Image above: Three Musicians, Pablo Picasso, Image sizing altered to fit format
"Bad artists copy. Good artists steal."
"To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic."
- Pablo Picasso
Is Re-Mix a Better Word? Thomas Edison & Steve Jobs
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In this third installment of the video series by Kirby Ferguson, "Everything is a Re-mix,"
Ferguson cites "The Basic Elements of Creativity" as three distinct steps:
Are all breakthroughs essentially re-mixes?
One particular point in the video below which caught our eye was how iconic writer,
Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas), "copied" F. Scott Fitzgerald's
"The Great Gatsby" to better learn the "feel of writing a great novel" to eventually become the creator of "gonzo journalism" - brilliant, unique, informed, irreverent.
Obviously, this is a different kind of copying than what we usually associate it with, as it relates to learning and school.
We stand corrected - and maybe should try Thompson's technique --
H/t FastcoDesign
Related posts in The Daily Riff:
The Creative Brain with Charlie Rose - "Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and to work. . . because everything grows out of work. You do something and it kicks open a door . . . " - artist and interviewee Chuck Close
What Makes Kids Creative? A Box or a Spaceship?
The Creative Crisis via Newsweek - "The correlation to lifetime creative accomplishment was more than three times stronger for childhood creativity than childhood IQ."
The Creativity Initiative in Singapore by Bill Jackson
The Anti-Creativity Checklist
How Creative are You? . . . the test
Ferguson cites "The Basic Elements of Creativity" as three distinct steps:
1) Copy
2) Transform
3) Combine
2) Transform
3) Combine
Are all breakthroughs essentially re-mixes?
One particular point in the video below which caught our eye was how iconic writer,
Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas), "copied" F. Scott Fitzgerald's
"The Great Gatsby" to better learn the "feel of writing a great novel" to eventually become the creator of "gonzo journalism" - brilliant, unique, informed, irreverent.
Obviously, this is a different kind of copying than what we usually associate it with, as it relates to learning and school.
We stand corrected - and maybe should try Thompson's technique --
-C.J. Westerberg
H/t FastcoDesign
Related posts in The Daily Riff:
The Creative Brain with Charlie Rose - "Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and to work. . . because everything grows out of work. You do something and it kicks open a door . . . " - artist and interviewee Chuck Close
What Makes Kids Creative? A Box or a Spaceship?
The Creative Crisis via Newsweek - "The correlation to lifetime creative accomplishment was more than three times stronger for childhood creativity than childhood IQ."
The Creativity Initiative in Singapore by Bill Jackson
The Anti-Creativity Checklist
How Creative are You? . . . the test
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