If you’re doing something that’s never been done before, how can you make the perfect plan? Whether it’s an art concept, a picture, a business model, or a meal: you can’t. Innovation, by definition, has no road map. Important: the same goes with creativity. That’s why I like people who “do” and fail, a helluva lot more than people who just sit around and talk about it.
Randy Nelson of Pixar says it more eloquently. “The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance.”
I think this–and many additional ideas in this video–are brilliant.
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Excellent. Thanks Chase.
I could listen to Randy Nelson talk for hours & hours, excellent delivery.
You should get HIM on cjLIVE sometime. Or pretty much anyone from Pixar would be fascinating.
When I was a 3D Character Animator years ago, I used to, of course, REALLY want to work for Pixar, so maybe that’s why I’m extra interested in what anyone there has to say.
Since leaving 3D behind and turning to photography, I’ve felt enriched by my experience in my previous career but always worried that I might just be a jack of all trades and a master of none, especially since I continue to be fascinated with “too many” things, photography-related or not.
It’s reassuring to see someone address breadth of experience as such an important aspect of any creative person.
Thanks for sharing!
This article resonates with what he talks about:
http://artofmanliness.com/2010/09/29/skydiving-from-space-part-i-joseph-w-kittingers-long-lonely-leap/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheArtOfManliness+%28The+Art+of+Manliness%29
For a long time the photography industry has been a very secretive and closed one. If you wanted to make the break into the industry you faced learning the trade by going to expensive schools or spending countless hours learning from the good old trial and err. Thanks to people like you its now so much cheaper to better ourselves as artists. Thank You Chase!