#shimpei

[wildguppies]

In alto: BB Shimpei Taniguchi

In basso: BB mix

[rabbitshot-blog]

5/19「CLUB BAR FAMILY21th Anniversary」に、 FUNK P RADIO CREWで、ブチかまします‼️ #rabbitshot #mpc #hiphop ＃djoasis #djtossy #chumahha #shimpei

[christenrobinson]

IDEAS

How do you come up with ideas? Do you sit in a quiet place, think for hours until the light bulb goes off and voila, an idea is born? Or have you read every text book fed to you on the proper outline, brainstorming sequence bubbles, etc that are supposed to help you reach out to your inner creative mind to cultivate ideas and thought about how mindless at times it makes you feel? If you have answered yes then chances are you and I have a lot in common. While I would not consider myself a rebel, I have realized that conventional methods for cultivating ideas not only irritate me but also produce the least creative ideas for me. While such methods are meant to helpful and even fun, they tend to frustrate and hinder my creativity more so than help it. The process feels more like work than like a fun flowing natural process. It feels forced at times and frustrates me because my best ideas come from some of the most unconventional places such as birds chirping in the morning, watching my toddler dance and sing with her children’s program on the television, or even sitting in a recording studio alongside a producer musically sketching out sounds to produce a new hit record.  For me it has absolutely nothing to do with sticky notes, outlined roman numerals, and sheets full of one line sentences or words written in connected bubble clouds. For me it has everything to do with invoking my creativity by simply being apart of an atmosphere where creativity is allowed to run free.

Recently I watched a Ted Talks Presentation presented by Shimpei Takahashi a toy developer who found that using data as a starting point for design hinders his creativity. As he told his story I immediately identified with his frustrations. I saw his starting points using data like my starting points using brainstorming techniques and have often times felt as he said “I got tired of thinking”. To help him come up with original ideas especially under pressure he starting playing a simple game to help get the creative process going, after all it was his dream to make original toys. The game is called Shiritori where you pair random words like elephant + train + nickel together to come up with new ideas. Since you can use anything there may be a number of useless pairs or ideas that come up but the goal is to stimulate your creativity by connecting to a wide array of associations as opposed to directly aiming for an end targeting goal (ie. design an original toy).  Takahashi says that if you are striving for an idea using an end target or data as your base you’ll miss everything. The end target like an outline does not invoke the creative process, having a collection of thoughts that can be connected to or associated with other thoughts are the ingredients to get your creative processes going. Very similar to my being in an atmosphere where the creative can run freely, I find that like this game I can come up with all kinds of ideas as opposed to staring blankly at an outline trying to figure out how to fill it up with thoughts. How ever you choose to come up with your ideas make sure that you have fully activated your creativity and that it is running freely to where the possibilities of ideas will be endless.

[dogs-official]

Happy Birthday, Shimpanzee. We love you. #shimpei #dad #daddy #birthday

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