Creativity: Part II

After a long, and very fun, weekend of shooting Part II of the creative series I have ended up somewhat frustrated. I had grand plans to add two videos from the photos taken of Lindsey, but was unable to make them - yes it is another round of the PC vs Mac conversation. I've come to the conclusion that if you want to have an ounce of creativity do not use a PC. They are great for typing out documents and even using Photoshop, but tring to put together a video is nearly impossible.
So my creativity has been somewhat stiffled.

But it is all still in my head - the images have been processed, arranged and are ready to go. I have added two images from the shoot below. Also all the images are in a web gallery so you can see the entire shoot.

I am not giving up on this - Creativity must, and will, prevail.

So stay tuned for the videos - it will be done!

Creativity: Part I

Do a search for the word "creativity" through either Google or Yahoo and you will get 69,800,000 hits. Quite amazing concidering that we all know what to be creative means - or do we?

So what is Creativity? Is it the act of turning ideas into reality? Or is it the simple act of just being imaginative? In some ways I think that being creative is what we all are striving to be. If it's through art, invention, business or love we all want to have a unique perspective and to be able to share that with others.
Personally, I like to think of creativity as having a passion and commitment to follow through on an idea - and using that to turn ideas into a reality.

How many of us have been trying to sleep, mind racing with thoughts, and a great idea comes into our heads? It happens to me all the time. How often do I write them down? Hardly ever. In my head I have written numerous, and I might add brilliant, movie scripts, great ideas for posts to this blog and unique ways to reach art directors. I always say "Oh, I'll remember that..." The next morning I rarely do.

So this weekend I am gong to take photos inspired from a past photo shoot I did of a white chair - see images below. I thought about it, came up with an idea, wrote it down and now I am going to make it a reality.

So tune in to see what I come up with - I will probably, hopefully, surprise myself.