Creativity is a balancing act. Especially at a church. If a church focuses too much on creativity, they build an unhealthy culture. The church is maintained by creativity instead of enhanced by it. If the creative level drops one Sunday, people get dissatisfied. But a church that ignores creativity loses their edge. They sink into…
Watch an amazing video on YouTube. Now look at the comments below. Over half of them complain about how the video was faked. “Photoshopped!” “They’re actors.” “CG.” It can really kill the mood. But in the back of your head you’re wondering if it was fake too. That’s because the world is longing for reality.
We’ve talked before about the importance of purpose in your creativity. Without purpose, creativity becomes trite. We create just to fill time and space. We add to the pile of pretty things–pretty and useless things. That’s why we need to create out of need.
Before we get going, please know I’m not in a post-Halloween, morbid mood. But an important part of life is death. In fact, life isn’t possible without death. A seed falls to the ground, dies, and life is birthed. Death is an important part of the circle of life, Simba.
Let me introduce you to are revolutionary concept: irreducible complexity. The eye is one of the most complex parts of the body. But did you know that every piece of the eye is necessary for its function? It’s irreducibly complex. If you removed an element from the eye it would cease to function.
Metta World Peace. That’s what NBA Basketball player, Ron Artest, changed his name to. Apparently he got tired with the massive name recognition and wanted to change it up a bit. He got bored. That’s what happens when you don’t have a vision for your life–for your art. You find yourself jumping between mediums. You…
Brilliant artists ask questions. More importantly, they ask, “why?” Why am I writing this song? Why am I designing this graphic? Why am I dancing? Art without purpose may be fun to look at it. But it doesn’t make a lasting impact. Purpose is the fuel that transports creativity from “pretty” to “life changing”.