June 18
Creative Caffeine
Thursday, June 18, 2009 @ 10:25 am by Josh Burcham
Let us change things up a bit and pull out our trusting photo camera. The exercises this week are going to require you to capture still moments of your life. Time for you amateur photographers to show off your skills and maybe I can get you to shoot some pictures of me for JoshBurcham.com and some future projects.
From Caffeine for the Creative Mind: 250 Exercises to Wake Up Your Brain
Creatures of Habit
Humans love repetition. We go to the same places, eat the same things, sleep on the same side of the bed and watch the same shows night after night. We love repetition because we find comfort in it. Every one of us has a routine. Even if we don’t know it, we have certain tasks that we perform the same way every day. Routine can often be a deterrent to creativity. In routine, we miss experiencing something in a new way, and the lack of this experience may effect what we can bring to the table during idea generation. Before we can assess our routine, we have to be aware of it. Your task: grab a digital camera. Take fifteen photos of things that you do everyday, things that are part of your routine. Take nothing for granted, think about every thing you do and in what order. Even thing about how your perform those individual tasks. After documenting this, try to change one routine every day. Even the slightest change in perspective can have unexpected results.
I Changed That . . . I Think
Change is good. Change bring newness and the air of unknown experience. Change is fresh. But alas, change is difficult. We find comfort in unchange. Unchange is familiar and expected and known. Grab a digital camera. Your task today is to take ten photos of things that need to be changed. These don’t have to be life-altering things; they can be small, like the batteries in the TV remote (now you can’t use that one); or big, like a career. Find ten things that need to be changed and capture them. If one of your is a baby, go ahead and do that. Soon. Please.
Don’t forget to post the pictures to Flickr and then link your photostream in your comments below. Get your creative juices a-flowing.
