Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Remember the Madness
Have you ever had a time when your creativity was at a peak? Were you going through a tough time during this period of creativity? Tell us whether you feel there is some truth in the creative madness that we heard of in our last lecture. If you agree or disagree tell us why. Be as in-depth as possible about your experience in your response.
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At one point in my life I was going through a phase I guess with collecting tennis shoes I thought that it showed a part of my artistic side at the time I wasn’t really sure how tennis shoes fit in the same category as art but at the time I strongly felt it did. Creativity to me means a lot but in most cases its means to stand out uniquely.
ReplyDeleteContemporary style dance has been my favorite since I could remember. The music and motions are easy to connect with. When I was a junior I was asked to choreograph a contemporary routine for my poms team. The song was Bring Me to Life by Evanescence. It won first place at most of our competitions. I was proud of my hard work. The next year, senior year, my coach wanted me to choreograph another routine. This year all the girls wanted to go a different route and do a jazz/kick routine. I love to choreograph so I accepted the offer. The only problem was that style was not really my thing. I had a mental block for at least two weeks. I had choreography down, but it was not that good and I knew that. During that period of time, I was so stressed. I could not even concentrate during any of my classes. I would sit and daydream and just try to think of moves in my head. I wanted this routine to be as good maybe even better than the one I choreographed the year before.
ReplyDeleteWhen the word Creativity or "your art" comes up during are conversations in class I feel kind of out of place. I know that music is a form of art but I don't feel that what I'm going into (music business) is necessarily an art form. I feel that I know a lot about music and the certain aspects of it but I don't consider that to be an "art form". Having said that I do feel in some cases there is "creative madness". I feel that artist's such as painters or writers go through some kind of madness while trying to write a new song or trying to paint something new. Something in their minds has to trigger inspiration and that trigger can be a form of madness but it can also be something else. Everyone goes through rough patches in their lives but an artist has to express how they feel through their art. The “creative madness” inside of them is what they are using to finish their art.
ReplyDeleteThere have been many different times I had gone through madness with my art. When I get into a madness stage is when I work on fliers for restaurants. There is always something that bothers me about the flier. It is either I didn’t make it doesn’t look right or there is some error in it. Every time I make a flier there is always something wrong with it. It is between the spelling, color, picture, or font and it is always something because either my mom or the guy I made it for calls me. When I see their name pop up on my phone I just want to throw my computer at my wall because I don’t want to spend another hour fixing something small. Then I just think about it, calm myself down and take a deep breath because I’m getting about hundred and fifty dollars for this one hour. It’s always nice that you can save it and go back and change it, but I absolutely hate going back and fixing it. I just always have to remember I know there is a mistake in there somewhere in that flier and it make me insane.
ReplyDeleteThere was a time when I was judged by my creativity. Because i'm an aspiring fashion designer, I always set many types trends by the way I dress. Many people judge the way I dress by making good and bad comments about my style. I have an obsession for pop star lady gaga and I want to be just like her. By the flamboyant clothes gaga wear she is recognized for her creativity madness. Gaga style has inspired me to be bold and wear things you’ll never see anyone wear. I believe I’m Gaga because we’re alike by wearing weird clothing, love attention and have an outgoing personality. I dress like her every day, I even sing her songs to my family everyday as if I’m gaga performing for a crowd. I don’t care what people say about my obsession because I’m proud of who I am and want to be. I am no longer Bry’onna-British, I am Bri-Gaga…….
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ReplyDeleteThe above post is a photo of dancer Martha Graham, who the lecturer from yesterday could have included in her lecture...
ReplyDeleteMy creative peaks vary, sometimes I know when they are coming and other times they just spring up on me. There is no specific time where my creativity shot thru the roof, I just get this very strong urge to mix and then when I do it’s just amazing. Wait I do recall this one time it was the day after I had gone to the local night club, I was just laying there and I decided I would mix for a little bit. Once I started everything went about normal until all of a sudden I have no idea how I tried something new and it sounded so smooth, it blew my mind. I was doing things so in sync and seamlessly, it was the best mix I have ever done but the only setback is I never recorded it. I believe that after hearing the DJ’s at the club mix it awoken something in me artistically that allowed me to enter this state that performed pure perfection. I also cannot explain how over these years I’ve learned so many tricks and practices by myself. I’m self taught in every aspect of the word, I just discover tricks that work out that help give me a distinctive style. My mixing gets better and better each trick I discover, just imagine how I will be a couple years from now.
ReplyDeleteCurrently I'm experiencing a spike in my creative fields. This creative peak is not in all my fields of creativity. I notice that my creative media are shifting. What I mean by this is that I am more eager to write songs or poetry or even write my essays versus my visual media of drawing or painting and sculpting. Currently I'm not experiencing any hardships, other than striving to become part of the Columbia student body. Well that's a lie. I am finishing other schooling and juggling with my financial issues. It does take a toll on me, but I'm not depressed or upset. It's been a long time since I've felt so successful and so close to accomplishment.
ReplyDeleteOn The other hand I do believe that the creative madness theory holds a solid argument. I feel that I have experienced this feeling of craziness. If anything the madness is omnipresent. The way I perceive the world can sometimes upset me or even push me to accomplish somethings. This view can influence my writing as well. It makes me want to spread a message to others. It makes me want to show others the things I see that they're seem to be blinded from. I know I'm not crazy because there are others like myself, but not many. I like to call these or this experience an awakening; a mental lift from the looking glass of our system and culture.
I feel that there is some creative madness. When I was in the plays at school the dance scenes were always such a hassle. I remember I kept pushing myself to get the choreography right. My director kept telling me that I knew the dance very well. I should be helping the other students who don't know it. When I came home all I did was practice the dance. I kept falling asleep in two of my classes because I stayed up so late with the dance. I had my teachers worried because I never fell asleep in their class. I told them it was because of the play. My teachers told me I was pushing myslef too hard. At lunch I never ate because I was so worried about the dance. My friends were forcing me to eat because they felt I was making myself sick. So the day before the play we had to show our play to the grammar school kids. I was backstage and I kept thinking about the dance scenes I was in. I was going crazy I kept practicing backstage. My friends told me to stop because I knew the dance and don't worry about it. I thought I would mess up. I didn't mess up at all I was on point with all the steps. The madness was I kept pushing myself to learn the choreography. When everyone was telling me I was great I didn't listen. I wanted the dance to be perfect. Due to my madness that caused me to lose sleep and not to eat.
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ReplyDeleteModern and lyrical dance is my favorite two style of dance. These styles of dance bring diversity and continuous flow of movements. I could remember in practice at the Joffrey tower I had to help this choreographer come up with two pieces to perform and I was very excited to take that challenge. I was so excited that I had made up two dance whiles staying over time after practice. I showed her the dances and she loved it but then she told me I had to do a Latin and modern piece. I was excited for the modern piece because I had that ready to go but it killed me to have to do a Latin piece. After hearing all that I was crush I struggled for 2 weeks that I couldn’t eat, function, or make up my mind about what to do. So I just went crazy and gave her anything but when we perform the two pieces it was a hit and I felt better and calmer and not mad.
ReplyDeleteIt seems that every time that my creativity went to a peak, I always stressed over it, but the outcome turned out great. I was the coach for my dance team at school, was a lead dancer in 3 stage productions in three different states, and was getting ready to have a big acting role in another stage production. I thought that things were really getting ruff, and impossible to do. I couldn’t eat or sleep at one point of time, I was highly overwhelmed. Overall I felt good afterwards because I was able to complete all of it.
ReplyDeleteI do not feel I have reached a creative peak so far, at least not a creative spark that just takes my breath away. I would love to speak about my experience for hours and hours about how that one moment has changed my life and made my passion that much stronger but there has yet to be one. With time I know it is just around the corner and I have faith that I will make it the most elegant and graceful performance I’ve ever completed and it will change my life. I look forward to this very soon but I cannot share my experience about it thus far. I do believe there is some truth about the creative madness from our lecture yesterday but not so much from what she told us, but from my own opinions. I was not in tune with our lecture speaker yesterday at all, and was very bored. The topic at hand was very interesting and I think that if presented by a different individual I would have grasped more information and would have been increasingly more interested. To me I felt as if the lecture was all over the place and she herself had questions that she was attempting to educate us on. I did not go for her pitch at all. However, the statistic she stated about creative people in our country claiming the most insane diagnoses did not blow my mind but was still very interesting. It is the creative people in life that feel they have to go so far and beyond with their work to be the absolute best that drives them to the end. Almost all of us are so deliberate and precise with what we want our work to look like or feel like, that we get so stressed out and frustrated we sometimes go nuts. I’ve taken this outlook on creative madness through my own views, not from out lecturer yesterday.
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