What are your creative/artistic pursuits?

[jgk3]

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nice post lamb boy

I do hope that you find financial success with your creative pursuits, but your thoughts towards tailoring your product to the interests of your customers is essentially the only wise way to go about it imo.

I wish to pursue teaching music to people (I already do it informally), and I am very much aware of how differently we all may respond to musical theory when we wish to learn music. I have to give my lessons differently to people based on how well I know their learning process, and in the end it's worth it, it's all the more appreciated, and I feel like I did my job.

[zourna]

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"It sucks trying to live your dream while you're always scraping the bottom of the money barrel. No one said this road would be easy, as a matter of fact they all said I'd fail, never make any money, end up broke and yada yada yaaa. Well they were mostly wrong although the making money part is still a slow train coming. Maybe this year things will change ... here's to hope."


Crossing fingers on that you speak my mind Lamb boy.

I'm a failure to start with.... So art is the only way to prove to myself otherwise.
Am still an undergraduate graphist working his way up trough professional experiences.. yep am employed! how about that eh?!
Not been the case for sometime... but slowly but surely the train advances...

Lamb boy said it quite well on arts and "crafts" in professionalism.

The fun part in not being graduated yet is that you can get expressive, original. artistic...... however you like. At Uni. all are "failures" as youreself trying to be original in their designs ) so anything goes. You get the idea. No offence to anyone.

[Lamb Boy]

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Yeah at school the creative juices really flow. It's totally the environment. Learning new things, going home and applying them, experimentation, more learning.

I forgot to mention at the end of the day these pursuits can pay off very well. For example a guy I work with is a concept artist, he's insanely good, and between freelance and regular work he has pulled in like $130k in a single year. He gets $1k per day for storyboarding work.

Recently I was offered $50/hr for freelance audio work which was nice because I didn't really know where to start with my own rates ... sometimes potential clients can help you set up your hourly/day rate!

Teaching is totally artful imo ... everybody learns through different techniques so a good teacher is capable of teaching the same material in a variety of different creative ways in order to be the most effective ... like jgk3! Hats off to you because I still remember my music teachers the most!!

[Fedayeen]

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I am into photography.

[Siamanto]

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The main purpose of my post is to say that I'm pleased to see that enough members of the forum value the importance of creativity, arts, poetry, fantasy etc. in life. However, I am disappointed that there are so few threads about music, literature, arts etc.

Yeah at school the creative juices really flow. It's totally the environment. Learning new things, going home and applying them, experimentation, more learning.

The "creative juices would flow" as long as one continues "learning new things, going home and applying them, experimentation, more learning;" well beyond the school years. It's a state of mind, a way of life...the playful agility of the "mind????"

Teaching is totally artful imo ...

Most activities can be "artful;" all depends how it is done, not what is done???

[freakyfreaky]

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Caucasian circus clown.

[Lamb Boy]

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The main purpose of my post is to say that I'm pleased to see that enough members of the forum value the importance of creativity, arts, poetry, fantasy etc. in life. However, I am disappointed that there are so few threads about music, literature, arts etc.

The "creative juices would flow" as long as one continues "learning new things, going home and applying them, experimentation, more learning;" well beyond the school years. It's a state of mind, a way of life...the playful agility of the "mind????"

Most activities can be "artful;" all depends how it is done, not what is done???

Yeah? Well I don't have as much time to practice the new knowledge that I gain now as much as I did while I was still in school. It is different and to think that every artist is going to carry that same energy with them for the rest of their life is crazy. All artists hit dead ends creatively and no one is perpetually inspired, otherwise we would have no need for horrible relationships or muses! Besides I am way better now than I ever was in college so at some point you have to stop playing around and really develop your craft. School = playing around with your craft in order to develop the skills you'll need later in a professional setting.

Teaching is more artful than "most activities" imo ... just to clarify.

[Siamanto]

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Yeah? Well I don't have as much time to practice the new knowledge that I gain now as much as I did while I was still in school.
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Besides I am way better now than I ever was in college so at some point you have to stop playing around and really develop your craft. School = playing around with your craft in order to develop the skills you'll need later in a professional setting.

As you're "way better now that you ever were in college," didn't you also find ways to keep the same state of mind, emotion, creativity, inspirattion with less energy and time????

It is different and to think that every artist is going to carry that same energy with them for the rest of their life is crazy. All artists hit dead ends creatively and no one is perpetually inspired,

The factors that determine and explain such "dead ends" are many; it is not necessarily related to school or...Also, I'm not sure that it applies to everyone????

otherwise we would have no need for horrible relationships or muses!

As you see, there are other ways to boost creativity, besides time and excessive energy???? As long as it works!!!

Teaching is more artful than "most activities" imo ... just to clarify.

Can you measure and compare creativity and the "artful??"

[Lamb Boy]

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As you're "way better now that you ever were in college," didn't you also find ways to keep the same state of mind, emotion, creativity, inspirattion with less energy and time????

For my own work I must have lol but like I stated earlier it's not the same state of mind, perhaps in the most basic of levels as in "I'm creating something out of nothing" type of feeling but overall the first time you do anything is always a little more exciting, to me, than every time after

The factors that determine and explain such "dead ends" are many; it is not necessarily related to school or...Also, I'm not sure that it applies to everyone????

It certainly does not ... or maybe it does but it's just a a significantly smaller amount of "downtime" i.e. some artists may just need a day or two to get reinvigorated where others might take years. Not all flowers bloom as frequently, or for as long, as others ;-)

As you see, there are other ways to boost creativity, besides time and excessive energy???? As long as it works!!!

Well joking aside perhaps the difference in school and life is that you're very care-free so inspiration comes from every little exciting thing that happens, and then as you get older the more mature mind seeks inspiration from more complex sources like bad relationships. Seriously ... I know several artists that subconsciously put themselves into horrible relationships from which they derive some of their best songs. So as artists we constantly seek out what we unconsciously need to become inspired and those motivators often become more complex over time. There are exceptions to every rule though and sunsets still get me inspired, clouds too lol Those are pretty basic and plentiful so I'm glad I have those!!

Can you measure and compare creativity and the "artful??"

creativity to me means the process of producing something unique, and artful means for something to posses unique elements that can be observed through the various senses. =p How's that? lol

[zourna]

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Joseph Beuys quote: "The key to changing things is to unlock the creativity in every man. When each man is creative, beyond right and left political parties, he can revolutionize time."


I think to create is to be artful.