Abdomen Absorption
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- TheBlueOne
"Creative communities are dank pubs, and once we’ve optimized ourselves to living on the inside, our full range of reasoning is brought to bear on a narrow spectrum of ideas, a spectrum that we’re under the illusion is as wide as it can be. And so we don’t realize the world has shrunk at all."
http://changizi.wordpress.com/20…
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- Horp0
I got past the anglerfish intro, and then it all sort of went creatively community creative scientists are the creative anglerfish community of the creative sciences, creative killer's of scientific killer creativity killing, creative communities are the bull's eye creative communities for the community creative, killing creativit WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT YOU COCK-WOBBLER???
so I stopped.
- vaxorcist0
SEO-ism?
grad-school-ism?
- vaxorcist0
ok... if I scan the article bit, read like a truly ADHD person....
they're saing places like, uh QBN can mess you up.... it does make me wonder.... maybe true in some ways, but not in others...
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....Not only are these creative communities dangerous to one’s creativity, but they seductively attract creativity-seeking individuals into them like moths to a creativity-scorching flame.That creative communities are alluring to the aspiring creativity maven is not surprising: we all want friends who understand what we do and appreciate our accomplishments. What is surprising, and is not widely recognized, is the extent to which these creative communities are destructive.
- identity0
sounds like someone used to be a member here - posted some work - got criticized - got butt-hurt - 'blogged about it'.
Now, they just need to convince their roomate to loan them some code and up-front financing so they can start a social network devoted to creative communities take comparitive looks at one another - eventually making him a billionaire.
- Um, a bit more than a butt hurt designer: http://changizi.word…TheBlueOne
- Well tell that big clever man he can't communicate his thinking very clearly.Horp
- I will get right on that. And after that I'll tell that Stephen Hawking fellow to annunciate better.TheBlueOne
- I just think his analysis lacks breadth and scope. Plus he looks like he needs a good kicking. For his own sake.mikotondria3
- hektor9110
I agree in some points, but at the end of the day I believe that when you meet someone or a group of people, you have to take whats good for you. WTF did I just say.
- mikotondria30
It sounds for all the world that he himself has not become particularly effective as a self-proclaimed member of his own nebulous definition of a design community. What the article fails to address that upon achieving the status of member of a DC, one's outlook is not defined purely by the ethos of that community. What can be thought of as a wider view is narrowed upon graduation into the dc only by the fact that the commonalities between the members are learned and communication between them is focussed. Each community has a unique and particularly restricted lexicon and analytical process; QBN processes and lauds a distinct novelty that do other DC, whose names cannot even be spoken in hushed tones here.
I assert that the author is projecting his frustrations at his academic colleagues with whom he shares only a limited number of interests, and who all talk shop when they drag themselves to one another's blandly decorated city-center apartments twice a month.
- maikel0
I think the bloke who wrote that article is a fucking whiny cunt -with all due respect.
Honestly I hate people blaming whatever they can come up with (weather, bad clients, little budget, and now creative communities) for their lack of guts, intelligence or creativity
And for the Pub analogy... interacting with like-minded people means that you surely adapt yourself to distinguish clearly between subtle ranges - Yeah DO'H! it's called specialisation - and that's why when people says red, I think fucking pantone 485C. I doubt it will make me forget that there are indeed other colours.
- yep. I thought that. "Cunt", I thought. We should damage his vehicle when he's at work.mikotondria3