Creativity

Wahey! Something related to my course.

I am to write a blog about what creativity means. Well, I don't do anything simple so I'll tell you what I find frustrating when described as creative.

For one, arty farty types who create pieces of art that look like cat sick that is apparently a representation of how the British tax payer is being crushed by the government and blah blah blah.
I went to a play in London that involved the audience moving around a large metal box thing and then watch a man dressed as a Jew move about (on what I'm going to call skates cause I can't think of what they're actually called) through a bath house while a creepy psycho child moved about the rafters. It was absolutely appalling but, I'm sure, represented some form of creativity.

Of course, that just means that my concept of creativity differs from the people who wrote the torture but there you go. Creativity, like beauty, is subjective.
One of my favourite bands, Relient K, wrote a song called "Wit's all been done before." about how "there's nothing new under the sun." My favourite lines being:
Cause creating something new is just recycling,
Wait wit's all been done before,
Yeah we do something to death,
Then we dig it up just to do it some more.


However, such a cynical viewpoint might not be well received in schools so it's safer to accept all sorts of creativity because we teach all sorts of children.
I've created a presentation about creativity that could possibly be rubbish, or you're just note being open-minded to my creative thinking and need to remember that it's subjective.
http://prezi.com/ig3mh99kjmcy/creativity/