ok, no pictures today,or maybe one.so since lately there's been some contention about creativity and what-not. i ve been thinking about it and trying to figure out why i get a little aggravated when people refer to us as being an "artist" or "your so creative!".now,why would this aggravate you? well,im gonna try and explain that.
creativity isnt really that difficult,remember when you were a kid and you'd sit there at the kitchen table drawing cars or whatever,in your mind you could see what you wanted something to look like. so you drew it, that in my opinion is arguably the creative part of your brain putting something on paper.its your opinion of what something should look like.
now,pretty much anybody has those opinions. i see a motorcycle or car,and in my brain i see what i think it should look like to be "cool". so if it got left at that,no one would say "your so creative!"
being able to excecute an idea in the real world and do a nearly perfect job of it requires great skill and alot of time and practice. i dont care what it is, if its framing a house,you are looking at a drawing, taking that and building it out of wood to look like said drawing. some can do it,but they do a lousy job of it,but it serves its purpose,but i wouldnt look at it and call it "art". others can do the same thing, and do such a perfect job,all the compound cuts fit perfect,hip rafters flow into the ridge-beams without a single airgap in the cut. i can walk into a framed house and look at that and it screams out art to me.
so, is the guy who framed it an artist? i dont know...but i sure as hell think he's more of an artist than someone who dips a paintbrush,then splatters it on a canvas,then tells everyone how hard they worked on that piece.
so whats my point you ask? well,i think people throw around the words creativity and artist a little too loosely. i think way more credit goes to people who are willing to come up with an idea,then be willing to do the time to excecute something amazing.
i could go on and on about this,but it is so simple.time is the key.you spend enough time on something, even if at the end of it all,even if you had no intention of it being an "artpiece"...there are those of us out there that will look at it,our mouths will drop open, and we'll say "wow, thats art!"
