{"id":544,"date":"2008-08-25T16:38:40","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T02:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/?p=544"},"modified":"2008-08-25T16:38:40","modified_gmt":"2008-08-26T02:38:40","slug":"creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/creativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I taught my first class today.\u00a0 Meh…wasn’t too bad.\u00a0 I had a few rough spots here and there getting the momentum going.\u00a0 I saw more then a few I-dont-know-WTF-you’re-talking-about stares where I had to back up and retread. But overall I think I got through unscathed.<\/p>\n

We assigned homework today. I know….what an ass giving homework on the first day huh?\u00a0\u00a0 Nah, comeon, what I gave them was so easy a kid in elementary school could do it.\u00a0 I wouldn’t even call it homework so much as just helping them get into the creative mode for the class.<\/p>\n

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A couple of students were struggling trying to come up with concepts and asked me how I came up with ideas for my own projects.\u00a0 I though, “hey good question”\u00a0 I told them I sketch, I go look at websites, I go out to the bookstore to peer through magazines, heck, sometimes I even just sit out at the beach for 30 minutes and just chill.\u00a0 The mind is a strange tool…you just have to find some way to jog it into motion.<\/p>\n

Funny that I was just browsing just now and stumbled across this blog post about “How to be more creative”<\/a>.\u00a0 Just simple tips but I agree completely. That little diagram even includes a technique that an art instructor once taught me where you just jog down words and symbol relationships.\u00a0 It seemed really retarded to me then doing the exercise but later in my career I actually understood what it’s for.<\/p>\n

I gotta keep this in mind. My students might think I’m retarded now. But one day…ONE DAY….they’ll think I’m half capable of teaching.\u00a0 Mwahahahah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I taught my first class today.\u00a0 Meh…wasn’t too bad.\u00a0 I had a few rough spots here and there getting the momentum going.\u00a0 I saw more then a few I-dont-know-WTF-you’re-talking-about stares where I had to back up and retread. But overall I think I got through unscathed. We assigned homework today. I know….what an ass […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,7,8],"tags":[48,47,49],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-design","category-business","tag-class","tag-creativity","tag-experience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":545,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions\/545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}