing this for the next 30 years. Call me a bit idealistic, but the last bit is common sense. If you're going to be slogging, it might as well be for something you really love. Then it won't even be a slog. To me, the greatest value of creativity is that it improves the quality of life. I figure that counts as making you happy, making things easier and serving as a coping mechanism. The world stops dead without its engine of imagination and thought.
And don't tell, but one thing I did want to define creativity as was 'eating dirt and shitting diamonds'. ;)