Third Time...

Seriously Mike... creativity again? Like you said, we are creative people because we are constantly creating things but that's no reason for making us repeat this topic again. Bleh! I have a feeling that I'm going to end up repeating whatever I talked about in the previous entries, but better get this over and done with.

I believe I've mentioned how there's creativity in everyone. Whatever we do to create things has some sort of value, be it to the person who does the creating or the person who receives the creation. It seems everything that is created must have some sort of purpose, well according some peoples idea of creativity: craft without purpose is non-existent otherwise it's not creative. No matter whether you may think someone's creation is pointless, as long there is someone who can see the some value and purpose to the creation that person did something creative.

This takes me back to the argument Mike made about little children not being creative because he sees no value in what they produce. A while back I also thought the same about my previous works I made as a child. I look at them now and still think they're pointless bits of stuff I wasted my time working on and I was close to tossing them all to the trash if it wasn't for my mum. She constantly asked not to throw them out, even if they look shit, because to her it shows the progress I have made through out my lifetime and she really (and I mean REALLY) values them. To her that progression shows how much I have grown as a creative person. Honestly I really dislike looking at what I created back in the past as it has very little impact as to what I will end up doing in the future, but I have to admit I do her point and respect that she still values them despite the fact they are still crappy.

Now that I think about it, is my gunpla modelling creative? It's just a personal hobby that involves building plastic scale model robots. No one seems to care about what I build, but I do, so is that creativity? All those standing bits of plastic pretty much dominate by bookshelf leaving the books which should be there packaged away somewhere else. Is it creative to produce things for one's self pleasure or does it only apply to things one creates for others. Well as long as someone values it, be it the creator or receiver, it should be considered creative work. Another question to bring to the table: do we have to enjoy producing things to be considered creative as opposed to make something one doesn't particularly like to work on but has to for a client? This had me stumped for a bit. I mean lets look at games the developers may have not enjoyed making but some customers clearly like such as the Imagine series by Ubisoft. Obviously a lot of people must be buying these games otherwise the franchise wouldn't have spawned so many stupid iterations. If I was working on those games I wouldn't think I was doing something creative. I can imagine it feeling a chore working on those games which doesn't look like it takes much effort to do, but takes up too much time and does little to stimulate the ol' noggin.

Hope I didn't repeat myself too much, but that is what tends to happen if you do the same topic three time. My thoughts on creativity hasn't changed much, or at least I think it hasn't. Give me a few more years till I'm battered down by the workload I might end up doing for my job then we might see a change.