{"id":333757,"date":"2021-10-15T16:28:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T20:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/15\/the-art-of-creative-constraints\/"},"modified":"2021-10-15T16:30:25","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T20:30:25","slug":"the-art-of-creative-constraints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/15\/the-art-of-creative-constraints\/","title":{"rendered":"THE ART OF CREATIVE CONSTRAINTS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We all want to become more artistic and creative. My thought: perhaps the secret to artistic creativity is creative constraints. That is, to choose one variable unlock it, and don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t change it, and see how you could innovate within that constraint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>For example, if you see your car as a form of artistic self expression, perhaps it is best to buy a white car (Hot Southern California), and figure out how you could innovate around that, rather than buying any other car color. for example, buying a white Tesla model three, and lowering it, Debadging it, and putting on either lime green rims or orange rims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or consider poetry, the creative constraint of the Zen haiku form. Then figuring out how you could best rearrange words within that constraint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In photography, it seems location is the ultimate creative constraint. That is, with the creative constraint of your own town city or neighborhood, how can you make interesting photos?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all want to become more artistic and creative. My thought: perhaps the secret to artistic creativity is creative constraints. That is, to choose one variable unlock it, and don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t change it, and see how you could innovate within that constraint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":333210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/88-162-of-170-scaled.jpeg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333757","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=333757"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333759,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333757\/revisions\/333759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}