The Creativity Crisis
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- randommail0
If you think about it, "American" education, creativity, test scores, etc. was never really an issue prior to the 1980s. Why? Because it's all relative. The bar has simply been raised with the steady influx of Asian immigrants since the early 1980s. (Korean, Japanese, Indian, etc.)
It's not rocket science.
- BoneCrusher0
"boring facts and negativity"
You are the typical art school loser. Too bad those "boring facts and negativity" reflect this thing called reality. You might have to face it someday when you've graduated with your useless degree and you're filling out a Starbucks application.
- kona0
i'd respond but i seriously can't think of anything witty or creative to say.
- BoneCrusher0
Sorry, I just have to respond to ukit...
"A study of 300k kids" = "A few thinly sourced examples"
Calling a study of 300,000 scores a "thinly sourced example" is stupid.
"So late 80s, early 90s...that would be the same generation of kids that went on to create the dot com boom"
No, completely fucking wrong there. You think a 7 year old was responsible for the dot com boom?
- lets be clear. there was nothing booming about it.cannonball1978
- detritus0
I posted this on Another Site recently.
http://www.wired.com/magazine/20…
- whatsup0
Half of me thinks that this article actually brought my creativity down a notch. Why? Because it stands at the forefront of creativity and inspiration, only to draw us down with boring facts and negativity.
There's a reason why they created art and design schools to foster this creativity. I bet if you only surveyed all the design schools, these statistical numbers would change and they would find that creativity has been on the rise ever since and everyone just choose to ignore it til now.
- ukit0
We invented rock n roll, you ungrateful bastards
- but rock and roll turns everyone into deprived sex addicts on drugsDodecahedron
- And?ukit
- and that makes us less creative.Dodecahedron
- in 1950s
WHat do you invent now?drgz - Well, we sequenced the human genome in 2008.ukit
- colorbookclothing0
whats why i created Colorbook Clothing, all my shirts have my art on them that you can color, they come with fabric markers.. just something differnt to make people use there creative sides run wild
- < bwhahahaneue75_bold
- wait! i didnt say the punch line yet!colorbookclothing
- sorry, thought you were kidding..neue75_bold
- why wont it let me flip through notescolorbookclothing
- neue75_bold0
haven't read the article, but it's funny, at least on a design level (which is often far removed from 'creativity') I thought America was just finally starting to produce some interesting work, the likes of Zak Kyes, Project Projects, 2x4, Studio New Work, et al...
- don't get me wrong, sagmeister has done some lovely work...neue75_bold
- oh, and Bill Cahan...neue75_bold
- and of course, gramme...neue75_bold
- I blame the 2 click society...neue75_bold
- gramme's portfolio is basically the only thing holding it all together at this point...ukit
- the great white hope...neue75_bold
- fete of the first world, resting
shoulders, his...neue75_bold
- decisionman0
@JSK – that's kinda dead on. Can't remember the last movie (besides Inception) that wasn't something remade, remixed, refreshed or rebooted.
Ah. Christopher Nolan. He's British.
And I'm Canadian. Phew!
- 8 and a half is suppose to be like inception dunno though but yeah redoing movies can be great but boring nothing newmistereight
- newmistereight
- mistereight0
thats a radical notion
- lukus_W0
Recession is good for art .. things will pick up.
- JSK0
- JSK0
Reverse psychology.
Tricky chinese them are.
- ukit0
That gives me even more credibility
- JSK0
Well at least we have ukit here.
But he is half chinese.
I dont trust him.
- identity0
@drgz
Did America not hug you enough when you were a child?