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10. always the other (the assignment)
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Look at Me
1seen, heard, loved
08:35 2knowing your butt
06:07 3why we're here
05:55 4your work is a gift
04:45 5a song to sing
03:31Love
6love (the assignment)
07:42love (the crit)
28:49Always the Other
8the ass divot
01:48 9like tarantino
04:30 10always the other (the assignment)
12:06 11the cliche
11:12 12always the other (the crit)
45:13Explodes in the Brain
13Explodes in the Brain
30:32Big Nothing Little Nothing
14big nothing little nothing (the assignment)
01:54 15don't fall in love
04:35 16big nothing little nothing (the crit)
53:23There Ain't No Rules
17ain't no rules
01:16 18yesterday, today, tomorrow
08:33Allow Freedom
19allow freedom
01:41 20show & tell
22:29Born (wildly) Creative
21born (wildly) creative
01:48Subscriber Bonus Lessons
22do the work
34:35 23show & tell (part 2)
16:04Lesson Info
always the other (the assignment)
I made up these assignments. I made up this class called Born Creative. Um It was based on some assignments that I knew about that. I had heard of that. I was given from a um a few European mentors of mine, uh particularly a designer named Henrik Tomaszewski is where the, where the assignments come from. He, he taught at the University of Warsaw from the fifties until the seventies. Um And he himself said, I didn't know how to teach, I didn't know how to make somebody, a painter or somebody, an, an artist, but I could teach him how to think. So I wanna share with you the um the first of the abstracts. Um And then we can talk about it a little bit and you guys can ask some questions and I don't really wanna do this. I don't really wanna talk about it or answer questions because I'd rather just like send you off blind. I want you to, I wanna put you in a dark room and you have to like, find your way out. Um But this first one will, will, will, uh you know, I'll give you, I'll, I'll, I'll...
give you, I'll give you a match a little bit, a little bit of help. OK? Um So this first, the first abstract is called, it's called always the other, right? Always the other. Um And I don't even like, I don't even like to write it down because the fact that that's an capital and that's a capital. You're like, oh, there's significance in that. I'm like, well, not really, it's just the words always the other. But we look at this and we go always the other. And I'm supposed to make a two dimensional image from based on always the other. You know, it seems like it's meaningless. But when we start thinking about it, can you guys, can you guys start putting this into some other meaning? So here's the process too, by the way, is, first of all, we have to figure out what this means like always the other. How can, how can we find some, some semblance of meaning and not by changing any order, the other, always or whatever, not by changing the order, but by, but by seeing if, if um figuring out what it means for us, what it means in general, then what it means for us. And when it, when it starts to have meaning for us, then we can find precedents. Has anybody written poetry about this? Are there movies about this idea? Right? Are there myths or childhood fables that have this idea in it? So can you guys, can you guys get anywhere by putting these in or, you know, by, by um um with just these words, you're nodding your head. Matthew, what do you got? I mean, I, I don't know if I, if I we I went to the personal first, I just automatically applied it to my own experience. So like the general, the general part, I don't know, but to me it always seems like always the other, like the grass is always greener on the other side, always happens, you know, for them and not for me, you know, type of thing. Like that's how I replied it. Correct. The grass is always greener on the other side of the street. Right. Correct. Now, what does that mean? Nothing, we just say that we just say that to mean jealousy or to say again, it's still big clumsy ideas. We haven't really whittled it down. We haven't really made it interesting yet. You know, if you said that, you know, that's a, that's just another cliche. Right. Right. When you're having a conversation and somebody says, yeah, well, grass is always greener like, oh, well, you haven't, you haven't shared anything. You haven't brought any new light to it, you just brought an old proverb up or whatever, right. So the grass, the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, right. Any others. What about this? What about this? You go to the grocery store and there's two cashiers, there's two lines open. It's a long line and a short line. Which line do you get into the short, the short line? Which line moves faster? The long line, is that true? Not always, it's not true, but it's a lie that makes us realize the truth. Right. Right. It's not always true that the, the, the, the longer line works. It worked for me yesterday. I tried the short line. It didn't pay off. Um, um But what this points to is the human foible. It's not important which line moves faster or slower. It's important. What's important is we made that decision and why did we make that decision? And why did it, why do we feel screwed by it or we or we won by it? A good thing or a bad thing? Right. So that's where it starts getting interesting. So how do we, how do we, how do we, how do we prescribe meaning because these by themselves are meaningless. Always the grass is always greener is meaningless. We have to prescribe meaning to it. You know, with the love assignment, we have to take that clumsy idea and prescribe. It comes with an overwhelm of idea, overwhelm of thoughts and imagery and hearts and Cupids and arrows and all the crap Valentine's right. Wedding rings, wedding rings, loop together, infinities, all this stuff. But how do we prescribe? How do we give it meaning because that's what we do. That's our job is to give these things, meaning not just accept the surface meeting. If you accept the surface meeting, your conversations would be like this. Hey, Chief, how's it? Hanging, right. They're like you, you would speak in cliches. Yeah, Bay Boss. Same shit different day, right? You would just talk in cliches all day with no meaningful conversations. But I think we can get to some interesting places with this. You geniuses can get to some interesting places. Be up for it. Questions? Yes, I have a question. Uh What's the difference between uh always the other? Uh grass is always greener? Where is how to find the idea? Where is that prescription? What is the prescription here? What is the prescription? What is like w where to aim for, what to aim for looking for a prescription? Oh, I don't know. So the idea is you have three words, always the other and now you have to find some. So let's say that it means, let's say, let's say we can find meaning because it says the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. So there's meaning, it's still clumsy. It's still not meaningful. So where does it go from there? Now, we have to find in your life. Where does that apply? Meaning meaning in my life. If I say the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, it means it means um let's say I love my truck. I've said this before. I love my pickup truck but I drive around I go. Oh, that's nice. Oh, look at that 10, look at that one. You know it, that points out to me, it points out lack of gratitude. My truck has been driving me for fucking five years. It just goes and goes. It's awesome. This points out lack of gratitude. It points out, it points out always desiring what you can't have, right? So if we, if we start looking, looking at those places, those interesting places about ourselves, we can start divulge, we can start, we can start to find meaning in our lives that this applies to that. This points to Yes. Matthew, when approaching this assignment, do you not want you want us to approach it from the personal first? OK. Because I know that the goal is to find whatever meaning we have for ourselves to then help make it universal, but we're gonna approach it from our own experience. Sure. Sure. And we'll have time, we'll, we'll, we'll hang out and we'll have time to talk through this, talk through this thing. Yeah. Yeah, I just wanna clarify. So like when I read always the other to me reads as uh like being other, you know what I mean? Like being ostracized, being the other, right? But that's not what this means. It means is greener on the other side. No, it's perfect. Grass is always greener. Is only what I brought up. But that was OK. So we find meaning in the words that you have done. Of course, you could go, you could go. Why am I always the other? Why is it everybody else? Why is everybody else win and fuck it? Not me? When's my turn? That's always the other. OK? But that also means grass is greener on the other side. It's Yeah. OK. I can see, OK. OK. Scientifically, it's not the way the blades show in the light just saying well and well, that's awesome. Matthew says scientifically, the grass isn't greener on the other side of the fence. It's just the way it's growing. It looks to you that because you're looking at yours at this angle and you're looking at that at the other angle. But what that shows is what equanimity it's equal. It's just here. It's not equal. So the flaw is us. The flaw is that we're not happy where we are at that time and place, which is important. And when people say, well, dude, sorry, the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. What there could be saying is you should be fucking happy for what you got. What are your own damn grass? Yeah. Take care of your own grass or jump over the fence and take a look, right? You know how, how often do we look at other people's lives and go, man. They must have a jeez Instagram flip flip. Oh Fucking guy. Oh Look at this. Oh fuck you. Right. How often do we do that? You know, that'd be hilarious to do a little video of a bunch of people flipping through each other's lives. It's just circular going. You fo fuck you. You got it so nice. But it's just everybody's looking at each other's lives and somebody's looking at mine, you know, as I'm flipping through but it's circular, you know, it just goes on and on and on. It's always the other. But then how do you show it, show when they're not posting on Instagram? What's that? Really? Like? That's what I wanna know. So, is that a little bit more clear? A little bit? Ok. Rafael got any questions? No, you have a lot of questions tomorrow but today and great, great. And the idea is just to get to that point, get to that point where you have questions. We can, we can, we can, we can really cut into it tomorrow. It's not easy. I will not lie to you. It's not meant to be easy, you know, but it could be fun. And like I said, I mean, we've already found we've already talked about a few ideas that can have massive meaning for a massive amount of other people. Yeah.
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I really enjoyed the frank style that the class was delivered. Jealous of the 4 students who were in person. I work as an Aerospace engineer and am trying to find a way to relearn to be creative. This class and the exercises made me think and I have noticed that I enjoy taking different perspectives during boring meetings and drawing doodles that make me smile. Unexpectedly, my coworkers have said my work has improved lately. I think because I have become more open to possibilities outside of the tried and true.
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