>>I sometimes go on a walk at lunch to get away from the frustrations at work and to specifically drop coins in hats along the way.<<
Yeah, back when we could afford to do events like Taste of Chicago, we'd make sure to have some single dollars and quarters for the buskers. We love buskers. Air full of music makes me feel happy and at home in a way that few things in this world do.
>>As a society we seem to become more accustomed to mass-produced things, from the food we buy to the gifts, to our entertainment.<<
Too true. I don't like that. I prefer a closer relationship (and frankly, higher quality) than mass market provides. Frex, if you look on this page I created about cooking feasts (http://greenhaventradition.weebly.com/cooking-feasts.html), you can see links to several of the places where we buy our food. Well, and one mass-market thing because I've only ever seen one ice cream maker that's worth using.
Some people are performers and some aren't. There's a restaurant near us with a sushi chef who comes out periodically to restock the buffet. If you go watch him, he'll start showing off and will happily make you a whole roll to take back to your table. He's a performer: he likes attention. There's another restaurant we frequent where the sushi chef is shy. I feel bad about standing there because I can see that it makes him edgy, but darn it, I want sushi that's just-made because otherwise I find it inedible.
Creativity is like that. Some people are inspired by attention while others are daunted by it. So as a creator, you have to think about how to arrange things to suit your own needs -- some people use crowdfunding to bring in attention while others use it to filter and control attention so they don't get overwhelmed. Then as a patron, you have to look at the crowdfunding projects you like and figure out how their creators enjoy interacting with people.
Both as a creator and as a patron, I enjoy interaction. I can learn how to organize my time and energy. I like knowing what other people are doing, what their interests and worthy causes are, what makes them go squee. I love it when we get into an inspiration loop and one idea will spark another across two or three pieces or even different projects.
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Date: 2011-07-23 09:43 pm (UTC)Yeah, back when we could afford to do events like Taste of Chicago, we'd make sure to have some single dollars and quarters for the buskers. We love buskers. Air full of music makes me feel happy and at home in a way that few things in this world do.
>>As a society we seem to become more accustomed to mass-produced things, from the food we buy to the gifts, to our entertainment.<<
Too true. I don't like that. I prefer a closer relationship (and frankly, higher quality) than mass market provides. Frex, if you look on this page I created about cooking feasts (http://greenhaventradition.weebly.com/cooking-feasts.html), you can see links to several of the places where we buy our food. Well, and one mass-market thing because I've only ever seen one ice cream maker that's worth using.
Some people are performers and some aren't. There's a restaurant near us with a sushi chef who comes out periodically to restock the buffet. If you go watch him, he'll start showing off and will happily make you a whole roll to take back to your table. He's a performer: he likes attention. There's another restaurant we frequent where the sushi chef is shy. I feel bad about standing there because I can see that it makes him edgy, but darn it, I want sushi that's just-made because otherwise I find it inedible.
Creativity is like that. Some people are inspired by attention while others are daunted by it. So as a creator, you have to think about how to arrange things to suit your own needs -- some people use crowdfunding to bring in attention while others use it to filter and control attention so they don't get overwhelmed. Then as a patron, you have to look at the crowdfunding projects you like and figure out how their creators enjoy interacting with people.
Both as a creator and as a patron, I enjoy interaction. I can learn how to organize my time and energy. I like knowing what other people are doing, what their interests and worthy causes are, what makes them go squee. I love it when we get into an inspiration loop and one idea will spark another across two or three pieces or even different projects.