March 19, 2007

“how to be creative” animation


This is very cool. Some stu­dents made a 3-minute You­Tube ani­ma­tion short, ins­pi­red by my “How To Be Crea­tive” mani­festo.
Blurb: “Motion design clip made by c-md stu­dents ins­pi­red by the “how to be crea­tive” mani­fest by Hugh Mac­leod. (made by Toon Goris­sen, Niek Kos­ten & Mar­tijn Pillards).“
Thanks Toon, Niek and Mar­tijn. It rocks!

"Hugh's Daily Cartoon" Newsletter. A new cartoon sent out every weekday morning to your inbox [RSS version here.]. A wee chuckle to start your day off right etc.

9 Responses to ““how to be creative” animation”

  1. Patrick says:

    Favou­rite line: “…which is why there are so many hack wri­ters with state-of-the-art laptops.”

  2. Jane says:

    That’s so awesome!

  3. “por­trait” of our world ;) )

  4. Alexandre says:

    Dear, may name is Ale­xan­dre
    I Like you blog.…

  5. dee says:

    this is great
    it makes me curious about your fee­lings on inter­pra­tive design?

  6. Simply bri­lliant. I’ve often felt that I mis­sed out on LSD as some sec­ret to doing wil­der work, until I see how para­noid my friend’s that did LSD are now. And by heck, I’m para­noid enough without drugs. Work work work and more work with some per­sis­tance. That is what it’s all about. Oh yeah, and it helps if you actually are creative.

  7. Nice inter­pre­ta­tion, though I have to say it was easier to read than it was to com­prehend the robo­voice. Also, I’m not sure about the abso­lute sta­te­ment that there’s no link bnet­ween crea­ti­vity and equip­ment. I can see an argu­ment that there’s no link to pure phi­los­pohi­cal crea­ti­vity, but there’s surely a link in terms of the palette avai­la­ble, the tools at hand to make an exe­cu­tion or even help ins­pire the ori­gi­nal notion. Ulti­ma­tely in prac­tice, the qua­lity of exe­cu­tion (which can be deter­mi­ned by avai­la­ble equip­ment) beco­mes a mea­sure of per­cei­ved crea­ti­vity, doesn’t it? I think there’s a con­ti­nuum of prio­rity. At one end is the pro­blem sol­ving, con­cep­tual end of crea­ting and at the other end is the gloss of art and exe­cu­tion (tools and equip­ment) Great ideas start at the for­mer, in my opi­nion. Though I’m often wrong.

  8. mark says:

    Bill Hicks on the topic of drugs
    “See, I think drugs have done some good things for us, I really do. And if you don’t believe drugs have done good things for us, do me a favor. Go home tonight, take all your albums, all your tapes, and all your CDs, and burn ‘em. ‘Cause you know what? The musi­cians who made all that great music that’s enhan­ced your lives throughout the years…rrrrrrrrrreal fuc­king high on drugs. And those other musi­cians today who don’t do drugs, and in fact speak out against them? Boy, do they suck! What a coincidence!”

  9. Daniel says:

    another coin­ci­dence: just half a year before these stu­dents from bel­gium made up this film, a few hun­dreds km further in the nether­lands i also made an ani­ma­tion about Crea­ti­vity. Funny how some ideas or sub­jects just seem to pop up at the same time at total dif­fe­rent pla­ces. I hadn’t read Hugh mani­festo then. I have now, i won­der how it would’ve chan­ged my film?
    any­way; check it out at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpPspvRUCHw