GO Blog 01 (or Gothenburg for creativity?)

Creativity one of those things that makes human really human and not mere animals. Creativity is so many things. Its creating something from nothing, its working with limited resources, its working with unlimited ones. Its focusing in, its being broad. It's doing it for yourself or sharing your creativity with the rest of the world. It can present problem solving or beauty.

I like old New York style graffiti like Dondis Children of the Grave series. Dondi was a pionnering graffiti artist and fore runner for many of todays artists.

Photo: Martha Cooper

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I get really inspired with words and speech. My creative side get a real kick start from listening to certain stand-up routines or programs, sometimes I mix them in my head and make new routines out of them. Some clips are easier to understand why they get stuck to my mind and others are a bit of a mystery. It´s easy when its a joke, but with some of my favourites there is something else that does make it stick inside my head.

So an example of that is Eddie Izzard, he makes new and creative jokes about some of the most known things of all, or jokes about something you would never had imagined. Yet it is very accessible and in this clip it is also an example where he starts a joke and then does the equivalent of an u-turn in the middle of it. And the confusion and surprise that occurs adds to the joke, at least the first time...

This is a living legend in Swedish comedy Henrik Schyffert. I know its not funny when you do not know Swedish, but I could not omit him when talking about creativity.

Neo-Tokyo in Akira by K. Otomo.

Another sort of over arching milieu of inspiration is post-apocalytic city environments. There is something about the destruction, grayness and hopelessness that is both beautiful and disturbing at the same time. Example of this would be the picture of Neo-Tokyo to the left from Katsuhiro Otomos Akira, the tv-series The Walking Dead or the game Fallout 3. So it can take a couple of different shapes but still give me the same sort of goodie feeling.