Dull little boxes, dutifully peforming dull little tasks
Another topic we discussed in tonight’s class was the question if “computers inspire creativity?”
Once again the Windows consultants in class said no. They couldn’t ever imagine a computer helping someone be creative. I pity their outlook in life. Why would anyone ever use Windows if this was the case?
One of them said that, while there are software programs that help you create things, computers do nothing to inspire creativity. He said that photoshopping is nothing like painting and that computers are for performing various drudgw work.
I wanted to snap, “Get a Mac!” That will show you the endless possibilities of being creative. Break those chains and get a mac. You don’t know what you’re missing.
Computers are tools. Software programs are tools. In the artist’s hands, these tools can do amazing things. Look at digital animation. That is creative! I think that using them will ignite the creative side of you. You never know until you’ve tried.
This is why I like the Mac platform. There are endless inspiring programs coming out for it. I believe the indy Mac developer world is just like the indy film world of the eighties. It is ready to go big time. If it could just change the developers that are like that Windows consultant, then Apple could rule the world. I think that day is coming.
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I guess these guys haven’t been to the movies in the last ten years. What is art? Art is design. It’s different for everyone but you can’t deny that a tool is merely a tool to reach an end product. Brush, Film Cam, Digital Cam, pencil, chalk… and so forth. Even a website can simply be breathtaking simply for it’s design. Does it matter how it was reached… what paint brush did Picasso use?
It seems like everyone in your class is either yes or no like binary code what about the inbetween, of course computers help people be creative this blog is creative
As I said. I think it is the Windows programmers mentality. They don’t see the computer software as a tool, but as an end result of their jobs.
Computers are creative tools. That’s why I really want to develop Mac applications. The Mac provides an outlet for creative programming.
The simple act of using it to make something such as a movie, an image or even an application is the essence of creativity.