{"id":298927,"date":"2021-01-27T13:34:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T18:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=298927"},"modified":"2021-01-27T13:43:01","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T18:43:01","slug":"how-to-always-be-creative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/27\/how-to-always-be-creative\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Always Be Creative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I am addicted to and love to create. To me, being in the zen zone<\/a> of creating and the “flow<\/a>” of creation is the optimal state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the years have progressed, I feel I’ve become more<\/em> creative the more I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve disconnected. To disconnect \u00e2\u20ac\u201d to gain some sort of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153creative isolation<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d away from social media<\/a>, and your contemporaries. This is the great secret to creative productivity<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Always be learning, but always be creating as well.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

One of my new favorite apps is the Google \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Arts and Culture\u00e2\u20ac\u009d app, in order to discover new artists to draw inspiration from. For example, my recent interest in Japanese woodblock printing \u00e2\u20ac\u201d like the work of Hokusai<\/a> or the work of Hiroshige (below):<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

What I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m looking for:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New creative, compositional insights from the past masters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Harnessing boredom as a means to creative production <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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    If we can channel boredom in a meaningful way \u00e2\u20ac\u201d this can be a great spur to our creativity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Analyzing your own works, to figure out *why* you like them. <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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    I am addicted to and love to create. To me, being in the zen zone of creating and the “flow” of creation is the optimal state. As the years have progressed, I feel I’ve \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":298940,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210126_1712142302-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1920&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298927"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298952,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298927\/revisions\/298952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}