Like in the book by Austin Kleon titled Steal like an artist that nothing is original and something was stolen from somewhere. There are things that are trending in our modern society and we think "oh that is new " , like tweking it caused such a buzz and in some places still is, well looking deep into it the creativity behind it probably came from back 1920s and 30s or probably not.
The media was going crazy about Miley Cyrus twerking and causing controversies. here is a video of Josephine Baker who was an American born French singer, dancer and actress who is doing her famous "banana dance''
video from: Youtube
Isn't this tweking? keep in mind this was back in the 1920s and 30s.Returning to my point here which was "There is nothing original".
Inventions may look so simple but yet involve creativity and imagination to them. Inventions change the world in the aim to make our lives a lot easier i mean look at the internet, you wouldn't be reading this and i wouldn't be typing this from a computer.have you ever thought about the creativity behind inventions?. Always making new stuff as time goes by. Inventions have played a huge role in our lives, even the smallest things like a selfie stick look how it has helped people take better self portraits without stretching and getting your hand tired,now people can fit into photos better.
but did you know this invention goes way back from 1983 Minolta disc-7 camera which had a mirror on the front to allow people to take self portraits. this stick was listed in the Times magazine's 25 best inventions of 2014 and in Japan's book of 101 Un-Useless Japanese inventions in 1995.
Phillip Chbeeb nicknamed PacMan is a dancer from Houston, Texas. he did not have any formal dancing but learned it all from the streets, meaning on his own from the knowledge of freestyles and street crew battles he is one of the Artists that inspire me. here is a video showing him performing one of his peices.
Dance is often described as the process of loosing and finding yourself. i love dancing and it has different genres, i specialize in hip-hop dancing. But now we are going to take a different route and focus on the work of the late German Contemporary dance choreographer Pina Bausch. This is one of the most creative work in dance. this is a video of the trailer of the movie that is a tribute to the choreographer directed by Wim Wenderers.
Everyone is inspired by something, and there are elements that we steal from other people and things, many artists take this and incorporate it all into one thing. what is creativity? well i think its the deep thoughts that run through your mind, these thoughts even happen without you knowing. these thoughts are incorporated only when they are caught, caught by your mind of course.just for clarity, catching a creative thought would be eg. when given a blank page and you're asked to do anything with the paper, that same anything you are asked to do is what i call "the thought". that anything is the thought that the brain caught.Haven't you noticed whenever your asked to do something your thoughts redirect you to your previous experiences or inspirations?.We are inspired by all the things we see or know the creativity would be trying to make those things we see or know better and CREATE something new.
