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Recently, I haven't been feeling inspired to make music or play my instruments, idk why, rough few weeks ig. And as you might have seen, I also haven't been inspired to write some recs.
Erich Fromm once wrote that an artist must have knowledge in their field, and that they have to create, despite not having the right tools/object of creation, because if a painter spends years waiting for the perfect muse, when they find it, their skill won't be enough. This was an analogy to love, but I think it also applies as what it is at face value. If you don't create, you won't get to know what you like, to love the world through your art, and even if you find the perfect idea for a song, painting, etc. You might not be able to make it without that knowledge
Feb 10, 2025
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Just make something, if you want to you should force yourself. Inspiration won’t usually strike before you are creating, but during the process. Even if it comes from way outside, you’ll probably only figure out how to channel it when you’re already in the middle of something. Seek the experience of making, not having finished products— and so once you've begun, you’ve already accomplished it, you’re creating something (i.e. being creative). You form a habit and things get better and you inspire yourself.
unless you once had a divine muse that has since passed you by, then maybe you’re out of luck
Jan 7, 2025
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I think a lot of us think of idea generation as separate from creating, and that in order to create, we need a good idea to execute on. I try to remember that creating is actually a mode of idea generation, that sometimes sitting down to make things opens our brains to inspiration instead of the other way around.
So I think the thing is just to make time and space to get into a focused state to make things — and specifically to make BAD things without having a plan or a great idea beforehand.
Oct 29, 2024
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Pull a joni mitchell and engage in arts that differ from your primary to inform it at a later time.
If you lean more toward visual arts try poetry, song writing, music making, acting/performances for the self, crochet, clay, claymation, videography, sound collection, whistling, discovering new sounds you can make etc.
Often when i want to create but i feel tired or uninspired i try to use still life or my surroundings— BUT If thats boring i ask myself a question and let my train of thought ramble -> connecting that rambling to my pen on paper
Honestly setting your inner critic to rest and creating things that are imperfect is actually incredible!
More often than not letting first drafts be final for a moment allows you to discover what you crave to create.
Apr 11, 2024
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I always find weird when people talk about child-like wonder and how it fades, truth is, it does, but it doesn't have to. It fades when you are a teenager who thinks they know everything and for most people it doesn't return. I've found that child-like wonder is just, paying attention, let me explain. What was the last time you checked a license plate for a funny number o letters? what was the last time you checked out the pattern in a leaf? How it feels to have bug crawl on your skin. When you pay more attention, you start to wonder the whys, the hows and the whos. Please don't let life just pass you by, at least give it a good look. Why do you think the light in this room was purple?
Jan 18, 2025
Last year I started to learn piano, again. I first wanted to learn piano around 2020/21, I got a cheap keyboard and started with online lessons, or just whatever I could find, this time was weird for me, so when I saw that I was bad (really bad), I just abandoned it. Last year I got the opportunity to take piano lessons for basically free, so I took them. When I started I was bad, actually, the worst one in the whole class. But I had a passion that was palpable, and still is. The course finished, and I was still the worst one, but I still keep playing piano, daily, why?
First of all, I like it, second, it reminds me I'm human, there are things that I'm naturally good at, this is not one of them, but I really don't believe in talent, being bad at something just means the room for growth is almost infinite. And maybe you have figured it out, this isn't true only for the piano 🐝
Jan 18, 2025
Some of my best screenshots come from silly little Roblox games, like this one from a Radiohead obby
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