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Top or Bottom?
Here was my thought while driving yesterday: there are two kinds of
creative people. Those who visualize the ideal and then try to create
something that resembles their ideal as completely as possible, and
those who take bits and pieces of reality as starting blocks and see
what they can create from that.
Top Down People visualize the ideal and create a reasoned-out guideline to how the work should be created. They know what they want, but not
necessarily how to achieve it. Theirs is a world of symmetry and order
with a rational mind at work behind it trying to approximate the
perfection they imagined. They can be dissatisfied when their creation
isn't perfect according to their pre-determined ideal.
Bottom Up People are realists, in a sense. They work from the bottom up, with pieces of
reality whether it be an overheard sentence, the look in someone's eye,
or an old car part. They imagine the potential of that thing in
connection with this other thing. Their world is forever in pieces that
they are trying to put together, which can be chaotic but also full of
endless possibilities.
That's not to say people can't behave either way at different times, but I definitely lean toward the latter.
What do you think? Does the top down/ bottom up distinction make sense
to you? Are you a top or a bottom?
creative people. Those who visualize the ideal and then try to create
something that resembles their ideal as completely as possible, and
those who take bits and pieces of reality as starting blocks and see
what they can create from that.
Top Down People visualize the ideal and create a reasoned-out guideline to how the work should be created. They know what they want, but not
necessarily how to achieve it. Theirs is a world of symmetry and order
with a rational mind at work behind it trying to approximate the
perfection they imagined. They can be dissatisfied when their creation
isn't perfect according to their pre-determined ideal.
Bottom Up People are realists, in a sense. They work from the bottom up, with pieces of
reality whether it be an overheard sentence, the look in someone's eye,
or an old car part. They imagine the potential of that thing in
connection with this other thing. Their world is forever in pieces that
they are trying to put together, which can be chaotic but also full of
endless possibilities.
That's not to say people can't behave either way at different times, but I definitely lean toward the latter.
What do you think? Does the top down/ bottom up distinction make sense
to you? Are you a top or a bottom?
Tags: creativity, life
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Permalink Reply by Art Ravels on -
Oh I quite enjoy these.
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Permalink Reply by Valerie Bolea on
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Bottom. Not to say that sometimes ideas just come to me that I want to make, but often they become something else, so its a bottom process all the same. Also- I spend a lot of time looking at other peoples work ( i make glass beads) when I complete something new, so I don't over-step their creative rights, so a lot of consideration of 'has this been done before?' goes into a piece before I even make it
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Permalink Reply by Hollywood on -
Top Down.
Which is why I'm usually frustrated with my work. It never turns out as good as it was in my head. -
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Permalink Reply by Art Ravels on
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Aha- we have a top!
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Permalink Reply by Aayushi Mehta on -
I liked the whole idea you came up with :)
And as you say, I think I do behave either way at different times, but I think I would better fit the bottom category.. -
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Permalink Reply by Harley Jane on -
I just start, and then whatever comes out comes out. I don't have any kind of idea in my head at the beginning. It's like a mindless thing, for me...
What does that make me? -
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