We’re always trying to look over the boundaries of our field of work for inspiration to fuel our creativity and sharpen our processes. We take in ideas and methods from fields as engineering, management, software development, politics, psychology, and adapt and modify these so they can become a powerful tools in the field of 3D video production.
Adapting and learning from other fields requires some creativity and the ability to make certain connections. This in itself can be considered an art, and I’m always excited to find examples in which this phenomenon is stretched to the max.
And so it happened in a recent episode of the amazing radio show Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen. Here, artist and architect Vito Acconci explains how the 1964 John Wayne western “The Searchers” shaped his career as an architect:
“The first thing you see and the last thing you see are the most important you know.
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The credits end. Everything quickly fades to black. Then all of a sudden, there is something. Like the opening of a door. So the black now is the inside of a cabin, and in the distance John Wayne, on horse back, is approaching. And by implication, we sitting in the movie theatre are in this house. We’re home…”
Listen to the Vito Acconci’s fragment here:
Or find the entire episode on Studio 360. (Which I strongly recommend because there is an amazing fragment of the bands Matmos and So Percussion playing a Cactus!)
Tags: creativity, Studio 360