Showing posts with label Creative Lunch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Creative Lunch. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

What's on the menu for Creative Lunch Today?


With Halloween just around the corner, I was thinking about masks, and costumes and this inspired me to write about being real and genuine, and how it effects our creativity.

Being genuine will build healthy relationships with people who admire or at least appreciate someone really being genuine with them. These relationships are critical to our success as creative people. You are free to express your likes and dislikes and best of all you don't have to spend a lot of time maintaining your "front" allowing you to use that energy more productively.

Creativity is a way of being, seeing, acting and doing, not just making art. When you are not real and genuine you are isolating yourself from others. Creating in isolation means you lose out in two ways. First, no-one gets to enjoy, appreciate and be inspired by your "real" work. Second, you miss out on the incomparable feeling of knowing that just a few words of genuine encouragement or a sharing of struggles has lead to someone else having a breakthrough in their own creativity and happiness.
Behind every story of long lasting success is a genuine, real person.

Until Our Next Creative Lunch
Be Real... Be Creative...

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

The Creative Lunch

So I decided to start a weekly tradition for Creative Fruit, and I am going to call it "The Creative Lunch", It will be short little posts about creative yummyness. Usually I will be writing these during my lunch, I promise I will try not to type with my mouth full. Remember lunch is about conversation too, so don't just sit there and feed your face comment back!

So what's on the menu for Creative Lunch Today?

Inspiration
All creative people require inspiration. Whether you are a graphic designer, Illustrator, photographer, or writer. The Web is a breeding ground of new ideas and collaborative resources. Use your search - look around, check out what other creatives are doing.

When you find that source of inspiration you will know it! It feels like this... but on the inside.
Until we have Creative Lunch again remember chew then swallow, not the other way around.

Please comment and let me know what inspires you today!