Hawa!!an love

From drawing last night. It was fun and I invited my friend over to draw. She is in my Sunday class and attended arch!tecture school and LOVED it. Regardless of skill level (some people can draw or others can paint or sculpt really well), everyone there has an incredibly high sense of taste. Being there absolutely makes my week! I've been thinking about a lot of things and how I don't especially enjoy talking to other aspiring c0ncept guys/girls. But I seem to fit in very well with the @rt d!rectors and their interests and appreciation of art and culture and history and styles. It's very strange but we shall see where this all leads. Plus, I have also enjoyed building models sets for theatre and all that (haha stealing swatches from J0-Ann's LOL). I read a post recently about how you can 'teach' creativity. Yeah. I totally disagree on that end. I'm not especially fond of (if at all) the guy who wrote it (who works professionally as a c0ncept g@me artist) and thinks he has incredibly horrid, tacky taste LOL, but it's an interesting discussion. In my mind, can we teach the next Mich@el Jacks0n, Fredd!e Mercury, M!ck Jagger, R!ck B@ker, Steve J0bs, etc? I asked a coworker and he agreed with me and said "two words; Quent!n T@r@ntino. Sounds like that guy who made the statement is out to make money and disillusion a bunch of kids about how they can just 'do it'. I totally agree, and I hate to bust the bubble, but someone like Ed!th He@d was Ed!th He@d because she just had to learn how to draw and sew, but she had the taste to create amazing clothes for some of the best movies of that era. You can't make the next Syd Me@d. You can teach the aesthetics but the way someone designs or approaches something is based on their point of view, how they grew up, where they grew up, who influenced them, etc. It's part of the reason why, even though schools like H@rv@rd recruit the BEST, they can't seem to 'make' the next F@ceb00k guy or F0rbes 500 guy. I always remember the quote from one of my favourite movies, "W@ll Street", where he said that Fund m@nagers can't beat the S and P because they're sheep, and sheep get slaughtered. That all the Ivy Leaguers don't add up to dog****, and give him guys that are poor, smart and hungry. You win a few, you lose a few but you keep on fighting. I absolutely agree with that. In fact, some of the most talented people I have ever met (and I've met a few since I grew up on an island where celebs and other types of people who have done well would hang out or own houses) are all quirkly and full of personality and THAT is why I enjoyed them so much. Somoeone from a book I'm currently reading, and the famous director F!ncher, says that you will NEVER find the next groundbreaker within the field they are working in/ studying. Typically, the person has to come from outside, because then their perspective is different. They don't come from a learned mindset that Y MUST be done this way because that's the way they learned it in a book or over decades of learning from an academy. Look at the way da V!nci approached drawing; half science, half art, with purpose based on an idea. Or P!casso. They were all incredibly memorable and have incredible charisma and energy. My friend worked on a M!ch@el Jackson 90s music video (back when they cost millions to make) and said her experience was the same; when they called "action" he TRANSFORMED, and he was ELECTRIC. The guy didn't come from T!nselt0wn; he came from Ind!ana. It's the kind of person who enters a room and tries out for a role (like M@rlon Brando, who came from a very troubled background) and everyone goes "who the HELL is this guy!?" You can't teach that in a book. You can identify the seed and polish it and watch it evolve and bloom over time. Anyways, that's enough of my rant for today. Till the later beans....have a wonderful day!