You are not normal…

Within you there are strange ideas, bizarre thoughts and twisted plans. Before you reveal them to the world,these should consider the consequences. Society will reject you and nobody wants to be an outcast. Humans are very social creatures and we fear social rejection.

If you want to be a creative  person, you have to get over this fear and be prepared to be mocked.  An artist works from the heart and the heart, unlike the brain does not have a social conscience. The heart expresses from the infinite self whereas the brain works from the very limited experiences of the outer world.

Originality comes from the heart and the heart does not conform. If you are a creative person, you will become an outcast, a weirdo… That’s the nature of society.

So if you want to live a normal life, don’t become an artist.

A show from my new site

yourinfiniteheart.com

How do you be creative when you have no idea what you want to say? How can you create a work of art when you don’t know how to express your heart?

If you are seeking a core expression for your creative work, start observing your own actions. What is it that you really think is important in life? It could be as simple as good manners or as complicated as ‘science meets religion’.  It does not matter, as long as you keep looking for it, until it is clear in your mind. Only then, do you have a reason to be expressive and creative.

When you discover this passion, you will find it very easy to express your ideas in whatever medium you choose. You might want to sing about it. Write stories about it or even just get up and talk about it. Does not matter as long as you uncover it, you will know what you want to do to express it.

So if you want to be creative, first uncover what you want to say!

I recently came across flavors.me and about.me

Both sites give you a free one page website. What a great challenge!

See what your creative mind can do with one page. Here are 3 that I did:

seascapes.me

flavors.me/seascapes

about.me/colinperini

Add your link to my comments and I will put you on my links page. Let’s see how creative (funny?) you can be.

I went to an art market the other night. It was supported by the government and was supposed to showcase up and coming artists. They even had little studios where they could create their wonders for the world.

The market was embarrassing. They were not artists, they were people pretending and wishing they were artists. True artists are not afraid of getting out into the world and letting the public decide whether or not their art is good. If their art sells, then the public likes it and it has served its purpose. If it doesn’t sell, you can’t blame the public, either the art is very bad or it is unpleasant and not the sort of thing that you would want on your wall.

Most of these people couldn’t even draw and most of the art was ugly. You can’t blame the public from smiling without buying.

The conclusion, art that needs to be propped up is not going to work.

Ever wondered why monks and other religious fanatics get a look of serenity about them?

Society of course has painted a romantic picture about them being close to perfection or a god or some other mystical, magic power.

Want to know what the true situation is?

They are all brain dead. They are comatose from not living in the real word. They have spent their lives not working, without family responsibilities, not paying taxes or even having to make an effort to get food or clothing.

Put a child in a mind-numbing situation where he is not allowed to think, be an individual or make an effort and you will end up with an idiot.

Reality is not always obvious!

Careful! Creativity is not welcome here

It’s not easy being an artist, especially if you are normal.
If you do all of the normal things that most other people do and believe all of the ordinary things that most other people do, there is not much chance that you will ever be extra-ordinary!
If you want to be creative, you cannot be ordinary, you need to learn to be extraordinary.
The media pounds people’s minds into submission so that we all think the same way, buy the same products, mock the same ideas and follow our leaders as if sensible is the only way to go.
Creativity requires that you question the ordinary and refuse to believe the normal. It’s not easy and most creative people also become targets for normal, boring folk.
It’s not easy being an artist but creativity demands a shift away from the comfortable so that you present a new way of seeing.
Normal people are blind, a creative artist can shed some light onto life but it’s not easy because normal people resent their clichés being questioned.

Normal makes me sick

Television, movies, music and magazines all applaud conventional behaviour. Even the ‘radical’ behaviour that they pretend to encourage, demands that the observer still conforms to the rules of ‘outrageous’.

It is not easy to be a non-conformist because you make most people feel very uncomfortable.

As soon as you suggest an idea that is abstract or odd, you are branded as weird, not in a nice way but in a way that would have you outcast from society. People do not like behaviour or ideas that are not sanctioned by the majority. Even rebels – bikies, street people, street gangs etc. all conform to the rules of their breakaway group.

A non-conformist, or true rebel does not need group approval or direction. He/she stands alone. True artists are non-conformists, that’s why they are classed as odd. This is an advantage for an artist, it makes life easy. But… if you are a non-conformist in any other field, it is not quite so easy, then you are classed as weird and it can be very uncomfortable.

It’s not easy being odd but how else are you going to express your uniqueness?

You’ve got a problem and it’s YOU!

The road of life is scattered with sharp bits, stinging things and bad luck. No good complaining about it, that’s just the way this planet is built. You can pretend it is a beautiful world and make associated cooing sounds of wonder and amazement but bad luck and awful things will keep on attacking you. Anyway, on this planet beauty is mainly visual.

In this world the meanest, toughest and fastest get the best bits. The nice people get the leftovers.

So what do you do about it? Well, obviously complaining and crying does not make it any different. Blaming someone else doesn’t seem to help either and your problems won’t go away just by wishing and hoping.

You either toughen up and get to the top of the heap sometimes or you just keep on complaining and keep on trying to avoid the rain of garbage that never stops falling on all of the nice people at the bottom of the hill.

The art of life – not getting swamped by garbage!

Creative thinking… sort of

I saw a man on his morning walk. He was not thin but he was still walking briskly.

Then I noticed that he was adjusting his belt. He was making it tighter. That proved it! A brisk morning walk makes you lose weight. So unless you want to lose weight and become a skinny weakling… don’t do it!

It’s observations as fickle as this that many people base their life’s convictions upon! Idiots!

Life is much more than that foolish body of yours can ever interpret. Let go of your fickle and trite assumptions and try having no ideas for a while. It may even frighten you as new possibilities seep into that previously biased and limited brain space.

Assume that you know nothing and you are probably right!