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Showing posts with label disruptive and creative. Show all posts
Showing posts with label disruptive and creative. Show all posts
Thursday, December 22, 2016
Thursday, December 01, 2016
Chideo comes to CitySquare
Sunday, June 05, 2016
Out
If anyone calls me
Tell them I'm out.
Out of patience
Out of line
Out of my element
Out of my mind
Out in the street
Preparing the feast
The bread and the wine
For lost and for least
Out of my bubble
In to the flow
Out of myself
Finding my whole
They'll know where to find me
I'm out.
Jim Biard
Sunday, April 06, 2014
Disruption no more?
Worn
Smooth
Like a jagged rock thrown into a flowing stream,
the church once “troubled the waters.” Now, however, it seems as if the church
has slowly, often imperceptibly been worn so smooth by the culture that it no
longer creates any disturbance at all.
Source: The Word
on the Street
Wednesday, May 01, 2013
Tuesday, May 03, 2011
Going deep, staying at it: the price of creativity and breakthrough
April 28th, from Roderick MacIver's Journal
There was also a film made of Picasso painting on glass -- The Mystery of Picasso -- in which he uses felt pens and is filmed through the glass from the back. He's shirtless, drinking wine, completely focused for several hours on the images he's creating. At one point in the film he walks around to where the camera is located and talks to the director. Here's a paraphrase:
"What do you think?" asks Picasso.
"Wonderful. What do you think?" says the director.
"It is a little too superficial. It needs to go deeper. I should use paints, like I do at home."
"That's risky," says the director.
"Risk is what we need," says Picasso. "To go deeper, you need to take risks."
Five hours later, a painting is completed. Then Picasso works on a large canvass. His images start out fairly realistic -- it is a compendium of many different scenes built into one painting. The primary figures are a couple in bathing suits. Many hours later, the shapes are geometric abstracts. He has probably repainted over the entire surface at least twenty times -- each layer very different from that which proceeded. Toward the end he pastes cut out paper over the top of the bathers. Then he removes it, and says, "This has gone wrong. Terribly wrong. But now I know where I'm going. I'll start over on a new canvas."
And he does, but creates a much simpler painting based on a few geometric shapes and much more white space than there was in any previous version. Then he announces that he's finished, signs his name with a flourish, and strides off triumphantly.
The total concentration, the search for a perspective that somehow resonates with his vision, the process of painting over and over until something emerges. That thing, whatever it is, is indecipherable -- a collection of symbols representative of aspects of life, I suppose. I'd be surprised if he knew, but he knew he had found something.
All that is clear is that he's dug deep and he's satisfied.
from Heron Dance
There was also a film made of Picasso painting on glass -- The Mystery of Picasso -- in which he uses felt pens and is filmed through the glass from the back. He's shirtless, drinking wine, completely focused for several hours on the images he's creating. At one point in the film he walks around to where the camera is located and talks to the director. Here's a paraphrase:
"What do you think?" asks Picasso.
"Wonderful. What do you think?" says the director.
"It is a little too superficial. It needs to go deeper. I should use paints, like I do at home."
"That's risky," says the director.
"Risk is what we need," says Picasso. "To go deeper, you need to take risks."
Five hours later, a painting is completed. Then Picasso works on a large canvass. His images start out fairly realistic -- it is a compendium of many different scenes built into one painting. The primary figures are a couple in bathing suits. Many hours later, the shapes are geometric abstracts. He has probably repainted over the entire surface at least twenty times -- each layer very different from that which proceeded. Toward the end he pastes cut out paper over the top of the bathers. Then he removes it, and says, "This has gone wrong. Terribly wrong. But now I know where I'm going. I'll start over on a new canvas."
And he does, but creates a much simpler painting based on a few geometric shapes and much more white space than there was in any previous version. Then he announces that he's finished, signs his name with a flourish, and strides off triumphantly.
The total concentration, the search for a perspective that somehow resonates with his vision, the process of painting over and over until something emerges. That thing, whatever it is, is indecipherable -- a collection of symbols representative of aspects of life, I suppose. I'd be surprised if he knew, but he knew he had found something.
All that is clear is that he's dug deep and he's satisfied.
from Heron Dance
Thursday, January 13, 2011
"Disruptive" can be good!
Sometimes you have to do your own thing! I've found that it's really good for community when you do!
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