I AR CREATIV MONKIY

In response to the post below, I will talk about my screenplay that I am not doing because I am writing this. YOU ARE TAKING AWAY FROM MY EDUCATION! Anyway, I agree. There is nothing magical about creativity. Just now, I wrote a scene which involves two characters sitting down and having lunch while one of them tries to give the other fluffy frog slippers.

Why? Does this advance the plot? Develop the characters? No. It is there because it fills space, is kinda funny, and is the first thing I though of. Were this, by some wild twist of probability to actually become a movie, people would ask, "What is this saying about the characters? What does this represent, artistically?" The answer of course is that it represents the artists laziness in not coming up with a real scene. A scene that would no doubt involve clever dialogue, focus on weighty issues, and create an intricate web of character interaction and plot advancement.

Instead there are frog slippers. So there.

On a completely unreated note, I think this screenplay may be very silly and pointless. But hey, who's really to blame for this? The answer is sexual content in video games. I can't focus with all of these Wii's flying around.

(Wii? As in Wiiwii? Get it?)

(penis)

The Wizard of Art

It is funny, working as a creative. The popular myth regarding art is that you cannot force it. That there is no process that leads to great art, only the sporadic firing of random neurons. The only path to creative success is apparently an offering from on high, a gift from the muse, a night of drunken excess that leads to revelation.

Which, of course, leads to the idea of the artist: a person gifted with a mystical command over some entertaining medium. Culture almost always venerates these people, because, after all, only they can create art. It isn't a science, it can be tested, it can't be automated. It is magic. It is faith. It's Obi-Wan, not Spock.

Lies, all of it. Of course everyone thinks this! The artists perpetuate these myths to remain kings among the basal mortals, but it is trickery! Art is no less of a science than mathematics. There is a methodology, there are tests, there are theories and it can be proven. And any artist who disagrees is simply trying to keep their smoke and mirrors out of the same rigorous spotlight that debunks other psudo-science. To keep their art out of the laboratory, to keep their status as temple priestesses.

Come out from behind the curtain, artists, you're not fooling anyone. I am on the inside now and I am blowing the whistle.