A New Outlook

Last night I spent the night at my friend Ed Hobson's flat. The flat I will be moving into in March. Ed is a video/film editor, writer, director and I have worked with him many times on many projects small and large. We spoke through the evening about things we have created or plan on creating and we discussed this blog. The point of this blog, for me, is simple in a way - to force myself into daily creativity. To get into the habit of writing, photographing, videoing daily and make it 2nd nature. To be honest, so far so good, I am enjoying it! 

Last night Ed made a point, looking from a slightly different angle that I hadn't thought of. As he is a very creative person himself he knows that some days you just can't force anything out of your brain on to paper or screen, no matter how hard you try! He suggested that on a day where that may happen to me, I don't try and sugar coat it and force words into the blog. Instead I just post how frustrated I am, or bored, or blank and demonstrate the boredom or frustration through image. This is genius because it solves the problem immediately. The writing or depicting of the struggle to be creative, in itself is creative! Take a look at this video for example.

This kind of honesty in posting is surely better than trying to force something out on a topic that is not fully researched or thought about, or simply not got 100% of your heart in it. I'm sure this 5 minute conversation about the blog with Ed will change many of my future posts, as posting daily is sure to throw up the challenge of "What the hell can I possibly write today?" more than once!

So thanks for that, Ed. 

If you guys wanna check out some of Ed's work click the image below. There are many music videos, animations and short films. You'll also spot my face in a few of the music videos. It's his birthday on monday so you should probably check it out. His twitter is @edhobo1.

Happy weekend everyone!