now it's on to a new idea. (please envision a balloon deflating).
where do ideas come from? that's my question of the day. in the past mine have sprung up when least expected -- off of a conversation with a stranger, an idea from a radiolab episode, and even once, a fortune cookie.
maybe, idea-getting is like gardening.
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you start with an odd assortment of ideas:
then you separate out the ones you want to give life to:
hopefully, resulting in something beautiful:
part of the fun of being on the idea-getting side is that while everyone else only gets to see the pretty end result, you're privy to the mess it required to get it there:
and BOOYAH, that makes use of all my photos. (i know, they ain't great, but pouring rain does not stop for the grasping blogger).
happy wednesday all.
i love brainstorming! ideas come from the strangest places. i got the idea for the setting of Stray (venetian-NYC after global flooding) from an exhibit at the MoMA on the NYC water tables :)
ReplyDeletebut one way i try to come up with new ideas when i'm running dry, is to think about what book i want to read, that doesn't seem to exist. like, what kind of characters/themes/genres i wish i saw more of? dunno if that helps, but...
I like your analogy. And your photos.
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