Lesson Info
18. yesterday, today, tomorrow
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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
yesterday, today, tomorrow
So I wanna introduce you to a game more than an assignment, right? Um Because what we've been working on is one image, right? One still one slice of life. But we know and even even some of the assignments referred to what's happening before and what's happening after, right? Because that's how we think and that's how we feel we feel in, in stories, you know, a good song is a story, right? Um And we as creators and designers aren't used to being storytellers. We're used to having just that one thing, but there is never, is just that one thing. There's always a before, there's always like, well, what happens later, right? Um So I wanna introduce you to like a it's an assignment, but it's also just a fun game to do. And it's called yesterday today tomorrow and yesterday, today tomorrow goes like this, it has a um um a format which you can't mess with. It looks like that, right? It looks like it's like the classic um uh cartoon. So this is yesterday, this is today and this is tomorrow, rig...
ht? And all that means is time passes, there's a beginning, a middle and an end in most stories, there's a beginning, a middle and an end, right? Um, let me show you some interesting ways to, to, to, to think about this. Uh, because all I'm asking you in this, in this work is to tell me a story. But as we've learned, we have to make it interesting. Right. Tell me something interesting. So, here's a, here's a, here's a, here's, here's one, yesterday, period done right today. Ah, and tomorrow, right, tomorrow we don't know, simple, straightforward, interesting because it uses this little dot All the time consistency. That's theoretically. That's us. Shit. That could just be, you just use yourself. Oh, avatar of you a picture of you. That'd be hilarious, right. Boom, boom, boom. Right. Yesterday I was here today, I'm here tomorrow. I don't know. Um, another one would be, uh, you know, we wanna tell stories and we wanna make them interesting. Like there's the, the classics, the classic thing that kids like to tell again is the, um, the history of the world. Years ago, we fought with sticks and stones and today we have guns and nuclear weapons and the war of the future is gonna be fought with sticks and stones, you know, to show that kind of circular, circular, um, or how we used to, um, travel in carts, pulled by horses and now we have cars and in the future we're gonna have spaceships, which is, that's, that's a, that's a kind of the sphincter of truth. It's the story, a story line that is very common. But the problem is, it's common. It's not interesting. It's common and it's become the cliche. So how do we do that differently? Um, one is, uh, about, one that I've seen before is about recycling and it's, uh, um, um, uh, an old rubber tire and then here we have just a pile and pile and pile of old rubber tires and it just kind of starts filling the picture and here we zoom back and we have basically, it's a picture. It's, it's the earth but it's just been, it's just covered in, you know, and here's all the other planets and stuff and it's just covered in tires. So it's just like, how bad. Oh, it'll get bad. Oh, how bad. Right. So we try to tell this and go through this arc of this story. Um, here's a funny thing to think about, like, like, you know, I often wonder, I'm curious. So I often wonder where, um, where sweaters come from. That's like Charlie brown sweater there. And I know they come from, I know they come from sheep. What happens there? Like what happens there? Like, what could we do there? That would be interesting or what could we do, you know, after? So that's the other part is like when we do come up with this thing, can we take a pair of scissors and cut these up and move them around and see if we can, if, if, if we take the sweater for sweater here, what happens after or if we take, uh, you know, if you got like, you know, a, a hot dog and then the guy eating, you know, a whole lot of, a lot of hot dogs. What's the, what's the next one? Is it, the guy, is he a hot dog? Is he like, you know what I mean? Like, what does it look like? What's the, what is it? What happens? Here's the most interesting one that I've found yet. And this is, this is, this is, this is interesting. I love this. Um Here is just a, a small plant right? There is a tree. The thing that I've been talking about with this, the end point of your work and how to take it from crazy ideas to something that has complete meaning for other people like your master work quite frankly. What do we, what do we do to have that to give that meaning? What do we do to give this meaning? So it was a, was a little plant grew into a big tree then it turned into what, what's, what's tomorrow cut off? Correct. That would be, that would be an obvious one would be the, the, the tree was cut down uh like the the dead tree, like dried up, dead, dried up tree. What else? So you a book a book or anything made of paper or a lot of things made of paper. A million toothpicks, a house, you would say a house, a house. So what of, what, where can we go? That it can really have meaning for us. Um, this is, this is the, this is the best thing I've seen. It's a house. Huh? Yes. Exactly. A exactly. Because we don't care about a tree really, but we do care about us. We die. Not only does the tree die, we unders we've now understood that the tree is dead, but we are dead, right? Because we've included humanity into that. You go to a magazine store, what's on the cover of 99.9% of the magazines, you know, us, people were interested in us. What makes us tick? So that becomes interesting. So we're gonna go down and go through this process of coming up with telling a story, just find a story and, and, and you, you found out it could be ludicrous, tell any story. But then how do we make it, how do we take any story and then turn it into pulp fiction, right? Pulp fiction. When you take a story, an interesting story on its own. But then all of a sudden you start messing with the pieces and moving them around. Can you still can it make, can you make it a better story yesterday today tomorrow? Right? So this is like a takeaway but I'd love to see, I'd love to see what you do. I'd love to see if you, if you, if you post it or put it up on, you know, ig if you do that kind of thing, um we are not gonna follow through with it here because I have, I have pushed you guys hard so we're not gonna finish this and go through it now. Um But I wanna see what you guys end up with. Ok. Ok.
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Richard Lynch
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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