A dry day, hot and humid, 93 deg F, but cooler under the shady canopy of the woods…a good day to make rustic cedar handrails for the bridge!
I have added an old electric chainsaw to my toolset — wanted to carve some notches that my hand saw couldn’t accomplish. Buzz buzz…
Took a break just in time to see Team USA futbol team introduced for World Cup game versus Belgium.
Fun in the sun!
Is this creativity? Is it using available materials in your garage to mimic nature (spray paint optional)?:
How many layers of the creative process do you/I experience?
We experience the consumption of the creative process frequently, especially the creativity of our ancestors who invented language and others tools of our social structure — reading books, watching films/sporting events, listening to other people talking, learning through the apprenticeship method on how to mimic the use of tools to recreate something.
We constantly participate in the creative process when we rearrange words into sentences of our own, or even quoting others in the context of conversations, and when we use other tools in ways we hadn’t directly seen.
We create new tools.
We create new objects/processes with old tools.
We experience thoughts in the zeitgeist when we see/hear something and think/say, “Hey, I already thought of that or should have thought of that myself.” We are massively driven to think up the same independent inventive idea before seeing/hearing it from others.
I travel through time in my thoughts to keep me from being too much stuck in the jointly shared mass media moment. We all do.
We remember moments previously experienced and yet to be conceived in our linearly lived corporeal existence.
How then shall I ensure my future self on Mars gets as equal a stimuli-enriched existence as the one I have now?
How does one keeps the creative juices flowing?
What motivates us to go from thought to action?
I let my many moods/personalities wander my thought trails as undisciplined and uncontrolled as I can.
In my thoughts, a character who believes only in practical, no-nonsense, utilitarianism struggles for attention with the no-worries, anything-goes, live-and-let-live ambling wanderer who believes nothing is absolute.
Giving time to both characters without a desire to balance attention to them is tougher in some moments than others.
What is true randomness in the thinking process?
How is it related to creativity?
What is the discipline to physically manifest the completion of one (of many) project(s) one mentally creates on the fly?
If it wasn’t for hunger and other body functions like the itching numbness in my buttocks, could I sit here for days at a time watching the weeds and trees grow in my yard during changing weather patterns?
All of us doodled during our childhoods, didn’t we?
I sure did. Only one image remains — a childhood drawing on the wall next to my bed, photographed before my parents painted it over…
Now I need to get out there with my new Academy of Model Aeronautics and Rocket City RC memberships and do something just as fun and creative.
Guess my choroplast RC plane building days are behind me…
Congrats to Mark Frauenfelder and his new book release; to the White House for hosting a mini Maker Faire.
What will this become…hmmm…
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