How to boost Creativity - Lesson #456
Have writer’s block?
Feeling about as creative as a stock broker driving a BMW?
We’ve all been there. Here is something I try to get out of the rut:
Look at a scene from the wrong perspective. Now, I’m not saying try a different perspective. I’m saying use the absolutely WRONG perspective. If you are going for a global, thirty-thousand foot view of a forest, then try looking at the scene as a single tree. Conversely, if you are trying to look through the microscope, then pretend you are at thirty thousand feet looking globally.
More often than not you will be shaken from your creative stupor.
Here is a visual example (Disclaimer - The following pictures are for demonstrative purposes only. The author makes no claims as to their artistic merit, or to the charisma of the subject.) A fish-eye lens does a fantastic job of giving you the 30,000 foot perspective. Any distortion created by the lens more than makes up for the all-encompassing perspective.
However, when you bring to fish-eye lens right up next to the subject you witness a far different world. The qualities of the lens that allowed for such a crisp clear view have become a magnifying glass of distortion.
Add a little pop-art-styling and we have a curious introspective into Drew Hendricks. (Disclaimer author makes no claims as to the accuracy of the final images depiction of Drew Hendricks)
On the other hand, this perspective might provide shrewd insight into our general manager’s daily psyche.
POST-NOTE: Our General Manager confirms that most days he does feel as though he is the subject of Edvard Munch’s, The Scream.
