create

being a creative person is really not very difficult. sometimes when people tell me i'm creative, i have this amazing urge to let the cat out of the bag by giving away the whole secret so that everyone else can be. I'll do it right now. i'm not really creative as in creative creative, i randomly pick combinations of elements floating in my head, spontaneously and lay them out visually. it's such a rediculously simple exercise, it's like saying fish love bathing. try it. it's simpler than you think. grab a pen or pencil, take a piece of paper and let your hand start moving on it. do not sit to think what to write or draw. just let go. after this, structure the thoughts and arrange those scribbles into objectives.

just let go. anyone can be 'creative'; irrespective of whether you are a manager, programmer, biker, writer or a shoe-watcher (wierd people who look at shoes a lot). i'm a car watcher. i like to look at the sloping lines to see how much auto aesthetics went into bringing together the right set of lines to make a machine beautiful. sometimes this applies to shoes also...

create

being a creative person is really not very difficult. sometimes when people tell me i'm creative, i have this amazing urge to let the cat out of the bag by giving away the whole secret so that everyone else can be. I'll do it right now. i'm not really creative as in creative creative, i randomly pick combinations of elements floating in my head, spontaneously and lay them out visually. it's such a rediculously simple exercise, it's like saying fish love bathing. try it. it's simpler than you think. grab a pen or pencil, take a piece of paper and let your hand start moving on it. do not sit to think what to write or draw. just let go. after this, structure the thoughts and arrange those scribbles into objectives.
just let go. anyone can be 'creative'; irrespective of whether you are a manager, programmer, biker, writer or a shoe-watcher (wierd people who look at shoes a lot). i'm a car watcher. i like to look at the sloping lines to see how much auto aesthetics went into bringing together the right set of lines to make a machine beautiful. sometimes this applies to shoes also...

next platform

Devinder lit up my face with a copy of ''Cocina india vegetariana'. O boy, design for print has it's own charm.

I long for a platform where all media converge- print, web, sound, film, 3d; some kind of an interactive holograph in which the user can step into, the kind Michael Douglas does in 'Disclosure'. The person can turn the entire system on and steps into the content, with data floating around, wears VR gloves like Tom Cruise does in 'Minority Report' to sift through content-

1. turn virtual pages

2. watch animation wizzing around

3. listen to 3d sound / music

4. play VR games

And ofcourse, just download a database into your head like Trinity does with the chopper manual in the 'Matrix'.

When does this become real and when do I design content on this platform?

This is why I take Hollywood movies seriously. Visionaries deploy their imagination in movies where they are accepted as fictional. Much deeper and intense thoughts go behind these contraptions that we dispose so quickly as we step out of the theatre. These ideas become real much faster than we laugh them off as science fictional fantasies by wackos living in wonderland light years away. Arthur C Clarke talked about satellite technology way before it really happened. The flip phone in Star Trek which was shown 20 years back is already real and taken for granted. So start imagining. Your wild imagination today is tomorrow's trillion dollar operation.


And while you're at it, please blue-tooth my car parked below so the songs in my pc get transfered into it for tomorrow morning's drive to work. At least run some tracking technology on it so only I know of it's whereabouts if it is stolen. It's already there in our phones telling us where WE are, for god's sake.

Thanks, darling.

next platform

Devinder lit up my face with a copy of ''Cocina india vegetariana'. O boy, design for print has it's own charm.
I long for a platform where all media converge- print, web, sound, film, 3d; some kind of an interactive holograph in which the user can step into, the kind Michael Douglas does in 'Disclosure'. The person can turn the entire system on and steps into the content, with data floating around, wears VR gloves like Tom Cruise does in 'Minority Report' to sift through content-
1. turn virtual pages
2. watch animation wizzing around
3. listen to 3d sound / music
4. play VR games
And ofcourse, just download a database into your head like Trinity does with the chopper manual in the 'Matrix'.
When does this become real and when do I design content on this platform?
This is why I take Hollywood movies seriously. Visionaries deploy their imagination in movies where they are accepted as fictional. Much deeper and intense thoughts go behind these contraptions that we dispose so quickly as we step out of the theatre. These ideas become real much faster than we laugh them off as science fictional fantasies by wackos living in wonderland light years away. Arthur C Clarke talked about satellite technology way before it really happened. The flip phone in Star Trek which was shown 20 years back is already real and taken for granted. So start imagining. Your wild imagination today is tomorrow's trillion dollar operation.

And while you're at it, please blue-tooth my car parked below so the songs in my pc get transfered into it for tomorrow morning's drive to work. At least run some tracking technology on it so only I know of it's whereabouts if it is stolen. It's already there in our phones telling us where WE are, for god's sake.
Thanks, darling.

I got my self an All-American banana split today from a Nirula's outlet near home. For another 18 bucks, you get a Create-your-own All-American banana split in which you can choose your 3 icecreams that go into it. As usual, I got the usual toppings of honey, choc sauce, nuts and cherry. Whenever I settle down on a table with this concoction, I get this look from people around, then they look at their friends who they're with and it sounds like- "Is he going to eat that himself??"

I got my self an All-American banana split today from a Nirula's outlet near home. For another 18 bucks, you get a Create-your-own All-American banana split in which you can choose your 3 icecreams that go into it. As usual, I got the usual toppings of honey, choc sauce, nuts and cherry. Whenever I settle down on a table with this concoction, I get this look from people around, then they look at their friends who they're with and it sounds like- "Is he going to eat that himself??"

pupate

Sometimes I think we are constructed out of experiences; of meeting people, things we do, stuff happening to us, places we go to and the music we listen to. All these elements are energy signals or waves and they just kind of swarm in together, like lots of bees meeting in one place, to make who we are, constantly changing us. Sometimes the movies we see get into out heads so much that we start mouthing those dialogues in some situations!